2005 Sharpie 500

[@edd17sp74]

That celebration on the front stretch, Matt stage diving off the hood into his jubilant crew, his dad coming out and about shaking him to pieces with excitement, even Katie climbed over the wall to give Matt a big kiss. That has to be one of, if not the most passionate and excited celebrations after winning that I’ve ever seen. And why not? It’s been over a year since you’ve won, you’re trying so hard to get back in the championship hunt, and you just embarrassed the competition. Go ahead. Cheer and yell and jump up and down. Revel in the splendor of a thousand bright lights illuminating your moment of glory. You’ve earned it.

[@purwantiallan5089]

Sadler almost seem to never had a good luck in 2005 & 2006 NASCAR Cup Seasons.

[@purwantiallan5089]

2020 during covid19 still rewatching.

[@zachcarlson6316]

That TNT intro brings back so many memories!

[@TrickiVicBB71]

I remember Dale Jarrett lost his back panel and it went up over the fence and landed in front of a old guy walking with his friend. Old guy just picked up the souvenir and kept walking.

[@zazenbo]

I remember watching that! I was on that side of the track. Heck yeah

[@Ally_Rayne6]

I think that happened in the spring of 2006. Not this race iirc

[@TrickiVicBB71]

@@Ally_Rayne6 hmm... I'll have to check

[@Ally_Rayne6]

​@Victor Yau yeah it was 2006 I'm positive about it

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@Ally_Rayne6the 2005 NASCAR Cup cars and paint schemes reminds me a lot to the ones from NASCAR 06 TOTAL TEAM CONTROL, the game that marked "THE BEGINNING OF THE END" of NASCAR videogame franchise.

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

This race also cemented/completed Kenseth's Chase comeback from the dead (He was 20th going into July Daytona)

[@nascar4842]

Tough to believe Kenseth was invincible from struggling so bad to make the chase

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@nascar4842Kenseth in second half of 2005 NASCAR Cup Season was on another level.

[@nascar4842]

@purwantiallan5089 I imagine that if you would have told the "killer bees" after like the 600 that they would rebound to a 7th place points finish they'd think you were insane.

[@keitharm9598]

One of my Favorite Biffle Races. was a Good Deserving Driver. Could Wheel the heck out of a car!!

[@NotSteveCook]

Being a native Oregonian, I wish I'd appreciated him. I disliked him because (I perceived that) he was messing with Harvick (the new hero who endeared himself by winning in Dale Earnhardt's car at Atlanta) and shoved Wisconsin's Scott Wimmer out of the way at Milwaukee. That didn't allow me to realize, other than occasional Cup racer Mike Bliss from Milwaukee, OR, Biffle was the closest thing I had to a hometown driver in Nextel Cup. I also wasn't well travelled, failing to understand that Vancouver was less than 2 hours away, and to appreciate the few Northwest drivers at the national level. But I was also high school age😄I'm over that now.

[@treverbower]

Tucked away in the normally quiet Tennessee mountains is the racefans ultimate destination. The journey may be difficult, but in the end, the trek to this track is rewarded with one night of excitement, and a lifetime of memories. The Bristol Motor Speedway is the emerald city on the yellow brick road to the championship. It glistens during the day and glows at night. You want in? All you have to do is say so. We've got your ticket, Nascar's toughest ticket, at Nascar's toughest track. Bristol, where things get a little brighter in the dark. No racing rumors here, just the cold, hard tracks, tracks that lead to...victory lane. Bristol, where they don't take your ticket, they honor it. These aren't seats, they're heirlooms. You try to buy one but the best ones are free, all you have to do is inherit them. At Bristol, the seats don't climb all the way to the sky. Truth is, the sky comes down to meet them to get a better view. You wanna race for points, pick another week. You wanna race, pick this week. Bristol, life in the blast lane. There are plenty of reasons to watch and there are twenty reasons to watch. A night of thrills and ill wills. These are the real "Dukes of Hazzard". Why is winning tonight such a big deal? "It's Bristol baby!" Bristol baby, not Nascar's biggest night, just its brightest night.

[@WhoopityDoo]

All the shit you just typed doesn't even remotely apply now, considering the progressive banking they added back in ''07 absolutely ruined the place.

[@BANGITSME87]

Whoopity Doo Wwaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@jamesgentry13]

Whoopity Doo cry baby

[@ericgambrel8627]

Whoopity Doo progressive banking but I still consider it the ultimate race fan destination.

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@ericgambrel8627 2020 during covid19 still remembering this.

[@westonatwood7932]

Huge Dale Jarrett fan, when he paid Newman back I was so happy!

[@mesousagaby740]

51:25 The last time ever that something Cartoon Network-related would ever sponsor in Nascar with Kyle Busch having a Johnny Bravo scheme here. It's strange for the fact that Johnny Bravo ended a year prior. In fact, Kyle Busch DID appear in a commercial featuring characters from another CN show, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends...yet didn't get a scheme from that show.

[@markraynor8142]

Two nascar 07 challenges Jeff Burton One Last Chance 2:47:47 in part 1 of the race he was in the 2005 version of the Cingular Wireless Chevy when he was trying everything he could on the restart to catch and pass his former teammate Kenseth to win for the first time since he won in Pheonix back in the fall 2001 but settled into the runnerup spot. In the challenge he was in the 2006 version of the Cingular Wireless Chevrolet with the players job is to navigate Burtons car and pass Kenseth to recreate history by winning the 31 team a cup race since the summer of 2003 but for Burton since fall 2001. Matt Kenseth Back In Victory Lane 2:48:14 Kenseth in the race he was lined up pole in the 17 Dewalt Ford Taurus as he was incredible all night long and won his way into the Chase for the championship as the challenge he was in the 2006 version of the Dewalt Ford Fusion as the players job is to navigate past two cars on a restart to win the challenge like Kenseth held on to win the race itself.

