Sprint Cup 2013: Race 14: Party in the Poconos 400

Friday practice and qualifying was rained out for Sunday's action at Pocono Raceway as the Sprint Cup Season goes through a transition from Fox to TNT covering the next six weeks -- meaning no more "boogity-boogity" and the personality driven Fox coverage to TNT's more reserved coverage which in recent years, thanks to a no nonsense professional aproach has served them well. The network announced its coverage package on NASCAR.COM:

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2013/05/31/tnt-nascar-summer-series-2013-sprint-cup-series-television.html

Much will be decided before the real hot push to the Chase deadline jumps into high gear with the Brickyard 400. The one real certainty for this year is the dominance of (surprise?) Jimmie Johnson and the #48 Lowes Chevrolet team with Chad Knaus leading the crew. Despite Ford's miserable overall performance, consistency and avoiding trouble paired with one early victory in Phoenix, Carl Edwards is in 2nd place. He's followed by perhaps another slight surprise in Clint Bowyer before the season's most visibly dominant driver, Matt Kenseth checks in 4th place burdened by engine failure at last week's Dover race. As red hot as the Joe Gibbs cars have been, the ticking time bombs of possible engine failure always hovers over their possible successes. 

Last year's champ, Brad Keselowski, is currently struggling to maintain 10th position in the standings dogged by two infraction episodes which have cost points and disrupted leadership. Ford entries seem to be just a little short on power so far this year. Perhaps that big stylish simulated grill is a wedge in the wind, but the entire Ford operation needs to turn up the performance in all facets to be possible championship contenders come September. 

The summer season is here for NASCAR. Will it be smokin' hot?  Last week's win by Tony Stewart was the first true highlight for Stewart-Haas since Danica Patrick burst upon the field securing the Daytona 500 pole.

Pos.		Car#		Driver		Manu		Owners		Race
								Points		Attempts
								Rank
1		48		Jimmie Johnson		Chevrolet		1		13
2		99		Carl Edwards		Ford		2		13
3		15		Clint Bowyer		Toyota		3		13
4		20		Matt Kenseth		Toyota		4		13
5		29		Kevin Harvick		Chevrolet		5		13
6		88		Dale Earnhardt Jr.		Chevrolet		6		13
7		5		Kasey Kahne		Chevrolet		7		13
8		18		Kyle Busch		Toyota		8		13
9		27		Paul Menard		Chevrolet		9		13
10		2		Brad Keselowski		Ford		10		13
11		24		Jeff Gordon		Chevrolet		11		13
12		43		Aric Almirola		Ford		12		13
13		16		Greg Biffle		Ford		13		13
14		55		Mark Martin		Toyota		14		13
15		56		Martin Truex Jr.		Toyota		15		13
16		17		Ricky Stenhouse Jr. #		Ford		16		13
17		11		Denny Hamlin		Toyota		17		13
18		51		AJ Allmendinger		Chevrolet		18		13
19		14		Tony Stewart		Chevrolet		19		13
20		78		Kurt Busch		Chevrolet		20		13
21		22		Joey Logano		Ford		21		13
22		1		Jamie McMurray		Chevrolet		22		13
23		39		Ryan Newman		Chevrolet		23		13
24		31		Jeff Burton		Chevrolet		24		13
25		42		Juan Pablo Montoya		Chevrolet		25		13
26		9		Marcos Ambrose		Ford		26		13
27		13		Casey Mears		Ford		27		13
28		34		David Ragan		Ford		28		13
29		47		Bobby Labonte		Toyota		29		13
30		10		Danica Patrick #		Chevrolet		30		13
31		38		David Gilliland		Ford		31		13
32		7		Dave Blaney		Chevrolet		32		13
33		30		David Stremme		Toyota		33		13
34		83		David Reutimann		Toyota		34		13
35		36		JJ Yeley		Chevrolet		35		13
36		35		Josh Wise(i)		Ford		36		13
37		33		Landon Cassill(i)		Chevrolet		37		13
38		32		Timmy Hill #		Ford		38		13
39		93		Travis Kvapil		Toyota		39		13
40		87		Joe Nemechek(i)		Toyota		40		13
41		98		Michael McDowell		Ford		42		12
42		19		Jason Leffler		Toyota		44		12
43		44		Scott Riggs		Ford		46		6