|| *Comments on the 2005 Coca-Cola 600:* View the most recent comment <#69> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Jake posted: 05.30.2005 - 1:08 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) The craziest I have ever watched. Congrats to Martin Truex Jr. on leading a Cup race and finishing in the top 10 in a Cup race for the first time in his career. 2. Chicago posted: 05.30.2005 - 4:37 pm Rate this comment: (3) (1) The worst race of the year; perhaps since the spring Dover race last year. If Labonte had gone high in turn three Earnhardt, Jr. flat punts his teammate, Michael Waltrip on the straightaway. No way around it, he just ran into the back of him. "I didn't mean to do it!" is his excuse for sending Terry Labonte to the hospital and totaling both his car, Kenseth's and Waltrip's; all who were having good runs, Waltrip especially after recovering from fender damage, running sixth before it happened. Nice job. Jeff Green finishes eleventh, Schrader ninth (!) and Kevin Lepage twelfth. Great runs all around for teams that needed them. 3. Brian posted: 05.30.2005 - 5:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Without a doubt the worst race this year. Nothing but cautions with boring racing in between. 22 cautions! At Charlotte? No excuse for Jr. that was just bad driving. Once again Jimmie Johnson wins an undeserved race. Brian Vickers should've won, or Bobby Labonte. 4. Chicago posted: 05.30.2005 - 8:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What I meant to say when I opened up my rant ... if Labonte had gone high in turn three, there's a chance he wins. :) 5. Anonymous posted: 05.30.2005 - 9:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I'd like to smack Jr. upside the head! I think that qualifies as the dumbest move of the season so far. The only good part of the race; Ken Schrader gets a top 10! Happy Birthday Ken! 6. Jeff posted: 05.31.2005 - 3:30 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This is not talladega, why was Jr bumping Mikey for? 7. James Reisdorf posted: 05.31.2005 - 10:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What a SERIOUSLY messed up race. But after all the stuff that went down, the Lowe's car still wins at Lowe's. You know what they say: The more things change...etc. 8. Willis posted: 06.01.2005 - 11:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Again the most boring race EVER!! And more with Jr. bumping Waltrip...he is probably the most overrated person in the world...and then with Carl Edwards bump drafting Jarrett? WTF? DW put it niceley and said it was a 'rookie mistake' but honestly, if it isn't Daytona or Talladega people shouldn't bumb each other (unless of course their wrecking but then well...), and too bad to the two Hendrick boys...Kyle Busch looses a cylinder (i think, does anyone know what happened to his engine?) and Brian Vickers gets a bad break and gets but back in the field after pitting just before a caution...i think Mr. Humpey should have thought out the repaving a little more... 9. Chicago posted: 06.02.2005 - 4:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Vickers caught a bad break and got put back in the pack after the yellow came out during a cycle of green flag stops, but that doesn't excuse what he did to Bill Elliott or the rest of the pack he was racing with. He needed to exercise a lot of patience. The kid has shown some potential and speed at Atlanta and Phoenix and Charlotte this year, and has had some good runs gone awry with problems, but that doesn't mean that he can get away with just getting out of the car and saying "Aw, man, I'm sorry, I hate it for their guys," ... there comes a point where it's got to stop. The same can be said about Carl Edwards, who is developing quite a reputation for being a "dirty" competitor. These young guys have to watch out. They have reputation and respect on the line and the "I didn't mean it," excuse isn't going to go a long way anymore. 10. ch posted: 06.02.2005 - 8:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Man what a messed up race. The track was messed up for no good reason (this is a major event and the bosses had an obligation to do a better job; not just say "well we thought the patches would hold" and when they didn't they have a guy out there pushing them back down with their foot!). The drivers messed up; lots of them. From Carl (this ain't Talladega son) Edwards; and don't even get me started on Jr. who did a plain, dumb stupid thing; wrecked Mikey who was aiming for a top ten at least (Waltrip's bad luck this season should not take away from the fact he's been doing some of the best driving of his career). In the end I wish Bobby Labonte had managed to hold out just a little longer; because frankly I would like Jimmie Johnson to have to fight a little harder for the championship that I think he will end up with at seasons end. But you never can tell. 11. STbastien posted: 06.04.2005 - 4:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Damn, Bobby... Oh, shame on you Jr. 12. HomeDepot20TS posted: 06.05.2005 - 12:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Most pathetic excuse for a Nextel Cup race I've seen in my life. 13. Gordon fan posted: 06.14.2005 - 5:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was a great race. Though it was rather unusual. I think Vickers had the best car and he probably would have won if he had not wrecked. Bobby Labonte did all he could do. The fastest line in turns 3 and 4 had been right down at the bottom all night. So he dove straight to the bottom. Johnson just had a much stronger car and muscled around him on the outside. 