Chevy American Revolution 400
- Complete Results
The Chevy American Revolution 400 was a night race held on May 14 at Richmond International Raceway.
Points leader Jimmie Johnson spun out and hit the wall on lap 81 and did it again while coming to pit road. He ended up finishing 40th and losing valuable ground in the points standings. Teammate Jeff Gordon had similar problems on lap 165 and ended up finishing 39th and losing second place in the standings to Greg Biffle. Kasey Kahne led 242 of 400 laps and pulled away from Tony Stewart in the closing laps to win his first Nextel Cup race in 47 starts, followed by Ryan Newman, rookie Kyle Busch, and Kevin Harvick. After winning this race, Kahne ended up accomplished several tasks during the weekend. He moved up four spots in the standings to 15th position, won the pole for this race and the Busch Series race the day before, was the first driver to win in the new Dodge Charger in 2005, was the final driver to qualify for the Nextel All-Star Challenge at Lowe's Motor Speedway, became the fifth driver in 2005 to have won in all three NASCAR top series for his career, and gave Evernham Motorsports its second consecutive win at Richmond after Jeremy Mayfield's victory in September 2004.
Top Ten Results
- Kasey Kahne
- Tony Stewart
- Ryan Newman
- Kyle Busch
- Kevin Harvick
- Greg Biffle
- Elliott Sadler
- Bobby Labonte
- Michael Waltrip
- Jamie McMurray
- This is Kasey Kahne's first career cup series win.
Failed to qualify: Kevin Lepage (#37), Jeff Fuller (#34), Kirk Shelmerdine (#27), Carl Long (#00)
Read more about this topic: 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series
Famous quotes containing the words chevy, american and/or revolution:
“‘Erle Dowglas, for thy life,
Wold I had lost my hand;”
—Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 151–152)
“The Americans are violently oral.... That’s why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all—isn’t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind, and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)