2006 DirecTV 500

2006 DirecTV 500
Race details
Race 6 of 36 in the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season
	2006 DirecTV 500 program cover
Date	April 2, 2006
Location	Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway, Virginia
Course	Permanent racing facility; 0.526 mi (0.847 km)
Distance	500 laps, 263 mi (423.257 km)
Weather	Temperatures reaching up to 80.6 °F (27.0 °C); wind speeds up to 7 miles per hour (11 km/h)
Average speed	72.741 miles per hour (117.065 km/h)
Attendance	65,000
Pole position
Driver	Jimmie Johnson;
Time	19.575
Most laps led
Driver	Tony Stewart
Laps	288
Winner
No. 20	Tony Stewart
Television in the United States
Network	Fox
Announcers	Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip, and Larry McReynolds

The 2006 DirecTV 500 was the sixth race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup season. It was held on April 2, 2006 at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Jimmie Johnson won the pole and Tony Stewart led the most laps and won the race.^[5]

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Thumb — Martinsville Speedway, the race track where the race was held.

Martinsville Speedway is a 4-turn short track that is 0.526 miles (0.847 km) long.^[6] Its turns are banked at 11° while the frontstretch, where the start/finish line is located, is banked 0°.^[6] Like the front stretch, the backstraightaway also does not have a banked surface.^[6]

Martinsville Speedway is the shortest track on the Sprint Cup circuit, ^[6] but because of its size and shape – described most often as the shape of a paperclip – Martinsville offers some of the most exciting and close racing in the sport.^[6] Also because of its size, fans are closer to the action than any other track.^[6] The cars are never more than a few hundred yards away and sometimes they seem close enough to reach out and touch.

In a recent poll of race fans by a major publication, Martinsville Speedway was voted as the top bargain in all of Sprint Cup racing as well as the track having the best view of the action.^[6] The track is also one of the most modern, with high-rise aluminum chair back seating, corporate and fan suites and state-of-the-art facilities for the media.^[6]

The race track was built in 1947 and is owned by the International Speedway Corporation.

The race consisted of 500 laps, equivalent to a race distance of 263 miles (423 km).^[6] Jeff Gordon was the defending race winner, after he won the race in 2005, the previous year.

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More information ST, Car # ...

ST^[7]	Car #	Driver	Make	SPD Q	Time	BHND
1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	96.736	19.575	0.000
2	26	Jamie McMurray	Ford	96.696	19.583	00.008
3	20	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	96.632	19.596	00.021
4	12	Ryan Newman	Dodge	96.563	19.610	00.035
5	9	Kasey Kahne	Dodge	96.509	19.621	00.046
6	14	Sterling Marlin	Chevrolet	96.484	19.626	00.051
7	38	Elliott Sadler	Ford	96.445	19.634	00.059
8	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	96.288	19.666	00.091
9	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge	96.117	19.701	00.126
10	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	95.976	19.730	00.155
11	10	Scott Riggs	Dodge	95.864	19.753	00.178
12	96	Tony Raines	Chevrolet	95.830	19.760	00.185
13	43	Bobby Labonte	Dodge	95.786	19.769	00.194
14	22	Dave Blaney	Dodge	95.752	19.776	00.201
15	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	95.670	19.793	00.218
16	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	95.632	19.801	00.226
17	5	Kyle Busch	Chevrolet	95.603	19.807	00.232
18	18	J. J. Yeley	Chevrolet	95.530	19.822	00.247
19	21	Ken Schrader	Ford	95.487	19.831	00.256
20	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet	95.443	19.840	00.265
21	1	Martin Truex Jr	Chevrolet	95.357	19.858	00.283
22	01	Joe Nemechek	Chevrolet	95.275	19.875	00.300
23	19	Jeremy Mayfield	Dodge	95.271	19.876	00.301
24	25	Brian Vickers	Chevrolet	95.218	19.887	00.312
25	41	Reed Sorenson	Dodge	95.146	19.902	00.327
26	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	95.132	19.905	00.330
27	7	Robby Gordon	Chevrolet	95.065	19.919	00.344
28	88	Dale Jarrett	Ford	95.017	19.929	00.354
29	8	Dale Earnhardt Jr	Chevrolet	94.855	19.963	00.388
30	6	Mark Martin	Ford	94.708	19.994	00.419
31	34	Chad Chaffin	Chevrolet	94.543	20.029	00.454
32	42	Casey Mears	Dodge	94.538	20.030	00.455
33	55	Michael Waltrip	Dodge	94.505	20.037	00.462
34	66	Jeff Green	Chevrolet	94.463	20.046	00.471
35	95	Stanton Barrett	Chevrolet	94.458	20.047	00.472
36	4	Scott Wimmer	Chevrolet	94.444	20.050	00.475
37	45	Kyle Petty	Dodge	94.214	20.099	00.524
38	40	David Stremme	Dodge	94.200	20.102	00.527
39	51	Mike Garvey	Chevrolet	94.106	20.122	00.547
40	32	Travis Kvapil	Chevrolet	94.087	20.126	00.551
41	11	Denny Hamlin	Chevrolet	93.915	20.163	00.588
42	07	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	93.673	20.215	00.640
43	92	Chad Blount	Dodge	94.017	20.141	00.566
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44	74	Derrike Cope	Dodge		20.142
45	61	Kevin Lepage	Ford		20.176
46	78	Kenny Wallace	Chevrolet		20.225
47	49	Jimmy Spencer	Dodge		20.247
48	89	Morgan Shepherd	Dodge		20.261
49	00	Hermie Sadler	Ford		20.443

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More information Pos, Grid ...

