Since winning back to back races at Pocono and Michigan earlier this season, Denny Hamlin has finished in the top ten just once; an eighth place finish at Chicagoland Speedway.
After the rough last few weeks he’s had, what better place to return to the track he’s dominated on so much in his career?
Hamlin got his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win at the Pocono Raceway in the 2006 Pocono 500. He would sweep both the poles and the races at the Tricky Triangle that year, and has since won at the track two other times. He has six top fives and seven top tens, and has never had a DNF.
It’ll be a busy weekend for the man third in the points standings; not only is Hamlin looking to sweep the Cup races at Pocono, he’ll also try and sweep the weekend by competing in the first ever Camping World Truck Series event at the track. Hamlin will start third for Saturday’s Pocono Mountains 125. That race will air on SPEED beginning at one PM ET on Saturday.
On Friday Hamlin ended the only Cup practice of the day second behind defending champion Jimmie Johnson, and qualified for the Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 in the third position. The driver of the No. 11 FedEx Office Toyota has been struggling a bit with the handling of his car, and ended the second practice of the weekend on Saturday morning 22nd on the charts.
Hamlin will be pitting in the third pit stall on pit road, in between Carl Edwards and A.J. Allmendinger. The Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at the Pocono Raceway begins at one PM ET on ESPN.
Thanks to Jayski, Racing Reference and NASCAR on SPEED for the information used.
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