Pocono Recap

Good evening everyone and welcome back to Captain Josh's Pit Stop. Tonight I recap the weekends action from Pocono Raceway. Also the Xfinity Series ran at Iowa Speedway with Ryan Preece getting his breakout win in the Joe Gibbs number 20 car on Saturday afternoon. Justin Haley took home the ARCA win at Pocono on Friday. Christopher Bell also won the Truck Series race at Pocono on Saturday. Now to recap the Cup race. Photo courtesy of Google images.

The Overton's 400 took place on Sunday with Kyle Busch earning the pole with Martin Truex Jr qualifying alongside. An interesting thing about qualifying this weekend was that it was held on Sunday morning. It was the first time that the Cup Series qualified and raced on the same day in years. The first and second stages consisted of 50 laps. The final stage made up the final 60 laps. Photo courtesy of Google images.

It didn't take long for the first caution to come out, as it came out on lap 1 in stage 1. Matt Kenseth broke loose underneath Jimmie Johnson in turn 3 and it caused a multiple car wreck including Danica Patrick, Chris Buescher, and Aric Almirola as shown above. Photos courtesy of Google images.

Kyle Busch took home the Stage 1 victory. He lead the whole thing. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Jimmie Johnson had a rough day for the second straight time this year at Pocono. Johnson had reported a cut tire and was slowing down. As he slowed down, he was spun by his teammate Kasey Kahne. The incident occurred in stage 2 with 44 to go in the stage. Photos courtesy of Google images.

Kyle Larson had problems as well. He reported a drive line issue and started shedding debris from the back of his car. Larson was out of the race. The incident occurred in the middle of stage 2. Photo courtesy of Google images.

Clint Bowyer took home stage 2 after using strategy to win the stage. Photo courtesy of Google images.

At the end, not much happened in stage 3. Kyle Busch used a strategy during the long green flag run. He chose to stay out a little bit longer than everyone else to have fresher tires at the end of the race. This strategy helped him pick up his first Pocono win and broke his winless streak dating back to Indianapolis last year. But his team was once again caught with loose lug nuts early in the week after post race inspection. The team was fined $10,000 but no crew members were suspended. Well I hope you enjoyed tonight's blog. Join me next week as I recap road course racing from Watkins Glen. See ya then. Photo courtesy of Google images.