Pocono: When It Rains, It Pours

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

We seriously dodged a bullet with Pocono. Chris and I both went to cover the races there this weekend, even though it was supposed to absolutely pour. Begrudging sunshine prevailed for the ARCA race on Saturday, but on Sunday, right after the opening hullabaloo and as the cars were completing what was supposed to be their final pace lap, the worst that everyone feared, happened. It started out as a few huge bullet-like drops. We were both way out in the grass in Turn 1, at the end of Pocono’s gargantuan frontstretch and about a half a mile from the nearest real shelter. So we buckled down under our ponchos and hoped we would wait out what the radio guys kept saying would be “a few sprinkles.” The cars got called back to the pit lane and had their little rain covers put on. Then, it was as if someone turned a hose on us. Ever had someone turn a hose on you when you’re in a flimsy dollar-store rain poncho? Man, what a trip. I honestly thought I was going to drown in the sodden scramble back to the car. At the very least, I thought the cameras would be destroyed. Fortunately, they weren’t, and after this biblical deluge ran its brief course, the sun came out, and we put on our changes of clothes and enjoyed an absolutely fantastic Sprint Cup race day at Pocono. Check out Chris’s photos of both Saturday’s ARCA race and Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in the Events section, and read the collected blog coverage here!

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