Roush Fenway Advance – Pocono Raceway, 2.5-Mile
Roush Fenway Racing Returns to the “Tricky Triangle”
Roush Fenway Racing heads back to Long Pond, Penn. as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) prepares for the second race of the 2015 season at Pocono Raceway, a track that has seen a Roush Fenway Ford visit victory lane on four separate occasions.
Sprint Cup Series
Pocono
Sun. 8/2/15 – 1:00 PM ET
NBCSN, MRN, Sirius 90
Trevor Bayne, No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion
Greg Biffle, No. 16 Roush Performance Ford Fusion
Ricky Stenhouse Jr, No. 17 Ford EcoBoost Ford Fusion
NASCAR XFINITY Series
Iowa
Sat. 8/1/15 – 8:00 PM ET
NBCSN, MRN, Sirius 90
Elliott Sadler, No. 1 OneMain Financial Ford
Bubba Wallace, No. 6 Ford EcoBoost Ford
Ryan Reed, No. 16 Lilly/American Diabetes Ford
Chris Buescher, No. 60 Pearson’s Salted Nut Roll Ford
Vacationing in the Pocono’s
In 189 starts at Pocono Raceway, Roush Fenway has recorded four wins, 44 top-five finishes, 71 top-10 finishes and has led 1,001 laps. Roush Fenway earned victories with Greg Biffle and former drivers Kurt Busch and Carl Edwards.
Winning Pocono Style
Roush Fenway has four wins at Pocono, including Biffle’s victory there in July of 2010. Former Roush Fenway driver Edwards earned the organization’s first victory at Pocono in June 2005. Roush Fenway went on to sweep the season’s events that year at the 2.5-mile track with former driver Busch winning in Aug. 2005.
Runner-Up
Roush Fenway has finished in the second position 13 times at Pocono with six different drivers. All in all, Roush Fenway has finished first or second 17 times at the Triangular track.
Victorious at the Triangle
Roush Fenway driver Trevor Bayne earned the victory in the June ARCA Racing Series event at the “Tricky Triangle” after starting from the pole position and leading 42 laps. Bayne took home the win in his first career start at Pocono and his first start in the ARCA Racing Series.
Going for the Sweep
NASCAR XFINITY Series championship leader Chris Buescher is looking for the season sweep this weekend at Iowa Speedway. Buescher took the green flag from the fourth position in the Spring event at Iowa and paced the field for 94 laps en route to the victory.
Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa
Roush Fenway has earned five victories, 10 top-five finishes, 15 top-10 finishes and an average finish of 11.6 at Iowa in the XFINITY Series. Buescher is looking to join Roush Fenway teammate Ricky Stenhouse Jr. as drivers who have swept the season’s races at Iowa. Stenhouse earned three-consecutive victories from 2011-2012.
In the Points
Roush Fenway currently has all four XFINITY Series drivers inside the top 10 in the championship standings. Two-time race winner Buescher remains first, with teammates Elliott Sadler, Bubba Wallace and Reed ranking fifth, sixth and 10th, respectively.
Roush Fenway Pocono wins
2005-1 Edwards Cup
2005-2 Busch Cup
2008-2 Edwards Cup
2010-2 Biffle Cup
Roush Fenway Iowa Wins
2011-1 Stenhouse NXS
2011-2 Stenhouse NXS
2012-1 Stenhouse NXS
2013-1 Bayne NXS
2015-1 Buescher NXS
Roush Fenway in Pocono
Race Win T5 T10 Pole Laps Led AvSt AvFn Miles
CUP 189 4 44 71 3 34638 1001 17.5 16.2 86595
Roush Fenway in Iowa
Race Win T5 T10 Pole Laps Led AvSt AvFn Miles
NXS (Iowa) 28 5 10 15 2 6761 588 12.1 11.6 5915.8
