NASCAR’s Sprint Cup and Camping World Truck Series teams are in the mountains of Pocono, Pennsylvania this weekend while Nationwide Series drivers head to the 7/8-mile Iowa Speedway for some short track racing.

Jeff Gordon won Pocono in June and will be looking to return to Victory Lane at the flat 2.5-mile track known as the Tricky Triangle. Elliott Sadler is the defending Truck Series race winner and will be in Iowa where Kyle Busch picked up the Nationwide win last season.

Carl Edwards remains Mr. Consistency when it comes to leading the points, but he only has a slim 11-point margin over Jimmie Johnson heading into Pocono. Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits in 10th place and will need a strong run this weekend to keep his Chase hopes alive. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. takes over the Nationwide point lead from Reed Sorenson but it’s still a tight race as the top six drivers are separated by less than 100 points. Johnny Sauter continues to be firm atop the Truck Series point standings.

The action begins Friday in Pocono with the only practice for Truck Series drivers at 10:00 a.m. Watch tape-delayed coverage on SPEED at 2:00 p.m. Two Sprint Cup practice sessions wrap the day up in Pocono with the first at 12:00 p.m and final practice at 4:00 p.m, both live on SPEED.

Nationwide drivers hit the track in Iowa for two practice sessions at 5:30 p.m and 7:00 p.m respectively.

Saturday in Pocono gets started with back-to-back qualifying sessions for Camping World Truck and Sprint Cup Series drivers. Truck Series qualifying begins at 9:35 a.m on SPEED with Sprint Cup qualifying getting underway at 10:40 a.m. on ESPN.

SPEED will broadcast the Good Sam RV Emergency Road Service 125 Truck Series race live from Pocono Raceway at 12:30 p.m. Saturday’s NASCAR action moves out to Iowa for Nationwide Series qualifying at 4:35 p.m followed by the U.S. Cellular 250 on ESPN2 beginning with the NASCAR Countdown at 7:00 p.m.

ESPN’s live coverage of Sunday’s Good Sam RV Insurance 500 Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway starts at 12:00 p.m. Driver introductions are scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m with the race set to go green shortly after 1 p.m. All times are eastern.

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