2004 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 33 of 36 in the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series | |||
Atlanta Motor Speedway (after 1997, before Atlanta International Speedway)
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| Date | October 31, 2004 | ||
| Location | Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton, Georgia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.540 mi (2.478 km) |
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| Distance | 325 laps, 500.5 mi (805.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Temperatures reaching up to 78.8 °F (26.0 °C); wind speeds up to 8.9 miles per hour (14.3 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 145.847 mph (234.718 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Penske-Jasper Racing | ||
| Time | 28.939 seconds | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Mark Martin | Roush Racing | |
| Laps | 227 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 48 | Jimmie Johnson | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBC | ||
| Announcers | Allen Bestwick, Benny Parsons, Wally Dallenbach, Jr. | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 4.2/10 | ||
The 2004 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on October 31, 2004 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325 laps, the race was the 33rd of the 36-race 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season. Ryan Newman of Penske-Jasper Racing won the pole, while Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports won the race. Roush Racing teammates Mark Martin and Carl Edwards finished second and third, respectively.
Atlanta Motor Speedway was formerly a 1.522 miles (2.449 km) oval until 1997, when two doglegs were added and the track became 1.54 miles long and a quad-oval. As of the 2014 season, the track is considered as one of 16 intermediate tracks on the Cup schedule.
One week after the plane crash prior to the Subway 500 that killed ten people, six of whom affiliated with Hendrick Motorsports, the four teams replaced their standard hood designs with a decal of the ten people killed.
59 cars were initially entered for the race, the most since the 1999 Daytona 500. After the preliminary list was released, J. J. Yeley, Greg Sacks, Larry Hollenback, and Andy Belmont entered the race, while Carl Long and Derrike Cope withdrew. Afterwards, Randy LaJoie replaced Larry Gunselman, and two days later, Cope replaced Stanton Barrett, and Mike Wallace replaced Jimmy Spencer.Brendan Gaughan went out for qualifying first, and Larry Foyt was the last driver to qualify.
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