one thing you can't say in regards to NASCAR is that it's self-satisfied.
Interestingly, NASCAR's best arrangement, the Monster Energy Cup Series, will hold qualifying and the race around the same time when the Overton's 400 is keep running at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. The association will do a similar thing one week from now at Watkins Glen and again Oct. 29 at Martinsville.
The move will be useful for fans who are typically working or on the way to a track when qualifying is hung on Friday.
They'll get a difficult day of activity with the qualifying set to begin at 11:30 a.m. also, the race to take after at around 3 p.m. also, not end until 6 or 6:30.
The response to the new calendar has been blended.
"I'm a devotee of the two-day plan with the Sunday qualifying," said Nick Igdalsky, Pocono Raceway's recently named CEO. "We should perceive how everything works out before I make a last judgment.
"In any case, originating from a short-track and street dashing foundation, the one-day qualifying and hustling is typical to me. To me, it returns to amplifying the dollar for the fan. Rather than coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they would now be able to go ahead Sunday and at a similar low ticket cost you can see both the qualifying and the race."
In any case, the one-day bundle hasn't been all around grasped in the carport.
While a few drivers acknowledged having an extra day from the track, and not coming in until Friday night as opposed to Thursday, a few drivers have communicated worry about the absence of time to modify their autos in the wake of qualifying.
NASCAR will appropriate the autos, taking into consideration just negligible changes 15 minutes before the begin of the race.
There won't be sufficient time to have an auto in qualifying trim in the morning and after that patched up for the race.
On the off chance that an auto has a disaster area amid qualifying, a motor will be introduced in a reinforcement auto in a limited ability to focus time.
"This end of the week has had an altogether different feel to it," said Kasey Kahne, who won a week ago's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis. "NASCAR and the groups are attempting to see how this will function for everybody.
"This calendar has been pleasant for the groups and ideally it works for the qualifying in the morning and the race toward the evening. I like not putting all that time into qualifying and afterward exchanging it back finished for the race. Be that as it may, we'll see."
The groups attempted to get all that they could out of Saturday's two practice sessions.
Matt Kenseth posted the best time amid the primary practice and Kyle Busch was beat in the second. Kahne was 22nd and eighteenth.
"We weren't stressed over a qualifying run today; we simply were stressed over race stuff," Kahne said. "It won't be an ordinary qualifying session."
The Xfinity Series has utilized that day qualifying-race arrange, so it's not absolutely remote to most groups and drivers.
"NASCAR is continually evolving stuff," said Ryan Flores, a front tire-changer for Ryan Blaney, who won the June race at Pocono. "NASCAR is continually endeavoring to develop and adjust. At times it works, some of the time it doesn't. You simply need to play with the hand you're managed. You simply attempt to make sense of how to contend and do as well as can be expected."
Junior's goodbye
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., hasn't generally delighted in dashing at Pocono Raceway, yet as he approaches his last race at the self-declared Tricky Triangle on Sunday, he has plainly procured a thankfulness for the place and the general population who run it.
Earnhardt gave a far reaching, protracted question and answer session on Saturday morning in what may have been his last media focus appearance as a driver.
He discussed the terrible crash that highlighted Steve Park in 2002 when Park's auto flipped noticeable all around before Earnhardt. "That visual was fantastic, you know, and it was alarming, obviously," he help.
Earnhardt likewise recollected that Jeremy Mayfield knock his dad off the beaten path on the last lap of a 2000 race, something he didn't care to see and something he didn't discuss with his dad.
"We never discussed dashing," he said.
Be that as it may, Earnhardt has later charming recollections of Pocono.
"Brandon Igdalsky [until as of late Pocono's leader and CEO] has made a mind boggling showing with regards to," he said. "For quite a while, this track battled for regard and validity, and over the most recent quite a long while, Brandon has made a fantastic showing with regards to enable it to procure that regard. It has turned out to be one of the stops on the circuit that the drivers and groups now appreciate coming to.
"The offices are truly decent and they made an inconceivable showing with regards to with the surface after the repaving. Their capacity to be adaptable and pleasing to the drivers and groups assists a great deal. It makes you need to buckle down for them consequently."
Earnhardt has done everything asked of him this end of the week, and that's just the beginning.
"Dale has been magnificent for us," Nick Igdalsky said. "He's accomplished a greater number of appearances for us than whatever other driver. He has done a great deal for our fans."
He could give one more excite to those fans with a win on Sunday.
Ringer rings in truck race
Christopher Bell won the Overton's 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Pocono on Saturday, passing John Hunter Nemechek with six laps left and going ahead to his fourth win of the season and 6th in the arrangement general.
Ringer drives for Kyle Busch Motorsports and it looked like Busch himself may discover his approach to Victory Lane. Be that as it may, Busch, who drove 32 laps of the 60-lap race, slammed thus 2 on lap No. 37.
He will attempt again for his first Monster Energy Series win at Pocono on Sunday.
Ben Rhodes was second and Ryan Truex third.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE AT POCONO
11:30 a.m.: Monster Energy Cup qualifying
2:20 p.m.: Driver presentations
3 p.m.: Overton's 400 starts (160 laps); Three phases (50 laps, 50 laps, 60 laps).
