|| *Comments on the 2005 Advance Discount Auto Parts 200:* View the most recent comment <#51> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. nascarman posted: 03.10.2009 - 3:10 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Awesome seeing this on the site. This race was wild! Also the race wasn't shortened due to race but because of a red flag pushing the end of the race to the time the budshoot out was about to begin. 2. Anonymous posted: 03.11.2009 - 4:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) best race 3. WillG46 posted: 03.22.2009 - 11:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was ended early due to a massive crash on the Backstretch. Todd Kleuver was clipped by a spinning Joey Miller and flipped wildly. Then the rest of the field piled in. Dan Shaver and Billy Venturini also flipped, with Billy breaking his neck. 4. RaceFanX posted: 03.26.2009 - 2:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Blake Feese had a SCARY wreck in this one. He slide thru his pit and thru an opening in the pit wall, crashing into pit crew members and a group of photographers behind the pit wall. 5. RaceFanX posted: 03.26.2009 - 2:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chris Zimmerman caught some big air, but didn't flip, in his crash 6. RaceFanX posted: 01.14.2010 - 12:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) *Clair Zimmerman 7. Anonymous posted: 04.29.2010 - 2:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Perhaps the most awful race at Daytona since 1990 in ARCA history. They stopped the race because of the Budweiser Shootout was after this. 8. Anonymous posted: 04.29.2010 - 2:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Not the event, it was because it was next, and the wreck would take about an hour to resume. 9. Anonymous posted: 04.29.2010 - 3:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race wasn't stopped because of rain, it was because of timing conflicts between the Shootout. 10. RaceFanX posted: 09.24.2010 - 5:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Kluever's only ARCA start to date and it ends with a barrel roll on the backstretch. 11. Anonymous posted: 10.23.2010 - 3:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Blake Feese runs down 3 people in the pits in a horrific scene. (accidently of course) 12. 00andJoe posted: 03.28.2011 - 2:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) As I understand it, Speed Channel cut away from the ending of the race without any post-race coverage or interviews, because they were utterly convinced that the race-ending wreck involved multiple fatalities. It was *that* bad. 13. Smiff_99 posted: 05.21.2011 - 3:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, this was one the ugliest races I've ever seen. As far as ARCA races go, it's right up there with the 1990 200-miler at Daytona and the '96 season finale at Atlanta. Just stupid, brutal racing. 14. Cooper posted: 09.01.2011 - 12:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The lap 64 crash involved: #07,#7,#9,#10,#11,#12,#16,#17,#20,#21,#23,#25,#49,#60,#75,#78,#91 15. Ed posted: 12.11.2011 - 2:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Billy didn't flip. Only Todd and Shaver 16. RaceFanX posted: 01.25.2012 - 1:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Zimmerman's lone ARCA start on a superspeedway. He was a short-track guy and usually just ran short track events when he did ARCA except for this race. Given how he flew here it's hard to blame him. On the SPEED telecast they even joked he probably wished he was spinning at Salem or Toledo instead of here because it would have been a little less wild ride. 17. ii posted: 04.18.2012 - 7:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm not really sure that Blake Feese was out because of a radiator problem... 18. SG224 posted: 11.04.2012 - 3:57 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) How no one died in this race, I will never know. 19. 44andJoe posted: 01.14.2013 - 5:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction: Race shortened due to time constraints. 20. 