Preview: Dale Jr. back at Pocono

RELATED: Recap every Monster Energy Series win for Dale Jr. 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: Overton's 400 at Pocono Raceway Date: Sunday, July 30, 3 p.m. ET (NBCSN, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) Previous five results at Pocono: 38th, 2nd, 4th, 11th, 1st RELATED: Dale Jr.'s career stats at Pocono Notable: It's been just over a month since Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s last visit to the Tricky Triangle. Before that race (Axalta Presents the Pocono 400), Earnhardt had an average finish of 14.4 at Pocono. But after his 38th-place finish due to engine failure, his average finish now sits at 15.1. However, in seven of his last 10 races at Pocono, Earnhardt has managed to finish in the top 10 -- all but one of those in the top five. Memorable: Some of Earnhardt's memorable highlights came during the 2014 season when he swept Pocono. In the first race (Pocono 400), he started from the eighth-place position, only led for 11 laps compared to Brad Keselowski's 95, but still snagged the checkered flag. Then, at the GoBowling.com 400, Earnhardt made it to Victory Lane again at the 'Tricky Triangle,' and by a margin of less than half a second ahead of Kevin Harvick. Quotable: “I feel bad for all the fans because they’ve been really supporting us and this has been a difficult season for them to see us not compete like we should or like we have in the past," Earnhardt said in a team release. "I’m hoping that I can turn that around for all our sakes really soon. We’ll go to the next race – Pocono – and keep digging. This is not the worst season by any stretch of the imagination – at least the cars have speed in them, we’ve just had some really bad luck. We’ve got a busy week coming up, but I’m so ready for Pocono. We’ve got Fan Fest Friday, then it’s back behind the wheel Saturday.” [gallery_content baseUrl="https://www.nascar.com" galleryID="182" photocount="4"]