[@TheJer1963]

This was a very good race. My last race I went to.

[@WhoistheWolf]

1:19:20 Lucky Dork!

[@epic9256]

Man that guy was definitely one of the worst nascar broadcasting has ever seen he always tried to start crap with BP

[@nattiedraws]

Dale Jarret most certainly is the 'lucky dork' haha

[@NotSteveCook]

@@epic9256 I used to think that, too, but then I had the misfortune of hearing play-by-play from Adam Alexander, Marty Reid, and Vince Welch. Even with the gaffes, I'd hire Bill Weber over any of those 3 clowns. No contest.

[@budamania1989]

Thanks for putting this up

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

When I think of dominant single-race performances, there are 3 that standout to me- this race by Kenseth, Jeff Gordon at Infineon 2004, and Jimmie at the '04 Coca-Cola 600. (Unlike Jeff Burton literally going wire-to-wire at New Hampshire 2000, none of these had restrictor plates involved).

[@WhoopityDoo]

2001 Gordon at Dover was pretty dominant as well.

[@allabouthewaves4354]

Jimmie Johnson also at 2008 Pepsi 500. Led over 220 of the 250 laps.

[@SwigerQ86]

Chris Kreager and now Kyle Busch at the 2018 coca cola 600

[@whoasked9500]

Jeff Gordon 2005 Aaron's 499 and Martin Truex Jr. 2016.

[@DupontandLowesWarrior]

Kyle Petty Rockingham 1992

[@whoasked9500]

Kyle Busch drove a Johnny Bravo car?!?!

[@tf68charger]

thunderstruck and nascar what a perfect combo

[@marcklarriera2456]

them stands tho

[@kolbycheeseracing2949]

I remember being at this race

[@suzynenechek8817]

You've been... THUNDERSTRUCK!!!

[@Thomas-ib9iu]

I remember LeBron was here.

[@coltonbaldwin352]

2:35:50 Great timing for Ken Schrader!!!

[@GPSjammer]

The fact that they replaced Bestwick as the main commentator with Weber is a shame

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

As dominant as Kenseth was, if they didn't have the single-file restart late, I honestly think Burton could have passed him and won.

[@allenwhitmer8192]

I don't think so, Kenseth still would have controlled the restart and I think he would have got a bigger jump than he did here

[@azarisLP]

1:59:34 "Good job"

[@nattiedraws]

never speak too soon

[@AdvanceShippingFan91]

Didn't Kenseth lead over 400 laps in this race? He basically took everyone to school that night at Bristol. I think he led the most laps ever at Bristol.

[@DillonMurway]

Earnhardt Jr dominated that race in 04

[@DillonMurway]

Yep

[@BDDeadman94]

Kenseth Led 415 laps in this race

[@TimothyWenger]

I remember playing NASCAR SimRacing on my family computer and any time I’d race at Bristol I’d have to pick Kurt Busch, cuz “Sharpie Car, Sharpie track”

[@jeffreycox4928]

The height of NASCAR racing. The sport has died a slow death after the ruling body forgot what made the sport to begin with....short tracks, in the south.

[@grizzgrizzly7208]

good race but remembering that weekend unfortunately as a MS native brings me back to 2 days later yeah...not so great

[@JonPilat111]

1:19:22 Bill Weber "Dale Jarrett is the lucky dork" LOL

[@NotSteveCook]

JonPilat111 I think he saw Johnny Bravo on Kyle Busch's hood...

[@BengtsonJ]

One of the Great Bristol Races.

[@thelegendchrisb]

Rusty's last race at Bristol

[@Just_andy588]

23:59 is that a very young Jimmy Johnson

[@Just_andy588]

I miss Kasey Kahne

[@thisguy652]

We're gonna get more kick ass coverage like this because it was just announced THAT NBC IS BACK IN 2015

[@Pifmeister]

2:17:45 CUE THE DUCK!!🦆

[@evanwilliams6406]

Kenseth dominates...

[@Bestoftheworstfishing]

Wow now days you will never see the anthem being shown this kind of respect 😟😠

[@michop21]

incubus baby! 11:00

[@jimmiehendrix5594]

what's the name of the song

[@jimmiehendrix5594]

+Jordan King incubus leech

[@jessiehenry5405]

1:55:03

[@justinturley7071]

Would that be payback? I guess that’s a payback.

[@james3771]

Still cant believe they ruined this place.

[@emperorburton]

It's so terrible now..

[@MightyMack03]

+Eric Burton it is, colossus is absolutely ridiculous and unneeded R.I.P. Bristol Motor Speedway

[@jimmiehendrix5594]

2015 night race was the nail in the coffin

[@tnwhiskey68]

They were really trying to instigate with Kevin harvick for the sake of TV

[@freewill51]

Crap TV coverage when they tried to show harvick the replay of the wreck so he would get pissed off at 88.

[@shobud7943]

dale jarrett should be fined for dity racing

[@Just_andy588]

I wish Dodge would make a come back to NASCAR now it’s nothing but Chevy Ford and Toyota

[@Pifmeister]

2:17:45 CUE THE DUCK!! 🦆

[@jessiehenry5405]

2:18:43