Jimmie Johnson won the 500‑lap race after he started from the ninth position. Denny Hamlin finished second, and Bobby Labonte came in third. It was Johnson’s fifth win of the 2006 season and the 23rd of his career.
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Jimmie Johnson won the 500‑lap race after he started from the ninth position. Denny Hamlin finished second, and Bobby Labonte came in third. It was Johnson’s fifth win of the 2006 season and the 23rd of his career. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers’ Championship, 53 points ahead of Dodge, and 61 ahead of Ford with four races left in the season. Jeff Burton led the Drivers’ Championship with 5,763 points, with Matt Kenseth second and Kevin Harvick third. NASCAR held the last of its test days for Nextel Cup entrants on October–18 at Miami-Miami Speedway. Fifty-eight cars participated in a mix of cars of Tomorrow and 2006 cars on the three days, with the highest speed of three days at 175.53 miles per hour on October 16. The race was held at Martinsville Speedway, one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. Kurt Busch won the pole position with the fastest time in qualifying. He was immediately passed by Jeff Gordon at the start of the race. Gordon held the lead for 143 laps, until Johnson took the lead on the next lap, only to lose it to Johnson again on the 153rd lap. There were 18 cautions and 16 lead changes by five different drivers during the race, with Johnson leading all the way until he was passed by Hamlin on lap 495. Mark Martin and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
were fourth and fifth, and Denny. Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon rounded out the top ten drivers competing for the 2006 Chase for the Nextel. Cup championship. The result advanced him to third in the Drivers’ Championship, 41 points behind Matt Kenset. The standard track at MartINSville Speedway is a four-turn, 0. 526-mile oval. Its turns are banked at eleven degrees, and neither the front stretch nor the backstretch is banked. The track is a 4-turn oval with neither the back stretch nor the frontstretch being banked, with turns on either side of the track at 11 degrees. It is one of the five NASCAR short tracks in the United States. It has a maximum speed of 175.2 miles perhour. It also has a top speed of 171.52 miles per Hour. The average lap speed is 171.6 miles per hours. The event was held before a crowd of 65,000, and was held on October 22, 2006, at Mart INSville, Virginia, a short track that holdsNASCAR races. The final race of the season is held at Homestead, Florida, on November 16. It will be the 32nd of 36 scheduled stock car races of the2006 NASCAR Nextel Cups Series and the sixth in the ten-race season-ending Chase for. the Nexteel Cup Series. The winner of the Subway 500 will be crowned the 2006 NASCAR Nexter Cup champion.
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