Joey Logano is no stranger to the tantalizing dimensions of Pocono Raceway. Logano, the 2018 and 2022 NASCAR Cup Series champion, won just his second Sprint Cup Series victory in 2012 at the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway while still with Joe Gibbs racing. Now with Team Penske since 2013, Logano has tacked on an additional 31 career wins for 33 total and has 280 top ten career finishes.
Heading into Sunday’s Great American Getaway 400 at Pocono Raceway, Logano has one win in 2024, a victory at Nashville Superspeedway, and is well aware of how he needs to perform for a victorious result at Pocono. “It’s just one of those tracks where the compromise piece comes in quite a bit,” Logano said of Pocono. “You got turn one that’s obviously a lot of banking and pretty fast, you got turn two that’s gonna have a lot of bumps, turn three, it’s flat and long.
So all three take different things to make it work. You just hope you put it all together the best way possible.” Pocono Raceway boasts one of the longest front stretches of NASCAR race tracks as a tri-oval championship track.
Also known as the “Tricky Triangle,” Pocono’s design employs three different radius turns, various straightaways and several degrees of banking. As Logano noted, with a first turn radius of 675 feet and 14 degrees of banking, high speeds will play a factor initially. The back straightaway stretches 3,055 feet.
Turn two has a radius of 750 feet and eight degrees of banking with a straighta.