Over the years, the June Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway has been one of the most unpredictable on the calendar.
In fact, the last nine spring Pocono races have produced nine different winners. Will one of them win again in Sunday’s Pocono 400? Tune in to FS1 Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET to find out.
Here are all nine of the past June Pocono winners:
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2008, Kasey Kahne
Driving a Gillett Evernham Motorsports Dodge, Kahne cruised to an easy 3.70s-second victory over Brian Vickers, Denny Hamlin and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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2009, Tony Stewart
This was the first victory by a Stewart-Haas Racing driver in a points-paying race. Earlier that year, Stewart won the all-star race for SHR.
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2010, Denny Hamlin
As a rookie in 2006, Hamlin swept both Pocono races from the pole, an unheard of accomplishment for a first-year driver. In the June 2010 Pocono race, he and Kyle Busch gave car owner Joe Gibbs a sweep of the top two spot.
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2011, Jeff Gordon
In the June 2011 race, Gordon has a comparatively easy go of it, winning by 2.965 seconds over Kurt and Kyle Busch, Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick. The top-five finishers were all drivers who were either already NASCAR champions or would go on to become NASCAR champions.
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2012, Joey Logano
In the June 2012 race, Logano nerfed Mark Martin’s Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota out of the way to win his second and final race with Joe Gibbs Racing. Logano moved to Team Penske in 2013 and has won 16 races since joining forces Penske’s squad.
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2013, Jimmie Johnson
During the sixth of Johnson’s seven championship seasons, he won the June Pocono race from the pole ahead of Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr. And, yes, he’s good pretty much everywhere.
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2014, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
In a very satisfying season for his huge fan base, Earnhardt opened the 2014 season with a Daytona 500 victory and then went on to sweep both Pocono races in his No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
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2015, Martin Truex Jr.
This race was significant for Truex and crew chief Cole Pearn because it was the first time the duo won a race since Truex joined Furniture Row Racing. Since that first victory, Truex has won six more times with Pearn and Furniture Row.
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2016, Kurt Busch
The defending June Pocono race winner, Busch beat Dale Earnhardt Jr. to the flag by 1.126 seconds for his lone race victory of 2016.
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