|| *Comments on the 2007 Dodge Avenger 500:* View the most recent comment <#36> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Rob posted: 05.14.2007 - 1:32 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Battling handling and late engine overheating issues, Jeff Gordon comes back to take the win. Gordon opted out of pitting with the leaders with 22 laps to go, putting him in the lead and to Victory Lane. HMS has won all 5 of the Car of Tomorrow races so far, and 8 of the 11 races this season. 2. James W. McLaughlin posted: 05.14.2007 - 1:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) El ganar numero setenta y ocho por Senor Gordon. 3. Anonymous posted: 05.14.2007 - 2:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Denny Hamlin had this race won until trouble on the right front during a pit stop dropped him back to somewhere like 17th. 4. Zac posted: 05.14.2007 - 3:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hendrick wins ANOTHER freakin' COT race. When they're on, they're on. Gordon's whipping everybody in points right now. Kevin Harvick, who spent a majority of the day two laps down running in 23rd - 30th, passed Gordon on a restart to go one lap down (Gordon was kind enough to let him go), got a caution, and made up two laps with less than 22 to go in one caution to fight his way back to 17th. Gordon was basically spewing water out of the car the entire 50 laps to go when the race was under caution. Blaney has more crappy luck when he might have finished in the top twenty. Clint Bowyer got his first pole in Cup racing. And hopefully many more with even more wins! ;) And last, but most certainly not least, happy Mother's Day NASCAR style. A Mother's Day race that was supposed to take place the Saturday night before, only to get rained out and postponed for the second straight week. I guess we're not supposed to race at night anymore! 5. hyltonfan58 posted: 05.14.2007 - 4:59 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I still have more points than Michael Waltrip. Pathetic. 6. John posted: 05.14.2007 - 8:34 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) What an incredible effort by Steve Letarte and the 24 team! Hendrick engines are incredible, and I was just waiting that thing to blow. It is nice to have the old Jeff Gordon back again. The drive for five is on! 7. daniel posted: 05.14.2007 - 12:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) gordon was faster than anyone 8. Darrell posted: 05.14.2007 - 1:37 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Great to see the Chevy dominance continue! 200th career start for Kevin Lepage. Also, Kenny Wallace and the 78 team has an outstanding qualifying run. I do hope they get voted into the All Star. They deserve it. 9. DaleJrFan15 posted: 05.14.2007 - 1:51 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) -_- I do not wish tocomment on this race due to the fact that pretty much anything I want to say is negative (Not against Gordon dammit!Against the impossibillity of his engine making it to the end.Even when Jr has a good day he gets screwed over VIA penalty. Okay so I did comment on the race but thata all.) and with that said I wish Jr good luck with Hendrick/Joe Gibbs/Richard Childress/Ginn. You are making the best decision of your life. 10. Fan posted: 05.14.2007 - 2:32 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) What about the debris all over the backstretch!!! twice Nascar would not throw the yellow. the first time they waited until the cars cycled through the pit stops 11. DaleJrFan15 posted: 05.15.2007 - 1:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) another thing i wish not to comment to, I like a driver should do will keep my emotions in check this week. 12. Brock posted: 05.15.2007 - 3:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Simply incredible. Besides being amazing that Gordon himself won with such an overheating car, I'd also view the victory as a nice tribute to the legacy Hendrick's engine builder Randy Dorton left behind after his untimely death. For all the Hendrick dominance with the COT and Hamlin leading for so long, there was still great parity in this race when it came to lap leaders. Seven of the top-10 finishers led 16 or more laps during the race. 13. Dave posted: 05.16.2007 - 2:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "What about the debris all over the backstretch!!! twice Nascar would not throw the yellow. the first time they waited until the cars cycled through the pit stops" Didn't want to probably mess someone's race. 14. biffle16 posted: 05.17.2007 - 1:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (2) Brian France steals a win from Greg when he decides he wants them to run the COT at Darlington!!! :( 15. Smiff posted: 05.17.2007 - 10:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I don't know who you are Daniel, but you're clearly off your rocker. Hamlin wthout a doubt had the fastest car for 75% of the race, including the final stretch to the finish. 4 more laps and he'd of passed Gordon and would've made it look easy. 16. Brian R. posted: 05.21.2007 - 12:17 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) another solid finish for Ryan Newman...he seems to be turning things around after a dismal 2006 and beginning of 2007 17. Anonymous posted: 05.21.2007 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Brian France steals a win from Greg when he decides he wants them to run the COT at Darlington!!!" You're perhaps the biggest moron that I've ever had the inconvenience(that's a big word, sorry) of "meeting". If you honestly think that Brian France is out to get a driver (and especially by running the COT, as if he knew that Greg ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH to figure out the COT :lol: !!!!) then you are just plain stupid. 