Hamlin To Win Fifth Time at Pocono?
Denny Hamlin just got his second top-five finish of the year at Kansas and comes in with a little momentum going to a track that he’s won at four times and owns the top average finish (8.2) among active drivers. I like him to win this week and finally break out of his hangover that began at Phoenix last season en route to his championship choke job.
But we have some solid contenders from Roush, Childress and Stewart that have exhibited recent horsepower to get the job done on the long Pocono straightaways. Make a case for Hamlin not to win and who will be the one, and why, to stop Hamlin from winning for the fifth time on his most successful track. Interested to see all your thoughts on the matter.
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Ryan Rantz 6:47 pm on June 6, 2011 Permalink |
I’m going with Hamlin as well. The momentum for him has been building for weeks and I think it’s time he capitalizes. This is his race to lose IMO.
My Pocono top 5: 1)Hamlin 2)Edwards 3)Johnson 4)Stewart 5)Harvick
Micah Roberts 7:14 pm on June 6, 2011 Permalink |
Wow, it looks almost exactly like my top 5 I just wrote about except I have Biffle in there instead of Johnson. I hope your right.
Ryan Rantz 7:37 pm on June 6, 2011 Permalink
I hope so to. I think Pocono is a pretty easy status quo track fantasy NASCAR wise.
David Rochester 8:03 am on June 7, 2011 Permalink |
He will make my roster this week no doubt. I’m totally sold on this team imploding this season from a pit road mistake or crew chief error. When Hamlin is among the favorite, the chance for that to happen rises. Hopefully, this isn’t the week for that.
My top 5: Stewart, Edwards, Hamlin, Harvick, Kahne (Stretching I know, but I expect a great run from Red Bull as a whole this week).
Jordan McAbee 8:00 pm on June 6, 2011 Permalink |
I think Hamlin will win as well. I’ll probably have Keselowski as my underdog like I did last week.
Micah Roberts 2:59 am on June 7, 2011 Permalink |
Keselowski looks to be running with something entirely different from the first 10 races of the year. Maybe Kurt Busch lit some kind of fire for the entire Penske NASCAR unit when blowing up at them a few weeks ago, because they both look drastically improved..
Jordan McAbee 3:41 pm on June 10, 2011 Permalink
Agreed. Both have really turned things around here recently.