2007 Chinese Grand Prix

2007 Formula 1 motor car race in China F1 China Chinese 2007 Japanese Grand Prix 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix 7 October 2007 Shanghai International Racing Circuit track map.svg The Shanghai International Circuit 16 17 2007 Formula 1 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai International CircuitShanghai, China Permanent Racing Facility 3.387 5.451 56 189.559 305.066 Intermittent light rain Lewis Hamilton United Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.908 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:37.454 56 Brazil Kimi Räikkönen Finland Ferrari Fernando Alonso Spain McLaren-Mercedes Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari CHN The 2007 Chinese Grand Prix (officially the 2007 Formula 1 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix) was the sixteenth race of the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. It was held on 7 October 2007 at Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China. The race was won by Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen with Fernando Alonso finishing second and Felipe Massa finishing third. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton suffered the first race retirement of his Formula One career after going off at a wet pit entrance on worn tyres left him stuck in the gravel. Räikkönen's win marked the 200th Grand Prix victory for Scuderia Ferrari. The race was the last where cigarette advertising was openly displayed on a Formula 1 car, that being the Marlboro sponsorship of Ferrari.Butler Andy 2010-05-07 Ferrari to remove 'marlboro barcode' https://www.designboom.com/design/ferrari-to-remove-marlboro-barcode/ 2024-10-20 designboom en marlboro’s official logo last appeard on ferrari’s F1 cars in 2007 in places where tobbaco [sic] advertising was still permitted such as china and monaco Report Background Going into the race, Lewis Hamilton of McLaren led the Drivers' Championship by 12 points from his team-mate Fernando Alonso, after Alonso crashed in Fuji Speedway. Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen was the other driver who mathematically had a chance of winning the championship, trailing Hamilton by 17 points. To clinch the championship, Hamilton needed to finish within one point of his team-mate Alonso and within 6 points of Räikkönen. Whatever the result, Hamilton would still be leading the championship after the race. The weather conditions at the track were affected by Typhoon Krosa which hit the east coast of China.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7032177.stm Powerful storm hits Chinese coast 2007-10-07 bbc.co.uk 2007-10-07 Qualifying Sebastian Vettel was facing a drop of ten places on the grid for his collision with Mark Webber in the previous race (the Japanese Grand Prix), but this punishment was reduced to a reprimand.https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7029797.stm Vettel's punishment reduced over Webber clash 2007-10-05 bbc.co.uk 2007-10-05 However, the Toro Rosso driver was then dropped five places on the grid for impeding Heikki Kovalainen during qualifying.http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=40980 Vettel handed five-place grid penalty itv-f1 2007-10-06 2007-10-06 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20071009181122/http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?PO_ID=40980 October 9, 2007 The Spykers of Adrian Sutil and Sakon Yamamoto were both eliminated in the first qualifying session, along with Takuma Sato in the Super Aguri, Alexander Wurz in his final race for Williams, Giancarlo Fisichella in the Renault and Rubens Barrichello in the Honda. However, Vettel's penalty caused him to be relegated behind Barrichello. In the second session, Nico Rosberg in the second Williams, Anthony Davidson in the Super Aguri, Heikki Kovalainen in the Renault, Jarno Trulli in the Toyota and the two Toro Rossos of Vettel and Vitantonio Liuzzi were eliminated. The final session saw Jenson Button come 10th in a rare top ten qualification. The two BMW Saubers were 8th and 9th, with Nick Heidfeld ahead of Robert Kubica. The Red Bulls of David Coulthard and Mark Webber did very well, qualifying 5th and 7th respectively. They were separated by Ralf Schumacher's Toyota. As usual in the 2007 season, the Ferraris and McLarens occupied the top 4 spots in qualifying, with the Italian team's Felipe Massa pipping McLaren's Fernando Alonso, to third place. Although Kimi Räikkönen of Ferrari had been the fastest driver in all three practice sessions and in the first two sessions of qualifying, Lewis