| Race details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Race 34 of 36 in the2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series | |||
 Simple line diagram of Texas Motor Speedway track layout | |||
| Date | November 6, 2005 (2005-11-06) | ||
| Location | Texas Motor Speedway,Fort Worth, Texas | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 1.5 miles (2.4 km) | ||
| Distance | 334 laps, 501 mi (806.28 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 81 °F (27 °C); wind speeds up to 12 miles per hour (19 km/h)[1] | ||
| Average speed | 151.005 miles per hour (243.019 km/h)[2] | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Penske Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Matt Kenseth | Roush Racing | |
| Laps | 149 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 99 | Carl Edwards | Roush Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBC | ||
| Announcers | Bill Weber,Benny Parsons,Wally Dallenbach Jr. | ||
| Nielsen ratings | 5.1/10[3] | ||
The2005 Dickies 500 was aNASCARNextel Cup Series stock car race, which was held on November 6, 2005, atTexas Motor Speedway (TMS) inFort Worth, Texas. It was the inaugural running of the Dickies 500 after being created for the 2005 season.
The race was the 34th of the2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season, and the eighth race in the2005 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup, and was the first race to be run under the lights at TMS. Track president Eddie Gossage later announced that the total purse money for the race was$6,815,880, then the largest inChase history, and the fourth largest during the 2005 season, trailing theDaytona 500, theAllstate 400 at the Brickyard, and theSamsung/RadioShack 500.[4]
Thepole position was held byPenske Racing'sRyan Newman, and was won byCarl Edwards ofRoush Racing. The race was created as a result of theFerko lawsuit, which took out theSouthern 500 atDarlington Raceway, along with theSubway 400 atNorth Carolina Speedway.[5][6] The race featured six cautions, which at the time was the fewest at Texas Motor Speedway in a Nextel Cup race, and the 151.005 miles per hour (243.019 km/h) average speed which was also at the time the highest at the track in a Cup race.[4]
Pole-sitterRyan Newman was forced to start in the back after his car crashed on the second qualifying lap, and had to drive a backup car, andMatt Kenseth took over the pole position. Following the first caution flag,Greg Biffle passed Kenseth, but had to pit due to a loose wheel. Kenseth would dominate much of the race, leading a race-high 149 laps. Later in the race, with 11 laps remaining,Mark Martin did not change tires, and led on the restart. However, with two laps left,Carl Edwards, on newer tires, passed Martin and held him and Kenseth off for the victory[7] by a margin of .584 seconds.[8]
| Pos | Driver | Points[2] |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Stewart | 6255 |
| 2 | Jimmie Johnson | 6217 |
| 3 | Carl Edwards | 6178 |
| 4 | Greg Biffle | 6133 |
| 5 | Mark Martin | 6132 |
| 6 | Matt Kenseth | 6130 |
| 7 | Ryan Newman | 6081 |
| 8 | Kurt Busch | 5974 |
| 9 | Rusty Wallace | 5940 |
| 10 | Jeremy Mayfield | 5848 |
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