14. KK38 posted: 06.15.2005 - 12:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sad excuse for a race, it was only a great finish. Nuff said. 15. JJ Lehto posted: 06.20.2005 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) What a terrible race. What a shame that Bobby couldn't hold Johnson off. Jimmie wins another, undeserved, race at lowes. 16. HomeDepotKid posted: 06.23.2005 - 9:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good finish, but that was the only good point of the race. And even that part wasn't the best ever-Jimmie didn't deserve that win one bit. Bobby did. Dale Junior is the biggest moron in the sport-A good driver DOES NOT wreck his own teammate. The race flat-out sucked. 17. Mike D posted: 08.22.2005 - 4:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Vickers should've won this race. Then Nemechek, then Bobby Labonte. I'm sure they're a few other guys that also should've won...but surprise, Johnson wins....... 18. Thomas posted: 12.03.2005 - 9:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The absolute most annoying, worst excuse for a race in the history of NASCAR. Stupid drivers like Brian Vickers wrecking the field. Junior pulling a dumb stunt. Joe Nemechek cuts a tire and crashes while leading with like 15 to go. And Jimmie Johnson (you guys hit it on the head) winning another race he didn't deserve. He only won because Labonte's tires were more worn. Just awful. 19. Gus T. posted: 12.29.2005 - 2:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) At one point I fell asleep for 20 minutes, and only missed 8 laps. This was pitiful, and unlike the fall race, most of the blame should go to the drivers. Truex took out two Ganassi cars. Jr took out two DEI cars, as well as Kenseth and Labonte. Vickers took out two Hendrick cars, and about six others. The only good thing about this race was that Bobby and Schrader finished well. 20. SPENCER posted: 01.01.2006 - 11:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) Too bad stupid Mike Skinner had to blow up right in front of Jimmy....he still beat his best friend "Dumbo" 21. another fan posted: 03.21.2006 - 6:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (3) AWESOME!! JIMMIE JOHNSON HAS DONE MORE THAN DALE EARNHARDT JR., IN TWO YEARS LESS TIME!!!! COOL!!! 22. dalejrrules14 posted: 04.11.2006 - 9:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) ENOUGH OF THE JUNIOR COMMENTS!IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!DESPITE THAT THIS RACE WAS AWESOME 23. Miller4Prez64 posted: 05.07.2006 - 2:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) Fixed 24. Sunoco posted: 09.27.2006 - 1:43 am Rate this comment: (2) (1) I am really not a fan of jiminy and cant stand him, but i dont think it was fixed. I felt bad for bobby 25. Mr. Big posted: 08.19.2007 - 3:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby had this, and I was really happy listening to it on the radio on the way home. But when Johnson got him off of Turn 4, I was ticked. Jimmie Johnson is the most undeserving idiot in the history of the sport. Jr...I can't even begin to describe what an idiot he is. Great race listening to it on the radio and I've seen reruns of it before. Fun race, and Truex took out a car or two as well as Edwards, and Vickers shouldn't have been so aggressive there, or he would've won instead of Johnson. 26. SK posted: 08.21.2007 - 2:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was the epitome of insanity, and made "levigating" a dirty word from there on out. It was disappointing to see Bobby come up short after all his struggles, though even in the waning laps I was still holding out hope for Schrader or Lepage to come up there and fight for the win. True story, my father had never seen a full race flag-to-flag and decided to make this one his first. As a guy who wasn't sold on the idea of watching cars make laps for THREE hours...what a race to pick. :) 27. Mike posted: 08.28.2007 - 1:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby ran a FedEx paint scheme in this race after Jason Leffler DNQ'ed the FedEx car. 28. Joseph Remington posted: 05.05.2008 - 6:41 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) i can't believe what people are saying!!! i thought this race was 'effin exciting, with all the action and that finish! wow! nascar is supposed to be all about bumping and grinding! 