2007 Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400

Race details
Race 10 of 36 in the2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season
Richmond International Speedway
Date	May 6, 2007 (2007-05-06)
Official name	Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400
Location	Richmond International Raceway,Richmond, Virginia
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	0.75 miles (1.207 km)
Distance	400 laps, 300 mi (482.803 km)
Average speed	91.27 miles per hour (146.88 km/h)
Pole position
Driver	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports
Time	21.386
Most laps led
Driver	Jeff Gordon	Hendrick Motorsports
Laps	114
Winner
No. 48	Jimmie Johnson	Hendrick Motorsports
Television in the United States
Network	Fox Broadcasting Company
Announcers	Mike Joy,Darrell Waltrip andLarry McReynolds

The2007 Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400 was the tenth race of the2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup campaign, scheduled to be run on Saturday, May 5, 2007 atRichmond International Raceway inHenrico County, Virginia, just outside the city ofRichmond, Virginia's state capital. Rain postponed the race to the following afternoon. This race was the second night race of the season and the fourth to use theCar of Tomorrow template.

In late 2006,Crown Royal decided to hold a nationwide contest to see who could write a one paragraph essay with a "Crown Worthy" moment, defined as an event so special that it deserves to be toasted with said sponsor's drink. The winner of the contest was Jim Stewart ofHouma, Louisiana, who had the race named in his honor, and this contest was so popular that the "Your Name Here" 400 contest continued in 2008.

Dale Jarrett, driving the #44Toyota Camry, failed to qualify for this race, marking the first time in 424 races that he failed to make a Cup Series event, last missing the field in October 1994 atNorth Wilkesboro Speedway. Jarrett was hamstrung by a new rule installed in 2007 that limits past Cup champions to a total of six past champion provisionals, having used all of them throughthe spring race at Talladega. In addition, Jarrett drives forMichael Waltrip Racing, which have had problems since Waltrip's #55 team had been penalized severely during the qualifying for the2007 Daytona 500. Toyotas as a whole have not fared well in their maiden season through this point in the year compared toDodge,Chevrolet andFord. Only once has a Toyota driver finished in the top 10 of any race (Brian Vickers at theAuto Club 500 atCalifornia Speedway).

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Jimmie Johnson was the race winner. It was his fourth win of the year, leading all drivers, and his 27th of his career. This was another dominating performance forHendrick Motorsports, withKyle Busch finishing second andJeff Gordon coming in fourth.

As stated in the opening paragraph, the Jim Stewart 400 was run on Sunday afternoon, May 6 after the scheduled May 5 date was rained out. On that night, the cars ran 12 laps under green-yellow flags before the rain got heavier. The storm never relented, the race was postponed, and those laps were wiped out. The resumption covered all 400 laps.

• The race, the first major professional sports event in the Commonwealth of Virginia since theVirginia Tech massacre, was dedicated to the victims of the shootings. Most drivers wore caps with the college's athletic logo, theFox Sports broadcasters wore pins with the VT logo, and NASCAR announced a contribution of$160,000 to the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund. After the race, Johnson drove around the track carrying one of the VT hats;Darian Grubb, the crew chief for the #25 team, was car chief for Johnson during his 2006 championship season and crew chief for his Daytona 500 and UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 wins because of Chad Knaus' ejection and suspension, is a graduate of the college.
• It was the first daytime race at Richmond since May 2002, which was also due to a postponement.
• The Fox-owned station inDetroit,WJBK, showed the start of the rescheduled race live, but cut off the broadcast at 2:30 p.m.US EDT to honor an earlier commitment to show theTigers'Major League Baseball game inKansas City (produced byFox Sports Net Detroit). The rest of the Jim Stewart 400 showed locally in a late-night time slot.^[1] Meanwhile, inLas Vegas, local affiliateKVVU joined the race coverage 10 minutes in, but the green flag had not yet dropped at that point. On the other hand, viewers in theDallas/Fort Worth Metroplex were spared from this dilemma as the telecast of theTexas Rangers -Toronto Blue Jays game, produced by FSN Southwest, was moved from Fox-owned affiliateKDFW to corporate sibling (andMy Network affiliate)KDFI allowing Fox 4 to carry the race. Because of a switching error, Columbia, SC affiliateWACH joined the race late, at 1:15 PM, just before the start. The station had been committed to airing a movie, and received angry phone calls demanding the race be joined, which took place just before the green flag waved.

(*) denotes Rookie of the Year candidate.

• Race results
• Complete point standings

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• 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series
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