18. biffle16 posted: 05.25.2007 - 5:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Aren't you funny. Tony Stewart hasn't won a race with the COT yet either. ;) 19. RaceFanX posted: 11.14.2008 - 12:56 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ken Schrader's last race as a Cup regular (or at least semi-regular). He'd be replaced in the Wood Brothers' #21 by Bill Elliott for most of the remainder of 2007. 20. Art D posted: 02.28.2010 - 3:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 78th career win for J. Gordon. 21. Schroeder51 posted: 08.06.2011 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Only win of Jeff Gordon's that I have attended in person. 22. Daniel posted: 05.22.2012 - 9:37 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #4 Ward Burton, #36 Jeremy Mayfield, #44 Dale Jarrett, #49 Mike Bliss, #55 Michael Waltrip Out using fastest 43: #38 David Gilliland, #42 Juan Pablo Montoya, #45 Kyle Petty, #66 Jeff Green, #88 Ricky Rudd 23. CBASS posted: 01.22.2013 - 10:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor updates #00 Domino's Pizza #16 Ameriquest Mortgage #14 Waste Management/ Ginn #78 Vote For Kenny/ Furniture Row #70 Haas CNC Machine Tools #21 Ford-Motorcraft #96 DLP HDTV/ Sears #10 Stanley Tools #66 Best Buy/ Garmin/ Comcast #31 Cingular #41 Target/ Fujifilm http://archives.ciastockphoto.com/cgi/images.php?group=w0713 24. Brock posted: 02.19.2014 - 2:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Look at that - five engine failures in the last 25 laps. This race was an absolute gauntlet in the final stages, more so than a typical Darlington race. It was amazing seeing Jeff Gordon cruise with an overheating car while so many were dropping like flies around him. 25. Evan posted: 04.10.2014 - 7:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Shoot my mother actually thought that Gordon would not make it and I even thought he ran out of water at one point, but given the trained pro he is, Jeff handled everything like the master he is. They only had to run a short distance in lap count to get to the line. 26. huckhound14 posted: 04.16.2014 - 9:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cingular's last race on the #31 car. They were replaced by AT&T the next week. 27. AveryNH posted: 06.21.2014 - 2:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last race for Ameriquest as the primary sponsor on Biffle's 16. The high profile company, and highly touted sponsorship soured as the economy did. By fall the Fed's had shut them down. Citigroup aquired the remaining assets. 28. NASCARLover22 posted: 08.11.2015 - 9:29 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) First race of the season made by Kevin Lepage, he would only make one more race during the season at the first Loudon race. Michael Waltrip's 10th DNQ in a row. 29. Gordon7timechamp posted: 01.30.2016 - 8:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) This race should be called the Southern 500. 30. RaceFanX posted: 01.30.2016 - 9:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dodge Avenger 500 is accurate, the Southern 500 just had a title sponsor this year. As this was a CoT race Ryan Newman's fourth was the best finish for a Dodge Avenger in the Dodge Avenger 500. Dodge's Avenger branding for its NASCAR efforts would be short-lived, the CoTs used it in 2007 but reverted back to Charger branding (matching 2007's regular cars) in 2008. 31. BadBooking posted: 12.29.2019 - 6:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The caution at lap 305 should include the #84. AJ Allmendinger slammed the wall then Kyle Busch in the #5 hit him from behind on the rebound. 32. Spannerhead29 posted: 03.28.2020 - 8:53 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Doing research on a project I'm doing, so looking through 2007 results. I was curious as to why Dale Jr. had only 42 points despite finishing 8th. Nothing was posted in the comments, so I went to Wiki and found this. "However, because of illegal bolts supporting the wing that was discovered in a pre-race inspection, Earnhardt was docked 100 driver points, the team lost 100 owner points and slapped with a $100,000 (US) fine and crew chief Tony Eury, Sr. was suspended until July 4. Because of the penalties, McMurray was elevated to the final Chase position as a result." 33. GoRC10 posted: 03.28.2020 - 2:11 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @32 Think about this for a second: Why would a race in May elevate a driver to the "final Chase position"? Wiki isn't an end-all repository for accurate information. 34. Dennyfan05 posted: 03.29.2020 - 7:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) @33 they meant the final Chase position after Darlington 35. Sandy posted: 05.12.2020 - 1:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Last darlington cup race held in Daytime until 2020 13 years ago 36. Rich posted: 08.25.2020 - 4:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds and Darrell Waltrip were the commentators. Dr. Dick Berggren, Steve Byrnes, Matt Yocum and Krista Voda were the pit road reporters. Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond were in the Hollywood hotel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: