LONG POND, Pa – For the second time this season, teammates will travel to Pocono Raceway – the site where William Byron became the second youngest pole winner after securing his third NASCAR Cup Series pole of the year.
- Hendrick Motorsports leads all teams with 17 wins at Pocono Raceway, with the four most recent coming as season sweeps. In addition, the organization is also the all-time leader in each of the following categories at Pocono: pole positions (13), top-five finishes (69), top-10 finishes (125) and laps led (3,277). The organization has also earned at least two top-10s in each of the past 26 visits to the track. There have been three of the team’s drivers in the top 10 in 17 of those races.
- Chase Elliott currently holds a streak of five consecutive top-10 finishes at the "Tricky Triangle," his second-longest active streak at a track. In his first seven starts at the Pennsylvania track, the 23-year-old driver has collected two top-five finishes. His 10.86 average finish there is the sixth-best all-time. In June, he tied his track-best finish of fourth.
- William Byron will make his fourth Cup Series start at the 2.5-mile track this weekend. Earlier this year, he collected his third pole award of the season at the “Tricky Triangle” before going on to lead 25 laps and earning a ninth-place finish. After the New Hampshire race last weekend, the driver of the No. 24 Liberty University Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 moved to 61 points above the cutoff in 12th place, the best position of his Cup career so far. In fact, over the last eight races, he has gained a total of 76 points over the bubble spot.
- Jimmie Johnson has a history of qualifying inside the top 10 at Pocono Raceway. In fact, he has an average starting position of 11.0. In his 35 career races there, the driver has taken the green flag inside the top 10 a total of 20 times. Eight of his top-10 starts have been on the front row including three pole positions.
- Currently 10th in the NASCAR point standings, Alex Bowman will make his eighth appearance at Pocono in the Cup Series this weekend. He earned his best start (10th) and best finish (third) at the track last July. The driver also has one start in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at the Pennsylvania track, starting and finishing 10th in 2016. He made two “Tricky Triangle” starts in the ARCA Series back in 2012 when he finished third in both events.
Be sure to watch all the action this weekend from Pocono Raceway on NBCSN, Sunday, July 28, at 3 p.m. ET.