2007 Italian Grand Prix

F1 Italy Italian 2007 Turkish Grand Prix 2007 Belgian Grand Prix 9 September 2007 Monza track map.svg Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 13 17 Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2007 Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Monza, Italy Permanent racing facility 3.6 5.793 53 190.58 306.720 Sunny Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.997 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 1:22.871 15 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes Spain Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes UK Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari Finland ITA The 2007 Italian Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2007)http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/782/circuit_diagram.html Italia Formula1.com https://web.archive.org/web/20071026021207/http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/782/circuit_diagram.html 4 January 2021 2007-10-26 was a Formula One motor race held on 9 September 2007 at Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, Italy. It was the thirteenth race of the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. Going into the race, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton held a 5-point lead over team-mate Fernando Alonso in the Drivers' Championship, whilst McLaren held an 11-point lead over Ferrari in the Constructors' Championship. Ferrari were expected to do well at home after a one-two finish in the Turkish GP and Michael Schumacher's victory at Monza the previous year. However, McLaren dominated the traditional test session prior to the Grand Prix, with Alonso topping the time sheets on two of the four days and Hamilton and Pedro de la Rosa fastest on the other days. Fernando Alonso took his fourth win of the season, leading home the fourth one-two finish of the season for McLaren as Lewis Hamilton finished second. It was McLaren's eighth victory at Monza and Mercedes' fourth, while Alonso became the first Spaniard to win the Italian Grand Prix. It turned out to be his last win for McLaren, and McLaren's last 1-2 finish until the 2010 Chinese Grand Prix. Report Qualifying The two Spykers of Adrian Sutil and Sakon Yamamoto were both eliminated in Q1, along with Vitantonio Liuzzi in the Toro Rosso, Takuma Sato of Super Aguri, and, surprisingly, the Toyota of Ralf Schumacher and David Coulthard's Red Bull. In the second session, both the Toro Rosso of Sebastian Vettel and Anthony Davidson's Super Aguri, who had done very well to make the session, were eliminated. So were Giancarlo Fisichella in the Renault, Alexander Wurz of Williams, the Honda of Rubens Barrichello and Coulthard's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber. Jenson Button had done excellently to put the Honda in the top 10, and he qualified tenth, on the fifth row with Jarno Trulli's Toyota. Nico Rosberg qualified his Williams eighth, alongside the second Renault of Heikki Kovalainen, who had put in a brilliant performance. Robert Kubica took 6th in the BMW Sauber, while his teammate Nick Heidfeld broke the domination of the top 4 by McLaren and Ferrari, beating the Scuderia's Kimi Räikkönen to 4th. However, it was service as normal at the very front, with Räikkönen's teammate Felipe Massa taking 3rd, and the two McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso locking out the front row, with the Spaniard just pipping his younger teammate to pole by 0.037 of a second. Race The top three held station from the start, but Kimi Räikkönen's Ferrari jumped Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber and moved into fourth. Jarno Trulli was a big loser in the Toyota, slipping from 9th to 13th, while the big winner was David Coulthard, who went from 20th to 15th in the Red Bull. On lap 2, however, Coulthard crashed at Curva Grande, completely negating the influence of his brilliant start and with his car in a dangerous position the crash forced the safety car to be deployed. This allowed the Super Aguri of Anthony Davidson up into 15th. The race's only other retirement was Räikkönen's teammate Felipe Massa, who retired with a suspension failure on lap 11 after running in third place. This allowed the Finn to move into third and Nico Rosberg to move into the points in his Williams. Lewis Hamilton, running second in the McLaren, had flat-spotted his tyres earlier in the race and complained about vibration, raising fears that it might lead to a puncture similar to what happened previously in Turkey, so the team decided to play it safe and pit slightly earlier than scheduled, on lap 18, dropping Hamilton down to 6th place, behind Räikkönen, the two BMW Saubers of Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, and Heikki Kovalainen's Renault. Räikkönen then took the lead as Hamilton's teammate Fernando Alonso pitted from the lead on lap 20. Hamilton moved back to third place, behind Räikkönen and Alonso, after the two BMW Saubers and Kovalainen pitted, but as the Ferrari driver emerged from his pitstop, Hamilton was still behind. With the extra grip provided by the softer tyres, Hamilton made a move down the inside of turn one to recover second place from Räikkönen, who didn't defend as he had the harder compound tyres and was still suffering from the neck injury he got during his practice accident. Alonso retained the lead. There were no further changes at the front, and