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Safety of Pocono Raceway Concerns Drivers; Track Plans Changes
Filed under: Greg Biffle, Kasey Kahne, Kevin Harvick, Sprint Cup, NASCAR
NASCAR‘s trip to Pocono Raceway this weekend marks the 66th time the Sprint Cup Series will take the green flag around the unusual three-turn track.
The 2.5-mile triangular speedway features two high-speed straightaways, one moderately-banked corner, a harrowingly-fast left-hander for turn two and a long, flat turn three.
But to hear several drivers tell it, the track leads the pack in one not-so-good category: out-of-date safety elements.
“I don’t know why one particular race track has not had all of those safety upgrades that all the other race tracks have,” series point leader Kevin Harvick said last week at Indianapolis. “It’s the only race track that we go to with a dirt bank and an Armco barrier on the inside and no catch fences along some of the walls.”
“It’s definitely the worst race track that we go to as far as SAFER barriers and catch fences and all the things that should be there.”
Pocono is taking steps to rectify some of the issues in time for the 2011 races at the track by adding SAFER barriers along the inside of the track exiting turn one and down the Long Pond straightaway — the longest in NASCAR. That announcement was made prior to the June race.
Safety of Pocono Raceway Concerns Drivers; Track Plans Changes originally appeared on Motorsports FanHouse on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
