Preview: Dale Jr. at the Tricky Triangle

RELATED: Full schedule for Pocono | Junior reveals his top 10 drivers to root for For his final full-time season as a driver, NASCAR.com will offer an analytical preview on Dale Earnhardt Jr. ahead of every remaining Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race. Race: Axalta presents the Pocono 400 at Pocono Raceway Date: June 11, 3 p.m. ET (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Previous five results at Pocono: 2nd, 4th, 11th, 1st, 1st RELATED: Dale Jr.'s stats at Pocono Notable: Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s career average finish at Pocono equals 14.4 – but his average finish in the last five races is 3.8. He swept the track with a pair of wins in 2014 and most recently nabbed a runner-up victory in last year's June races won by Kurt Busch. Junior has also seen consistency in recent years at the Tricky Triangle; he has only finished one race outside the top 11 in his past 11 races. Memorable moment: Clever pit strategy by then-crew chief Steve Letarte played into Earnhardt Jr.'s win at Pocono in August 2014 that gave him a season sweep of the Tricky Triangle. With 39 laps to go, Letarte instructed the crew to put four fresh tires on the No. 88 before taking a splash of fuel -- rather than a full tank -- 10 laps later to put him ahead of the field. Junior held off a fast-charging Kevin Harvick for the remainder of the race to win the GoBowling.com 400 by .228 seconds. It marked Earnhardt's second sweep of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career (the first at Talladega in 2006). Quotable: "Pocono is a good track for us," Earnhardt said in a team release. "I like both Pocono and Michigan, so we have some solid tracks coming up for the No. 88 gang. We were in the simulator this week working on Pocono. We've been working really, really hard the last three weeks. It's been going great – the cars have gotten better in practice and we’re seeing some good improvements, so we’re going to keep grinding. We're going in the right direction."