2016 Pennsylvania 400

The 2016 Pennsylvania 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was originally scheduled for July 31, 2016. Due to rain, it was actually run on August 1, at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 138 of the scheduled 160 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) speedway, it was the 21st race of the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

2016 Pennsylvania 400

Race details^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]
Race 21 of 36 in the 2016 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The 2016 Pennsylvania 400 program cover, featuring Tony Stewart.
Date	August 1, 2016 (2016-08-01) (postponed from July 31, 2016 (2016-07-31))
Location	Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.5 mi (4 km)
Distance	138 laps, 345 mi (552 km)
Scheduled Distance	160 laps, 400 mi (640 km)
Pole position
Driver	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing
Time	50.211 seconds
Most laps led
Driver	Joey Logano	Team Penske
Laps	38
Winner
No. 34	Chris Buescher	Front Row Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	NBCSN
Announcers	Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and Rusty Wallace
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1), Mike Bagley (2) and Kyle Rickey (3)

An advertisement for the 2016 Pennsylvania 400, made by Stewart-Haas Racing.

Chris Buescher scored his first victory at Pocono after the race was called for fog, the race had 19 lead changes among different drivers and seven cautions for 31 laps, and one red flag.

Report

Background

 

Pocono Raceway

Pocono Raceway (formerly Pocono International Raceway), also known as the Tricky Triangle, is a superspeedway located in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania at Long Pond. It is the site of two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races held just weeks apart in early June and late July/early August, one NASCAR Xfinity Series event in early June, one NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event in late July/early August, and two ARCA Racing Series races in early June and late July/early August. From 1971 to 1989, and again since 2013, the track has also hosted an Indy Car race, currently sanctioned by the IndyCar Series and run in August.

Pocono is one of a very few NASCAR tracks not owned by either Speedway Motorsports, Inc. or International Speedway Corporation, the dominant track owners in NASCAR. It is run by the Igdalsky siblings Brandon and Nicholas, both of whom are third-generation members of the family-owned Mattco Inc, started by Joseph II and Rose Mattioli. Mattco also owns South Boston Speedway in South Boston, Virginia.

Outside of the NASCAR races, Pocono is used throughout the year by Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) and motorcycle clubs as well as racing schools. The triangular oval also has three separate infield sections of racetrack – North Course, East Course and South Course. Each of these infield sections use a separate portion of the tri-oval to complete the track. During regular non-race weekends, multiple clubs can use the track by running on different infield sections. Also some of the infield sections can be run in either direction, or multiple infield sections can be put together – such as running the North Course and the South Course and using the tri-oval to connect the two.

Entry list

The preliminary entry list for the race included 41 cars and was released on July 25, 2016 at 2:55 p.m. Eastern time.

No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer
1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford
3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet
10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet
14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford
18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota
21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford
22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford
23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota
24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet
31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet
32	Jeb Burton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford
34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford
41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet
42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet
43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford
46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet
47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet
48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet
78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota
83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota
88	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet
95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet
98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet

First practice

Paul Menard was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 50.722 and a speed of 177.438 mph (285.559 km/h).^[10]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	50.722	177.438
2	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	50.731	177.406
3	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	50.842	177.019

Qualifying

 

Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole position.

Martin Truex Jr. scored the pole with a time of 50.211 and a speed of 179.244 mph (288.465 km/h).^[11] “The car felt really good for me today,” Truex said. “We’ve obviously got speed now we’ll use the rest of the weekend to fine tune some things and get ready for Sunday. Love this track and looking forward to having some fun on Sunday and trying to get to Victory Lane.”^[12]

Carl Edwards, who qualified second, said as he "crossed the line, I felt like, 'That’s it.' But after seeing what (Truex) ran, I thought 'Well, maybe I could go back and change this or that,' but that was a really good lap for me. It just was. You can always go back and pick your lap apart, but the last two weeks, Indy and here, I was pretty proud of my lap, and they just got us."^[13]

Paul Menard, who qualified third, said he has “had a rough year. We are not where we expected to be and need to be in points, so we had to make a change. Danny (Stockman) came in here and gave us a good car right off the truck. We stuck in qualifying trim all day. We know we have to improve our qualifying that just starts your race off way better. A good way to start it off.”^[14]

