The 2007 World Touring Car Championship season was the 4th season of FIA World Touring Car Championship motor racing. The championship, which commenced on 11 March and ended on 18 November, after twenty-two races, was open to Super 2000 Cars, Diesel 2000 Cars and Super Production Cars [1] as defined by the relevant FIA regulations. The Drivers' Championship was won by Andy Priaulx and the Manufacturers' Championship by BMW. [2]
The following teams and drivers contested the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship. [3]
Changed Teams
Entering WTCC including those who entered one-off rounds in 2006
Leaving WTCC
A provisional calendar was released on 15 January 2007. . On 27 February 2007, the FIA announced that the 13th and 14th races of the series originally scheduled to be run in Istanbul would instead take place at the Anderstorp circuit.
Each race weekend featured two races of 50 kilometres each (similar to Superbike World Championship race format). If the safety car was deployed during a race, the first two laps under it were not counted towards the race distance.
The starting grid order for the first race of each weekend was determined by the results of qualifying and the race began with a rolling start. The second race grid order was determined by the results of the first race with the top eight positions reversed. The second race began with a standing start.
Round | Race Name | Track | Date | |
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1 | R1 | HSBC Race of Brazil | Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba | 11 March |
R2 | ||||
2 | R3 | Courtyard Race of the Netherlands | Circuit Park Zandvoort | 6 May |
R4 | ||||
3 | R5 | Stihl Race of Spain | Circuit Ricardo Tormo | 20 May |
R6 | ||||
4 | R7 | Beru Race of France | Circuit de Pau Ville | 3 June |
R8 | ||||
5 | R9 | Race of the Czech Republic | Masaryk Circuit | 17 June |
R10 | ||||
6 | R11 | Race of Portugal | Circuito da Boavista | 8 July |
R12 | ||||
7 | R13 | Race of Sweden | Scandinavian Raceway | 29 July |
R14 | ||||
8 | R15 | Beru Race of Germany | Motorsport Arena Oschersleben | 26 August |
R16 | ||||
9 | R17 | Courtyard Race of UK | Brands Hatch | 23 September |
R18 | ||||
10 | R19 | Courtyard Race of Italy | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 5 October |
R20 | ||||
11 | R21 | Monroe Race of Macau | Guia Circuit | 16 November |
R22 |
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1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | |||||||||||
10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Bold – Pole |
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
Point system: 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 for top eight finishers in each race.
Drivers with 0 points were not classified in official championship results. [2]
* Phillip Geipel, Robert Dahlgren, Colin Turkington and David Louie were not eligible to score championship points. Thus, 9th-place finishers scored points in the Race 2 of Sweden, Race 1 & 2 of the United Kingdom and Race 2 of Macau.
Championship promoter KSO organised the Yokohama Independents’ Trophies within the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship. [4]
Drivers were awarded points towards the Independents' Trophy in the first twenty rounds on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis for the first eight finishers of those entries which were classified as Independents. [4] Points were awarded in the final two rounds on a 20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis. [4]
Pos | Driver | BRA | NED | ESP | FRA | CZE | POR | SWE | GER | UK | ITA | MAC | Pts | |||||||||||
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1 | Stefano D'Aste | 11 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 12 | 18 | 13 | Ret | 14 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 19 | 17 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 10 | 18 | 12 | 152 |
2 | Luca Rangoni | Ret | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | Ret | 17 | 18 | Ret | 20 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 21† | 10 | DNS | 17 | 10 | 150 |
3 | Pierre-Yves Corthals | 10 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 22 | 23 | Ret | DNS | 8 | 10 | DSQ | DSQ | Ret | 13 | 124 |
4 | Sergio Hernández | 14 | Ret | 10 | 8 | 14 | Ret | Ret | DNS | Ret | 22 | 14 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 21 | 15 | 81 | ||||
5 | Roberto Colciago | WD | WD | 6 | 7 | Ret | Ret | DNS | DNS | Ret | DNS | 19 | 18 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 22† | 9 | 78 | ||||
6 | Maurizio Ceresoli | 15 | 23 | Ret | 15 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 16 | 23 | 25 | 15 | 16 | Ret | 19 | 17 | Ret | 22 | 18 | 66 | ||||
7 | Massimiliano Pedalà | 11 | 15 | 10 | 12 | Ret | 11 | NC | 18 | 44 | ||||||||||||||
8 | Miguel Freitas | Ret | 21 | 16 | Ret | 16 | Ret | 21 | 18 | 19 | Ret | DNS | DNS | 20 | 15 | 23 | 19 | 36 | ||||||
9 | Emmet O'Brien | 13 | Ret | 18 | 20 | 17 | 17 | 17 | Ret | 16 | 17 | Ret | 19 | 35 | ||||||||||
10 | Franz Engstler | 19 | 16 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Carl Rosenblad | 25* | 17* | 20 | 17 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||
12 | Anthony Beltoise | 15 | 14 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Tomas Engström | 15 | 16 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Timur Sadredinov | 13 | 19 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Luís Pedro Magalhães | 21 | 17 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Alexander Lvov | 24 | 26 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Viktor Shapovalov | 19 | 23 | 20 | 21 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
18 | Lev Fridman | 20 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | Andrey Smetsky | 26 | 27 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Davide Roda | 23 | 21† | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Andrey Romanov | 24 | Ret | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Sergey Krylov | Ret | 20 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | María de Villota | 18 | 20 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Evgeny Zelenov | 21 | 24 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
NC | Henry Lee Jr. | Ret | DNS | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||
NC | Ao Chi Hong | WD | WD | – | ||||||||||||||||||||
Pos | Driver | BRA | NED | ESP | FRA | CZE | POR | SWE | GER | UK | ITA | MAC | Pts |
The Yokohama Teams' Trophy was won by Proteam Motorsport. [5]
Pos | Manufacturer | Car | Wins | Points |
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1 | BMW | BMW 320si | 9 | 255 |
2 | SEAT | SEAT León, SEAT León TDI | 4 | 249 |
3 | Chevrolet | Chevrolet Lacetti | 7 | 218 |
4 | Alfa Romeo | Alfa Romeo 156 | 2 | 124 |
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