2007 Daytona 500

2007 Daytona 500
Race details[1]
Race 1 of 36 in the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series
Date February 18, 2007 (2007-02-18)
Official name Daytona 500 by Toyota
Location Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.
Course Permanent racing facility
2.5 mi (4.02336 km)
Distance 202 laps, 505 mi (812.718 km)
Scheduled Distance 200 laps, 500 mi (804.672 km)
Weather Cold with temperatures approaching 55.9 °F (13.3 °C); wind speeds up to 15.90 miles per hour (25.59 km/h)
Average speed 149.333 miles per hour (240.328 km/h)
Attendance 185,000
Pole position
Driver Robert Yates Racing
Time 48.304
Qualifying race winners
Duel 1 Winner Tony Stewart Joe Gibbs Racing
Duel 2 Winner Jeff Gordon Hendrick Motorsports
Most laps led
Driver Kurt Busch Penske Racing
Laps 95
Winner
No. 29 Kevin Harvick Richard Childress Racing
Television in the United States
Network Fox
Announcers Mike Joy, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds
Nielsen Ratings 10.1/20
(17.5 million viewers)
The 2007 Daytona 500 program cover.

The 2007 Daytona 500, the 49th running of the event, was the first race of the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season, taking place on February 18, 2007, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Kevin Harvick won the race by 0.02 second over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona International Speedway when it took three days to declare Lee Petty the winner in 1959. The race was decided by a green-white-checker finish for the third year in a row, with two extra laps added for a total of 202 laps and 505 miles (813 km).

That was Mark Martin's first 500 race not driving for Jack Roush since 1986.

  1. ^ "Weather information for the 2007 Daytona 500". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved January 6, 2015.