Driver Rankings for Pocono (Sunday)

The NASCAR Cup Series will return to Pocono Raceway Sunday to run the third race of the day (The Trucks run in the morning and the Xfinity in the afternoon). Will the sequel be as good as the first race? Will the same drivers finish up front in both races? How will the inversion affect the race? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered. The Pocono 350 can be seen at 4 p.m. on FS1.

The teams will be required to run the same car Sunday that they had on Saturday. Each team will get four hours Saturday evening and four hours Sunday morning to work on the cars but they cannot touch the engine, brakes, radiator, transmission or chassis. Only air pressure, spring adjustments and tape on the grill will be allowed.

The starting lineup will be set by inverting the top 20 finishing positions from Saturday’s race. So the winner (Kevin Harvick) starts 20^th and the driver that finished 20^th (Ryan Preece) starts on the pole. The drivers who finished in positions 21^st -40^th start Sunday’s race in the same position they finished the race Saturday.

I still think data from previous races at Pocono is important for predicting Sunday’s race. I used the Driver Ratings, Green Flag Speed and Average Running Position from the last three races at Pocono (All the races used the 550 HP aero package). I then combined that data with the Driver Rating, Green Flag Speed and Average Running Position from Saturday’s race.

Here are the driver rankings for Pocono Part 2…

*Stats from Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet Pro

** Photos from NASCAR Media

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