Hamilton managed to beat this time in his McLaren during the third qualifying session and therefore earned the pole position, the 6th of his career.https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/andrewbenson/2009/04/the_2007_chinese_grand_prix.html Hamilton's title hopes fade in China, 2007 BBC 2009-04-14 2010-04-26 Race thumb|The starting grid before the beginning of the race. From the morning of the race onwards, conditions at the circuit were wet; this forced all drivers to use intermediate tyres. After the start of the race, the top four remained the same as on the grid with Lewis Hamilton leading in the McLaren from Kimi Räikkönen in the Ferrari, his teammate Felipe Massa and the other McLaren of Fernando Alonso. Vitantonio Liuzzi was the biggest winner from the start in his Toro Rosso, passing Jenson Button's Honda, Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber and the Red Bull of Mark Webber on lap 1. He also passed Kubica's teammate Nick Heidfeld before too long to run sixth. Ralf Schumacher had his Toyota knocked from behind at the first corner, and slipped to the back of the field. Anthony Davidson, who had qualified strongly, was the first retirement on lap 11, after his Super Aguri suffered a brake failure. He had already dropped down to twentieth position. Adrian Sutil was the next to drop out in the Spyker, also from twentieth, after he spun in the wet conditions on lap 25. Schumacher, recovering from his earlier incident, had made it up to twelfth on lap 22, before he spun twice and eventually retired on lap 26. As the track dried Hamilton began to suffer from tyre wear. With his pit stop imminent, McLaren elected to keep Hamilton out and stick to the original strategy. This turned out to be a detrimental choice, because by lap 31, Räikkönen had passed Hamilton when the latter ran wide, allowing Räikkönen to take the lead. Hamilton had to come into the pits. This should not have been a problem, however, as he would still have had enough points to secure the World Championship, had he remained in that position. However, as he entered the pit lane with his tyres worn down to the canvas, he failed to negotiate the sharp left-hander into the pits, beaching his car in the gravel. Despite marshal's efforts to get him back into the race, he suffered the first retirement of his career. An effective strategy from the BMW Sauber team benefited Robert Kubica, who was propelled into the lead after the Hamilton incident. It was short-lived, however, because after one lap, a hydraulics failure deprived him and the BMW Sauber team of a potential first victory each. This left Räikkönen leading from Alonso, who had overtaken Massa in the pitstops, and Jenson Button. Räikkönen eventually came home to win comfortably from Alonso, who after having pulled out a considerable lead from Massa was later pulled back until the Brazilian finished less than three seconds behind him. This result ensured the World Drivers' Championship would be decided in the one remaining round - the 2007 Brazilian. Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso managed to overtake Button in the closing stages to claim fourth place after he had started seventeenth. His one stop strategy gave him the best result of his career thus far. Button came home fifth, the best result of the season for both him and the Honda team. Liuzzi brought the other Toro Rosso home in sixth place, the team's best result of its career. Nick Heidfeld was seventh in the BMW Sauber, and David Coulthard held on for the final points position in the Red Bull despite late pressure from Heikki Kovalainen's RenaultChinese GP - Sunday - Race Report grandprix.com http://www.grandprix.com/race/r784racereport.html 2007-10-07 2010-04-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20101111075053/http://www.grandprix.com/race/r784racereport.html 2010-11-11 dead Alexander Wurz finished twelfth in the Williams, and announced his immediate retirement from Formula One the day after the race. Williams announced that he would be replaced by Kazuki Nakajima for the last race of the season.Wurz confirms immediate retirement from F1 autosport.com http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63165 2007-10-08 2007-10-08 Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Car number Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid Final grid position12United Kingdom Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:35.7981:35.8981:35.908126Finland Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:35.6921:35.3811:36.044235Brazil Felipe MassaFerrari1:35.7921:35.7961:36.221341Spain Fernando