2007 Round of Peoria

The 2007 TM Master Cup Series season was a 14-race schedule that began at Daytona and concluded at Decatur, and will most be remembered for the death of Steve Marshall in the qualifying race for the Round of Alabama.

Due to limited space in the paddock, the Round of Russia was contested as a double-header race, with the drivers holding the top 21 fastest qualifying laps contesting for the race win, while 22nd-42nd raced for the bottom half of the finishing order. Tony Durbin claimed his first and only TM Master Cup Series Driver's Championship in this season, edging Leonid Roderick by just 11 points.

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Mid-season Changes

 * Ecurie SM shut down after Peoria.
 * For the Round of Concord, Marcos Leonard joined the series with a team lead by crew chief Norman Owen Oswald-Bennington.
 * Alexis Rainsford was sponsored by the Michael Moore film "Sicko" at Rockingham.
 * Leonid Roderick ran a "Save the Rock" livery at the Round of North Carolina.
 * BS Enterprises left the series to concentrate on a late model series following Round 2.
 * Troy Griffith was replaced by Dalton Johnson after being injured at Indianapolis.
 * Tom Delgado was replaced midway through the season by Todd Wodarczyk.
 * Scott Bates changed his car number midway through the season.
 * Woody Watts joined the series for the last three races of the season.

Schedule

 * The blue boxes represent a road/street course race.
 * The yellow boxes represent a crown jewel race.

Points System

 * 1 point goes to the race's polesitter.
 * 1 point goes to the driver(s) who lead a lap during the race.
 * 3 points goes to the driver who leads the most laps in the race.

Trivia

 * This is the only season of the TM Master Cup Series where the numbers of the Haas Manufacturing, Kleffer Media, and The Shafer Group cars did not add up to 73. Those three sponsors are artifacts from Cynon's old RPG project Name 73, which itself appeared on a TM Master Cup Series car.