Pos	Grid	Driver	No.	Make	Points	Bonus	Laps	Winnings
1	3	Tony Stewart	20	Chevrolet	190	10	500	$220,786
2	8	Jeff Gordon	24	Chevrolet	170	0	500	$153,461
3	1	Jimmie Johnson	48	Chevrolet	170	5	500	$150,361
4	29	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	8	Chevrolet	160	0	500	$133,416
5	17	Kyle Busch	5	Chevrolet	155	0	500	$98,400
6	7	Elliott Sadler	38	Ford	150	0	500	$120,808
7	26	Kevin Harvick	29	Chevrolet	146	0	500	$115,011
8	24	Brian Vickers	25	Chevrolet	142	0	500	$85,350
9	2	Jamie McMurray	26	Ford	143	5	500	$122,675
10	11	Scott Riggs	10	Dodge	134	0	500	$76,700
11	9	Kurt Busch	2	Dodge	130	0	500	$111,683
12	25	Reed Sorenson*	41	Dodge	127	0	500	$85,925
13	30	Mark Martin	6	Ford	124	0	500	$90,575
14	6	Sterling Marlin	14	Chevrolet	126	5	500	$92,083
15	28	Dale Jarrett	88	Ford	123	5	500	$106,825
16	15	Carl Edwards	99	Ford	115	0	500	$89,100
17	14	Dave Blaney	22	Dodge	112	0	499	$89,233
18	4	Ryan Newman	12	Dodge	109	0	498	$114,358
19	21	Martin Truex Jr.*	1	Chevrolet	106	0	498	$94,208
20	18	J. J. Yeley*	18	Chevrolet	108	5	497	$109,125
21	12	Tony Raines	96	Chevrolet	100	0	497	$67,850
22	42	Clint Bowyer*	07	Chevrolet	97	0	496	$84,250
23	22	Joe Nemechek	01	Chevrolet	94	0	495	$98,245
24	16	Matt Kenseth	17	Ford	91	0	493	$113,491
25	34	Jeff Green	66	Chevrolet	88	0	491	$90,483
26	23	Jeremy Mayfield	19	Dodge	85	0	462	$100,066
27	32	Casey Mears	42	Dodge	82	0	456	$103,918
28	36	Scott Wimmer	4	Chevrolet	79	0	451	$69,460
29	33	Michael Waltrip	55	Dodge	76	0	445	$78,722
30	37	Kyle Petty	45	Dodge	73	0	439	$77,550
31	10	Greg Biffle	16	Ford	70	0	436	$86,100
32	13	Bobby Labonte	43	Dodge	67	0	429	$105,211
33	20	Jeff Burton	31	Chevrolet	64	0	426	$92,845
34	40	Travis Kvapil	32	Chevrolet	61	0	403	$65,425
35	5	Kasey Kahne	9	Dodge	58	0	374	$102,889
36	31	Chad Chaffin	34	Chevrolet	55	0	345	$65,325
37	41	Denny Hamlin*	11	Chevrolet	52	0	307	$65,250
38	38	David Stremme*	40	Dodge	49	0	299	$73,200
39	35	Stanton Barrett	95	Chevrolet	46	0	280	$65,140
40	19	Ken Schrader	21	Ford	43	0	164	$92,279
41	39	Mike Garvey	51	Chevrolet	PE	0	93	$65,015
42	43	Chad Blount	92	Dodge	37	0	92	$64,960
43	27	Robby Gordon	7	Chevrolet	34	0	7	$64,384
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Failed to qualify: Derrike Cope (#74), Kevin Lepage (#61), Kenny Wallace (#78), Jimmy Spencer (#49), Morgan Shepherd (#89), Hermie Sadler^[1]^[3]^[4]

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"2006 DirecTV 500 - Racing-Reference.info". Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved 2015-05-22.

[Weather-2] [2]
"Complete weather information". Almanac.com.

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"2006 DirecTV 500 - Martinsville Speedway". Martinsvillespeedway.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-05-22.

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"Tony Stewart Leads Chevrolet To Win the 2006 DirecTV 500 In Exciting Martinsville Shootout". NASCAR.about.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-05-22.

[martinsvillespeedway-6] [6]
"About the Track". Archived from the original on October 7, 2010. Retrieved April 1, 2013.

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"Qualifying times: DirecTV 500". Crash. 2006-04-01. Archived from the original on 2021-06-04. Retrieved 2021-06-04.

[8] [8]
"NASCAR Race Results at Martinsville - April 2, 2006 [DIRECTV 500] [DriverAverages]". Driveraverages.com. Archived from the original on May 22, 2015. Retrieved May 22, 2015.

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