Sacks ran both Pocono races in 2005, and finished 43rd in both of them.

Yates said he made up his mind to drop out of the Pocono race after talking with team members.

"We had a similar [fuel] issue at the start of the Pocono race last year where we broke a fuel cable," Hamlin said after the race.

The strange twist to this Pocono race was that Wallace caught Mayfield because he was racing Burton for second place.

He was fined $50,000 and P.J. Jones replaced Gordon in the Pocono race, finishing 37th.

But it wasn't an issue during the Pocono race, and it apparently isn't now.

It was the final Pocono race before the debut of NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow.

Todd would run two other races, garnering a 42nd and 43rd before leaving the team before the first Pocono race.

NASCAR immediately suspended Busch from the Pocono race as a result for violating their policy forbidding swearing publically.

Shelmerdine finished 42nd in the Pocono race with heating conditions ending his day 192 laps short of the finish.