2015 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 33 of 36 in the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series | |||
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| Date | November 1, 2015 | ||
| Location | Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility .526 mi (.847 km) |
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| Distance | 500 laps, 263 mi (423.5 km) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy skies with a temperature of 63 °F (17 °C); wind out of the southwest at 5 mph (8.0 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 69.643 mph (112.080 km/h) | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Team Penske | ||
| Time | 19.215 | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Joey Logano | Team Penske | |
| Laps | 207 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 24 | Jeff Gordon | Hendrick Motorsports | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | NBCSN | ||
| Announcers | Rick Allen, Jeff Burton and Steve Letarte | ||
| Nielsen Ratings | 1.9/3 (Overnight) 2.0/4 (Final) 3.3 Million viewers |
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| Radio in the United States | |||
| Radio | MRN | ||
| Booth Announcers | Joe Moore and Jeff Striegle | ||
| Turn Announcers | Dave Moody (Backstretch) | ||
The 2015 Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on November 1, 2015, at Martinsville Speedway in Ridgeway, Virginia. Contested over 500 laps on the .526 mile (.847 km) short track, it was the 33rd race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, seventh race of the Chase and first race of the Eliminator Round. Jeff Gordon won the race, his first of the season. Jamie McMurray finished second. Denny Hamlin, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Kyle Busch rounded out the top-five.
Joey Logano won the pole for the race and led a race high of 207 laps before being taken out by Matt Kenseth late in the race and finished 37th. The race had 21 lead changes among nine different drivers, 18 caution flag periods for 109 laps and one red flag period for 12 minutes and 46 seconds.
This was the 93rd career win for Gordon, first of the season, ninth at Martinsville Speedway, 23rd at the track for Hendrick Motorsports and clinched Gordon a spot in the championship Ford EcoBoost 400 race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. He left Martinsville with an eight–point lead in the points standings. Chevrolet left with a 57–point lead over Toyota in the manufacturer standings.
The Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 was carried by NBC Sports on the cable/satellite NBCSN network for the American television audience. The radio broadcast for the race was carried by the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio.
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