AlonsoMcLaren-Mercedes1:35.8091:35.8451:36.5764514United Kingdom David CoulthardRed Bull-Renault1:36.9301:36.2521:37.6195611Germany Ralf SchumacherToyota1:37.1351:36.7091:38.0136715Australia Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1:37.1991:36.6021:38.153789Germany Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:36.7371:36.2171:38.4558910Poland Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:36.3091:36.1161:38.4729107United Kingdom Jenson ButtonHonda1:37.0921:36.7711:39.285101118Italy Vitantonio LiuzziToro Rosso-Ferrari1:37.0471:36.862111219Germany Sebastian VettelToro Rosso-Ferrari1:37.0061:36.891171 11312Italy Jarno TrulliToyota1:37.2091:36.95912144Finland Heikki KovalainenRenault1:37.2251:36.991131523United Kingdom Anthony DavidsonSuper Aguri-Honda1:37.2031:37.247141616Germany Nico RosbergWilliams-Toyota1:37.1441:37.48315178Brazil Rubens BarrichelloHonda1:37.25116183Italy Giancarlo FisichellaRenault1:37.290181917Austria Alexander WurzWilliams-Toyota1:37.456192022Japan Takuma SatoSuper Aguri-Honda1:38.218202120Germany Adrian SutilSpyker-Ferrari1:38.668212221Japan Sakon YamamotoSpyker-Ferrari1:39.33622Source:2007 FORMULA 1 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix - Qualifying http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/785/6455/ Formula1.com Formula One Group 6 October 2007 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140626160652/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/785/6455/ 26 June 2014 Notes 1 1 – Sebastian Vettel took a five-place grid penalty for impeding Heikki Kovalainen during qualifying. Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 6 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 56 1:37:58.395 2 10 2 1 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 56 +9.806 4 8 3 5 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 +12.891 3 6 4 19 Germany Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 56 +53.509 17 5 5 7 United Kingdom Jenson Button Honda 56 +1:08.666 10 4 6 18 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 56 +1:13.673 11 3 7 9 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 56 +1:14.224 8 2 8 14 United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 56 +1:20.750 5 1 9 4 Finland Heikki Kovalainen Renault 56 +1:21.186 13 10 15 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 56 +1:24.685 7 11 3 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 56 +1:26.683 18 12 17 Austria Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 55 +1 Lap 19 13 12 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 55 +1 Lap 12 14 22 Japan Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 55 +1 Lap 20 15 8 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 55 +1 Lap 16 16 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 54 +2 Laps 15 17 21 Japan Sakon Yamamoto Spyker-Ferrari 53 +3 Laps 22 Ret Retired 10 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 33 Hydraulics 9 Ret Retired 2 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 30 Stuck in Gravel 1 Ret Retired 11 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota 25 Spun off 6 Ret Retired 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 24 Accident 21 Ret Retired 23 United Kingdom Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 11 Brakes 14Source:2007 FORMULA 1 Sinopec Chinese Grand Prix - Race http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/785/ Formula1.com Formula One Group 6 October 2007 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141228121814/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/785/ 28 December 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings +/– Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 GBR Lewis Hamilton* 107 10px 2 ESP Fernando Alonso* 103 10px 3 FIN Kimi Räikkönen* 100 10px 4 BRA Felipe Massa 86 10px 5 GER Nick Heidfeld 58Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2007/chine/championnat.aspx China 2007 - Championship • STATS F1 statsf1.com 14 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings +/– Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 ITA Ferrari* 186 10px 2 GER BMW Sauber 94 10px 3 FRA Renault 51 10px 4 GBR Williams-Toyota 28 10px 5 AUT Red Bull-Renault 24Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion. References External links Kimi Räikkönen wins 2007 Chinese Grand Prix Detailed Chinese Grand Prix results Chinese Grand Prix 2007 2007 Japanese Grand Prix 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix 2006 Chinese Grand Prix 2008 Chinese Grand Prix 31 20 20 N 121 13 11 E source:kolossus-nowiki title China Grand Prix Category:Chinese Grand Prix Chinese Grand Prix