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Tricky Triangle or Bermuda Triangle?

Pocono Raceway, nicknamed "the tricky triangle" for its three distinctively different turns, might as well be called the Bermuda Triangle for the recent events that have taken place at the nearby Long Pond track.

For the first time in NASCAR history, both of a track's races were postponed. On June 5 of this year, a misty rain on race day prohibited officials from keeping the track dry and forced the opening Pocono race of the season to be moved to a Monday.Sunday's Pennsylvania 400 looked doomed from the beginning of the week. Rain was predicted early and Mother Nature certainly didn't let anyone down. This time, however, unlike June's race that saw beautiful weather for the Monday start, yesterday's weather wasn't great for racing either and once again Mother Nature reared her ugly head.Fog was the main culprit this time as Pocono Raceway turned into an eerie sight almost looking haunted as NASCAR brought the cars to pit road on the backstretch at lap 138. The uniqueness of the last two Pocono races continued as Chris Buescher was the man on the point when the cars came to pit lane.An unusual scenario lifted Buescher to the win as a cut tire, pit stops working out perfectly, and his crew chief taking a chance that bad weather was coming, all worked out for the rookie driver.The race never restarted as NASCAR was forced to end the race with severe weather in the area.NASCAR's Bermuda Triangle had provided yet another bizarre beginning and end to one if its races."What we worked through was really unprecedented in terms of the fog you had rolling in," said NASCAR senior vice president and chief racing development officer Steve O'Donnell. "The reason you kept cars out on the track under caution was to see if the fog was going to roll through, and if you red flagged the race and the fog had lifted, we've got a long delay to get back, and we didn't have that many laps to go."It was obvious that a lot of fans still wanted to see some racing and many, if not all of the fans in the grandstand area, stayed to see if the cars would fire back up. There was a lot of optimism because the track was dry during the red flag, but ultimately NASCAR had to make the call because of impending rain and the relentlessness of the fog on the backstretch."We never lost the track, so in this case, I think most NASCAR fans want to see a complete race," said O'Donnell. "We've always stated that we will make every effort to get a complete race in, and in this case since we hadn't lost the track, we wanted to wait. Unfortunately we had a lightning warning come in, and once the track had to evacuate the grandstands and we could get all the cars confiscated, we made the decision then to unplug it and announce that Chris had been declared the winner of the race."The two 2016 Pocono races could certainly be defined as unpredictable, but most people forget because of this year's craziness how outrageous the 2015 Pennsylvania 400 in August was. So, it wasn't just the last two races at Pocono that ended in bizarre fashion, it was the last three.For those of you who don't remember, Matt Kenseth won the race when Joey Logano, Kyle Busch, and Martin Truex Jr. all ran out of gas in the final laps. It was one of the wildest finishes of the 2015 NASCAR season.It makes you wonder what's in store for Pocono Raceway in 2017.One thing is for sure, expect the unexpected.