As most fans expected, the race would come down to a battle among the regular season feature winners over the last fifty laps of the 2007 International Classic and that is exactly what happened. The lead through the first half of the race was dominated by front row starters Doug Didero and Ray Graham Jr. capable drivers running in the top ten that were eliminated by mechanical problems or accidents included Michael Barnes, Tim Snyder, Craig Rayvals, Davey Hamilton and Chris Perley.

Didero made his move as the race entered its final quarter by passing Graham. Didero built up a large lead but coasted to a stop in turn three putting and end to his day. With Graham inheriting the lead he had his hands full with Joe Gosek who got by and took off to a comfortable lead of his own. Graham would fall victim to fuel issues and he pitted leaving Furlong now in second place. Gosek built up a lead of over three seconds with less than twenty laps to go before he started to run out of fuel. Furlong now found himself in the lead in the final stages of the race as he was looking at his fourth consecutive victory. Furlong did pick up the win and now has completed 1800 consecutive laps in Classic competition without missing a beat during the last nine events.

Behind the race for the lead with Graham, Didero, Gosek and Furlong there were several surprises as drivers tried to collect a “Podium Finish” in the 51st annual Budweiser International Classic. When the day was done Otto Sitterley, who had that horrible crash in the 2006 Classic, brought the John Nicotra #6 home in second place. The story of the day was in third place. The back-up Craig Rayvals car, which was running in third place in the 2006 Classic with Pat Abold at the wheel only to fall to fourth on the lat lap, had an even better finish in 2007 with Jeffrey Abold at the controls. Abold, making his first ever start in a supermodified race, landed a “Podium Finish” with a third place result. Abold became the highest ever rookie to finish in the International Classic.