2007 Coca-Cola 600
The 2007 Coca-Cola 600 was the 12th stock car race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. It was held on May 27, 2007, before a crowd of 175,000 in Concord, North Carolina. The 400-lap race was won by Casey Mears of the Hendrick Motorsports team. Chevrolet increased its points advantage in the Manufacturers’ Championship, placing it 41 points ahead of Ford. Dodge moved further ahead of Toyota in the battle for third place, with 24 races left in the season.
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The 2007 Coca-Cola 600 was the 12th stock car race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the 48th iteration of the event. It was held on May 27, 2007, before a crowd of 175,000 in Concord, North Carolina at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. The 400-lap race was won by Casey Mears of the Hendrick Motorsports team, who started from 16th position. Ryan Newman won the pole position and led the first ten laps before his Penske Racing South teammate Kurt Busch moved into the lead on lap 11. Jimmie Johnson gained the lead from Brian Vickers on lap 185 and held it for 83 laps, battling with Vickers and Matt Kenseth for the position. At the race’s final restart on lap 342, Tony Stewart led and maintained his position until he made a pit stop for fuel 51 laps later. Mears held the lead after slowing to conserve fuel to win the race. The race is the longest in terms of distance on the NASCAR calendar, and is considered by several drivers to be one of the sport’s most important races alongside the Daytona 500, the Brickyard 400 and the Southern 500. Kasey Kahne was therace’s defending champion. Chevrolet increased its points advantage in the Manufacturers’ Championship, placing it 41 points ahead of Ford. Dodge moved further ahead of Toyota in the battle for third place, with 24 races left in the season.
As of 2019, the 2007 race is Mears’ only win in the Nextel Cups Series, now known as the NASCAR Cup Series. It has been called the Coke 600 every year since 1986 except for 2002 when the name changed to Coke Racing Family 600. The standard track is a four-turn, 1.5-mile -long, quad-oval track. The track’s turns are banked at 24 degrees; both the front stretch and the back stretch have a five-degree banking. It is the most physically demanding event in NASCAR, and teams adapt to changing track conditions because the race occurs between late afternoon and evening. In preparation for the race, NASCAR held several test sessions on May 7–8, 2007 to allow teams to prepare for May 27. On May 8, the highest speed of the two days at 187, 000 miles per hour in the evening was recorded by David Stremme. The two-day test sessions began at 2: 00 m. p.m. and concluded at 9: 00: 00 m.p. on May 9, 2007. The test sessions started at 1:00 p and 1:01 p, with the fastest speed of 180,000 miles perhour in the afternoon being recorded by Martin Truex, Jr. The first race was held in 1960 in an attempt by NASCAR to stage a Memorial Day weekend race to compete with the open-wheel Indianapolis 500; the two races were held together on the same day starting from 1974. The second race was first held in 1985.
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