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Winning Solves Everything for Kahne at Pocono

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by Steve Wronkowicz

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June 9, 2008 11:00 pm CDT 4 Comments

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Kasey Kahne had the field covered at Pocono on Sunday.

Untitled PostKahne beat Brian Vickers and perennial Pocono winner Denny Hamlin to the finish line for his second win in three weeks. After a race that found many of NASCAR’s elite complaining about everything at Pocono except trees, Kahne looked refreshed when he stepped out of his Budweiser Dodge.

Kahne had to battle back from 36th place after a botched pit stop forced him to return to pit lane to complete a four tire stop. Originally crew chief Kenny Francis called off a four tire stop to just take two, but not everyone got the message and lugnuts had already been removed from the drivers side of the race car when Kahne sped away. Francis explained it this way:

I got us in a pretty big hole there at the beginning of the race, just tried to take two tires, called off a four tire stop and called a two tire stop, and I thought I saw the tire changer out of the corner of my eye and didn’t realize he had hit some lugnuts already in the front, and got us all the way in the back, 36 or something. And Kasey did a great job driving it back up through the field.

Numerous drivers took pot shots at the racetrack over the week, complaining about the quality of the racing surface, the length of the race itself and the heat. Which leads us to this week’s BUZZ ON PIT ROW:

What should NASCAR do about the races at Pocono?

Let us know what you think about the buzz and we may use your reply on this week’s show. Check out ON PIT ROW at www.onpitrow.com tuesday at 5pm ET, followed by INSIDE ARCA.

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4 Responses to “Winning Solves Everything for Kahne at Pocono”

  1. User Avatar Matt Mercer on June 10th, 2008 12:23 pm

    NASCAR needs to move a race to Kentucky under the lights, and reduce the length of the remaining race to 400 miles. The attendance rate would benefit both locations.

  2. User Avatar Steve Wronkowicz on June 10th, 2008 11:26 pm

    Matt–

    I agree that one is enough in Pocono. I think 300 miles is long enough on the wanna-be-road -course.

  3. okla21fan on June 11th, 2008 7:47 am

    How is a thought that I had a couple of a years ago. At every race venue that has two race dates, the lengths of both races should differ by at least 100 miles (or laps).

    This would add some variety and different strategy for each race. Having one Pocono race at 500 miles and the other race at 400 would change a lot of team’s approaches come each race day.

  4. okla21fan on June 11th, 2008 7:47 am

    Here is a thought that I had a couple of a years ago. At every race venue that has two race dates, the lengths of both races should differ by at least 100 miles (or laps).

    This would add some variety and different strategy for each race. Having one Pocono race at 500 miles and the other race at 400 would change a lot of team’s approaches come each race day.

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