2007 SunTrust Indy Challenge

2007 SunTrust Indy Challenge
Company type	Sporting event
Industry	Auto racing
Founded	2007-06-28
Headquarters	Richmond, United States
Area served	IRL IndyCar Series

The 2007 SunTrust Indy Challenge represented the ninth event in the seventeen-race schedule of the 2007 IRL IndyCar Series, taking place at Richmond International Raceway from June 28th to 30th, 2007. This race was the third out of four contests conducted under night conditions during the season.

Classification

Fin. Pos	Car No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Laps Led	Points
1	27	Template:Country data GBR Template:Namespace detect showall Dario Franchitti	Andretti Green Racing	250	1:24:19.6684	1	241	50+3
2	9	Template:Country data NZL Template:Namespace detect showall Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	250	+0.4194	3	0	40
3	10	Template:Country data GBR Template:Namespace detect showall Dan Wheldon	Chip Ganassi Racing	250	+1.3629	4	0	35
4	11	Template:Country data BRA Template:Namespace detect showall Tony Kanaan	Andretti Green Racing	250	+2.9088	2	8	32
5	15	United States Buddy Rice	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	250	+5.9130	12	0	'30'
6	7	United States Danica Patrick	Andretti Autosport	250	+6.3619	8	0	28
7	7	10	0	26
8	8	7	0	24
9	9	9	0	22
10	20	15	0	20
11	3	6	1	19
12	26	14	0	18
13	22	17	0	17
14	14	13	0	16
15	6	5	0	15
16	5	16	0	14
17	55	18	maxlapscrash	maxlapscrash	maxlapscrash	maxlapscrash
18	minlaptime
19	minlaptime

Note

Milka Duno was sidelined by race officials for a second straight event after failing to reach the required minimum speed threshold.

Caution Periods

The race experienced a total of four caution intervals, accumulating to thirty-three laps under yellow flags.

Laps	Cause
1-3	Sam Hornish Jr lost control and spun on the frontstretch
61-70	Debris was present in turn 2
86-98	A collision occurred between Tony Kanaan and Jeff Simmons in turn 2
100-120	Jeff Simmons was involved in another crash at turn 2
239-243	Sam Hornish Jr and Kosuke Matsuura collided in turn 4