2006 Food City 500
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Race details[1] | |||
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Race 5 of 36 in the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season | |||
Date | March 26, 2006 | ||
Location | Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility 0.533 mi (0.858 km) |
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Distance | 500 laps, 266.5 mi (428.89 km) | ||
Weather | Cold with temperatures approaching 41 °F (5 °C); wind speeds up to 8.9 miles per hour (14.3 km/h)[2] | ||
Average speed | 79.427 miles per hour (127.825 km/h) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Joe Gibbs Racing | ||
Time | Owner points | ||
Most laps led | |||
Driver | Tony Stewart | Joe Gibbs Racing | |
Laps | 245 | ||
Winner | |||
No. 2 | Kurt Busch | Penske Racing | |
Television in the United States | |||
Network | Fox | ||
Announcers | Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, and Larry McReynolds |
The 2006 Food City 500 was held at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 26, 2006 as the fifth race in the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season.
Race recap
Qualifying was cancelled on March 24 due to snow, sleet and rain, and the field was set with top 35 owners points from 2005, the Champion's Provisional (for Terry Labonte) and seven others, based on qualifying attempts in 2006. As a result, 2005 champion Tony Stewart sat on the pole.
The race featured 18 cautions, and over 100 of the 500 laps were run under the yellow flag. Points leader Jimmie Johnson made contact with the car of Reed Sorenson, which caused a flat tire and put the #48 car several laps down; this would allow him to finish 30th. Lap 188 saw the most notable wreck of the first half of the race, where Clint Bowyer spun Dave Blaney, causing a chain reaction collecting David Stremme, Brian Vickers, and Michael Waltrip. This brought out a red flag to cleanup.
Jeff Gordon spun Martin Truex, Jr. out on lap 415, collecting Jeff Burton, Robby Gordon, and J. J. Yeley. Kurt Busch, who had made up two laps lost earlier in the day due to tire problems, used the "bump-and-run" to nudge Matt Kenseth out of the lead with four laps to go. Gordon used the same tactic to take third but on the final lap, Kenseth used the bump and run to spin Gordon out as Busch raced to victory. Gordon finished 21st and was involved in a shoving match with Kenseth on pit road after the race, for which he was put on probation and fined $10,000 by NASCAR.
Besides the dyed between Gordon and Kenseth, there also was bitter rivalry shown between Busch and Kevin Harvick following contact last week at Atlanta. During the pre-race ceremonies and in the drivers meeting, Harvick spent his time taunting Busch for no good reason. Busch ignored his insults and dismissed reporters. Harvick had been complaining about Busch all week and once retorted that Roger Penske (Busch's team owner) would make a fool of himself in hiring Busch. NASCAR warned Busch and Harvick that if they got into a feud on the track, they would get penalized. Busch later won the race and Harvick ended up second. When interviewed, Kevin was not finished and said "I am glad for my second-place spot but seeing Kurt [Busch] up there is terrible. I hate to see him win. He is a big whiner."
The win was Busch's fifth in 11 career races at the track and the fifteenth in his career. It was Dodge's first win at Bristol since Richard Petty in 1975.
