Jeff Gordon won the Subway 500 at Martinsville Speedway, scoring his 73rd NASCAR NEXTEL Cup victory in his 433rd career start.
Gordon scored his fourth victory in 2005. His last victory came at Talladega in May, 22 races earlier.
Gordon remained seventh on NASCARs all-time winners list.
It was Gordons seventh Martinsville victory in 26 career Martinsville races including four in his last six races at Martinsville.
Gordon has scored 11 top-10 finishes in 32 races in 2005.
This was Gordons 20th top-10 in 26 races at Martinsville Speedway.
This was Gordons 15th career short-track victory in 86 career short-track races.
The 19 cautions in the 2005 Subway 500 set the record at Martinsville.
Gordon posted the second sweep of the 2005 season winning both races at Martinsville in 2005. Teammate Jimmie Johnson won both races at Lowes Motor Speedway.
Gordon led twice times for 151 laps including the final 141 laps.
Gordon scored the 13th victory for car owner Rick Hendrick at Martinsville Speedway, second only to Petty Enterprises with 19. This was Hendricks 139th victory as a car owner and ninth in 32 races this season (Johnson-4, Gordon-4 and Kyle Busch-1).
Tony Stewart led the most laps for the 11th time in a race this season.
This was the fifth win by a Chevrolet in the last six races at Martinsville Speedway, all by Hendrick Motorsports.
This is the 16th victory by a Chevrolet in 2005. Ford has 13 and Dodge has three. Rusty Wallace (19th) extended a 45-race streak of running at the finish that began at Bristol in August 2004. Wallace has scored 24 top-15 finishes in 32 races in 2005.
Martinsville marked the sixth and final short-track race in 2005. There were six different Bud pole winners and five different race winners on short-tracks in 2005. Gordon was the only repeat short-track race winner. Tony Stewart led 673 of the 2,800 laps raced on short-tracks in 2005, the most of any driver. Stewart also scored five top-10 finishes on short-tracks, leading all drivers.
