2006 Golden Corral 500

[@victorroque2804]

Bill Lester's first Cup start, and he brought the car home in one piece.

[@ryangavel8504]

Paul Menard's 3rd Career Cup Start, 1st On an oval, great P7 finish

[@allabouthewaves4354]

Robby Gordon was flying in this race. Just couldn't keep the tires on the car tho.

[@TheMW2informer]

The peak of nascar, awesome time 2003-2006

[@user-zq1px9yb7g]

A trillion thumbs downs! HTF was this the peak? Just go back & pause this at the 1:37:52 mark & see the EMPTY SEATS as Carl wins! The peak was 03, the LAST year the points system was a real points system! 2004, Kurt Busch was just hanging onto a top 10 spot in points heading into race 26! Not a championship contender all year, but those last 10 races saw him have good finishes & he gets handed a title he didn’t earn! The downfall of Nascrap began & has yet to slow down! 2006 Daytona 500, that race has the biggest Asterix in nascar history next to it! Chad & another crew member get fined & suspended for four races due to the illegal back window section of the 48! Nascrap lets the team “fix” the area & keep the car! 2003 at Texas, the 20 car failed inspection for still undisclosed reason & was sent to the R&D center! Tony has to use a backup car! Around later in 06 or a year or two later, a truck fails inspection & Nascrap sends that to the R&D center forcing that team to a backup truck! Yet the 48 was left at the track with an illegal back window section & the team could “fix” it! 2006 is when tracks were REMOVING seats that had been added less than 10 year’s earlier! Not one time has any single one of you given hard, factual proof that 04-06 was the peak!

[@matthewvillagrana2620]

Kasey kahne won this race in Atlanta motorspeedway 2006. Good job kasey kahne.

[@zachhatten261]

The rain delays were so much more interesting back in these days. They actually had content and had fun. Now it's a snoozefest with them repeating the same 5 statistics

[@vidEvWill]

One of Kyle Petty's last top 10 finishes of his career, an 8th and Bill Lester's only start in the Cup Series.

[@DaytonaPrototypes]

vidEvWill Lester did race a few more times in 2006. Michigan in june being one of them.

[@josephd9190]

Dang I remember this race I had my mom record it while I went to school. Can home early devastation with Bobby Labonte’s engine. But then Kyle Petty finished 8th so it was a good day. Things sure have changed still pulling for the now Richard Petty Motorsports hope Bubba brings some wins to the 43!

[@phillips5368]

I actually got to stay home from school for some reason. So I got to watch it live, and yea I was devastated as well.

[@chrisuncleahmad]

What a weekend for Kasey Kahne- outqualified Ryan Newman (which was very hard to do back then) and kicked off a 6-win season.

[@joewilson557]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Paul Menard is the most underrated driver ever!

[@iBolt07]

guy was never elite, only 69 top 10s, but he had a whopping 260+ top 20s. He was remarkably solid.

[@tf68charger]

the ol #43 was running great this race

[@markraynor8142]

Jimmie Johnson won 2 of the first four races that year as that would've been cool if he'd won 3 of 4 since 1992 with Bill Elliott

[@PCSRA26]

Got to watch this race after I got home from elementary school

[@Ibelikemj]

Labonte went out alot earlier in the race than what I remember. He would have won that race, if not a Top 5 at least.

[@joshuasweeney7864]

I remember by the time they got to texas that year NASCAR changedthe rule about using body styles for the previous years, because Penske was using the intrepids and they were performing better than the current body styles at the time I believe, someone feel free, to correct any inaccuracies

[@DavidJ867]

Petty Enterprises had a good race. Bobby Labonte led laps and was solidly in the Top 10 when his engine went south. And Kyle Petty was outside the Top 30 early in the race, but gradually climbed towards the Top 10 and finished there.

[@shelbysolko7783]

Four black drivers missing from the list is this. Felix Giles who attempted his qualifying run a Walt Disney World Speedway in 1997, not fast enough and failed to make the race. Bruce Driver that raced in the Richmond truck race in 1999. Bobby Norfleet in 2000 that raced at Portland International Raceway and Bill Lester was with him in that event. And Preston Tutt in 2001 at Chicago Motor Speedway raced but ended too soon before he started when his transmission linkage locked up and broke. There is one more that only ran in IndyCar which was George Mack, making it five. | P.S. - In loving memory of Wendell Scott Jr. - RIP.

[@karmakrab7012]

None of these drivers made a start in the Cup Series tho. that's what the list was about

[@budamania1989]

Thanks for putting this up

[@CORF.]

Felt really bad for Robby Gordon this race. Probably had a car that could win or at least an easy top 5, but couldn't keep the tires on it

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

DW calls the CoT ugly...

