Daytona Motor Mouths: Shane van Gisbergen wins NASCAR Mexico City race
The guys break down Shane van Gisbergen’s NASCAR win in Mexico City, Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s beef with Carson Hocevar and more before Pocono.
Sure, NASCAR is going from a 15-turn road course in Mexico to a familiar old track in the Pocono Mountains, but Pocono Raceway isn’t your typical stock-car oval track.
Pocono takes the “tri-oval” concept to an extreme.
Track construction began in the mid-1960s, six years after the opening of Daytona International Speedway brought a whole new tri-oval to racing. Pocono would become more triangle than tri-oval, however, with three distinctly different turns.
Pocono’s track was designed by Indy-racing legend Rodger Ward, who modeled each of three turns after turns on famous tracks in the Indy world: Trenton Speedway (Turn 1, 14 degrees of banking), Indianapolis (Turn 2, 8 degrees) and the Milwaukee Mile (Turn 3, 6 degrees).
Practically all forms of big-league auto racing have raced at Pocono, including, since 1971, NASCAR. The tradition continues this weekend, and here’s how to watch, including Prime Video’s fifth and final broadcast of its five-week run of Cup Series coverage.
Friday: Truckin’ in the Poconos
12:30 p.m.: Truck Series practice and qualifying (FS2).
5: Truck Series, MillerTech Battery 200 (FS1).
Saturday: Lots of NASCAR noise in the mountains
10 a.m.: Xfinity Series practice and qualifying (CW).
12:30 p.m.: Cup Series practice and qualifying (Prime).
3:30: Xfinity Series, Explore Pocono 250 (CW).
Sunday NASCAR: Prime time, one more time, at Pocono
2 p.m.: Cup Series, The Great American Getaway 400 (Prime).
Elsewhere this weekend for NASCAR: ARCA and the IMSA sports-cars
Saturday: ARCA at Elko (Minn.) Speedway, 9 p.m. (FS2).
Sunday: IMSA’s six-hour race at Watkins Glen, noon (NBC and Peacock).
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