Race 2 of 36 in the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season
2005 Auto Club 500 program cover with Jeff Gordon
Date
February 27, 2005 (2005-February-27)
Official name
Auto Club 500
Location
California Speedway, Fontana, California
Course
Permanent racing facility 2.0 mi (3.23 km)
Distance
250 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Weather
Chilly with temperatures approaching 64.9 °F (18.3 °C) and wind speeds gathering up to 11.3 miles per hour (18.2 km/h)
Average speed
139.697 miles per hour (224.821 km/h)
Attendance
90,000
Pole position
Driver
Kyle Busch
Hendrick Motorsports
Most laps led
Driver
Joe Nemechek
MB2 Motorsports
Laps
63
Winner
No. 16
Greg Biffle
Roush Racing
Television in the United States
Network
Fox Broadcasting Company
Announcers
Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds
Motor car race
The 2005 Auto Club 500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on February 27, 2005 at California Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over 250 laps on the 2-mile (3.23 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the second race of the 2005 Nextel Cup Series season. Greg Biffle of Roush Racing won the race, his first win of the season. Jimmie Johnson finished second and Kurt Busch finished third.
^"2005 Auto Club 500 weather information". The Old Farmers' Almanac. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
and 24 Related for: 2005 Auto Club 500 information
The 2005AutoClub500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on February 27, 2005 at California Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested...
race held at the AutoClub Speedway in Fontana, California. It was the second race of the Cup Series season (after the Daytona 500) and had been since...
AutoClub Speedway (known as California Speedway before and after the 2008–2023 corporate sponsorship by the Automobile Club of Southern California) was...
The 2004 AutoClub500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on May 2, 2004 at California Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over...
The United States AutoClub (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United...
The 2005 Daytona 500, the 47th running of the event, was held on February 20, 2005, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida as the...
date of the Southern 500 at Darlington, and in the Inland Empire in the 1970s, the former California 500 United States AutoClub Marlboro Championship...
Race Database "2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Sony HD 500 Entry List - AutoClub Speedway". frcs.pro. Retrieved 2021-06-14. "2005 Sony HD 500 Practice 1 Results...
BYD Auto Co., Ltd. is the automotive subsidiary of BYD Company Limited, a publicly listed Chinese multinational manufacturing company. It manufactures...
dissolving after the 2003 season. CART was founded in 1979 by United States AutoClub (USAC) Championship Division team owners who disagreed with the direction...
000-mile (3.219 km) AutoClub Speedway in Fontana, California. It was the first IndyCar race at this facility since 2005, the first 500-mile open-wheel race...
Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North...
generates a revenue of over $500 million to the local economy. In 1899, William E. Metzger helped organize the Detroit Auto Show, only the second of its...
The MAVTV 500 was an IndyCar Series race held at AutoClub Speedway in Fontana, California. The event represented a continuous lineage of open wheel oval...
that involved the fall Atlanta race and the Pepsi 500, the Labor Day weekend race held at AutoClub Speedway. Doing so would give the Fontana, California...
Indianapolis 500 was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Sunday, May 29, 2005. It was the premier event of the 2005 IndyCar Series...
football competitions, 24 players have scored 500 or more goals over the course of their career in both club and international football, according to research...
Motor Show in March 2005 as a pre-production model, with the production version debuting at the 2005 New York International Auto Show that April. Sales...
Grand Theft Auto IV is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sixth main entry in the Grand...
Indianapolis 500 and awarded national racing championships in 1905, 1916, 1920–1941, and 1946–1955. After the 1955 Le Mans disaster, AAA decided that auto racing...
schedule, and the AutoClub Finals at Pomona are held to mark the end of the NHRA season. Both the Winternationals, and the AutoClub Finals are held on...
Automobile Association between 1911 and 1955, then by the United States AutoClub from 1956 to 1997, and finally by the Indy Racing League/IndyCar beginning...
races in 2010: the Emory Healthcare 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on September 5, 2010, and the Pepsi Max 400 at AutoClub Speedway on October 10, 2010. In...
The 2000 NAPA Auto Parts 500 was the tenth stock car race of the 2000 NASCAR Winston Cup Series and the fourth iteration of the event. The race was held...
Global Information