FAST FACTS: FORTS USA 150

Where: Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania
When: 4 pm ET, Friday, July 26, 2019
Television: FS1, Live
Track Length: 2.5 miles
Most Recent Winner: Ty Majeski, May 31, 2019, 154.143 miles per hour
Most Recent Pole Winner: Harrison Burton, May 31, 2019, 170.390 miles per hour
Track Qualifying Record: Brennan Poole, June 9, 2012, 173.554 miles per hour

• A total of 69 previous ARCA Menards Series races have been held at Pocono Raceway. Sixty-eight of them have been held on the 2.5-mile layout, starting in July 1983 when Bob Schacht drove his Pontiac to victory over an 18-car field in a special invitational event. The first series race at Pocono, won by Bobby Watson in a Dodge, was held on the now-defunct three-quarter mile track that formerly encircled the current NASCAR garage area.
• Bob Schacht found a lot of success at Pocono Raceway in the series’ early days at the track. He won four of the first five races at Pocono, and six overall.
• Tim Steele leads all drivers with nine ARCA Menards Series wins at Pocono, including a streak of five in a row from July 1996 through July 1998. Schacht is second with six, Bob Keselowski is third with five, Mike Wallace and Frank Kimmel are tied for fourth with three apiece and Casey Mears, who won both races in 2003 on back-to-back days, is the only other multiple winner with two.
• Single race winners at Pocono include: Bobby Jacks, Lee Raymond, Ben Hess, Jeff Purvis, Blaise Alexander, Kerry Earnhardt, Ryan Newman, Damon Lusk, Casey Atwood, Scott Riggs, Ryan Hemphill, Travis Kvapil, Chase Miller, Chad McCumbee, Michael McDowell, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Justin Allgaier, Joey Logano, Justin Lofton, Craig Goess, Robb Brent, Tim George, Jr., Ty Dillon, Brennan Poole, Chad Hackenbracht, Chase Elliott, Corey LaJoie, Kyle Larson, Justin Allison, Trevor Bayne, Cole Custer, Grant Enfinger, Chase Briscoe, Riley Herbst, Justin Haley, Harrison Burton, Zane Smith, and Ty Majeski.
• There have been 26 consecutive ARCA Menards Series races, dating back to Chase Miller’s victory in June 2006, without a repeat winner. That streak will continue in the FORTS USA 150 as no previous Pocono winner is entered.
• Tim Steele also leads all drivers with six General Tire Pole Awards at Pocono. Bob Keselowski is second with five, Frank Kimmel and Brennan Poole are tied for third with three each, and Jeff Purvis, Mike Wallace, Stuart Kirby, and Scott Speed are the other drivers with multiple pole awards with two each.
• Drivers with a single General Tire Pole Award at Pocono include: Bill Venturini, Lee Raymond, Ben Hess, Bob Schacht, Tracy Leslie, Roy Payne, Randy MacDonald, Bob Hill, Mike Ciochetti, Blaise Alexander, David Keith, Casey Atwood, Casey Mears, Kyle Busch, Ryan Hemphill, Travis Kvapil, Joey Miller, David Stremme, Tim Andrews, Bobby Santos III, Mikey Kile, Max Gresham, Kyle Larson, Mason Mitchell, Trevor Bayne, Kyle Weatherman, Kaz Grala, and Gus Dean.
• ARCA Menards Series races at Pocono Raceway have been won from the pole twenty times, most recently in June 2015 when Trevor Bayne scored the victory.
• General Tire Pole Qualifying has been canceled by inclement weather eleven times at Pocono. The races in 1985, 1986, and both in 1987 were lined up by a blind draw for starting position.
• The deepest a winner has started in the field was 32nd when Chase Elliott won. It was his first, and to date only, ARCA Menards Series victory and at the time it made him the youngest superspeedway winner in series history.
• Sixteen drivers have earned their first career ARCA Menards Series win at Pocono Raceway: Justin Allison, Casey Atwood, Trevor Bayne, Robb Brent, Cole Custer, Kerry Earnhardt, Chase Elliott, Tim George, Jr., Craig Goess, Chad Hackenbracht, Riley Herbst, Travis Kvapil, Kyle Larson, Chase Miller, Ryan Newman, and Scott Riggs. For all but Earnhardt and Newman, it was their only career series win.
• Eleven drivers have earned their final, or most recent, career ARCA Menards Series win at Pocono: Ty Dillon, Justin Haley, Ryan Hemphill, Ben Hess, Joey Logano, Damon Lusk, Casey Mears, Lee Raymond, Zane Smith, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and Mike Wallace.
• Pocono is uniquely shaped, like a scalene triangle (we erroneously reported it as an isosceles triangle in May, which is a grievous error; although to be fair we majored in communications not geometry and school was a long, long time ago). There have been numerous other racetracks patterned after geometric shapes. Ontario Motor Speedway was a rectangle, Flemington Speedway was a square, Langhorne was a circle, and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) raced at a track in Rio that was shaped like an isosceles trapezoid (two of the four sides were of equal length). Trenton, after which Pocono’s Turn 1 is famously patterned after, was shaped like a kidney bean with a right turn midway down the backstretch. Curiously, all those tracks are now closed. Most interesting is the fact that no racetrack has ever been shaped like a rhombus, a fact that we hope changes sometime in the near future.
• The record for the most cautions in an ARCA Menards Series race at Pocono is nine, set in July 1996 and matched in June 2006 and August 2007. The record for most caution laps is 46 set in June 2006 and matched in August 2007. The record for fewest cautions is zero, set in July 1987 and matched in August 2013.
• The record for most lead changes in an ARCA Menards Series race at Pocono is 14, set in June 1997 and matched in June 2001. The record for fewest lead changes at Pocono is one in August 2011.

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