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2 unusual facts about 2007 NEXTEL All-Star Challenge


2007 NEXTEL All-Star Challenge

{Rewrite for clarity} A new event, which aired on Speed Channel and was sponsored by Kobalt Tools, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs driving small Legends Thunder Roadster Cars (the creation of Lowe's Motor Speedway president H.A. "Humphy" Wheeler) on the quarter-mile oval in front of the main track's grandstand.

A new event that served as a preliminary to the All-Star Challenge, which aired on Speed Channel, was a race among NEXTEL Cup crew chiefs, sponsored by Kobalt Tools.


College Football All-Star Challenge

During the years Fox showed the Challenge, it was held at the same site as that year's Super Bowl.

The event, produced by Chicago-based Intersport, features senior-class college football players competing in a number of skills contests, including throwing for distance, throwing for accuracy, shuttle runs, and powerlifting.

In 2009 however, when Super Bowl XLIII was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, the event was televised from Pepin/Rood Stadium at the University of Tampa.

Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

An episode of A Different World entitled "Goodwill Games" revolves around the premise of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert competing in Hillman College's Campus All-Star Challenge tournament.

From 1989 to 2011, Honda Campus All Star Challenge used the same gameplay structure as two of its sister shows- College Bowl and University Challenge.


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