The 2015 GEICO 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on May 3, 2015 at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama.

Contested over 188 laps on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) asphalt superspeedway, it was the tenth race of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race, his first win of the season and his sixth at Talladega Superspeedway and first at the racetrack since 2004.

His teammate Jimmie Johnson finished second, while Paul Menard, Ryan Blaney and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the Top five.

This was the 24th career victory for Dale Earnhardt Jr., sixth at Talladega Superspeedway and twelfth at the track for Hendrick Motorsports.

The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s.

[13] Kevin Harvick entered Talladega with a 33-point lead over Joey Logano following his runner-up finish the week before at Richmond.

We’re able to put this together, which is a little combination of (single-car and group qualifying) and puts it more in the driver’s hand for a superspeedway, which we like to see.’’ While no official announcement was made on how many cars would be on track at once, Steve O'Donnell, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief racing development officer, said they would likely do two cars at a time to Mike Bagley and Pete Pistone in his weekly Monday appearance on the Sirius XM NASCAR Radio program "The Morning Drive.

After giving his seat to Jeb Burton the previous race at Richmond International Raceway, J. J. Yeley returned to the No.

"[19] "The Hendrick cars are really strong, and the engines are running great," Kasey Kahne said after qualifying second.

"[19] "We’ve got pretty good speed in our Ford and it’s just nice to be back with this Wood Brothers team," Ryan Blaney said after qualifying third.

After having a good car at Texas and blowing up early that really kind of brought us down, so we’ll try to run all the laps tomorrow and see if we can pick this team up a little bit before Charlotte.”[19] Defending race winner Denny Hamlin qualified 17th.

It’s just all on what you’ve got, but I think we’ll be okay in the race.”[19] Jeb Burton and Michael McDowell failed to qualify for the race.

Going down the Alabama Gang Superstretch (backstretch), Jeff Gordon used a slingshot move to pass his teammate for the lead on lap 17.

The first caution of the race flew on lap 19 for a two car wreck in turn 1 involving Brian Scott and Michael Waltrip.

The second caution of the race flew on lap 47 for a huge crash that began in turn 2 and continued down the backstretch.

The 15 cars caught up were Justin Allgaier, Aric Almirola, Trevor Bayne, Greg Biffle, Alex Bowman, Kurt Busch, Landon Cassill, Matt DiBenedetto, Brendan Gaughan, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Joey Logano, Danica Patrick, David Ragan, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Tony Stewart and Josh Wise.

This didn't last for long as the field reeled in the breakaway group and formed a line on the outside to pull up to the leader.

Eventually though, the outside line led by Matt Kenseth started pulling up towards the fourth place car of Brad Keselowski.

Jimmie Johnson and the first three jumped up to the top line and the bottom lane eventually began breaking up.

The fourth caution of the race flew on lap 91 when Brendan Gaughan slammed the wall in turn 2.

[24] Casey Mears was penalized for an uncontrolled tire and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

The sixth caution of the race flew with 31 laps to go when Austin Dillon's car caught fire in the tri-oval.

Jeff Gordon and Josh Wise were tagged for speeding on pit road and restarted the race from the tail-end of the field.

The race stayed green after that and a wreck on the backstretch that collected Jeff Gordon, Casey Mears, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and J. J. Yeley.

That’s something you don’t want to see green- or yellow-flag conditions, but, at the time, if we would have thrown the yellow, then it’s too late because he’s already up and across the track.

I guess some people would say, 'Well, hell, your job is to stay on the throttle and go race,' but we're all out there and are human beings.

Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and four-time Talladega winner Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race.

Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.

Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for MRN.