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The 2007 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was the 16th race of the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series season. It took place on June 24, 2007, at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, about 25 miles north of San Francisco.
It was the first of two Cup races on road courses and the first time that the Car of Tomorrow was used on a road course.
Qualifying
Jamie McMurray won the pole with a lap of 92.414 miles per hour (148.726 km/h). In addition to the NEXTEL Cup regulars, five Road course ringers also qualified: Boris Said, Ron Fellows, Marc Goossens, Butch Leitzinger, and P.J. Jones. Two others failed to make the field: Klaus Graf and Brian Simo.
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Race
Juan Pablo Montoya won the Toyota/Save Mart 350, his first win in the NEXTEL Cup Series. He had dueled with McMurray throughout the end of the race. Montoya passed McMurray with seven laps to go and held on for the victory. McMurray ran out of gas late in the race and finished 37th.
All three of the Richard Childress Racing cars, all Chevrolet Impalas, were next in the final rundown: Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, and Clint Bowyer in that order. Greg Biffle finished fifth, best for Ford. Jones (12th) had the best finish for a Toyota driver.
Top ten results:
Points
Gordon (7th in the race) left the track with a 271-point lead over Denny Hamlin (10th) for the points lead. However, that lead was reduced to 171 points after the announcement of NASCAR penalties (see below).
Race notes
- Montoya won the race from the 32nd starting position, the deepest-ever for a race winner at Infineon, the only win for a rookie in the 2007 season.
- Montoya became the second driver to win the Indianapolis 500, a Formula One race, and a race in the top level of NASCAR, the other being Mario Andretti. (Dan Gurney was also a Formula 1 and NASCAR winner, as well as a winner of other major open-wheel events, but Gurney never won the Indy 500.)
- He is also the third winner of a Cup race born outside the United States. The others are Earl Ross, a native of Prince Edward Island, Canada who won at Martinsville Speedway on October 1974, and Andretti, a native of Italy who won the 1967 Daytona 500.
- This was the first win for the Dodge Avenger in Cup racing.
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- Legendary American football wide receiver Jerry Rice and a Toyota representative shared in calling the command to start the engines.
Post-race
On June 26, NASCAR announced that Gordon and Johnson would each lose 100 points in the championship standings. Their respective [3]
External links
- Race results
- Points standings
- Complete weather information
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