50 Years of The Tricky Triangle

50 Years of The Tricky Triangle – The 2010’s and Beyond

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (December 27, 2021) The start of the new millennium brought with it the generation that made victory lane its home at Pocono Raceway throughout the 2010s. We start first, of course, chronologically with Denny Hamlin’s victory in the 2010 Gillette Fusion Proglide 500. ... Continue Reading

50 Years of The Tricky Triangle – The 2000’s

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (December 27, 2021) While the 1980s and ‘90s brought notable racing highlights to Pocono Raceway, the new millennium brought with it a changing of the guard. Fierce battles were ever present, but who they involved quickly evolved as the sport’s newest stars started ... Continue Reading

50 Years of The Tricky Triangle – The 1990’s

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (December 27, 2021) After a sterling decade of racing in the 1980s at the Tricky Triangle, Pocono Raceway had plenty to live up to in the 1990s. Challenge accepted. Disagreements between CART and Pocono led to open-wheel racing’s departure from Long Pond after ... Continue Reading

50 Years of The Tricky Triangle – The 1980’s

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (December 27, 2021) The journey through Pocono Raceway’s history shines on the racetrack in the 1980s, even despite some off-track struggles for the facility itself. During the Tricky Triangle’s second decade of hosting races around its 2.5-mile layout, the action seemed to improve ... Continue Reading

50 Years of The Tricky Triangle- The 1970’s

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (December 27, 2021) As Pocono Raceway celebrates 50 years of the Tricky Triangle, it’s time to look back through the decades that have made this facility so special for so long. To do that, there’s no better place to start than the 1960s ... Continue Reading

Jeff Gordon – One of The Best At The Tricky Triangle

Jeff Gordon – One of The Best At The Tricky TriangleBy: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (April 28, 2021) Jeff Gordon knows a thing or two — or six — about getting around Pocono Raceway. No one has won more races at the Tricky Triangle than Gordon, a six-time ... Continue Reading

Richard Petty: We’re All Part of the Pocono Raceway Family

By: Zach Sturniolo (Contributing Journalist for ’50 Years of The Tricky Triangle.’) (April 1, 2021) – Few drivers today understand what Pocono Raceway was like in the early 1970s. In 1972, there was no NASCAR in northeastern Pennsylvania. But there were stock cars. And where there were stock cars, there was usually a familiar name: ... Continue Reading