2007 Samsung 500

February 2025 CUST Race 7 of 36 in the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season Samsung 500 2007 4 15 2007 7 36 2007_Samsung_500_program_cover.png 200px 2007 Samsung 500 program cover Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, Texas 1.5 2.414 334 501 806.281 Temperatures reaching up to 71.1 F C; wind speeds up to 8.9 mph km/hWeather information for the 2007 Samsung 500 http://www.almanac.com/weather/history/TX/Fort%20Worth/2007-04-15 The Old Farmers' Almanac November 21, 2013 143.359 mi/h No time trials Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports 173 31 Jeff Burton Richard Childress Fox Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds The 2007 Samsung 500, the seventh race of the 2007 Nextel Cup Series, was held on Sunday, April 15 of that year at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The race was won by Jeff Burton of Richard Childress Racing. Jeff Gordon would lead the most laps with 173 laps led. Race recap Hendrick Motorsports was shooting for its fifth consecutive win as a team. The last team to accomplish this feat was Petty Enterprises in 1971. HMS driver Jeff Gordon started from pole as qualifying was rained out. The race itself featured many attritions, including a hard first lap crash involving David Ragan, J. J. Yeley, and Ricky Rudd. Gordon dominated the early part of the race until a pit mistake forced him to lose the lead. November Texas winner Tony Stewart struggled throughout the day, first being spun out after contact with rookie Juan Pablo Montoya, and being hit by Jimmie Johnson in the driver's side, and spun again later. However, Dale Earnhardt Jr., who got his first cup win at Texas, slowed to avoid the spinning Stewart, but was hit from behind by Kyle Busch, who was traveling over 30 mph faster. In the end, the race came down to former Texas Motor Speedway winners and ex-teammates Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton. Burton attempted many times to pass Kenseth low, but he held the top spot. On the last lap, however, Burton was able to get underneath and clear Kenseth off turn 2 and hold him off to become the first repeat winner of a Cup series event held at the speedway. While Burton won his second race, being the first repeat winner, still the past twelve races have been won by twelve different drivers, and it was the fourth different winning team at Texas Motor Speedway in the past four races (Roush, Evernham, Gibbs, Childress), with the past three teams winning at Texas winning for the first time. On lap 288, Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s engine blew up, forcing him to retire. Meanwhile, Kyle Busch, who was also wrecked was out, but the team still wanted to compete until the end. However, Busch was nowhere to be found as he had already left the speedway. Therefore, a crew member from Busch's team asked Earnhardt Jr. if he would drive the rest of the laps to finish the car. Earnhardt agreed, and would ride the last 10 laps in Kyle Busch's No. 5 car owned by Rick Hendrick.Blount Terry https://www.espn.com/racing/columns/story?id=2839339 Dale Jr.'s decision to drive the No. 5 scrutinized ESPN ESPN Internet Ventures April 17, 2007 February 18, 2014 Earnhardt Jr. said of the incident "I’ll always jump at a chance to climb into someone else’s car to see what it’s like. They used to do that all the time back in the day. You’d have relief drivers getting into someone’s car almost every week, so it was kinda like a step back into NASCAR history or something. Old school! It was cool.”2020-04-16 April 16 – Today in Jayski’s NASCAR history - Page 14 of 24 https://www.jayski.com/2020/04/16/april-16-today-in-jayskis-nascar-history/ 2021-06-12 Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site en-US Earnhardt signed a contract with Hendrick one month after the race. Busch signed a contract to go to Joe Gibbs Racing to drive the No. 18 car. Race results FinStDriverCar No.MakePointsBonusLapsWinnings1 2 Jeff Burton 31 Chevrolet 190 5 334 $526,7662 4 Matt Kenseth 17 Ford 175 5 334 $357,2663 6 Mark Martin 01 Chevrolet 165 334 $275,5834 1 Jeff Gordon 24 Chevrolet 170 10 334 $255,8115 13 Jamie McMurray 26 Ford 155 334 $173,3256 21 Greg Biffle 16 Ford 150 334 $160,1257 24 Martin Truex Jr. 1 Chevrolet 146 334 $164,9458 16 Juan Montoya * 42 Dodge 142 334 $168,3759 7 Denny Hamlin 11 Chevrolet 138 334 $143,10010 14 David Stremme 40 Dodge 134 334 $130,17511 17 Kurt Busch 2 Dodge 135 5 334 $157,23312 10 Carl Edwards 99 Ford 127 334 $129,97513 27 Tony Raines 96 Chevrolet 124 334 $131,32514 36 Brian Vickers 83 Toyota 126 5 334 $114,32515 42 Paul Menard * 15 Chevrolet 118 333 $113,32516 8 Clint Bowyer 7 Chevrolet 115 333 $123,77517 15 Elliott Sadler 19 Dodge 117 5 333 $131,87018 25 Joe Nemechek 13 Chevrolet 109 333 $108,32519 30 David Gilliland 38 Ford 106 332 $137,63920 34 Kasey Kahne 9 Dodge 103 332 $154,81621 40 Dave Blaney 22 Toyota 100 332 $137,03322 35 Johnny Sauter 70 Chevrolet 97 332 $102,32523 33 Casey Mears 25 Chevrolet 94 332 $113,17524 23 Robby Gordon 7 Ford 96 5 332 $102,62525 9 Tony Stewart 20 Chevrolet 88 332 $146,86126 31 Jeff Green 66 Chevrolet 85 332 $121,68327 39 Scott Riggs 10 Dodge 82 331 $105,92528 22 Bobby Labonte 43 Dodge 79 331 $133,26129 11 Kevin Harvick 29 Chevrolet 76 331 $140,96130 37 Dale Jarrett 44 Toyota 73 331 $91,57531 38 Ken Schrader 21 Ford 70 331 $112,36432 20 Ryan Newman 12 Dodge 67 330 $122,62533 29 Ricky Rudd 88 Ford 64 321 $118,93334 28 Sterling Marlin 14 Chevrolet 61 304 $97,50835 32 Kyle Petty 45 Dodge 58 291 $94,27236 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 8 Chevrolet 60 5 288 $128,98337 5 Kyle Busch 5 Chevrolet 52 262 $100,47538 3 Jimmie Johnson 48 Chevrolet 49 260 $135,26139 19 David Ragan * 6 Ford 46 239 $117,02540 26 Reed Sorenson 41 Dodge 48 5 197 $89,07541 41 Mike Bliss 49 Dodge 40 42 $80,96042 43 Kenny Wallace 78 Chevrolet 37 38 $80,86543 18 J. J. Yeley 18 Chevrolet 34 1 $108,898 Failed to Qualify-#00-David Reutimann, #36-Jeremy Mayfield, #37-John Andretti, #84-A. J. Allmendinger, #55-Michael Waltrip, #4-Ward Burton, #33-Scott Wimmer, #34-Kevin Lepage References External links Complete race results https://web.archive.org/web/20070426043347/http://www.jayski.com/stats/2007/results/7tms2007results.htm 2007-04-26 Points standings after this race https://web.archive.org/web/20070424211110/http://www.jayski.com/stats/2007/standings/7tms2007points.htm 2007-04-24 Starting lineup (set by NASCAR rule book due to rain, thunderstorm, and tornado warning in area) https://web.archive.org/web/20070418050641/http://jayski.com/stats/2007/grids/2007tms1-grid.htm 2007-04-18 Nextel Cup Series 2007 2007 Goody's Cool Orange 500 2007 Subway Fresh Fit 500 Samsung 500 Samsung 500 Category:21st century in Fort Worth, Texas Category:NASCAR races at Texas Motor Speedway Category:April 2007 sports events in the United States