2007 Monaco Grand Prix

2007 Monaco Grand Prix
2007 Monaco Grand Prix
Race 5 of 17 in the 2007 Formula One World Championship
Race details
Date	27 May 2007
Official name	Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007
Location	Circuit de Monaco
Course	Street circuit
Course length	3.34 km (2.08 miles)
Distance	78 laps, 260.52 km (162.24 miles)
Weather	Cloudy, air temp 24–27 °C (75–81 °F), track temp 33–42 °C (91–108 °F)
Pole position
Driver	Fernando Alonso ;
Time	1:15.726
Fastest lap
Driver	Fernando Alonso
Time	1:15.284 on lap 44
Podium
First	Fernando Alonso ;
Second	Lewis Hamilton ;
Third	Felipe Massa ;
	Lap leaders ;

Last updated March 27, 2023

The 2007 Monaco Grand Prix (officially the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007)^[1] was a Formula One motor race held on 27 May 2007 at the Circuit de Monaco. It was the fifth race of the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Report

Background

The Grand Prix was contested by 22 drivers, in eleven teams of two. The teams, also known as "constructors", were Renault, McLaren-Mercedes, Ferrari, Honda, Spyker-Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Toyota, Red Bull-Renault, Williams-Toyota, Toro Rosso-Ferrari and Super Aguri.

Before the race, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton led the Drivers' Championship, with 30 points, ahead of team-mate Fernando Alonso on 28 and Ferrari driver Felipe Massa on 27 points. Massa's team-mate Kimi Räikkönen was fourth, ahead of BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld in fifth. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren were leading with 58 points, nine points ahead of Ferrari with 49 points; BMW Sauber were a further 26 points in third.

Testing started a week and a half before the race at Circuit Paul Ricard using the circuit's 2D SC configuration to replicate the Circuit de Monaco.^[2] Lewis Hamilton went on to score the fastest times on the days of testing whilst the circuit was in the Monaco configuration.

Hamilton, who had never lost a race on the Monte Carlo track (having won there in both GP2 and F3)^[3] played down his chances of winning the race, although he still remained "realistic" and optimistic, looking to fight for a win as is "the case with everything (he) competes in."^[3]

Six days before the race, Ferrari employee Nigel Stepney tried to sabotage Kimi Räikkönen's and Felipe Massa's cars, when a mysterious powder was found in the fuel tank of Räikkönen's and Massa's car. The parts were replaced before the race and the powder was sent to the police to be examined. Stepney was reportedly angry with Ferrari for not being promoted to technical director after Ross Brawn, left the team after last season.^[4]

Ferrari changed the colour of their car dark red which was changed to approximate the color scheme used by Marlboro.^[5]

Practice

The final practice session on Saturday morning was heavily affected by rain. Adrian Sutil of Spyker topped the timesheets for this session due to the conditions.

Qualifying

Qualifying was dominated throughout by the two McLarens of Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. Despite Hamilton setting fastest times for the first session, Alonso outpaced him in the final stages to take pole position, with Hamilton being held up slightly by Mark Webber. Felipe Massa of Ferrari qualified third fastest, posting a time after the clock stopped. Kimi Räikkönen made a mistake and hit the barriers coming out of the Swimming Pool Complex during the second qualifying stage, breaking his front-right suspension. The damage inflicted could not be repaired and he qualified sixteenth. Despite provisionally making the top ten, David Coulthard was penalised for impeding Heikki Kovalainen and demoted to thirteenth.^[6] Coulthard's demotion allowed Jenson Button to participate in the final qualifying stage, but he failed to move up the field and finished the qualifying session in 10th place.

Of those whose qualifying went well, former Monaco resident Giancarlo Fisichella fared best, putting his Renault on the second row in fourth place. Nico Rosberg's performance marked a return to form for his Williams team; his fifth place was the British constructor's best qualifying position since Mark Webber's second place at the same track one year before in 2006. Webber himself also fared well, filling the second slot on row three, alongside Rosberg, in sixth place.

Race

The race started at 14:00 CET. From the starting line everyone got away for the first laps, with Hamilton diving in behind Alonso to defend any of the Ferrari's advances. After the race, FIA launched an investigation of the McLaren team for giving out team orders, to the effect of asking Hamilton not to attempt to race or overtake Alonso.^[7] McLaren were later cleared of any wrongdoing by the FIA.^[8]

No other car in the field could keep up with the sheer pace of both of the McLaren-Mercedes, with Massa, after a competitive first stint in third place, dropping to sixty seconds behind Hamilton. Notably, he was the only car the two McLaren drivers did not lap during the afternoon.

Kimi Räikkönen came back up the field to eighth place to gain one championship point after his poor qualifying performance.