29. Roger posted: 01.09.2009 - 11:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I saw this race live. They hardly ever got to run more than a handful of laps. I'm a big Bill Elliott fan so I paid attention to what he was doing most of the race. He went a lap down early on and I remember being around a bunch of Junior fans and how they cheered loudly when the 8 car passed Elliott. So me and my buddy made sure to return the favor when both were a lap down and Elliott got around Junior. Then with all the cautions eventually Bill got his lap back. Then he got of sequence pitting and was leading the race. At that moment Elliott Sadler probably had the best car. He passed Elliott but Elliott was reeling him back in before the caution. That was the one where bonehead Vickers (who also was responsible for taking Bill out in the Coke 600 of 07) got Elliott in a wreck and that was it. After that it was fun watching Labonte try to run down Johnson. Junior fans were puzzled when he took out Waltrip. You could look all around and see them holding their hands up and unison saying "what gives". I think Junior might of lost a few fans that night. Not to mention DEI ran like crap that year. The total race time was over 5 hours. By far the longest race I've ever been too before and I've been to the 600 rain delayed and even with that it wasn't 6 plus hours. 30. Ben F. posted: 05.31.2009 - 1:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) so many guys could have pulled off an upset...vickers had the best car then wrecked, nemechek was leading with 10 to go then cut a tire (some luck) then labonte during a down year almsot wins as well 31. Destroyahirismix666 posted: 09.07.2010 - 4:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I loved this race. I was 9 when i watched it and MAN! IT was so cool! I remember the finish, and how my father said that Labonte had it, and i kept screaming for jimmy! Not to mention the crashes! Oh the crashes! I just flat out loved them, and at the time i was obsessed with big wrecks, and i was treated with that! And my favorite Driver winning! Not just, that, but i enjoyed the racing! And as for the JR. thing... i don't remeber it happening, but i looked it up, and I'm even confused about it. I give this race a title: 'The sound of madness is Charlotte!' 32. RaceFanX posted: 06.18.2011 - 6:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Labonte's sponsor in this one was FedEx Freight. FedEx got a lot of milage out of the one-off. Labonte being nipped at the finish by Jimmie Johnson on a last lap pass was featured in a "what makes NASCAR great" type of commercial about how you can run your best race of the season and still finish second. For the most part this is last time to date in Cup that Labonte has well and truly been in the fight to win on the last lap. As previously stated Labonte's car had the FedEx look because his teammate Jason Leffler didn't make the field in the #11. Labonte's team had originally planned to run a special paint in this race to promote the release of the Dreamworks animated movie "Madagascar" but that paint job was moved back and run at Pocono instead. 33. RaceFanX posted: 06.19.2011 - 12:14 am Rate this comment: (1) (1) The 22 cautions in this race are an all-time high for the NASCAR Cup series. The previous was record was 20, set in two seperate races at Bristol with the most recent in the spring of 1997. 34. ericthenau posted: 08.17.2011 - 11:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Actually, the previous record of 20 cautions in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was set in THREE previous races at Bristol, with the most recent race happening on August 23, 2003, RaceFanX. 35. I Love Japan posted: 10.31.2011 - 1:05 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Did you know Vickers bonehead move late in the race caused a then-record 21st caution in a race? I find that ironic. As for people calling Brian dirty back in 2005, you guys were spot on- and then some. 36. 1995z71 posted: 02.04.2012 - 10:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember this race for one reason, Bobby Labonte raced Jimmie Johnson clean & finished second then got out of his car & kicked it knowing that if he raced Jimmie even 1% dirty he could have won. I miss Bobby winning races. 37. Matthew Tesfaye posted: 05.20.2012 - 11:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The race went over 5 hours 38. Daniel posted: 05.24.2012 - 11:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #11 Jason Leffler & #32 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Out using fastest 43: #4 Mike Wallace & #40 Sterling Marlin 39. RaceFanX posted: 07.16.2012 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsors: #42 Jamie McMurray- Texaco / Havoline "Shine On" Kevin Harvick ran a number of retro-inspired paint schemes in 2005 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of GM Goodwrench sponsoring RCR. Here and in the all-star race his normal paint scheme was modified to include silver and orange to call back to Dale Earnhardt's infamous Quicksilver car from the 1995 Winston. 