Hey everybody! Welcome to the preview show here in
Studio three I am Alex. We were joined by
Alan Cabana and we were starting to see the return
of some familiar tracks, not this weekend and it's
known as the Tricky Triangle and man does Pocono present
some tricks. Yes, absolutely, because it's so
unique, it's so different. It's out in the
middle of the woods, in a great part of
the country, it's large, it's got three distinct
turns and teams have no idea what to expect because
we haven't been to attract anything like it with the
next gen car so far this season. So they're
going with a blank notebook, that short practice session
going to be so important. They're going on there
with a new tire. They've got to learn tire
wear so quickly. But anytime there's a challenge like
this, it presents opportunity. This is a track
where we can see some of that strategy come into
play. We will see teams pit before the end
of stage is trying to keep that track position.
We will see teams trying to play the fuel mileage
game, maybe sneak out a win. This is
the type of track that presents those opportunities and when
those playoff spots are few and far between, you
never know who might strike that strategy. All right
, well, there are some teams that are hoping
to not be as a dismal is a turn for
it, Pocono, there is none. There's no
turn forward, but we've recently seen joe Gibbs Racing
versus those Hendrick Motorsports, Chevy. So can one
of those powerhouse teams show up this weekend. Absolutely
. Especially historically at this track, Joe Gibbs Racing
, Hendrick Motorsports, those are the two winningest organizations
at Pocono, especially lately at this track. Remember
last season Kyle Busch Alex Bowman split last year at
Pocono in terms of wins this year, I don't
know who to go with. It's tough to say
, I go back to last week, New Hampshire
kind of a flat track. There's not much banking
at Pocono. The JgR Toyotas were doing great at
New Hampshire other than Chase Elliott, we didn't see
much out of the Hendrick motorsports cars. So if
I'm going with recency bias, if you will,
I'm gonna say J. G. R. Has
the advantage of Pocono over H. M. S
this weekend. Obviously Joe Gibbs Racing car is the
latest winner in the Nascar Cup series with Christopher Bell
, but there is one driver that's still winless over
there at that camp and that's martin Truex JR then
you throw in the likes of like Kevin Harvick Ryan
Blaney, there's several uh, unfamiliar faces that have
yet to find victory lane. It's interesting and a
lot of those have won at Pocono before, the
ones you just mentioned Kevin Harvick former winner at Pocono
, martin Truex Jr Ryan Blaney, they have all
won at Pocono and it's getting again few and far
between in terms of finding that playoff spot. All
of those drivers need victories. Can they win again
? Absolutely, will they on sunday? That's so
hard to say because they haven't done it yet,
Kevin Harvick. There's so much momentum traditionally, so
good at Pocono. I expect them to be good
. But remember 2nd place means nothing. Only first
matters. We're going for this playoff spot. That's
what's so much fun. Give us the 15th winner
. That's all we're asking for this weekend. All
right. I see who you got. I'm going
with all the speed lately. I can't go against
Chase Elliott 1st, 2nd, 1st, 2nd.
Not the best traditionally at Pocono, but I'm not
going against his performance. The nine car. Yeah
, they have definitely been consistent so far this season
. I'm gonna go with a new winner. When
you talked about the four big upset. We'll see
. Give me all the chaos. You know how
we feel about that. Alright, alright, well
, we're racing at Pocono for the Nascar Cup series
. This sunday at three p.m. Eastern on U.
S. A. And Alan and I will see
you right back here next week in Studio three for
the preview show.