Qualifying was delayed 20 minutes due to a "glitch" with the laser inspection station.^[15] “We had a little bit of a glitch this morning at the opening of inspection with our laser platform,” Scott Miller, NASCAR's senior vice president of competition and racing development, told NBCSN. “We got it rectified quickly.”^[16]

Qualifying results

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	R1	R2	R3
1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	50.728	50.411	50.211
2	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	50.596	50.459	50.315
3	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	50.979	50.535	50.372
4	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	50.969	50.532	50.409
5	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	50.939	50.619	50.439
6	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	51.189	50.670	50.450
7	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	50.988	50.712	50.460
8	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	51.027	50.617	50.684
9	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	51.045	50.535	50.729
10	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	50.885	50.714	50.804
11	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	51.142	50.692	50.824
12	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	51.023	50.709	50.895
13	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	51.242	50.755
14	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	51.050	50.767
15	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	51.068	50.795
16	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	50.817	50.832
17	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	50.798	50.851
18	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	50.764	50.882
19	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	51.197	50.970
20	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	51.160	50.998
21	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	50.969	51.110
22	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	51.140	51.112
23	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	51.117	51.165
24	88	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	51.203	51.222
25	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	51.252
26	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	51.310
27	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	51.433
28	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	51.648
29	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	51.654
30	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	51.776
31	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	51.863
32	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	51.876
33	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	52.000
34	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	52.061
35	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	52.262
36	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	52.412
37	32	Jeb Burton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	52.500
38	30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	52.801
39	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	53.019
40	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	56.741

Final practice

Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 51.027 and a speed of 176.377 mph (283.851 km/h).^[17]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Time	Speed
1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	51.027	176.377
2	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	51.097	176.136
3	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	51.133	176.012

Race

First half

The race was postponed from July 31 to August 1 due to rain.^[18] Under overcast Pennsylvania skies, Martin Truex Jr. led the field to the green flag at 12:10 p.m. The field mostly rode around until the first caution of the race flew on lap 16. It was a scheduled competition caution for overnight rain. Brad Keselowski opted not to pit and assumed the lead. Jimmie Johnson was tagged for his crew being over the wall too soon and restarted the race from the tail end of the field.

The race restarted on lap 20. Greg Biffle got the jump on Keselowski and assumed the lead as the second caution of the race flew for Martin Truex Jr. suffering a right-front tire blowout and slamming the wall in turn 2. “A lug nut bounced off the ground, fell in behind the wheel behind a pit stop,” Truex said. “It’s just bad luck honestly. I knew something wasn’t right in (turn) one and two and I got real tight off of two on that restart and went down the back and was like, ‘Ah, it feels okay.’ And, as I got closer to the tunnel turn I felt it start to go down and by the time I let off and tried to slow down it was just going straight for the fence.”^[19] He was spared a last-place finish by Reed Sorenson, who exited the race on lap 29 with engine issues.^[20]

The race restarted on lap 23. Biffle maintained a quarter to half a second gap over the second-place car for a large portion of the run until Joey Logano drove under him in turn 2 to take the lead on lap 33. Bad luck continued for Truex as he cut down his left-front tire and was forced to make an unscheduled stop on lap 41. A number of cars began hitting pit road on lap 49. Jeff Gordon was tagged for speeding and was forced to serve a pass through penalty. He was eventually black-flagged. Kevin Harvick passed Logano going into turn 1 to take the lead on lap 52. He surrendered the lead to pit the next lap and handed it back to Logano. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Austin Dillon. He pitted the next lap and the lead cycled to Keselowski. Danica Patrick, Michael McDowell and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. were tagged for speeding on pit road and were forced to serve pass through penalties. Patrick was shown the black flag with the white cross, which meant she was no longer being scored until she served her pass through.

Harvick passed by Keselowski to retake the lead on lap 62. The third caution of the race flew on lap 66 for a two-car wreck on the frontstretch. Exiting turn 3, Aric Almirola made contact with Jeb Burton, came across his nose and made contact with the wall. Kyle Larson opted not to pit when the leaders pitted and assumed the lead.

