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CUP: Pocono Race Under Red Flag
Jeff Gordon leading as rain returns at Pocono Raceway…
Rain forced an early end to Sunday's race at Pocono Raceway. (Photo: Getty Images)
The Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway is under a red flag for weather.
Jeff Gordon, desperately needing a victory in the race for post-season berths, is leading the field with 99 of 160 laps completed.
The race started almost two hours late because of mid-day rain and was stopped again by late-afternoon showers. The forecast for the next several hours is not good.
Kurt Busch brought out the caution on lap 86 when he lost control and hit the outside wall, bunching the field for a restart even as weather threatened from the west.
Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne were the leaders for the restart.
There was trouble almost immediately.
Johnson slipped up the track in the first turn and into Kenseth, who sailed into the outside wall and back across the track, where he was T-boned by Denny Hamlin.
Gordon slipped through the chaos to take the lead as cars scrambled and the caution reappeared.
If the race is not restarted, Gordon will be declared the winner, giving him his first victory of the season and providing a major boost in his attempt to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had strong cars in the race’s early going, but both were in the garage before the halfway point.
Busch apparently broke a brake rotor on lap 19 and slammed hard into the turn-one wall. He was running 10th.
On lap 49, Earnhardt Jr. drove into the garage with transmission trouble. Junior took the series point lead at Indianapolis last week, but his Sunday trouble ended an unusual streak. Entering the Pocono race, he had completed every lap of competition this season.
Junior eventually returned to the track 32 laps behind the leaders.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 30 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
Jeff Gordon, desperately needing a victory in the race for post-season berths, is leading the field with 99 of 160 laps completed.
The race started almost two hours late because of mid-day rain and was stopped again by late-afternoon showers. The forecast for the next several hours is not good.
Kurt Busch brought out the caution on lap 86 when he lost control and hit the outside wall, bunching the field for a restart even as weather threatened from the west.
Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth, Brad Keselowski, Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne were the leaders for the restart.
There was trouble almost immediately.
Johnson slipped up the track in the first turn and into Kenseth, who sailed into the outside wall and back across the track, where he was T-boned by Denny Hamlin.
Gordon slipped through the chaos to take the lead as cars scrambled and the caution reappeared.
If the race is not restarted, Gordon will be declared the winner, giving him his first victory of the season and providing a major boost in his attempt to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt Jr. had strong cars in the race’s early going, but both were in the garage before the halfway point.
Busch apparently broke a brake rotor on lap 19 and slammed hard into the turn-one wall. He was running 10th.
On lap 49, Earnhardt Jr. drove into the garage with transmission trouble. Junior took the series point lead at Indianapolis last week, but his Sunday trouble ended an unusual streak. Entering the Pocono race, he had completed every lap of competition this season.
Junior eventually returned to the track 32 laps behind the leaders.
Mike Hembree is NASCAR Editor for SPEED.com and has been covering motorsports for 30 years. He is a six-time winner of the National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year Award.
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