[@iBolt07]

Robby Gordon was cracked this race

[@joewilson557]

7th in his first ever oval race in the top series

[@chrisuncleahmad]

0:49 Edwards almost bobbled? And still won.....

[@conorhorn2471]

That shot wasn't the final lap

[@bebeysmael1.]

Nice

[@thisguy652]

Posting 2006 races

[@james40778]

I remember watching most of the race on FX but when I checked my local FOX affiliate, they were also airing the race. Did your FOX affiliate show the race?

[@MovieLover1995]

Not every single FOX station in the country had the race. They only aired the race on 50 Fox affiliates around the country. I think they only air a postponed race on FOX depending on where you live at. Otherwise, you would’ve had to turn to FX (or FS1 nowadays) if you had cable.

[@thisguy652]

Please keep posit g

[@phillies4100_mainsite]

Now I bet they'd do Fox and/or FS1 for backup.....

[@MovieLover1995]

Nowadays, they do. Back when they still did NASCAR On FX for backup, the races were also on some of the FOX affiliates, but that only depended on where you lived and what station you watched. In this case, that would have been some of the major cities in America.

[@whoasked9500]

3:03:45

[@anthonydeloreto3881]

It's been way too long. How long!

[@jakelittle9680]

Green flag at 1:40:45

[@suesergent8471]

13 Greg Sacks The Who's Your Daddy Ford Didn't Attempt The Daytona 500 And Here Struggle In Qualifying At A 30.110 And Missed The Show And Greg Sacks Picks Up His First DNQ Of The 2006 Season 32 Travis Kavpil The Tide Chevy Made The Daytona 500 And UAW Daimler 500 And Struggle In Qualifying This Week at A 29.980 And Missed The Show And Picking His 2nd DNQ Of The Season For The 32 Team 34 Chad Chaffin The Oak Gloves/ Makato Ginger Dressing Dodge Has been Struggling This Season Missed The Daytona 500 and The Auto Club 500 And Made Show Last week But Had Engine Trouble Late In Going And Struggle In Qualifying At A 29.895 And Missed The Show And The 34 Picks Up There 3rd DNQ Of 2006 Season 37 Mike Skinner The R&J Racing Dodge Has Been Struggling The Last 3 Weeks Missed The Daytona 500 With Chad Blount Driver Change Down Below And Withdrawal from California and Struggle In Qualifying Last Week And Struggle In Qualifying At A 30.039 And Missed The Show and Picking Up There 3rd DNQ This 2006 Season And R&J Racing Hasn't Made There 1st Race Of 2006 Yet 51 Mike Garvey The Marathon American Spirit Moter Oil Chevy Made The Auto Club 500 And Struggle in qualifying Here at A 29.651 And Missed The Show The Lakeville Minnesota Native Picks Up His First DNQ Of The 2006 Season 74 Derrick Cope The My Guardian 911/Sundance Dodge Has Been Struggling The Last Couple Of Weeks Missed The Daytona 500 and The Auto Club 500 And Withdrawal from Last Week and Struggle In Qualifying at A 29.898 And Missed The Show Picking Up His 3rd DNQ Of The Season And Raynard McGlenn Racing Team Are Still Trying To Make There First Start Of 2006 78 Kenny Wallace The Bench Warmers Movie Chevy Made The Last 2 Races And Struggle In Qualifying At A 28.899 And Missed The Show And The Furniture Row Racing Team Picks Up There 2nd DNQ Of The Season And There Last DNQ Was 4 Races Ago In Daytona 500 Gatorade Duel Races 92 Chad Blount The Makato Ginger Dressing Dodge Has Been Struggling This Past Season Missing the Daytona 500 and The Auto Club 500 With Chad Chaffin As Driver and Missed Last Weeks Race With Randy Lajoie as Driver and Here at Atlanta Chad Blount Is In For Randy Lajoie and Struggle In Qualifying At A 30.919 And Missed The Show and The 64/92 Front Row Motersports Picks Up There 4 DNQ This Is Still Trying To Make There First Race of 2006 95 Stanton Barrett The Hair of The Dog Chevy Has Been Struggling This Past Season Missed Daytona 500 and Last Weeks Race and Made Auto Club 400 and Finished 40th There But Struggle In Qualifying At A 29.862 And Missed The Show and The 95 Team Picks Up There 3rd DNQ Of Season 89 Morgen Shepherd The Dutch Quality Stone Racing With Jesus Dodge Missed The Last Three Races And Right Before Qualifying He Withdrew From The Qualifying Session And The Race so Only 52 Cars had To Qualify For The 43 Starting Field.

[@MovieLover1995]

Travis Kvapil also failed to make the field in 2006 Talladega Fall race.

[@michaelsergent977]

@@MovieLover1995 Im sorry that’s my fault Im just stating the results from qualifying