|| *Comments on the 2005 GFS Marketplace 400:* View the most recent comment <#42> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Matt posted: 08.22.2005 - 1:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeremy Mayfield is able to stretch his final tank of fuel to the finish and picks up his first win of the season. Underdog Tony Raines in the #37 supposedly had enough fuel to make the finish and lead with 6 to go before running out. 2. James Reisdorf posted: 08.22.2005 - 2:01 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was so great to see Tony Raines lead. I didn't think he was going to win (he was going to get run down), the fact he was even up front that late was awesome. I like the guy for some reason after doing well with a bad team in 2003 so it was a welcome sight to see this. Good win for Mayfield but I think Scott Riggs might've won if it weren't for Robby Gordon trying to be a r禿£lock. 3. James Reisdorf posted: 08.22.2005 - 2:01 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) For some reason, the word "roadblock" didn't want to show up correctly... 4. Mike D posted: 08.22.2005 - 4:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Scott Riggs, IMO, was deff. going to catch mayfield. Oh well Robby Gordon messed it up...surprise. Anyway congrats to Riggs, and Bill Elliot getting 11th place. 5. Jake posted: 08.22.2005 - 4:54 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Congrats to Jeremy Mayfield for his victory!!! That test session several weeks ago at Michigan where they tested their fuel mileage was the key to victory. 6. Chicago posted: 08.22.2005 - 7:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Tony Raines and Michael Waltrip ran out of fuel with about a lap to go. 7. STbastien posted: 08.24.2005 - 3:26 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Thanks to some of the crowd, it became the 2005 plastic grille 400 :( 8. Thedupontman posted: 08.27.2005 - 3:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I 110 Percent agree and NASCAR Will do something about that before Next Years races. 9. Frank posted: 09.05.2005 - 7:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) J. Mayfield kicks ass!!! 10. SPENCER posted: 01.01.2006 - 11:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (4) Here is a way to tell ya that NASCAR sucks. Jimmy finished 36th 4 laps down in 1993 P.J Jones finished 26th 4 laps down 10 spots in 12 years 11. Mike D posted: 01.09.2006 - 1:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) ^Yea that's true..dosn't matter though either way you'd still be a backmarker. Just today when you're a bakcmarker you're farther back. 12. brandon posted: 03.01.2006 - 11:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) hey spencer why does that make nascar suck. because the field's are getting stronger? i've read other comments left by you on this site and if jimmy runs bad it makes the whole race suck according to you 13. michael posted: 03.22.2006 - 10:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) congrats to mayfield 14. dalejrrules14 posted: 04.11.2006 - 9:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) in 20 or so years the entire field will finish on the lead lap every race 15. Rusty posted: 07.26.2006 - 5:33 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Biggest fluke of a win since Greg Biffle won the 2003 Pepsi 400. But a win's a win. 16. Kevin posted: 08.12.2006 - 10:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) We now know that this will be Mayfield last win for Evernham's team. Sorry but I beleive Mayfield was screwed!!!! But I know that Mayfield will be back and better then ever!! 17. Steve posted: 10.31.2006 - 10:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This isn't because I don't like him, but in all honesty, Biffle's win that Rusty mentioned qualifies as a fluke. Before and since then, Greg Biffle has not finished better than 13th at Daytona or Talladega in the Cup Series. Likewise, this win can be catergorized as a fluke, because this was only Jeremy Mayfield's 4th Top 10 in his 24th Michigan start, and he had an average finish of worse than 15th. Both of these gambles paid these two drivers with a win, but they never would have won if they had not gambled on a green flag run to the finish. 18. Brock posted: 01.19.2007 - 8:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Man, I thought for sure Tony Raines had this one; fuel mileage or not, that would've been something. 19. Anonymous posted: 08.15.2008 - 9:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (3) TONY STEWART #14 OFFICE DEPOT/OLD SPICE CHEVROLET! 20. jp posted: 08.01.2009 - 3:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Raines gets bit again. SH*T! One of these days he's gonna win like it or not. GO RAINES!!!! 21. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 09.25.2009 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) This race sucked. I cannot stand Jeremy Mayfield! >:( 22. Talon64 posted: 12.03.2010 - 7:26 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) "We now know that this will be Mayfield last win for Evernham's team. Sorry but I beleive Mayfield was screwed!!!! But I know that Mayfield will be back and better then ever!!" How things can change in a few years' time. LOL Loop data says Jeremy Mayfield's average running position was only 17th and his driver rating was 94.0. Jeremy had 9 races with a better driver rating and 17 races with a better average running position than this race. 23. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 01.07.2011 - 2:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, it's ironic how things can change. I now notice I was a little more blunt when I first started visiting this site, but I still feel the same about Mayfield. He pretty much has no one to blame but himself for his career downspiral, and his career was pretty much over even before the controversy in '09. 