40. CBASS posted: 01.20.2013 - 7:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #21 Air Force #97 Smirnoff Ice #29 GM Goodwrench-RCR 20 Years #43 Bugles Racing/ Cheerios #44 Kellogg's Corn Flakes #31 Cingular Go Phone #16 National Guard/ Charter #77 Kodak http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/photos/main-gallery/?y=2005&s=5&dl=a&r=1709 41. TTF24 posted: 04.23.2013 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just like in Atlanta but it's going to be over here he comes Jimmie Johnson! He got him the #48 Car 3 in the row by 2,001's of a second nice work today incredible. 42. Anthony posted: 05.30.2013 - 7:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) How many red flags were in this race? This year's 600 had 2 and took over 5.5 hours to complete (including stoppages). 43. Birddog posted: 06.14.2013 - 12:45 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Oh man. Everytime I watch the end I think bobby's gonna hold him off but he never does. Dang it Jimmie you win enough. Couldn't let my guy win?? Oh well it was heartbreaking then and still is. I think about this race everytime they race at charlotte and it makes me sad. 44. Anonymous posted: 01.11.2014 - 9:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wow this race was bad, that experiment that Bruton tried was bad. And when Jimmie passed Bobby in the final corner, It felt like Santa Got Shot. 45. 18fan posted: 02.02.2014 - 11:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race totally fell into Jimmie's lap. He had no chance to win until Nemechek lost a right rear tire with 10 to go. It was going to be an easy win for Joe. 46. Bob posted: 08.12.2014 - 5:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Wow, there are a lot of idiots on here. Way too many people commenting about Junior wrecking Mikey. So what. It was an accident. But hardly anyone is commenting on the fact that Brian Vickers, just one week after intentionally wrecking Mike Bliss out of a showdown win to get in the All Star race, did the EXACT SAME THING to Bill Elliott, and the wreck that Vickers caused was even bigger than the one that Junior caused. And to everyone who says this race was "boring", "too many cautions", "not enough good racing", etc. this race will go down in history as one of the greatest Coke 600s of all time. And yeah Jimmie won. It probably should have been Nemechek or Labonte but at least it wasn't Gordon or Cryle. 47. Jason24 posted: 10.27.2014 - 1:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Levigation 48. chrisskreager posted: 03.02.2015 - 4:50 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I've always wondered how the finish would have been received if someone else had beaten Labonte at the end in the same way. Instead of another Jimmie won, suppose it had been Edwards' 2nd win or a rare Mayfield win. That would have been pretty cool. 49. 88&4Fan posted: 07.27.2015 - 6:37 pm Rate this comment: (2) (1) I have to agree with #46. NASCAR fans just can't be happy. They want lots of wrecks, but they want quality racing without "phantom debris" cautions getting in the way. Pick one or the other. I think most of these people who were whining are just anti-Johnson fans or anti-Junior fans or both. I find that pathetic too how about at least ten comments whine about how "Overrated Jr ran out of talent and dumped poor Mikey on the straightaway" before even a single person addresses that Vickers did the same thing to Bill Elliott(?) and took out more cars than Jr did. And then there's the "boo-hoo, Johnson won" comments. Give me a break already. He is a class act who has never done anything to deserve the hate that he gets other than be the best at what he does. This race won't just be remembered as one of the greatest Coca Cola 600s ever, it will be remembered as one of the greatest races ever, or at least of the modern era. 50. Gordon7timechamp posted: 01.14.2016 - 7:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (5) Labonte choked very bad 51. 88&4Fan posted: 01.14.2016 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I guess he could've protected the outside a little better, but he was trying to hold off a legend in the making in Jimmie Johnson at the track where he has 57241 wins, on old tires. Hardly a choke job. A choke job is Mark Martin at Bristol in that Busch series race. 52. Maverick11 posted: 02.20.2016 - 11:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Labonte was snake bitten in every way possible in 2005. 53. Ak47 posted: 02.21.2016 - 11:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 22 cautions and 21 leaders at CHARLOTTE?!?! Too bad all I remember from this race is the photo finish. Wow 54. Maverick11 posted: 02.21.2016 - 11:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) YouTube is your friend. 55. Windows Millennium Edition posted: 03.26.2016 - 12:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The third caution in the race was debris in turn 1. 