2007 champ car season

The 2007 Champ Car season was the 28th season of the American Champ Car racing series. It was held in 14 races and all results were counted.

Scoring

Scoring
Space:	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points:	31	27	25th	23	21st	19th	17th	15th	13	11	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

In addition, one point is awarded for: the best time in the first qualification session, the best time in the second qualification session, the fastest race lap and most of the places in the race compared to the starting position (if several drivers have won the same number of places, the point is awarded to the Pilot with the better final position in the race).

Teams and drivers

This season all drivers drove a Panoz DP01 - Cosworth and standard Bridgestone tires .

team	No.	driver	run
Newman / Haas / Lanigan Racing	01	Sébastien Bourdais	1-14
	02	Graham Rahal	1-14
Forsythe Racing	03	Paul Tracy	1, 4-14
		Oriol Servià	2, 3
	07th	Mario Domínguez	1-3
		Oriol Servià	4-12
		David Martínez	13, 14
Minardi Team USA	04th	Dan Clarke	1-10, 12-14
		Mario Domínguez	11
	14th	Robert Doornbos	1-14
Team Australia	05	Will power	1-14
	15th	Simon Pagenaud	1-14
RSPORTS	08th	Alex Tagliani	1-14
	09	Justin Wilson	1-14
Dale Coyne Racing	11	Katherine Legge	1-14
	19th	Bruno Junqueira	1-14
PKV Racing	21st	Neel Jani	1-14
	22nd	Tristan Gommendy	1-7, 9-12
		Mario Domínguez	8th
		Oriol Servià	13, 14
Pacific Coast Motorsports	28	Ryan Dalziel	1-8, 10-12
		Mario Domínguez	9, 13, 14
	29	Alex Figge	1, 2, 4-14
		Roberto Moreno	3
Conquest Racing	34	Jan Heylen	4-12
	34	Nelson Philippe	13, 14
	42	Matt Halliday	1-3

Race results

	date	route	Art	1st place	place 2	place 3	Pole position	Fastest lap
1	April 8th	Las Vegas	city	Will power	Robert Doornbos	Paul Tracy	Will power	Will power
2	April 15th	Long Beach	city	Sébastien Bourdais	Oriol Servia	Will power	Sébastien Bourdais	Simon Pagenaud
3	April 22	Houston	city	Sébastien Bourdais	Graham Rahal	Robert Doornbos	Will power	Sébastien Bourdais
4th	June 10th	Portland	Street	Sébastien Bourdais	Justin Wilson	Robert Doornbos	Justin Wilson	Sébastien Bourdais
5	June 24th	Cleveland	Airfield	Paul Tracy	Robert Doornbos	Neel Jani	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais
6th	July 1	Mont-Tremblant	Street	Robert Doornbos	Sébastien Bourdais	Will power	Tristan Gommendy	Sébastien Bourdais
7th	8th of July	Toronto	city	Will power	Neel Jani	Justin Wilson	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais
8th	22nd of July	Edmonton	Airfield	Sébastien Bourdais	Justin Wilson	Graham Rahal	Will power	Sébastien Bourdais
9	29th of July	San Jose	city	Robert Doornbos	Neel Jani	Oriol Servia	Justin Wilson	Justin Wilson
10	12. August	Elkhart Lake	Street	Sébastien Bourdais	Dan Clarke	Graham Rahal	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais
11	26th of August	Zolder	Street	Sébastien Bourdais	Bruno Junqueira	Graham Rahal	Sébastien Bourdais	Sébastien Bourdais
12	September 2nd	Aces	Street	Justin Wilson	Jan Heylen	Bruno Junqueira	Sébastien Bourdais	Dan Clarke
13	October 21	Surfers Paradise	city	Sébastien Bourdais	Justin Wilson	Bruno Junqueira	Will power	Graham Rahal
-	28th of October	Zhuhai	Street	Race canceled
14th	November 11th	Mexico city	Street	Sébastien Bourdais	Will power	Oriol Servia	Will power	Robert Doornbos
-	2. December	Phoenix	city	Race canceled

Driver ranking

space	driver	team	LV	LB	HO	PO	CL	MO	TO	ED	SJ	Tbsp	ZO	AS	SP	MC	Points
1	Sébastien Bourdais	Newman / Haas Racing	8th	32	33	32	12	28	16	33	22nd	34	33	18th	31	32	364
2	Justin Wilson	RSports Racing	7th	23	11	28	23	21st	25th	27	10	15th	21st	32	27	11	281
3	Robert Doornbos	Minardi Team USA	27	8th	26th	26th	27	31	19th	10	32	7th	17th	8th	24	6th	268
4th	Will power	Team Australia	33	26th	11	24	11	26th	31	7th	23	5	24	7th	6th	28	262
5	Graham Rahal	Newman / Haas Racing	4th	15th	27	13	15th	17th	10	25th	19th	25th	25th	13	11	23	243
6th	Oriol Servia	Forsythe Racing	-	28	23	10	17th	13	11	19th	25th	24	19th	15th	8th	25th	237
7th	Bruno Junqueira	Dale Coyne Racing	17th	19th	17th	8th	5	4th	21st	17th	17th	13	27	26th	25th	17th	233
8th	Simon Pagenaud	Team Australia	9	8th	21st	15th	21st	23	23	23	11	10	9	19th	21st	19th	232
9	Neel Jani	PKV Racing	11	17th	6th	9	26th	19th	28	13	27	11	15th	21st	15th	13	231
10	Alex Tagliani	RSports Racing	23	21st	13	21st	19th	15th	15th	7th	6th	21st	13	6th	17th	8th	205
11	Paul Tracy	Forsythe Racing	26th	-	-	11	31	6th	7th	22nd	10	9	11	4th	13	21st	171
12	Tristan Gommendy	PKV Racing	21st	10	8th	17th	8th	10	6th	-	15th	17th	5	23	-	-	140
13	Dan Clarke	Minardi Team USA	6th	9	4th	19th	10	7th	9	15th	4th	27	-	11	4th	4th	129
14th	Ryan Dalziel	Pacific Coast Motorsports	10	13	15th	7th	13	11	17th	9	-	4th	6th	11	-	-	116
15th	Katherine Legge	Dale Coyne Racing	19th	11	5	4th	6th	11	5	5	5	6th	10	9	6th	6th	108
16	Jan Heylen	Conquest Racing	-	-	-	6th	7th	5	8th	11	13	19th	8th	27	-	-	104
17th	Alex Figge	Pacific Coast Motorsports	16	5	-	5	4th	8th	4th	8th	7th	8th	7th	5	8th	10	95
18th	Mario Domínguez	Forsythe Racing	13	4th	19th	-	-	-	-	4th	9	-	4th	-	9	16	78
19th	Nelson Philippe	Conquest Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	9	28
20th	David Martínez	Forsythe Racing	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	7th	18th
21st	Matt Halliday	Conquest Racing	5	6th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	18th
22nd	Roberto Moreno	Pacific Coast Motorsports	-	-	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9

Worth mentioning

• RuSport and Rocketsport merged into one racing team shortly before the start of the season. The name of the new team is "RSports".
• The Zhuhai race was first postponed from May to October. However, a suitable date could not be arranged with the new organizer, so this event had to be canceled. The season finale in Phoenix in December also did not take place, as the sponsors' interest in the race in Arizona's capital was too low and the costs could only have been recouped in this way.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ motorsport-total.com: The merger of Rocketsports and RuSPORT officially , March 29, 2007
2. ^ Motorsport-total.com: ChampCar season end in Phoenix canceled , August 29, 2007

Web links

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