The race restarted on lap 73. Larson and Dillon battled back and forth for eight laps until Dillon made contact with Larson in turn 3 on lap 82.^[21] This allowed Logano to slip by and retake the lead on lap 83.^[22] Larson said after the race that he doesn't think "you ever want to expect contact, but obviously we were racing really hard. I was doing all I could to stay in front of him, and he was doing all he could to get by me. We battled hard down the frontstretch one time, and then he got back to my inside into Turn 3. I left him plenty of room. I was just going to try and run side-by-side with him again and try and slow him down on the frontstretch. I guess he got loose underneath me and got into our door. That was pretty frustrating at the time, but it happens to not even really matter. That part of the race doesn't matter at all. It doesn't mean one thing to me."^[22] The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 85 for rain in turn 1.

Second half

 

Chris Buescher scored his first career win after fog shortened the race to 138 laps.

The race restarted on lap 92. Matt Kenseth, who stayed out under the third caution, hit pit road from second on lap 96. The fifth caution of the race flew on lap 100 for Truex suffering a tire blowout in turn 1. Larson opted not to pit and assumed the lead.

The race restarted with 57 laps to go. The sixth caution of the race flew for a two-car wreck in turn 2. Rounding the turn, Logano was racing Ryan Newman to his outside and Denny Hamlin to his inside when Chase Elliott got to his inside, got loose, got into Logano and sent both of them into the wall.^[23] Elliott continued spinning down the track into the inside wall.^[23] Elliott said he "came off (Turn 1) and those guys were three-wide, I thought Denny had the best run so I elected to push him and I thought that would be a good move to kind of get him past them and hopefully he would drag me by. I just got next to (Logano) and got in there. I thought I slowed down enough to not get loose, but I got loose and collected him. I apologize to the No. 22 guys – it was completely my fault. I apologized to my guys as well. They gave me a really good car today.”^[24]

The race restarted with 51 laps to go. A number of cars began hitting pit road to make their final stop of the race with 37 laps to go. Larson hit pit road with 35 laps to go and handed the lead to Dillon. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Casey Mears. He pitted the next lap and handed the lead to Chris Buescher. The seventh caution of the race flew with 29 laps to go for fog in turn 1. The cars were brought down pit road and the race was red-flagged with 22 laps to go. Buescher would win his first Cup race after NASCAR called the race.^[25]

Post-race

Driver comments

Buescher said after the race that crew chief "Bob (Osborne) made a good call to hold out on the weather and make sure that we could run as far out on fuel as we possibly could, and it worked out really well. The weather got here just when we needed it to. We're in a good spot, and we can definitely make up those six points. We're going to try and get a lot more than that and be ready when the Chase does start to make sure we can advance as it goes through."^[26]

After finishing runner-up, Keselowski said his team "hit the green-flag pit cycle perfectly to take advantage and what was going to give the lead to us and give us the prime opportunity to win the race. Unfortunately, that cloud came rolling in at the right or wrong time, how you want to look at it, to box us out and we ended up finishing second today. We needed about three more laps (before the fog), but it is what it is.”^[27]

After finishing third, Smith said he thought "it was obvious we played the same strategy that Buescher and those guys did to get ourselves up there, and as Brad alluded to, the cloud kind of came at just the right time for us. We were within five or six laps of having to pit, but it’s a credit to my guys for seeing the opportunity to do that strategy, and when you’re a small team working hard to try and go up against some of the bigger teams that we do, you’ve got to take the opportunities when they present themselves, and today and this weekend in general, just kind of had that feeling to it with the rain on and off all weekend long, and we were able to make the most out of it, and it’s something I’m proud of them for doing, and happy for Tommy.”^[28]

