2007 NASCAR Season: My Top 35 Memories

The 2007 NASCAR seasons is in the book and oh ... the memories and monotony. I will remember it most as the year Dale Earnhardt Jr. left the company his father started, Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus dominated and the season droned on in the car of tomorrow.

Here are the Top 35 things I will remember most about the 2007 NASCAR Season, in (mostly) chronological order:

1. AOL Sports welcomed NASCAR into the Fanhouse

2. Mark Martin didn't win the Daytona 500

3. Michael Waltrip Racing's Intake Gate

4. Washington State dissed NASCAR fans

5. Juan Pablo Montoya won in Mexico

6. Car of Tomorrow debuted at Bristol

7. Team Red Bull mechanic Jimmy Sprinkle murdered

8. The Virginia Tech Tragedy

9. Kevin James' Engine Command

10. NASCAR sued AT&T

11. Michael Waltrip fell asleep at the wheel

12. Tony Stewart's beef with NASCAR

13, Kasey Kahne called David Stremme fat

14. Announcement of Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s departure from DEI

15. #8 Budweiser team assessed first COT penalty

16. Busch brothers took each other out in the All-Star race

17. Kurt Busch endangered a crew member without stiff penalty

18. Miss Ella Sofia Gordon arrived on the scene

19. NASCAR on ESPN on ABC debuted and sucked

20. Aaron Fike's Arrest

21. Ray Evernham and Erin Crocker came out

22. Robby Gordon got parked for a Nextel cup event for his actions in a Busch race

23. The Blaniac Challenge (VJGC is going to collect $45 from TGOM)

24. Labor Day at California Speedway was HOT

25. Mears yielded a position to Busch (honorable mention: Mears gets first career win)

26. It rained in Kansas

27. The government dissed NASCAR fans

28. Tony Stewart's beef with ESPN

29. Tony Stewart's beef with Paul Menard

30. Carl Edwards beef with Matt Kenseth

31. Paris Hilton discovered NASCAR drivers

32. Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s struggles

33. Jimmie Johnson's dominance

34. We lost Bill France Jr., Benny Parsons and Bobby Hamilton

35. 'Twas the season of breakups and the Biffle wedding

Thanks for the NASCAR memories, 2007. Don't go anywhere, readers. The Fanhouse will be blogging throughout the off-season and will be back with more commentary on many of the aforementioned items. Tomorrow we begin the 92-day countdown to the 2008 Daytona 500.