Alonso led home by six seconds from Hamilton, with Räikkönen completing the podium. Heidfeld finished in fourth just four seconds ahead of his teammate Kubica, with Rosberg still in close contention in sixth. Kovalainen was seventh, and Jenson Button rounded out the points in a rare foray into the points paying positions for the Honda team. Classification Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Car number Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid Final grid position11Spain Fernando AlonsoMcLaren-Mercedes1:21.7181:21.3561:21.997122United Kingdom Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:21.9561:21.7461:22.034235Brazil Felipe MassaFerrari1:22.3091:21.9931:22.549349Germany Nick HeidfeldBMW Sauber1:23.1071:22.4661:23.174456Finland Kimi RäikkönenFerrari1:22.6731:22.3691:23.1835610Poland Robert KubicaBMW Sauber1:23.0881:22.4001:23.446674Finland Heikki KovalainenRenault1:23.5051:23.1341:24.1027816Germany Nico RosbergWilliams-Toyota1:23.3331:22.7481:24.3828912Italy Jarno TrulliToyota1:23.7241:23.1071:24.5559107United Kingdom Jenson ButtonHonda1:23.6391:23.0211:25.165101115Australia Mark WebberRed Bull-Renault1:23.5751:23.16611128Brazil Rubens BarrichelloHonda1:23.4741:23.176121317Austria Alexander WurzWilliams-Toyota1:23.7391:23.209131423United Kingdom Anthony DavidsonSuper Aguri-Honda1:23.6461:23.27414153Italy Giancarlo FisichellaRenault1:23.5591:23.325151619Germany Sebastian VettelToro Rosso-Ferrari1:23.5781:23.351161722Japan Takuma SatoSuper Aguri-Honda1:23.749171811Germany Ralf SchumacherToyota1:23.787181918Italy Vitantonio LiuzziToro Rosso-Ferrari1:23.886192014United Kingdom David CoulthardRed Bull-Renault1:24.019202120Germany Adrian SutilSpyker-Ferrari1:24.699212221Japan Sakon YamamotoSpyker-Ferrari1:25.08422Source:FORMULA 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2007 - Qualifying http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/782/6440/ Formula1.com Formula One Group 9 September 2007 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20140828141531/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/782/6440/ 28 August 2014 Race thumb|right|The race was won by Fernando Alonso for McLaren. Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 Spain Fernando Alonso McLaren-Mercedes 53 1:18:37.806 1 10 2 2 UK Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 53 +6.062 2 8 3 6 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 53 +27.325 5 6 4 9 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 53 +56.562 4 5 5 10 Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 53 +1:00.558 6 4 6 16 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 53 +1:05.810 8 3 7 4 Finland Heikki Kovalainen Renault 53 +1:06.751 7 2 8 7 UK Jenson Button Honda 53 +1:12.168 10 1 9 15 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 53 +1:15.879 11 10 8 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 53 +1:16.958 12 11 12 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 53 +1:17.736 9 12 3 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 52 +1 lap 15 13 17 Austria Alexander Wurz Williams-Toyota 52 +1 lap 13 14 23 UK Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 52 +1 lap 14 15 11 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota 52 +1 lap 18 16 22 Japan Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 52 +1 lap 17 17 18 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 19 18 19 Germany Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 16 19 20 Germany Adrian Sutil Spyker-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 21 20 21 Japan Sakon Yamamoto Spyker-Ferrari 52 +1 lap 22 Ret Retired 5 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 10 Suspension 3 Ret Retired 14 UK David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1 Accident 20Source:FORMULA 1 Gran Premio d'Italia 2007 - Race http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/782/ Formula1.com Formula One Group 27 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141228121910/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/782/ 28 December 2014 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings +/– Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 GBR Lewis Hamilton* 92 10px 2 ESP Fernando Alonso* 89 10px 1 3 FIN Kimi Räikkönen* 74 10px 1 4 BRA Felipe Massa* 69 10px 5 GER Nick Heidfeld* 52Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2007/italie/championnat.aspx Italy 2007 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 18 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings +/– Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 GBR McLaren-Mercedes* 166 10px 2 ITA Ferrari* 143 10px 3 GER BMW Sauber 86 10px 4 FRA Renault 38 10px 5 GBR Williams-Toyota 25Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Constructors' Championship standings accurate as at final declaration of race results. McLaren was subsequently excluded from the championship. Bold text and an asterisk indicates competitors who still had a theoretical chance of becoming World Champion. See also 2007 Monza GP2 Series round References External links Fernando Alonso wins 2007 Italian Grand Prix Detailed Italian Grand Prix results Italian Grand Prix 2007 2007 Turkish Grand Prix 2007 Belgian Grand Prix 2006 Italian Grand Prix 2008 Italian Grand Prix 45 36 56 N 9 16 52 E source:kolossus-nowiki title Category:Italian Grand Prix Italian Grand Prix Grand Prix Category:September 2007 sports events in Italy