44andJoe posted: 01.14.2013 - 6:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Correction: Race shortened due to time constraints. #94 status: Accident #08 sponsor: Heathcliff's Cat Litter/Bootie Lager #3 sponsor: Auburn University #9 sponsor: Country Joe Homes #11 sponsor: SeaWatch International/Fast Track Driving School #14 sponsor: Full Tilt Poker #33 sponsor: LG #44 sponsor: HS Die/Visi Cad-Cam #64 sponsor: Country Joe Homes #88 sponsor: Missosukee Tribe of Florida #90 sponsor: Planning Group International #98 sponsor: Choose Life Add to DNQs: #06 Butch Jarvis (between Patton and Belmont in the order) To the back: #67 (unapproved adjustments) #4 crew chief: Eddie Sharp Cautions: Lap 4-8: #33, #59 accident turn 4 Lap 13-18: #88, #17, #98 accident turn 4 Lap 25-34: #62 accident trioval Lap 40-48: #13, #12, #38, #90, #08, #00, #59, #67, #8 accident turn 1 Lap 52-57: #3 on fire turn 1 Lap 64-65: #9, #60, #20, #78, #07, #7, #10, #11, #12, #16, #17, #21, #23, #25, #49, #75, #91 accident backstretch 21. Anonymous posted: 04.21.2013 - 3:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) i THREW UP when the thing said rousch racing PONTIAC 22. Anonymous posted: 06.12.2013 - 9:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #4 crew chief: Eddie Sharp 23. 83andJoe posted: 06.12.2013 - 9:43 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #94 status: Accident #3 status: Fire 24. Epic posted: 11.24.2013 - 10:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Probably the most violent race ever. 25. Bo posted: 01.17.2014 - 5:29 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) That last crash was a biblical calamity.An utter miracle no one was killed. 26. 23andJoe posted: 04.19.2014 - 4:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #06 owner: Wayne Peterson #09 owner: Wayne Peterson #0 owner: Wayne Peterson (same for all races this year) #1 owner: Andy Belmont #26 owner: Brad Smith #27 owner: Dicky Williamson #28 owner: Mike Buckley #29 owner: Bob Keselowski #30 owner: Terry Jones #34 owner: Darrell Basham #48 owner: James Hylton #56 owner: Mark Gibson #68 ownre: Steve Bramley #79 owner: Mike Koch #92 owner: Glen Passmore #95 owner: Roger Williams #96 owner: Mark Knupp 27. 23andJoe posted: 06.15.2014 - 7:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #67 crew chief: Tom Sokoloski (same for all races this season) 28. Jack Johnson posted: 08.02.2015 - 9:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I Can Tell You Right Now That T.J. Bell Was Not Involved In That First Big Wreck. He Just Got Loose With Damage On The Rear & Saved It While Others Wrecked Behind Him. 29. McMurrayFan1 posted: 08.14.2015 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Blake Feese was probably the worst driver (talent wise) ever to race in full bodied stock cars. Can't believe Rick Hendrick hired him. He was an absolute embarrassment. 30. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.03.2015 - 4:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNF Reason #94 crash Owner Update #7 Rick Hendrick (Same for all of Kyle races in 05 (One of the last Deveolpment Drivers for Hendrick, after a lackluster season with only 1 pole and no wins, Kyle was Released from Hendrick 31. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.14.2015 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Update #16 A.J. Foyt 32. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.14.2015 - 6:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Update #6 Wayne Day (Same for all of Justin Races in 2005) 33. Anonymous posted: 10.04.2015 - 12:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #65 Walt Brannan did not crash, he went out of the race due to a mechanical issue. Live broadcast said there was fluids coming out from his car before his team pushed him behind the wall. 34. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 10.09.2015 - 12:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Owner Update #2 Joe Gibbs 35. RaceFanX posted: 12.06.2015 - 10:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) J.J. Yeley finishes third in his only ARCA start, driving a Joe Gibbs car as a warmup to his full 2005 Busch season with the team. 36. Braindead Zombie posted: 03.26.2016 - 6:59 pm Rate this comment: (1) (2) ARCA Brakes at their finest. 37. rm posted: 05.01.2017 - 5:48 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 04 owner - Darrell Basham 35 owner - C.E. Clower 38. JSPorts posted: 05.01.2017 - 6:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the first of 3 consecutive ARCA Daytona wins for Bobby Gerhart. Only 9 cars finished on the lead lap, and only 12 total finished the race. Over 50% of the race was run under caution, and the average green flag run was less than 5 laps. 19 cars DNQ'd, while 23 suffered crash DNFs in the race. 39. rm posted: 04.09.2018 - 3:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 06 was a Chevrolet 40. rm posted: 11.12.2018 - 12:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 16 sponsor - FullTiltPoker.com 41. rm posted: 11.13.2018 - 4:18 