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2009 Pocono 500

Race details
Race 14 of 36 in the2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Pocono Raceway
Date	June 7, 2009 (2009-06-07)
Location	Pocono Raceway,Long Pond, Pennsylvania
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	2.5 miles (4.023 km)
Distance	200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 82.4 °F (28.0 °C); average wind speeds of 13 miles per hour (21 km/h)[1]
Average speed	138.515 miles per hour (222.918 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Tony Stewart	Stewart–Haas Racing
Time	No time trials
Most laps led
Driver	Carl Edwards	Roush Fenway Racing
Laps	103
Winner
No. 14	Tony Stewart	Stewart–Haas Racing
Television in the United States
Network	TNT
Announcers	Bill Weber,Kyle Petty and Wally Dallenbach Jr.

The2009 Pocono 500 was the fourteenth pointsrace of theNASCAR Sprint Cup season for 2009, and was run on Sunday, June 7, at the 2.5 miles (4.0 km)Pocono Raceway outside the hamlet ofLong Pond, Pennsylvania. The race marked the first of six races in the "Summer Season" schedule forTNT, with pre-race coverage starting at 12:30 pm EDT and radio coverage overMRN (over-the-air) andSirius XM Radio (satellite) beginning at 1 pm US EDT. It was also the first Cup Series race to mandate all restarts be double-file, which is still an active rule in NASCAR today.

• Starting at this race, restarts in all races were performed in a double-file shootout style. Previously, this had only been a permanent part of the two non-points races on the circuit, theBudweiser Shootout and theSprint All-Star Race. Following a town hall meeting on May 26 at NASCAR's research and development center in suburbanCharlotte, North Carolina, where ideas were exchanged, the racing series made the double-file restart permanent as to Thursday (June 4). The rule was extended later to theNationwide Series and theCamping World Truck Series later in the year. The race leader selects their choice of lane, with all odd-numbered placed drivers behind him, and the even-numbered cars in the opposite lane. The "Lucky Dog" rule will be unchanged, but will now be enforced in all laps.

• Carl Long's suspension and fine were upheld from theSprint Showdown, meaning Long would miss twelve races, lose both 200 owner and driver points and his crew chief fined a recordUS $200,000. Long's engine was discovered to be 1 inch (2.5 cm) over the required size. Long would not return to the Cup Series until2017.

Because of an all-day rain on June 5, qualification was canceled. As a result, the field was set by the rule book.

Failed to make race due to qualifying canceled due to rain:Derrike Cope (#75),Tony Raines (#37),Mike Wallace (#64, was a late entry missing the deadline.)

After wrecking his primary car in the first practice Saturday,Tony Stewart was sent to the back of the field as a result of bringing out his back-up car. However, he overcame that and used the old fuel mileage strategy trick (as many races in Long Pond usually do) to become the first owner/driver to win sinceRicky Rudd won in September of1998 atMartinsville Speedway.Geoff Bodine was the last owner driver to win at Pocono Raceway. Kevin Harvick made his 300th start in this race, finishing in 24th position.

• NASCAR races at Pocono Raceway
• 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
• June 2009 sports events in the United States
• 2009 in sports in Pennsylvania

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