Vitantonio Liuzzi crashed out of the race on the second lap, a fate that befell Spyker driver Adrian Sutil in the second half of the Grand Prix. The other Spyker car, driven by Christijan Albers failed to finish the race due to a mechanical problem. The only other retirement was Mark Webber, whose Red Bull's gearbox failed in the early stages of the race.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	Grid
1	1	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	1:16.059	1:15.431	1:15.726	1
2	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.685	1:15.479	1:15.905	2
3	5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:16.786	1:16.034	1:15.967	3
4	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:17.596	1:16.054	1:16.285	4
5	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:16.870	1:16.100	1:16.439	5
6	15	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:17.816	1:16.420	1:16.784	6
7	9	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:17.385	1:15.733	1:16.832	7
8	10	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:17.584	1:15.576	1:16.955	8
9	8	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:17.244	1:16.454	1:17.498	9
10	7	Jenson Button	Honda	1:17.297	1:16.457¹	1:17.939	10¹
11	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	1:17.204	1:16.319¹		13¹
12	17	Alexander Wurz	Williams-Toyota	1:17.874	1:16.662		11
13	18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:16.720	1:16.703		12
14	12	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:17.686	1:16.988		14
15	4	Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	1:17.836	1:17.125		15
16	6	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:16.251	no time		16
17	23	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri-Honda	1:18.250			17
18	19	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:18.390			18
19	20	Adrian Sutil	Spyker-Ferrari	1:18.418			19
20	11	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:18.539			20
21	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	1:18.554			21
22	21	Christijan Albers	Spyker-Ferrari	no time			22
Source:^[9]

Notes

^1 – David Coulthard was penalised for blocking Heikki Kovalainen and not allowed to take part in Q3 despite posting the 8th fastest time of Q2, he was then given a two place grid penalty and started the race in 13th place. Jenson Button, who had qualified 11th in Q2, therefore inherited the final place in Q3 from Coulthard.^[10]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	78	1:40:29.329	1	10
2	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	78	+4.095	2	8
3	5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	78	+1:09.114	3	6
4	3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	77	+1 Lap	4	5
5	10	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	77	+1 Lap	8	4
6	9	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	77	+1 Lap	7	3
7	17	Alexander Wurz	Williams-Toyota	77	+1 Lap	11	2
8	6	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	77	+1 Lap	16	1
9	19	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	77	+1 Lap	18
10	8	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	77	+1 Lap	9
11	7	Jenson Button	Honda	77	+1 Lap	10
12	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	77	+1 Lap	5
13¹	4	Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	76	Engine	15
14	14	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	76	+2 Laps	13
15	12	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	76	+2 Laps	14
16	11	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	76	+2 Laps	20
17	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	76	+2 Laps	21
18	23	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri-Honda	76	+2 Laps	17
19¹	21	Christijan Albers	Spyker-Ferrari	70	Driveshaft	22
Ret	20	Adrian Sutil	Spyker-Ferrari	53	Accident	19
Ret	15	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	17	Gearbox	6
Ret	18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	2	Accident	12
Source:^[11]

Notes

^1 – Heikki Kovalainen was classified as 13th and Christijan Albers was classified as 19th, because they completed 90% of the race winner's distance.

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

+/–	Pos.	Driver	Points
1	1	Fernando Alonso	38
1	2	Lewis Hamilton	38
	3	Felipe Massa	33
	4	Kimi Räikkönen	23
	5	Nick Heidfeld	18
Source:^[12]

Constructors' Championship standings

+/–	Pos.	Constructor	Points
	1	McLaren-Mercedes	76
	2	Ferrari	56
	3	BMW Sauber	30
	4	Renault	16
	5	Williams-Toyota	7
Source:^[12]

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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References

↑ "Monaco". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
↑ "Paul Ricard day one – Hamilton fastest in France". Official Formula One website. 16 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2007.
1 2 "Hamilton Plays Down Chances". Official Formula One website. 22 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2007.
↑ "Ferrari team member accused of sabotage". Toronto Star. 22 June 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
↑ "New Ferrari livery". Grandprix.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
↑ "Coulthard penalised for blocking Kovalainen". The Official Formula 1 Website. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 28 May 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
↑ "FIA to investigate McLaren team orders". Official Formula One website. 28 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
↑ "McLaren cleared over Monaco win". Official Formula 1 website. 30 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2006.
↑ "FORMULA 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007 - Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula One Group. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
↑ "Coulthard penalised for blocking - updated". Formula1.com. Formula One Group. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
↑ "FORMULA 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007 - Race". Official Formula One website. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
1 2 "Monaco 2007 - Championship • STATS F1". statsf1.com. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

External links

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[1] "Monaco". Formula1.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2007. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

[Paul_Ricard-2] "Paul Ricard day one – Hamilton fastest in France". Official Formula One website. 16 May 2007. Archived from the original on 2 June 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2007.

[Hamilton_Plays_Down_Chances.-3] 1 2 "Hamilton Plays Down Chances". Official Formula One website. 22 May 2007. Archived from the original on 24 May 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2007.

[4] "Ferrari team member accused of sabotage". Toronto Star. 22 June 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[5] "New Ferrari livery". Grandprix.com. Retrieved 12 January 2021.

[coulthardpen-6] "Coulthard penalised for blocking Kovalainen". The Official Formula 1 Website. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 28 May 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2007.

[7] "FIA to investigate McLaren team orders". Official Formula One website. 28 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2007.

[8] "McLaren cleared over Monaco win". Official Formula 1 website. 30 May 2007. Archived from the original on 1 June 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2006.

[9] "FORMULA 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007 - Qualifying". Formula1.com. Formula One Group. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

[10] "Coulthard penalised for blocking - updated". Formula1.com. Formula One Group. 26 May 2007. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

[11] "FORMULA 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2007 - Race". Official Formula One website. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2015.

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2007 Monaco Grand Prix

Contents

Report

Background

Practice

Qualifying

Race

Classification

Qualifying

Race

Championship standings after the race

See also

Related Research Articles

References

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