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) More info from this wild season opener: 7 owner - Billy Gerhart 33 owner - Bob Schacht 64 owner - Matt Hagans Kyle Krisiloff's #7 actually was a Billy Gerhart-owned machine for this race. There was a Hendrick crew working on it, but it was actually a second BGR car. There were two reasons for this - one, Hendrick was already fielding the 94 for Blake Feese and two, Gerhart's cars are so good on superspeedways so why not tear one of their cars up instead of your own? Matt Hagans ran his car as the backup to the primary car of Joey Miller and actually wound up finishing better than Miller did, thanks to Miller's spin in the last lap crash. Todd Kluever was racing a car that Matt Kenseth used during his 2003 championship season. If anyone's ever watched this race - or visited the Roush shop to see it on display all these years later - you'll know it was thoroughly and utterly destroyed. Brandon Knupp DNQ'd after not making it through the tech line in time. The morning of qualifying, the team found the fuel cell and rear of the car had been tampered with and that the gas didn't "smell right." Despite pleas to ARCA officials, they weren't given any extra time to look back over their car before hopping over to tech. In a somewhat surprising move, Bobby Gerhart - known for speaking his mind quite freely - defended the carnage in this race. Gerhart said afterwards that everyone has to go out and run their first plate race at some point. He's not entirely wrong, as this race was really a series of freak incidents that just compounded and ended in the destructive final lap accident. Clair Zimmerman's backwards dance into the catchfence after a solo spin or Blake Feese's inadvertent mowing down of photographers has yet to happen again in any race in the nearly decade and a half since this event. Racing back to the line is no more and spotters have (hopefully!) improved since this day, leaving the backstretch spectacular alone as the wildest wreck in modern ARCA superspeedway history. TJ Bell probably had the best anecdote from the crash. He says at one point, Billy Venturini had done a complete 180 and was dead ahead of Bell's car to the point where they could have made eye contact. Bell found a hole and missed the wreck while Billy wound up on the operating table in the hospital. Ouch. 42. Anthony posted: 02.16.2019 - 3:02 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) 14 years after this debacle, the Truck race would put on a display similar 43. Mr.Victory posted: 04.18.2019 - 10:03 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Even 14 years after this mayhem, I still watch for the WTF moments, because some of this race you will most likely never see again. 44. acerogers58 posted: 01.06.2020 - 7:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'm amazed there's only 2 photos knowingly available online of the last accident, it'd be really good if more surfaced, because a lot of the accident apart from the flips is completely covered in smoke. 45. Jimmie4life posted: 02.14.2020 - 2:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR has sort of become like this race... but instead of at random moments, they're all at the end. Everyone crashes, big flip or two, and the "big ones" take out 15+ cars. 46. MSportRev posted: 03.16.2020 - 5:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Future NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series team owner DJ Copp was the rear tire changer on Tim Steele's No. 44 in this race. 47. MotorGuy posted: 05.11.2020 - 7:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What happened to the second car that flipped? 48. Tide1732 posted: 05.11.2020 - 8:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Harmon and Norm Benning in a top 10 Interessing. 49. TeamDCRfan posted: 05.11.2020 - 10:26 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 48 Four letters A R C A 50. Rich posted: 08.07.2020 - 8:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Ralph Sheheen, Dan Pardus and Ken Schrader. The pit road reporters were Don Radebaugh, Lindsay Czarniak and Bob Dillner. 51. RaceFanX posted: 11.20.2020 - 7:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR All Pro series standout Eddie Mercer got the call up to make his ARCA debut but his #88 Miccosukee Dodge would get taken out of the race early in a three-car wreck with Benny Chastain and A.J. Henriksen. The Intrepid was the exact same car Dale Jarrett drove to victory in the 2000 Daytona 500 and several other NASCAR Cup restrictor plate races. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: