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moose135
2015-08-12, 08:54 PM
I made my twice-a-year visit to Pocono Raceway last weekend for the NASCAR weekend. As always, it's an interesting time, and we had perfect weather and some good racing.

1 - I started out with some time on pit road during practice on Friday and Saturday. Here, Brad Keselowski speeds past.

http://www.moose135photography.com/Sports/NASCAR/Pocono-August-2015/i-Nqft8Fk/0/XL/JM_2015_08_01_Pocono_Cup_2_001-XL.jpg

2 - And his teammate, Joey Logano

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3 - And you can't miss Danica Patrick's car.

http://www.moose135photography.com/Sports/NASCAR/Pocono-August-2015/i-FfvvM92/0/XL/JM_2015_08_01_Pocono_Cup_10_003-XL.jpg

4 - Never turn your back on a race car! Twenty five years of going to Pocono, I'd never seen this. During Saturday's practice, Jeb Burton spun coming out of Turn 3 (Pocono is a triangle, there's no Turn 4) and spun into pit road. He slid by me and hit the inner pit wall about 20 feet past where I was. Sadly, I had been talking to the safety worker next to me, and while I saw the whole thing happen, I didn't have the camera up to catch him go by. Here he is on pit road where it finally stopped.

http://www.moose135photography.com/Sports/NASCAR/Pocono-August-2015/i-2DfqxfN/0/XL/JM_2015_08_01_Pocono_003-XL.jpg

5 - You know I have to include something aviation-related! Two USAF CV-22 Ospreys did the pre-race fly over.

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6 - He's coming right at us!

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7 - So what was I saying, twenty five years and I'd never seen a car spin into pit road? So how about two days in a row? Early in Sunday's Sprint Cup race, Kasey Kahne did the same thing - his skid marks on the track and into pit road were just about exactly on top of those left by Burton the day before, but Kahne hit about 3 pit stalls farther into the pits.


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8 - Trevor Bayne stops for tires and gas in 13 seconds.

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9 - Kurt Busch makes a quick stop.

http://www.moose135photography.com/Sports/NASCAR/Pocono-August-2015/i-2Q8BFkh/0/XL/JM_2015_08_02_Pocono_Cup_41_001-XL.jpg

Chris S
2015-08-13, 10:32 AM
Nice shots Moose !! :cool:
BTW, found some cool air-to-air videos of the Osprey 2-ship flyover at Pocono also.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OavbzDQK4t0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vlQ0I3PUg

Vinny Ohare
2015-08-16, 12:51 AM
Great shots Moose! Lucky that car didn't spin closer to you. Shows though that you can't take anything for granted at a NASCAR race. I relaxed once and had Jimmie Johnsons spolier in my gut from backing out of the garage.