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The 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 61st season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship, which began on 18 March and ended on 21 October after seventeen events. The Drivers' Championship was won by Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen by one point at the final race of the season, making Räikkönen the third Finnish driver to take the title. An appeal by McLaren regarding the legality of some cars in the final race could have altered the championship standings, but on 16 November, the appeal was rejected by the International Court of Appeal, confirming the championship results. Räikkönen entered the final race in third position in the drivers' standings, but emerged as champion after the chequered flag, a feat first accomplished by Giuseppe Farina in 1950.
A major talking point of the season had been an espionage controversy involving Ferrari and McLaren, which led to McLaren being excluded from the Constructors' Championship. As a result, Ferrari clinched the championship at the Belgian Grand Prix. Defending double Constructors' Champions Renault proved to be uncompetitive with their R27 car taking them to third in the constructors' standings (after McLaren's disqualification from second) and ended up win-less for the first time since the 2002 season. Renault achieved one podium during the season, with Heikki Kovalainen finishing second at the rain affected 2007 Japanese Grand Prix.
The 2007 season heralded the end of the existing Concorde Agreement between the existing Formula One constructorsand Bernie Ecclestone. In particular, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Honda (collectively the Grand Prix Manufacturers' Association) had a number of outstanding disagreements with the FIA and Ecclestone on financial and technical grounds. They had threatened to boycott Formula One from the 2008 season onwards and instead stage their own rival series, before signing a memorandum of understanding at the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix.
2007 also marked the seventh and final season, since its reintroduction in 2001, in which the use of traction control was permitted in Formula One. Standardised electronic control units (ECUs) were mandated by the FIA from the 2008 season onwards, which prohibited teams from using this kind of technology. The season also saw the debuts of future world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
Honda ran with an "Earth livery" on their RA107 car. It was the first time since 1968, the year in which sponsorship in the sport became widespread, that a team ran sponsor-free for an entire season. Michelin's withdrawal from F1 at the end of 2006 meant that Bridgestone was the sole tyre supplier for 2007.
Drivers' Champion:
Kimi Räikkönen
Constructors' Champion:
Ferrari
Previous Season: 2006 Season
Next Season: 2008 Season
Other Champions:
IndyCar Series: Dario Franchitti
Champ Car: Sébastien Bourdais
A1 Grand Prix: A1 Team Germany
GP2 Series: Timo Glock
Indy Pro Series: Alex Lloyd
Atlantic Championship: Raphael Matos
Formula Nippon: Tsugio Matsuda
International Formula Master: Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Euroseries 3000: Davide Rigon
Italian Formula 3000: Davide Rigon
Formula 3 Euro Series: Romain Grosjean
British Formula 3 Championship: Marko Asmer
German Formula Three Championship: Carlo van Dam
All-Japan Formula Three Championship: Kazuya Oshima
Italian Formula Three Championship: Paolo Maria Nocera
Spanish Formula Three Championship: Máximo Cortés
Asian Formula Three Championship: Dillon Battistini
Formula Three Sudamericana: Clemente de Faria Jr.
Australian Drivers' Championship: Tim Macrow
Toyota Racing Series: Daniel Gaunt
Austria Formula 3 Cup: Stefan Neuburger
Finnish Formula Three Championship: Tomi Limmonen
Chilean Formula Three Championship: José Luis Riffo
Formula Renault 3.5 Series: Álvaro Parente
Formula V6 Asia: James Winslow
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0: Brendon Hartley
Formula Renault Northern European Cup: Frank Kechele
Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0: Jules Bianchi
Formula Renault UK Championship: Duncan Tappy
Formula Renault BARC Championship: Hywel Lloyd
Italian Formula Renault Championship: Mika Mäki
Formula BMW ADAC: Jens Klingmann
Formula BMW Asia: Jazeman Jaafar
Formula BMW UK: Marcus Ericsson
Formula BMW USA: Daniel Morad
Australian Formula Ford Championship: Tim Blanchard
British Formula Ford Championship: Callum MacLeod
F2000 Championship Series: Cole Morgan
Grands Prix | Date | Winning Driver |
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2007-04-08 | ||
2007-04-15 | ||
2007-05-13 | ||
2007-05-27 | ||
2007-06-10 | ||
2007-06-17 | ||
2007-07-01 | ||
2007-07-08 | ||
2007-07-22 | ||
2007-08-05 | ||
2007-08-26 | ||
2007-09-09 | ||
2007-09-16 | ||
2007-09-30 | ||
2007-10-07 | ||
2007-10-21 |