What: 500 miles or 200 laps
Where: Pocono Raceway, a 2.5-mile triangular-shaped flat track located in Long Pond, Pa.
When: 1 p.m. Eastern Sunday. Qualifying is 3:10 p.m. Friday.
TV: TNT
Radio: Motor Racing Network
Purse: $4,808,573
Last year's winner: Tony Stewart
Also this week: Martin Truex Jr. takes a growing lead in the NASCAR Busch Series into Saturday's race at Pikes Peak International Raceway in Fountain, Colo. He leads rookie Kyle Busch by 94 points. Ron Hornaday is third, 338 behind Truex Jr. … Bobby Hamilton has been gaining ground on points leader Dennis Setzer in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He trails Setzer by 64 entering Saturday's race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich.
Worth noting: Rusty Wallace leads all other active drivers with four Nextel Cup victories at Pocono. … Mark Martin leads all other active drivers with 17 top-five and 24 top-10 finishes at Pocono. He also leads all other active drivers with more than 10 starts with a average start of 6.542. … Jimmie Johnson has a 3.40 average start in five races at Pocono. … Jeff Gordon has an average finish of 10.26 at Pocono, better than any other active driver with more than 10 starts.
Inside Pocono
Pocono Standouts
# Ken Schrader leads all active drivers with five poles
# Terry Labonte has top-10 finishes in his past four races.
# Dale Earnhardt Jr. has top-10 finishes in his past three races.
# Dale Jarrett has 13 top-five, including three victories, in the last 18 races. However he finished 42nd, 21st and 26th in his last three races.
# Tony Stewart has eight top-10s in 11 races, including a victory in the 2003 Pocono 500. Those eight top-10s came in his first nine races. However, he finished 37th there last July and 27th in June.
Pocono blues
# All drivers in the current top 10 except for Kevin Harvick have had one or more top-10s in their last three races at Pocono. Harvick has finished 12th or worse in six of his seven races there.
# Greg Biffle has finished 11th or worse in all three of his races.
# Robby Gordon has finished 18th or worse in six of his seven races.
# Kyle Petty has one finish of 13th or better in his past 13 races.