Race results
Pos | Grid | Driver | No. | Make | Points | Bonus | Laps | Winnings |
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1 | 9 | Kurt Busch | 2 | Dodge | 185 | 5 | 500 | $175,858 |
2 | 14 | Kevin Harvick | 29 | Chevrolet | 175 | 5 | 500 | $160,886 |
3 | 7 | Matt Kenseth | 17 | Ford | 170 | 5 | 500 | $166,566 |
4 | 3 | Carl Edwards | 99 | Ford | 160 | 0 | 500 | $122,575 |
5 | 30 | Bobby Labonte | 43 | Dodge | 155 | 500 | $138,836 | |
6 | 4 | Mark Martin | 6 | Ford | 150 | 500 | $105,825 | |
7 | 2 | Greg Biffle | 16 | Ford | 151 | 5 | 500 | $105,150 |
8 | 20 | Kyle Busch | 5 | Chevrolet | 147 | 5 | 500 | $102,450 |
9 | 6 | Ryan Newman | 12 | Dodge | 138 | 500 | $129,258 | |
10 | 23 | Kasey Kahne | 9 | Dodge | 134 | 500 | $125,864 | |
11 | 19 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. | 8 | Chevrolet | 130 | 500 | $124,516 | |
12 | 1 | Tony Stewart | 20 | Chevrolet | 137 | 10 | 500 | $168,886 |
13 | 13 | Elliott Sadler | 38 | Ford | 124 | 500 | $115,733 | |
14 | 33 | Denny Hamlin * | 11 | Chevrolet | 121 | 500 | $88,000 | |
15 | 29 | Jeff Green | 66 | Chevrolet | 118 | 500 | $113,458 | |
16 | 10 | Jeremy Mayfield | 19 | Dodge | 115 | 500 | $115,866 | |
17 | 35 | Sterling Marlin | 14 | Chevrolet | 112 | 500 | $101,783 | |
18 | 28 | Kyle Petty | 45 | Dodge | 109 | 500 | $107,633 | |
19 | 40 | Scott Wimmer | 4 | Chevrolet | 106 | 500 | $85,050 | |
20 | 15 | Dale Jarrett | 88 | Ford | 103 | 500 | $119,475 | |
21 | 11 | Jeff Gordon | 24 | Chevrolet | 105 | 5 | 500 | $129,336 |
22 | 22 | Reed Sorenson * | 41 | Dodge | 97 | 499 | $92,350 | |
23 | 32 | Dave Blaney | 22 | Dodge | 94 | 499 | $96,683 | |
24 | 21 | Ken Schrader | 21 | Ford | 91 | 499 | $111,014 | |
25 | 12 | Casey Mears | 42 | Dodge | 88 | 498 | $118,083 | |
26 | 37 | Robby Gordon | 7 | Chevrolet | 85 | 497 | $83,300 | |
27 | 36 | Terry Labonte | 96 | Chevrolet | 82 | 497 | $80,060 | |
28 | 16 | Joe Nemechek | 1 | Chevrolet | 79 | 495 | $109,255 | |
29 | 27 | Clint Bowyer * | 7 | Chevrolet | 76 | 495 | $90,800 | |
30 | 5 | Jimmie Johnson | 48 | Chevrolet | 73 | 487 | $128,486 | |
31 | 39 | Kevin Lepage | 61 | Ford | 75 | 5 | 485 | $81,150 |
32 | 34 | Michael Waltrip | 55 | Dodge | 67 | 481 | $88,147 | |
33 | 24 | J.J. Yeley * | 18 | Chevrolet | 64 | 469 | $114,075 | |
34 | 18 | Jeff Burton | 31 | Chevrolet | 61 | 467 | $104,845 | |
35 | 8 | Jamie McMurray | 26 | Ford | 58 | 440 | $125,275 | |
36 | 26 | David Stremme * | 40 | Dodge | 55 | 435 | $86,400 | |
37 | 17 | Brian Vickers | 25 | Chevrolet | 52 | 434 | $86,350 | |
38 | 25 | Martin Truex Jr. * | 1 | Chevrolet | 49 | 430 | $86,300 | |
39 | 43 | Stanton Barrett | 95 | Chevrolet | 46 | 381 | $78,240 | |
40 | 41 | Travis Kvapil | 32 | Chevrolet | 43 | 349 | $78,165 | |
41 | 38 | Scott Riggs | 10 | Dodge | 40 | 344 | $78,115 | |
42 | 31 | Brent Sherman * | 49 | Dodge | 37 | 302 | $78,060 | |
43 | 42 | Hermie Sadler | 0 | Chevrolet | 34 | 96 | $77,481 |
Failed to make field: Chad Chaffin (#34), Mike Skinner (#37), Mike Garvey (#51), Derrike Cope (#74), Kenny Wallace (#78), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Chad Blount (#92).
References
- ↑ Official results of the 2006 Food City 500 at NASCAR.com
- ↑ Weather information at The Old Farmers' Almanac
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