History will be made this weekend at the Pocono Raceway. For the first time in the tracks history, NASCAR will host two Cup races in consecutive days. Instead of 800 combined miles of Cup racing spread out over two races weekends in a span of a couple of months in past seasons, they’ll run 675 miles in a span of 24 hours this weekend.
In terms of who will win, look no further than the drivers streaking their ways into Pocono.
First off, I don’t put much stock into last weekend’s finishes at Talladega with that being such a wildcard, so I counted these streaks from Homestead the week before and prior.
Ryan Blaney has six top four finishes in his last seven starts overall — Talladega included. He won his first career race at Pocono and has finished in the top 12 in seven of his eight tries there.
His Team Penske teammate of Brad Keselowski has seven top 10 finishes in his last eight tries on the season. He also has nine top 10 finishes in his last 10 Pocono starts, six of which being in the top five.
Chase Elliott has five top eight finishes, four in the top five, in his last seven starts himself. In fact, if not for end of race dust ups in Darlington and Bristol, Elliott could very well have five top two finishes in his last eight tries. At Pocono, he has six top 10 finishes, two of which being fourth place results, in eight tries.
We can’t leave out Denny Hamlin. No one has won as many times on the season (3) than he. Also, Hamlin has five career wins on the track including one just last year. On the season, Hamlin has six top five finishes in the nine races back.
These are the fastest cars right now and some of the best recently at Pocono too.
