Sunday 1st May 2005
Jeff Gordon survived an accident-filled day and scored his second straight win in the Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway. Gordon held off Tony Stewart and Michael Waltrip on a green-white-checkered finish to win his third race of the season and score his second restrictor-plate triumph of 2005 to go along with his Daytona 500 victory. Gordon led 139 of the 188 lap race for his 72nd career win. With only two cautions in the first 100 laps for “minor” incidents, the second half of the race featured two multi-car crashes, including a massive 25-car pile-up on Lap 132.