Race results

Pos	Grid	No.	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Points
1	22	34	Chris Buescher (R)	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	138	44
2	7	2	Brad Keselowski	Team Penske	Ford	138	40
3	30	7	Regan Smith	Tommy Baldwin Racing	Chevrolet	138	38
4	17	4	Kevin Harvick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	138	38
5	6	14	Tony Stewart	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	138	36
6	11	42	Kyle Larson	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	138	36
7	4	11	Denny Hamlin	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	138	34
8	2	19	Carl Edwards	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	138	33
9	16	18	Kyle Busch	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	138	33
10	15	41	Kurt Busch	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	138	31
11	18	21	Ryan Blaney (R)	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	138	30
12	5	31	Ryan Newman	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	138	30
13	12	3	Austin Dillon	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	138	29
14	13	47	A. J. Allmendinger	JTG Daugherty Racing	Chevrolet	138	28
15	23	5	Kasey Kahne	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	138	26
16	21	48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	138	25
17	9	20	Matt Kenseth	Joe Gibbs Racing	Toyota	138	24
18	14	17	Ricky Stenhouse Jr.	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	138	23
19	31	6	Trevor Bayne	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	138	22
20	19	1	Jamie McMurray	Chip Ganassi Racing	Chevrolet	138	21
21	20	13	Casey Mears	Germain Racing	Chevrolet	138	20
22	26	10	Danica Patrick	Stewart-Haas Racing	Chevrolet	138	19
23	29	95	Michael McDowell	Circle Sport – Leavine Family Racing	Chevrolet	138	18
24	35	44	Brian Scott (R)	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	138	17
25	25	16	Greg Biffle	Roush Fenway Racing	Ford	138	17
26	28	15	Clint Bowyer	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	138	15
27	24	88	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	138	14
28	34	83	Matt DiBenedetto	BK Racing	Toyota	138	13
29	39	46	Michael Annett	HScott Motorsports	Chevrolet	137	12
30	32	38	Landon Cassill	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	137	11
31	36	98	Cole Whitt	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	137	10
32	33	23	David Ragan	BK Racing	Toyota	135	9
33	8	24	Chase Elliott (R)	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	134	8
34	38	30	Josh Wise	The Motorsports Group	Chevrolet	132	7
35	3	27	Paul Menard	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	119	6
36	37	32	Jeb Burton (i)	Go FAS Racing	Ford	117	0
37	10	22	Joey Logano	Team Penske	Ford	115	6
38	1	78	Martin Truex Jr.	Furniture Row Racing	Toyota	82	4
39	27	43	Aric Almirola	Richard Petty Motorsports	Ford	66	2
40	40	55	Reed Sorenson	Premium Motorsports	Chevrolet	29	1

Race summary

• Lead changes: 19 among different drivers
• Cautions/Laps: 7 for 31 laps
• Red flags: 1
• Time of race: 2 hours, 42 minutes and 15 seconds
• Average speed: 127.581 miles per hour (205.322 km/h)

Media

Television

NBC Sports covered the race on the television side. Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte had the call in the booth for the race. Dave Burns, Parker Kligerman, Mike Massaro and Marty Snider reported from pit lane during the race.

NBCSN
Booth announcers	Pit reporters
Lap-by-lap: Rick Allen Color-commentator: Jeff Burton Color-commentator: Steve Letarte	Dave Burns Parker Kligerman Mike Massaro Marty Snider

Radio

Motor Racing Network had the radio call for the race, which was simulcast on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.

MRN
Booth announcers	Turn announcers	Pit reporters
Lead announcer: Joe Moore Announcer: Jeff Striegle Announcer: Rusty Wallace	Turn 1: Dave Moody Turns 2: Mike Bagley Turn 3: Kyle Rickey	Alex Hayden Winston Kelley Steve Post

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points   1 Kevin Harvick 709   2 Brad Keselowski 687 (–22)   3 Kurt Busch 658 (–51)   1 4 Kyle Busch 634 (–75)   1 5 Carl Edwards 626 (–83)   2 6 Joey Logano 612 (–97)   1 7 Jimmie Johnson 577 (–132)   1 8 Martin Truex Jr. 577 (–132)   1 9 Denny Hamlin 576 (–133)   1 10 Matt Kenseth 569 (–140)   1 11 Austin Dillon 549 (–160)   1 12 Ryan Newman 537 (–172)   2 13 Chase Elliott (R) 533 (–176)   14 Jamie McMurray 517 (–192)   15 Kyle Larson 508 (–201)   16 Kasey Kahne 488 (–221)

Manufacturers' Championship standings Pos Manufacturer Points   1 Toyota 866   2 Chevrolet 838 (–28)   3 Ford 803 (–63) Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings. . – Driver has clinched a position in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

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