Rain Forces Postponement of Pocono Truck Series Race until Sunday

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LONG POND, PENNSYLVANIA – JUNE 27: Pocono Raceway on June 27, 2020, in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images

Because of the weather, Pocono Raceway gets a NASCAR tripleheader on Sunday.

Saturday’s Pocono Organics 150 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race at the 2.5-mile triangular track has been postponed until Sunday at 9:30 a.m. ET because of rain.

The Pocono Green 225 NASCAR Xfinity Series race will follow at 12:30 p.m. ET Sunday, with the Pocono 350 NASCAR Cup Series race scheduled to start at 4 p.m. All three races will be broadcast on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

The Pocono Organics 325 NASCAR Cup Series race is still scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET Saturday on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The storm system that forced postponement of the Truck Series event is expected to abate on Saturday afternoon.

Ty Gibbs Dominates for Pocono Victory

Ty Gibbs dominates the rest of the ARCA Menards Series field in the #AnywhereisPossible 200 at Pocono Raceway on Friday night.
Ty Gibbs, driver of the No. 18 Monster/Terrible Herbst/ORCA Toyota, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the the General Tire #AnywhereisPossible 200 for the ARCA Menards Series at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania on Friday, June 26, 2020. Photo by Adam Glanzman/ARCA Racing

Ty Gibbs dominates the rest of the ARCA Menards Series field in the #AnywhereIsPossible 200 at Pocono Raceway on Friday night.

The rest of the ARCA Menards Series field needs to fight harder to keep Ty Gibbs from the top spot. Once Gibbs took the lead, it was game over for anyone else looking for a win at Pocono Raceway.

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Post Talladega Power Ranking

Post Talladega Power Ranking for the NASCAR Cup Series takes a look at the drivers as they head into a doubleheader weekend at Pocono Raceway.
TALLADEGA, ALABAMA – JUNE 22: Ryan Blaney, driver of the #12 Menards/Sylvania Ford, Brad Keselowski, driver of the #2 Dent Wizard Ford, and Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 Victory Junction Chevrolet, lead a pack of cars during the NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on June 22, 2020 in Talladega, Alabama. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Post Talladega Power Ranking for the NASCAR Cup Series takes a look at the drivers as they head into a doubleheader weekend at Pocono Raceway.

The past few weeks have brought a very diverse group of race tracks. NASCAR went from Bristol, one of the shortest tracks in the sport, to Homestead, a 1.5-mile oval, to Talladega, the sport’s longest and fastest superspeedway. This Talladega race was a bit different from most. Not a ton of wrecks, but still suspense, as most cars were low on fuel coming down to the wire. It ended with another margin of victory smaller than one-hundredth of a second, with Ryan Blaney edging out Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Aric Almirola crossing the line backward in third place, as Erik Jones and John Hunter Nemechek get sandwiched into the wall. A crazy weekend led to some shake-ups in the power ranking leading into the Pocono double-header.

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