|| *Comments on the 2007 Indianapolis 500:* View the most recent comment <#27> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Darrell posted: 01.31.2009 - 3:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Failed to qualify: #40 P.J. Jones #18 Jimmy Kite 2. RaceFanX posted: 02.01.2009 - 3:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Race was shortened by rain Sarah Fisher, Danica Patrick and Milka Duno make this race the first time three women ran against each other in the Indy 500. Davey Hamilton finishes 9th in his first race in nearly 6 years after coming back from injury 3. Darrell posted: 02.02.2009 - 7:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dario drove like a gentleman in this race. 4. Indycar1 posted: 02.10.2009 - 11:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race had a three hour rain delay after 113 laps. The race was resumed, and it rained again after 166 laps ending the race. Just before the heavy rains came at lap 166, Marco Andretti flipped over on the backstrech in a crash with; Dan Wheldon, Ed Carpenter, and Buddy Rice. 5. Indycar1 posted: 02.10.2009 - 11:30 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race for the Panoz Chassis. 6. RaceFanX posted: 03.05.2009 - 6:03 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) NASCAR Cup race winner John Andretti makes his IRL debut. Andretti, a former winner in CART in his first Indy car race since 1994, crashed out just before halfway. 7. RaceFanX posted: 04.16.2009 - 11:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Al Unser Jr and Michael Andretti both again come out of retirement to run the Indy 500 Michael had again come painfully close to winning the race the year before but only ran mid-pack all day in this race. It will most likely be his final race. Little Al teamed up with A.J. Foyt for this race. Despite 7 Indy wins between them (Remember AJ had one as an owner), Al was a non-factor all month. As with Michael, this is likely Unser's final race. Kind of fitting those two rivals would go after the same race. Possibly the only time Michael, John and Marco Andretti all ran against each other in the same race. 8. Pacer posted: 04.21.2009 - 5:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The pace car for this Indy 500 was a Chevrolet Corvette Convertible. 9. Unser1 posted: 10.11.2009 - 12:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Phil Giebler makes his only IRL start to date and walks away with Indy 500 Rookie of the Year honors 10. Steve posted: 12.31.2009 - 4:12 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Thank God for Phil Giebler; without him in the field, Dunno would be Indy 500 Rookie of the Year by default. (Holy Jeez, what a thought!) Last IndyCar race for both Michael and Little Al, who are retired. Last IndyCar race, to date, for Alex Barron, Richie Hearn, & Roberto Moreno. Hopefully their careers are not over. Has anyone heard anything about these guys and their racing futures? 11. Anonymous posted: 05.23.2010 - 1:04 pm Rate this comment: (2) (0) Ashley Judd runs around in a wet t-shirt... 12. MegaRacer posted: 10.10.2010 - 5:45 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Actually, it was a wet sundress, but WOW! Barefoot in a wet sundress, wet hair...Dario is one lucky SOB! 13. RaceFanX posted: 09.19.2011 - 11:22 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Failed to qualify: #40 P.J. Jones- Direct Diversified (Kent Baker) D/H/F #18 Jimmy Kite- Z-Line Desgin (PDM Racing) P/H/F Jones' car had a nice throwback paint job designed to look like the STP Turbine car his dad Parnelli should have won the race with in 1967. Shame he didn't get to race it. 14. CBASS posted: 12.17.2012 - 11:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #02 HP- "The Computer Is Personal Again" #12 Norton 360 #17 Ethanol #27 Canadian Club/ Vonage #20 Hitachi Power Tools/ Lowe's #7 Motorola/ Argent #11 7-Eleven Gasoline #8 Tequila Patron #5 AAMCO Transmissions #26 NYSE/ Vonage #99 Sanitec Industries #40 Woosh/ Direct Supply #91 Go Fast! Sports #21 Indiana Ice #25 Skjodt-Barrett #2 Joost Found using Motorsport.com's photo libary 15. JRacingFast posted: 05.23.2016 - 1:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race is currently on ESPN CLASSIC 16. Jolly Mean Giant posted: 08.31.2016 - 1:16 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) First Indy 500 start for Milka Duno. Only Indy 500 start for Phil Giebler. Last Indy 500 starts for Sam Hornish, Jr., Michael Andretti, Alex Barron, Kosuke Matsuura, Roger Yasukawa, Richie Hearn, Al Unser, Jr., Jaques Lazier, Jon Herb, and Roberto Moreno. 17. Jim4Bill posted: 08.01.2017 - 1:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 2 open questions from this race: 1. What happened to Ashley Judd's bra? 2. Who cares? The Wheldon/Marco crash as a tough one - Marco racing hard but Dan was already up against the wall.....ran out of room. 18. Damon posted: 08.01.2017 - 2:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Marco had a broken mirror and moved up into Wheldon's path, clearly should've been black flagged, but wasn't. 19. RaceFanX posted: 02.19.2020 - 10:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dario Franchitti's winning car from this race would get flipped at MIS later in the season but it wasn't destroyed in the process despite the wild ride. The team fixed it and raced it again in 2008 before retiring it, later restoring it back to its Indy winning configuration in 2011 as a display piece. 20. SweetRich posted: 02.29.2020 - 6:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Marty Reid, Scott Goodyear and Rusty Wallace. The pit road reporters were Jack Arute, Vince Welch, Jamie Little and Brienne Pedigo. 21. Maverick19 posted: 04.20.2020 - 7:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) From IndyCar's official YouTube video of the race it appears that it ended after 165 laps not 166... (5:14:00 to 5:17:00) https://youtu.be/fls6cozF-Xs Although I'm unsure if that was just an error on ESPN's part. 22. MSportRev posted: 04.20.2020 - 10:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another DNQ: Stéphan Grégoire #77 Z-Line Designs / Miller-Eads (Tom Chastain) in a Panoz/Honda. Jimmy Kite was in a Panoz/Honda PJ Jones was in a Dallara/Honda Source: Ultimate Racing History 23. Bodyblower posted: 04.20.2020 - 11:36 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Grégoire should be a driver change. 24. MSportRev posted: 04.20.2020 - 12:36 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) @23, I just went with what Ultimate Racing History listed him as. Technically he failed to qualify, then Moreno got in the 77 and made the field. 25. RaceFanX posted: 06.10.2020 - 2:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DC Sponsor: #77 Stéphan Grégoire- Chastain Motorsports (He ran a plain two-tone blue #77) The #77 was decorated in a two-tone blue throwback livery that replicated the car that Stéphan Grégoire drove for the same Chastain Motorsports team during the 1998 Indy 500 but he wouldn't get to drive in in the race as a practice crash broke a bone in his back and that ended his Month of May. Roberto Moreno took over the #77 afterward and put the car in the field on Bump Day with the team picking up the Z-Line sponsorship after Jimmy Kite missed the field. However Moreno's first Indy 500 start in eight years didn't go so well as it ended in an early crash into the outside wall at Turn 1 and a last-place finish. The #77 was running 32nd when it crashed out. This was Moreno's last true IRL start although he did run the final Champ Car race at Long Beach the following year. Grégoire continued racing sports cars for several years after this but never again attempted the 500. 26. RaceFanX posted: 06.10.2020 - 6:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Davey Hamilton's #02 car for his comeback was the very first car ever to race in the Indy 500 to feaure a car number starting with #0. Some NASCAR teams had already run such numbers in the Brickyard 400 though, starting with Derrike Cope (#02) and Geoff Brabham (#07) all the way back in that inaugural race in 1994. 27. Rich posted: 12.23.2020 - 6:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Brent Musburger was the studio host. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: