The 2005 Sony HD 500 was a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race held on September 4, 2005 at California Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over 250 laps on the 2-mile (3.23 km) asphalt D-shaped oval, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2005 Nextel Cup Series season. The race was extended to 254 laps because of a green-white-checker finish.

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2005 Sony HD 500

Race details
Race 25 of 36 in the 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season
2005 Sony HD 500 program cover with Elliott Sadler
Date	September 4, 2005 (2005-September-04)
Official name	Sony HD 500
Location	California Speedway, Fontana, California
Course	Permanent racing facility 2.0 mi (3.23 km)
Distance	254 laps, 508 mi (817.546 km)
Scheduled Distance	250 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Average speed	136.356 miles per hour (219.444 km/h)
Attendance	100,000
Pole position
Driver	Carl Edwards	Roush Racing
Most laps led
Driver	Kyle Busch	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	95
Winner
No. 5	Kyle Busch	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	NBC
Announcers	Bill Weber, Benny Parsons and Wally Dallenbach Jr.
Radio in the United States
Radio	MRN
Booth Announcers	Joe Moore, Adam Alexander
Turn Announcers	Dave Moody (1 & 2), and Dan Hubbard (3 & 4)

Close

Kyle Busch of Hendrick Motorsports won the race for the first time in his career and also became the youngest Cup Series race winner until the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301. Carl Edwards would earn his first pole position during qualifying.^[1]

• Time of race: 3:43:32
• Average Speed: 136.356 miles per hour (219.444 km/h)
• Pole Speed: 185.061
• Cautions: 11 for 43 laps
• Margin of Victory: 0.554 sec
• Lead changes: 30
• Percent of race run under caution: 16.9%
• Average green flag run: 17.6 laps