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Trevor Bayne climbs to the top of the No. 22 AdvoCare Ford after winning Saturday’s Pocono ARCA 200 at Pocono Raceway.

Trevor Bayne starts the celebration in the No. 22 AdvoCare Ford after winning the Pocono ARCA 200 race at Pocono Raceway on Saturday.

LONG POND – The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series dominance continued for the second straight year in Saturday’s Pocono ARCA 200. Cup driver Kyle Larson won practice, qualifying, and the race last June.

Even though Roush-Fenway Racing driver Trevor Bayne didn’t run a lap at Pocono Raceway until Wednesday, he followed a trend set by Cup driver Kyle Larson, who won practice, qualifying and the race in June of 2014.

Bayne, the 2011 Daytona 500 winner, had backing from his Cup team, who fielded the No. 22 AdvoCare Ford for Saturday’s race. ARCA driver Kyle Weatherman shook the car down Wednesday in the open Pocono ARCA test.

“Awesome to get to run my first ARCA race, my first race at Pocono and my first race to be in victory lane this year,” Bayne said. “It’s a really cool opportunity. I’m thankful that Jack Roush and AdvoCare were able to put it together for Cunningham Motorsports.”

Mason Mitchell grabbed the lead from Bayne on the start of the race before the No. 07 of Brian Kaltreider lost control of his car in Turn three and bringing out the race’s first caution.

On the ensuing restart, Bayne passed Mitchell for the top spot to see the lead for the first time on the day.

Both came down for their first pit stop on lap 19 and Mitchell saw the lead one more time after staying out on a late restart, but faded back a few spots to finish the race in the third position.

Other future names ran the Tricky Triangle, including two 17-year-old drivers. Kyle Benjamin and Cole Custer both have wins in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East before being old enough to compete at Pocono Raceway.

Benjamin’s Saturday didn’t go as planned when he backed his No. 15 Venturini Motorsports Toyota into the Turn 3 wall during qualifying, forcing him to go to a back-up car. He made his way towards the front early in the Pocono ARCA 200 until the throttle stuck on his car. Luckily, the engine shut off to avoid a massive crash into one of the white-painted walls.

“It was a great effort by my guys,” Benjamin said. “They worked really hard to get that ready for me, but we just felt a little short today.”

Like Benjamin, Custer also started in the rear to change something on the car after a 10th place qualifying effort. Since the cars were impounded after Saturday’s morning qualifying session, teams are not allowed to work on them before the race, unless the driver drops to the rear when the team works on the car.

Custer worked into the Top-10 and looked like he could contend with Bayne, but the axle broke on the No. 00 Haas Automation Chevrolet ending the driver’s day.

“We were really making our way up there,” Custer said. “I felt like we were a lot better than we were in qualifying, but we really don’t know what happened there on the restart. We started getting pushed around.”

Bayne led 42 of the 80 laps on the day and was also the second straight ARCA victory for Cunningham Motorsports. Kyle Weatherman won the series’ last race on May 24 at New Jersey Motorsports Park before Bayne’s triumph Saturday afternoon.