2006 Goody's 250

Race details[1][2]
Race 21 of 35 in the2006 NASCAR Busch Series
Date	July 22, 2006 (2006-07-22)
Location	Martinsville Speedway,Martinsville, Virginia
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	0.526 miles (0.847 km)
Distance	250 laps, 131.5 mi (211.629 km)
Average speed	61.139 mph (98.394 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Clint Bowyer	Richard Childress Racing
Time	19.735
Most laps led
Driver	Kevin Harvick	Richard Childress Racing
Laps	149
Winner
No. 21	Kevin Harvick	Richard Childress Racing
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Allen Bestwick,Wally Dallenbach Jr.
Nielsen ratings	1.7 (Final) (1,926,000 million)[3]

TheGoody's 250 was aNASCARBusch Seriesstock car race held atMartinsville Speedway, inMartinsville, Virginia. The race was only held once, on July 22,2006, as a standalone event during the summer. It had been planned the race would be held at night, under a temporary lighting system to be installed at the track, instead it was held in the afternoon instead. The Goody's 250 replaced theITT Industries & Goulds Pumps Salute to the Troops 250 on the Busch Series schedule. After a Busch Series Martinsville record high 19 cautions for 87 laps, the Goody's 250 was replaced in2007 by theNAPA Auto Parts 200 at theCircuit Gilles Villeneuve road course inMontreal, Quebec, Canada; second-division NASCAR racing would not return to the track until2020. The race was the final start in NASCAR forDarrell Waltrip andRicky Craven.

The Goody's 250 was the 21st out of 35 scheduledstock car races of the2006 NASCAR Busch Series. It was held on July 22, 2006 atMartinsville Speedway, inMartinsville, Virginia,^[2] ashort track that holdsNASCAR races.^[4] The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn, 0.526-mile (0.847 km)oval. Its turns arebanked at elevendegrees, and neither the front stretch (the location of the finish line) nor the back stretch is banked.^[5]

Before the race,Kevin Harvick led theDrivers' Championship with 3,092points, withCarl Edwards in second andClint Bowyer third.Denny Hamlin andJ. J. Yeley were fourth and fifth, andGreg Biffle,Paul Menard,Kyle Busch,Johnny Sauter andKenny Wallace rounded out the top ten.^[6] This was the first Busch Series race to be held at Martinsville since October 1994,^[7] and it had been planned the race would be held under night conditions with a temporary lighting system installed at the track, but it was held in the afternoon instead.^[8]

Two drivers chose to make a one-off return to NASCAR at the race. Three-timeWinston Cup Series championDarrell Waltrip drove the No. 99Michael Waltrip Racing car by gaining his wife Stevie's permission after his younger brotherMichael Waltrip asked if he wanted to race.^[9] Since his car was 16th in the Owner's Championship, Waltrip earned an automatic qualifying berth for the event.^[10] Despite winning eleven times at Martinsville in the Nextel Cup Series, the Goody's 250 marked Waltrip's first appearance at the track in the Busch Series.^[9] Waltrip said he was entering the race because of his belief he could be competitive: "I’m going to come in there, I’ve got the latest and greatest equipment and Michael’s bunch is excited, I’m pumped and I think we’ll have a lot of fun."^[10]1992 NASCAR Busch SeriesRookie of the Year and two-time Nextel Cup winnerRicky Craven returned to drive the No. 14 car owned byFitzBradshaw Racing.^[1] However, unlike Waltrip, Craven needed to qualify since both FitzBradshaw cars were not within the top-thirty placings in the Owners' Championship.^[11] Other drivers returning to compete in the Busch Series includedBurney Lamar andBoris Said.^[12]

(R) denotes rookie driver

Three practice sessions were held before the Saturday race: all three took place on Friday.^[1] The first session ran for 60 minutes, with a half hour practice session reserved for rookie drivers following shortly after. The final practice session lasted 60 minutes.^[13] A one-hour test session was scheduled beforehand and it sawJason Leffler set the only lap time to go under the twenty seconds mark at 19.888 seconds, ahead of the No. 64 car shared bySteve Wallace and his fatherRusty Wallace. Sauter was third,Mark McFarland placed fourth, and Menard rounded out the top five.^[14]Mike Bliss,Caleb Holman andEric McClure crashed during the session and the damage to their cars necessitated their withdrawal from the race.^[1]

In the first practice session,Stacy Compton was the quickest driver in the field with a lap of 20.010 seconds, seven thousands of a second faster than anyone else on the track. His closest challenger was Steve Wallace in second, with Leffler third, andBrandon Miller fourth. McFarland was fifth-fastest, andMatt McCall came sixth.Kevin Hamlin,Randy LaJoie,David Green, andDennis Setzer rounded out the session's top ten drivers.^[15] Sauter paced the final practice session with a time of 19.877 seconds; Leffler was 0.026 seconds in arrears in second andCasey Atwood came third. Menard was fourth-quickest, ahead of Green andAric Almirola. McFarland was seventh-fastest, Lamar placed eighth,Ron Hornaday Jr. ninth andJason Keller completed the top ten heading into qualifying.^[16]

* – Made the field via owners points.

** – There were 3 different driver changes by Raceday as there were drivers qualifying the cars for the Cup Series drivers. Dennis Setzer qualified for Kyle Busch, Aric Almirola qualified for Denny Hamlin, and Kevin Hamlin qualified for Reed Sorenson. This was during the peak of theBuschwhacker era where Cup Series drivers would drive in the Busch Series and would ask for other drivers to qualify their Busch Series car while they tried to qualify the Cup Series race which would be thePennsylvania 500 at thePocono Raceway.

*** – Had to start at the rear of the field due to driver change.

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