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Pocono Fast Facts
    • There have been 67 Cup races held at Pocono Raceway.
    • There have been 29 different race winners and 37 drivers have won the pole.
    • 13 times the winner has started from the first position. Tony Stewart was the most recent to do it on 6/7/2009.
    • Awesome Bill Elliot has five wins and along with Kenny Shrader, five poles, both all-time bests.
    • Mark Martin has 19 Top Fives and 33 Top Tens, all-time bests.
    • Jeff Gordon has led the most laps with 957.
    • Elliott and Joe Nemechek have the most DNFs - five. Matt Kenseth the fewest with zero in 23 races.
    • Gordon is the youngest previous winner. He was 24 years, 10 months and 12 days old when he won the race on 6/16/1996. Harry Gany was 50 years, 5 months and 7 days old when he won on 6/17/1990.
    • With its long staight-a-ways and three relatively flat corners, Pocono is most similar to The Brickyard. So take a look at Loop Data for Indianapolis Motor Speedway when picking your teams.

      If you like stats - and you wouldn’t be here if you didn’t - check out all the NASCAR Loop Data stats for Pocono below.

      Enjoy the race and good luck with you fantasy team.

      Race Weekend Schedule
      Good Sam RV Insurance 500
      • Noon PM ET  Friday 6/10 First Practice on Speed
      • 4:00 PM ET Friday 6/10 Practice on Speed
      • 10:30 AM ET Saturday 6/11 Qualifying on Speed
      • 1:00 PM ET Sunday 6/12 Pocono 500 live on TNT

      Pre-race Loop Data stats for the Pennsylvania 500

      And if you want to look at the picture before the first 2009 race at the Poke, here they are.

      Pre-Race Loop Data Stats for 2009 Pocono 500

      Pre-race Loop Data stats for the 2010 Pennsylvania 500