56. Football Fan posted: 08.04.2016 - 3:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I remember this race. I was pretty young and I pulled for Bobby so bad!! Lets be honest, Bobby didn't even TRY to block... He just looked as Johnson passed him for the win. 57. chevyfan98 posted: 09.17.2016 - 3:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I just did a full-length Coke 600 on Total Team Control and the race ended up with 22 cautions. Completely on accident. (Granted at least ten of them were from cars dropping debris from this one huge wreck). 58. Mannoroth posted: 09.17.2016 - 4:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) I did it as well 2 years ago. That race had something over 4 hours and I completed all laps without any brake (finished 4th, 5 seconds back). Totally exausted after 4 hours of paying attention what is going on the track. I did it in NR2003. 59. JSPorts posted: 11.08.2016 - 6:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was an interesting race. 21 drivers led a lap (37 lead changes) 24 drivers involved in cautions (22 cautions) 13 drivers DNF'd (12 for crashes) There were only 8 drivers who didn't lead a lap, bring out the caution, or DNF: Mike Bliss (finished 15th), Jeremy Mayfield (4th), Tony Stewart (24th), Jeff Burton (22nd), Kevin Lepage (12th), Mike Wallace (16th), Jeff Green (11th) & Dale Jarrett (8th). 60. Joshua posted: 08.23.2018 - 4:16 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bobby Labonte's first Cup win arrived in this very race in 1995, ten years and one day earlier than this one. Nobody knew at the time that November in 2003 at Homestead would be Bobby's last win, and results like this contributed to that. It would have been storybook had Bobby's first and final wins came in the Coca-Cola World 600, but it was not to be. 61. Gabriel posted: 05.05.2019 - 1:31 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Amusing to see everyone complaining that this was a BORING race! If THIS was a boring race despite being a clusterf**k, oh boy these people would despise the 2010's. 62. Mr.Victory posted: 05.05.2019 - 10:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @61 It was BORING because we really didn't see green flag racing, so, cautions just added on, making a race be 5 and a half hours long. 63. Jimmie4life posted: 05.24.2019 - 12:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) At the beginning 100 laps, it wasn't that bad in terms of everyone going nuts. The longest green flag run of 79 laps, and some actual back and forth racing(even if it included green flag pit stops to boost the lead changes). And then, after lap 100, no one could stop bumping into each other. 64. RaceFanX posted: 05.26.2019 - 10:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Labonte has called this one of the hardest losses he ever had. He thought he had this one won in the closing laps before Johnson's surge. 65. SweetRich posted: 02.20.2020 - 8:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds And Darrell Waltrip. The Pit Road Reporters Were Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes And Matt Yocum. And In The Hollywood Hotel, Chris Myers And Jeff Hammond. 66. TheDewCrew posted: 03.21.2020 - 12:08 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Boy how this comment wall has aged. 15 years ago, people were calling it an awful race, that was boring. Saying Jimmie didn't deserve the win. Any race with double-digit cautions is chaotic, but I still love it. 21 leaders, in any non-superspeedway is great. 37 lead changes, means shuffling and mixing it up. I agree that when I first started watching and Jimmie was still dominating, it caused me to dislike him some. But my policy for wins, is that if they play the right strategy, avoid the chaos, and make the right moves, they are deserving. It's a race, the winner is supposed to be the one that makes it to the finish line first, are they not? I'm putting the comments here, out of mind, ,and will watch the marathon of a race 67. Anonymous posted: 03.21.2020 - 1:22 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Imagine the Jimmie Johnson of today leading off of turn 4, about to win his first race in years, and then Kyle Busch passes him right at the line and wins by a fender. That's what the finish of this race was like. People would be mad about that! But yes I agree that NASCAR fans today don't have the same standards for a good race that they had back in 2005, for good reason. 68. Anonymous posted: 05.24.2020 - 8:36 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Overnight tonight, if you got a DVR you can see one of NASCAR's wildest races with 22 Yellows and a photo finish and a Jimmie Johnson three-peat in the Coke 600 and the Charlotte Motor Speedway relive the 2005 Coca-Cola 600 Overnight on your fs1 stations set your DVR!!!! Its a late one to see again. 69. Anonymous posted: 02.03.2021 - 6:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @60 - Had Labonte held on in this race he would've matched his brother's feat of having his first and last career wins coming in the same race (the Southern 500 for Terry). In addition, Bobby's first career Cup race attempt was the 1991 600 (he DNQ'd) and Terry's first attempt/race was the 1978 Southern 500. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: