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Pennsylvania 400 at Pocono Raceway Postponed to Monday Morning

For the second time this year, Pocono Raceway was plagued with rain. This time, the weather wouldn’t hold up once again, postponing the Pennsylvania 400 to Monday morning at 11 a.m. ET on NBCSN.

At 2:44 p.m. ET, NASCAR officials announced the postponement after originally scheduling the race for 1:30 p.m. local time.

With the Air Titan and jet dryers on the racetrack, NASCAR attempted to get the race in. After rain hit the track throughout the morning, there was a break in between storms until moments before the rescheduled start time at 2:30. However, weepers in Turn 2 prevented NASCAR from getting cars on the racetrack. Once the rain came, it rapidly soaked the track, causing officials to scatter as the afternoon forecast has been predicted to get increasingly worse.

This is the first time in NASCAR history both of a track’s events have been canceled in one year. The Axalta ‘We Paint Winners’ 400 was moved from Sunday to Monday in June, and was able to run in its entirety.

The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Pocono Mountains 150 on Saturday afternoon narrowly missed the afternoon set of storms by approximately 20 minutes.

According to The Weather Channel, tomorrow’s forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of rain, with thunderstorms predicted to hit the are throughout the day. The forecast for 11 a.m. calls for a 55 percent chance of rain, with the odds increasing to 70 percent at noon and 80 percent at 2 p.m.

If need be, NASCAR will run the race on Tuesday. The last Sprint Cup race to be run on a Monday was the AdvoCare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Sept. 2011.

Pocono Raceway President and CEO Brandon Igdalsky said during the driver’s meeting on Sunday morning that the track was sold out in parts of the infield, with hopes of seeing a nearly sold-out crowd in the frontstretch grandstands.

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Joseph started with Fronstretch in Aug. 2014 and worked his way up to become an editor in less than a year. A native of Whitestone, New York, Joseph writes for NASCAR Pole Position magazine as a weekly contributor, along with being a former intern at Newsday and the Times Beacon Record Newspapers, each on Long Island. With a focus on NASCAR, he runs our social media pages and writes the NASCAR Mailbox column, along with other features for the site.

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DoninAjax

Brian, sitting on a stool in his favourite watering hole. when told of the postponement, asked “Who ordered the water?”

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