Pocono Raceway: Pocono 500 Sun, June 7, 2009
Location: Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Capacity: 76,812
Year Opened: 1968
Featured Races: Pocono 500, Pennsylvania 500
The Pocono 500 is the first of two stock car races held at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule in mid-June, the second being the Pennsylvania 500, usually held in July. Since opening its gates to NASCAR in 1974, Pocono has played host to a number of different races. Since 1997, however, it has limited itself to 2 races.
The track is shaped like a triangle and super-speedway is 2.5-mile long. It has three varying kinds of turns for drivers to tackle, with corners banked anywhere from 6 to 14 degrees. Since the course is neither an oval nor a road course, drivers generally refer to it as a 'roval'. Pocono Raceway has a massive front straight that often sees cars going four, five and six wide before they funnel down into turn one.
Denny Hamlin dominated Pocono in 2006, winning the pole and the race both times at Pocono as a rookie. In 2007, Jeff Gordon was the only driver to finish in the top five both times, winning in June. Kasey Kahne won the 2008 version of the Pocono 500.
SUNDAY JUNE 7, 2009 - The Pocono 500 Race Schedule
1:00pm Pre-Race Festivities Begin
1:00pm Pre-Race Pit Pass Access Ends
1:30pm Sprint Cup Series Driver Introductions
2:00pm POCONO 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (200 Laps, 500 Miles)
2009 Pocono Raceway Winner
 The talk all weekend was how the new double-file restarts with the leaders up front would change strategy for Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway.
In the end it was an old, familiar strategy that determined the outcome.
And it was an old, familiar face back in Victory Lane.
Tony Stewart won the battle of fuel mileage, and in doing so won his first points race as an owner/driver for Stewart-Haas Racing. The emotion he felt overshadowed any excitement the double-file restarts may have produced for fans seemingly starving for something more.
There was almost disbelief in Stewart's voice as he crossed the finish line.
The talk all weekend was how the new double-file restarts with the leaders up front would change strategy for Sunday's Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway.
In the end it was an old, familiar strategy that determined the outcome.
And it was an old, familiar face back in Victory Lane.
Tony Stewart won the battle of fuel mileage, and in doing so won his first points race as an owner/driver for Stewart-Haas Racing. The emotion he felt overshadowed any excitement the double-file restarts may have produced for fans seemingly starving for something more.
There was almost disbelief in Stewart's voice as he crossed the finish line.
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