This Week
Race: GoBowling.com 400
Date: Sunday, August 4
Track: Pocono Raceway
TV: ESPN, 1 p.m. ET
Radio: MRN Radio affiliates, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio
Track Facts
Track Length: 2.5 miles
Race Length: 160 laps/400 miles
First Race: Aug. 4, 1974
Banking in Turn 1: 14 degrees
Banking in Turn 2: 8 degrees
Banking in Turn 3: 6 degrees
Frontstretch: 3,740 feet
Backstretch: 3,055 feet
Shortstretch: 1,780 feet
Rearview Mirror
Last weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Harvick started 24th and finished 19th after battling an ill-handling car throughout the 400-mile race.
Budweiser Racing Team Notes of Interest
Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet SS team travel to Pocono Raceway this weekend for Sunday’s GoBowling.com 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race.
Chassis Info… The No. 29 team will utilize Chassis No. 391 from the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) stable at Pocono Raceway. Harvick raced this car to a ninth-place finish at the series’ first stop at Pocono in June and earned a 14th-place finish with the car at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway in March.
Statistically Speaking… Harvick has made 25 starts at Pocono Raceway and in those races has earned five top fives and nine top-10 finishes. He’s completed 96.2 percent (4,528 of 4,707) of the laps run at the track in NSCS competition and holds an average starting position of 19.2 and an average finish of 13.9 at the 2.5-mile triangular track.
Loop Data… Harvick has scored well in several Loop Data statistics categories at Pocono Raceway, including: second in green flag passes (1,440); third in closers; sixth in quality passes (671); ninth in average running position; ninth in speed in traffic (159.496 mph); 10th in driver rating; and 10th in laps in the top 15 (1,955).
A Look at 2013… NSCS teams have competed in 20 races so far in 2013. In that time, Harvick has earned two wins, five top fives and 11 top-10 finishes. He holds an average starting position of 15.9 and an average finish of 12.2. Harvick is currently ranked fourth in the NSCS driver point standings with six races remaining before the field for the 2013 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is set.
A Look Back… Harvick started 21st and finished 16th in last August’s race at Pocono Raceway.
Harvick Discusses Racing at Pocono Raceway
How do you approach racing at Pocono Raceway? “The first thing is you’ve got to survive the restart. The track is really fast and the thing I like about what they did at Pocono is that all the bumps are now kind of swells instead of extreme bumps. Each corner is fast. Turn 1 is a corner where you drive in and down shift. The key to Pocono is getting up off the corners and in the throttle and being able to stay in the throttle really in all three (turns).”
