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The 2007 Sharpie 500, the 24th race of the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup season was run on the newly repaved and reconfigured .533 mile Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee on Saturday night, August 25, 2007. This race was the tenth to use NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow, as Kyle Busch won the inaugural event with this car, the Food City 500 on March 25 this year. But that race was on 36-degree high banked turns and the old concrete surface. For this race, one of the most popular in NASCAR, the new concrete surface with its new progressive banked turns between 24 and 30 degrees made its NEXTEL Cup debut. ==Pre-Race News== *Kenny Wallace, who was the driver of the #78 Furniture Row Chevrolet until after the Watkins Glen race, replaced the injured Kyle Petty in the #45 Petty Enterprises Dodge. Sterling Marlin piloted the #78 car, but did not make the starting lineup. *Aric Almirola made his NEXTEL Cup debut in the Dale Earnhardt, Inc. #01 Chevrolet sponsored by the U.S. Army. *Matt Kenseth clinched a spot in the Chase for the NEXTEL Cup by taking the green flag. *The #31 Jeff Burton car owned by Richard Childress Racing raced without AT&T logos after NASCAR won an appeal filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia. That reversed an earlier decision that favored AT&T on behalf of its AT&T Mobility division. The original injunction was issued by the United States District Court in May. NASCAR has wanted to preserve brand exclusivity in the cellular telephone service category for the series' primary sponsor, Sprint Nextel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2007 Sharpie 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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