24. Matthew posted: 02.22.2011 - 3:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Carl Long-200.Benson-100,MWR 25. RaceFanX posted: 07.07.2011 - 4:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was Mayfield's fifth and very likely final Cup series victory 26. Daniel posted: 05.24.2012 - 11:16 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #34 P.J. Jones Out using fastest 43: #29 Kevin Harvick 27. Jordan posted: 08.22.2012 - 12:40 am Rate this comment: (4) (1) 1. Mayfield 2. Riggs Hey, when did Racing-Reference begin posting results from video games? 28. CBASS posted: 01.20.2013 - 9:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #16 PRISM: Guard Shield #21 Motorcrft/ Ford Parts & Service http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0527 29. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 08.02.2014 - 9:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Withdrew 13 Greg Sacks Sacks Motorsports Dodge Greg Sacks http://www.jayski.com/stats/2005grids/2005mis2-entry.htm 30. Braindead Zombie posted: 07.12.2016 - 1:37 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) Just imagine if Tony Raines had won this race. Upset for the ages. 31. Jason24 posted: 08.19.2017 - 5:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The last NASCAR win for Jeremy Mayfield. Probably the strongest run Scott Riggs had with the MB2 team. I rewatched this race and realized how close Tony Raines was to pulling it off. 32. Tide1732 posted: 08.19.2017 - 7:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Riggs gets his only win in a non-point event (The 2006 Nextel Open) 33. Luke posted: 04.22.2018 - 12:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No. 00 was a Dodge instead of Chevy as we can see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4WXnLBrV7w 26:19 (the yellow car in the left) 34. Dylan Hills posted: 10.02.2018 - 10:38 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Not only did this turn out to be Mayfield's last win, it also turned out to be his last Top 5 finish. 35. JSPorts posted: 10.03.2018 - 1:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I doubt anyone would've believed that if you'd told them at the time. He only scored 3 more top 10s in 2005, and none after that. His best finish for Evernham in 2006 was 13th at Talladega, and he was fired after the Indianapolis race. At the time, he was 34th in points. 36. SK posted: 11.26.2018 - 4:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor update: #16 Greg Biffle - PRISM: Guard Shield / National Guard One of the earliest video game-sponsored cars to come along, Biffle's ride was advertising a first person shooter sponsored by the National Guard itself. 37. RaceFan4Life72 posted: 06.17.2020 - 7:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Spencer's sponsor Arbor Mortgage ran a contest where they would draw a winner to pay off their mortgage if Spencer was able to win this race. 38. Mile501 posted: 06.17.2020 - 7:55 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @37 - I guess that was a safe financial decision for them to make, considering Spencer was driving for a team that never scored a top 20 finish. 39. rm posted: 06.17.2020 - 8:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Given the shady nature of the Peak Fitness team and its owner, it might have been more surprising if the sponsor had actually made the payout than if Spencer won the race...though after a quick google search, that mortgage company seems to be still around and on the straight & narrow, neither of which can be said regarding Peak Fitness. 40. rm posted: 06.29.2020 - 8:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) From the broadcast: 00 crew chief - Jimmy Penland 37 crew chief - Glenn Darrow (in addition, his page on here misspells his first name as "Glen" instead of "Glenn"...between having Raines run out well short on fuel here and a suspension from NASCAR later in the season, 2005 wasn't great for Mr. Darrow) Something funny I'd forgotten about from this one: Elliott Sadler peeled out of his pit stall before the team had finished doing their repairs to his damaged car for the yellow flag lap and he took off with a roll of tape still hanging from the barely-attached back bumper cover. Sure enough, the bumper cover fell off under the caution while Sadler was trying to speed towards the tail end of the field on the backstretch, with the roll of tape separating itself from the bumper as well. As it rolled along the backstretch and into the turn 3 grass, the NBC booth remarked that it was taking the colloquialism "200-mile-an-hour duct tape" a little too literally! Between all the overheating woes and the abundance of flat tires of all kinds, there were a ton of non-contact incidents in this race. Michigan is not a track where you'd expect a flat tire to result in anything other than a hard, hard crash at high speeds. Have to disagree with those that think Riggs would have been able to pass Mayfield after rewatching. Robby Gordon was easily just about as quick as Riggs, and in a fuel mileage race nobody's going to slow down at all unless they're working on saving fuel...add a motor going sour in Robby's case to his mix as well and he was trying to finish his race just as much as Riggs was. Plus Robby had been running rather well in the top 15-20, by his season standards anyway, while Riggs didn't come on till the last run of the race for the most part. Add in Mayfield and Slugger Labbe being about as confident as you could be in their situation regarding having enough fuel and I can't see a pass from Riggs being possible. 41. SweetRich21/43 posted: 07.31.2020 - 6:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators were Bill Weber, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach. The pit road reporters were Allen Bestwick, Marty Snider, Dave Burns and Matt Yocum. 42. BadBooking posted: 03.07.2021 - 10:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Watching the newly uploaded Inside Nextel Cup on YouTube, Michael Waltrip was making one of his "theorems" about maybe getting his passenger Suburban a little better fuel mileage, like lowering the roof. Apparently this struck a craw in Schrader as his car was found to be too low in post-race tech hence his 25 point penalty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: