With Pocono 500 of Sunday with red flag in rain after 106 returns, Jeff Gordon was seeing clouds more kindly it has done than it before.
A shining strategy in pits took to the leader in the points in Glass NEXTEL of NASCAR his fourth victory of the season and 79ª of its race, after which the clouds were abrieron and the event in the Pocono Raceway occurred by finished to the 7:35 p.m. Hour of the East, six returns after passing the midpoint of the race.
The period with red flag lasted 34 minutes, when the personnel of the track in speedway of 4,023 km (2,5 miles) in vain tried to dry asphalt in time to reinitiate the race before he grew dark.
“I never saw clouds as much as I do it now, trying to explain to me that they were going to do”, said to Gordon during the interruption, hoping more rain.
By second consecutive race, polesitter Ryan Newman took the put second. Newman was on the brink of madness happening to Gordon in return 104 when NASCAR made the call for the last yellow flag, then stopped the race later two returns.
Martin Truex Jr, the winner of the race of the week last in Dover, was third party, followed of Casey Mears and Tony Stewart. Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Clint Bowyer completed the 10 first.
Gordon battled with problems of brakes all evening and could have run eight returns more in green flag before entering pits by fuel.
“We had a great car”, said. “We only needed the position in track”.
The head of the equipment Steve Letarte became position of that problem when maintaining to Gordon in the track when the seven cars in front of him in the order in which fuel and/or tires in turn 65 were running, went to pits by.
Gordon and Mears, that also remained outside in return 65 under yellow flag by rubbish in curve 3, had to enter pits by rims and fuel return 82, and with rain coming near from the northeast, Gordon ran hard to the midpoint of the way and it drove itself to the front when the cars in front of him were forced to refuel combustible.
When Gordon entered pits from the leadership return 82, polesitter Ryan Newman assumed the point, but with rain beginning to fall in the curve of the tunnel, Newman had to enter pits by fuel return 95. Carl Edwards inherited the leadership through cycle of shutdowns in pits, but he had to stop by fuel in turn 98, giving to Gordon the end position.
When the race reached return 100, rain began to fall in serious. “It is raining in the part of back like … - rain, rain, rain”, the coequipero of Gordon, Jimmie Johnson it said by radio to his equipment in return 103.
A return later, NASCAR encouraged the race, later Newman had erased a deficit of more than two second e impelled to its no. 12 Dodge next to the no. 24 Chevrolet de Gordon moments before the yellow flag in return 104 waved.
“Yes, we were lucky, with luck - as they want to call to him - that rain came did when it”, said Gordon. “Steve did a great call, bold, based on the radar. It was seeing the radar all the day. He was dangerous, but really it worked wonderfully.”
“On the one hand, I feel like culprit to take this triumph. On the other hand, Steve made a great call, and all the others had the opportunity to make the same call”.
Newman did not have negative feelings on the moment at which NASCAR finished the race.
“Rain in the return previous to that fell to Me, and when I returned the following time, it rained still more hard”, said Newman. “Everything is by the security. Obvious, we remained on four feet, but there was no controversy”.
Truex felt that it could have gained the race if had followed under green flag by other 10 minutes or something thus.
“Fodder that with five or 10 returns more, we had an opportunity to secure the triumph”, said Truex, that secured his first victory in Glass NEXTEL in the race of past Monday that was posponed in rain in Dover. “It was reaching to Newman. The boys (of the equipment of Gordon), tried to take advantage, and had luck. Simply it is the way in that he happened”.

Montoya arrived in position 20

Although it left in position 38, the Colombian it had a good race, it surpassed 18 competitors and until it was in three occasions between the ten first of the competition in the circuit of Pocono.

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