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| Race details[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] | |||
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| Race 33 of 36 in the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | November 1, 2015 | ||
| Location | Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia | ||
| Course |
Permanent racing facility .526 mi (.847 km) | ||
| Distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy skies with a temperature of 63 °F (17 °C); wind out of the southwest at 5 mph (8.0 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 69.643 mph (112.080 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Team Penske | ||
| Time | 19.215 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Laps | 207 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBCSN | ||
| Announcers | Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte | ||
| Nielsen Ratings |
1.9/3 (Overnight)[11] 2.0/4 (Final)[12] 3.3 Million viewers[12] | ||
| Radio in the United States | |||
| Radio | MRN | ||
| Booth Announcers | Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle | ||
| Turn Announcers | Dave Moody (Backstretch) | ||
The 2015 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on November 1, 2015, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track, it was the 33rd race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, seventh race of the Chase and first race of the Eliminator Round. Jeff Gordon won the race, marking his first win of the season and also the last of his NASCAR career. Jamie McMurray finished second. Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch rounded out the top-five.
Joey Logano won the pole for the race and led a race high of 207 laps before being taken out by Matt Kenseth late in the race and finished 37th. The race had 21 lead changes among nine different drivers, 18 caution flag periods for 109 laps and one red flag period for 12 minutes and 46 seconds, caused by the Kenseth-Logano collision, for which Kenseth received two-race suspension.
This was the 93rd and final career win for Gordon, first of the season, ninth at Martinsville Speedway, 23rd at the track for Hendrick Motorsports and clinched Gordon a spot in the championship Ford EcoBoost 400 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He left Martinsville with an eight–point lead in the points standings. Chevrolet left with a 57–point lead over Toyota in the manufacturer standings.
The Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
Report
Background
Martinsville Speedway is an International Speedway Corporation-owned NASCAR stock car racing track located in Henry County, in Ridgeway, Virginia, just to the south of Martinsville. At 0.526 miles (0.847 km) in length, it is the shortest track in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The track was also one of the first paved oval tracks in NASCAR, being built in 1947 by H. Clay Earles. It is also the only race track that has been on the NASCAR circuit from its beginning in 1948. Along with this, Martinsville is the only NASCAR oval track on the entire NASCAR track circuit to have asphalt surfaces on the straightaways, then concrete to cover the turns.
Eight drivers entered tied for the points lead.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Entry list
The entry list for the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was released on Monday, October 26 at 2:56 p.m. Eastern time. Forty-three cars were entered for the race. All were entered for the previous week's race at Talladega. Kyle Fowler made his second career start in the No. 32 Go FAS Racing Ford. Alex Kennedy returned to the seat of the No. 33 Hillman-Circle Sport LLC Chevrolet. Brett Moffitt returned to the seat of the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford. Ryan Preece made his second Sprint Cup Series start in the No. 98 Premium Motorsports Ford.[21]
First practice
Joey Logano was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 19.161 and a speed of 98.826 mph (159.045 km/h).[22]
| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | Time | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske | Ford | 19.161 | 98.826 |
| 2 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 19.251 | 98.364 |
| 3 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | Team Penske | Ford | 19.256 | 98.338 |
| Official first practice results | ||||||
Qualifying
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Joey Logano won the pole with a time of 19.215 and a speed of 98.548 mph (158.598 km/h).[23] He said afterwards that he's amazed at the "run we’re on right now,” Logano said after claiming the pole with a lap of 98.548 mph. “I’m just the lucky guy that gets to drive this thing right now. It’s so much fun and we’re doing everything right. But all that can in a blink of an eye, so we all just have to keep our focus. I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work, and that's what this team is doing right now." Martin Truex Jr., after qualifying second, said that his team "didn’t know going into qualifying we’d have that good of speed. Definitely a good start to the weekend for us.” After qualifying 14th, Carl Edwards said that he "just wasn’t fast enough the very first run so I put a run on the tires and got us a cycle behind everyone. It’s okay, we’re going to be just fine. I think in my history of qualifying here, this is still about 10–spots better than normal. We have a fast pit crew, the car is a lot better than it was in practice and I think for all these guys, I think they’re all excited about the race. It’s one of our strong points at JGR and I’m going to have some fun on Sunday.” Kasey Kahne wrecked his car in the first round of qualifying and had to go to a backup car. Because he made a qualifying run, he started from the rear of the field. Speaking on the incident, he said that he "ruined a pretty good car, a really good car, actually. I held it out a little too late, I turned in and kind of broke and lifted off the throttle and got wheel-hopping. I just totally screwed it up myself.”[24]
Qualifying results
| Pos | No. | Driver | Team | Manufacturer | R1 | R2 | R3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | Joey Logano | Team Penske | Ford | 19.299 | 19.166 | 19.215 |
| 2 | 78 | Martin Truex Jr. | Furniture Row Racing | Chevrolet | 19.322 | 19.241 | 19.227 |
| 3 | 47 | A. J. Allmendinger | JTG Daugherty Racing | Chevrolet | 19.301 | 19.302 | 19.309 |
| 4 | 1 | Jamie McMurray | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 19.205 | 19.253 | 19.321 |
| 5 | 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | Chevrolet | 19.321 | 19.240 | 19.343 |
| 6 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 19.337 | 19.329 | 19.352 |
| 7 | 31 | Ryan Newman | Richard Childress Racing | Chevrolet | 19.356 | 19.338 | 19.377 |
| 8 | 43 | Aric Almirola | Richard Petty Motorsports | Ford | 19.347 | 19.337 | 19.385 |
| 9 | 42 | Kyle Larson | Chip Ganassi Racing | Chevrolet | 19.351 | 19.330 | 19.398 |
| 10 | 11 | Denny Hamlin | Joe Gibbs Racing | Toyota | 19.380 | 19.297 | 19.421 |
| 11 | 2 | Brad Keselowski | Team Penske | Ford | 19.377 | 19.340 | 19.432 |
| 12 | 4 | Kevin Harvick | Stewart-Haas Racing | Chevrolet | 19.294 | 19.231 | 19.452 |
| 13 | 14 | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2015_Goody's_Headache_Relief_Shot_500