The latest news from Pocono Raceway.
LONG POND, PA (May 10, 2012) – Pocono Raceway will host the Pocono Celebrity Charity Poker Showdown, benefitting The NASCAR Foundation and the Armed Forces Foundation, being held on Thursday, June 7, at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The event precedes the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pocono 400 on June 10 at “The Tricky [...]
Goodyear Tire, the official tire of NASCAR, held a two-day tire test on the newly repaved Pocono Raceway on Tuesday, April 24 and Wednesday, April 25. Seven NASCAR Sprint Cup and Camping World Truck Series drivers, representing seven race teams, participated in testing and took part in a press conference with local media attending. The [...]
Long Pond, PA. – Dover International Speedway and Pocono Raceway are pleased to announce the tracks are teaming up for a celebrity softball game featuring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers Carl Edwards and Jeff Burton on Tuesday, May 15 at Campbell’s Field, home of the Camden Riversharks in Camden, N.J. The game, billed as Team [...]
April 14, 2012 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service FORT WORTH, Texas — Saving his equipment for the final green-flag run, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series points leader Greg Biffle finally put a win on the board, cruising to a 3.235-second victory over Jimmie Johnson in Saturday night’s Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. Biffle [...]
Long Pond, PA (April, 4, 2012) ―Goodyear Tire, the Official Tire of NASCAR, recently announced that April 24 & 25, 2012 will be the dates for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series tire tests at Pocono Raceway. The Raceway is in the final stages of repaving the entire track and it’s essentially a brand new track. [...]
NASCAR Wire Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A legendary engine builder and car owner. The matriarch of a sport. A trail blazer who broke NASCAR’s color barrier. An influential sponsorship official who helped usher in the sport’s modern era. A champion and bonafide star driver for more than two decades. For such a wide-ranging array of [...]
LONG POND, PA (April 5, 2012) – Pocono Raceway announced today they will offer driver-specific packages at “The Tricky Triangle” for both of their annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race weekends, occurring June 8th-10th and August 3rd-5th. The first two available packages this year are the Jeff Gordon 24 Experience and the Jimmie Johnson 48 [...]
April 1, 2012 By Reid Spencer NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. — In the wake of a controversial late-race caution, Ryan Newman spoiled an afternoon of Hendrick hegemony with an opportunistic victory in the Goody’s Fast Relief 500 Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. After Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson dominated the action for 497 laps, an [...]
Stroudsburg, PA (March 27,2012) ―The Sherman Theater and Pocono Raceway are excited to announce a new direction for live concert events in the Poconos as part of a joint venture to produce a summer concert series at Pocono Raceway. As the Sherman Theater has grown in size and in popularity over the years, the concert [...]
Long Pond, PA. – March 26, 2012 –Rapid Running and Pocono Raceway announced the creation of the Rapid Running Pocono Half Marathon, which will have its inaugural run on May 5, 2012 in Long Pond, PA. The race will have a festive, spectator-friendly atmosphere, with live bands positioned every other mile throughout the course, as [...]
