2007 Grand Prix of Cleveland
Race details | |
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Race 5 of 14 in the 2007 Champ Car season | |
![]() Burke Lakefront Airport Track Layout | |
Date | June 24, 2007 |
Official name | Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by LaSalle Bank |
Location | Burke Lakefront Airport Cleveland, Ohio, United States |
Course | Temporary Airport Course 2.106 mi / 3.389 km |
Distance | 89 laps 187.434 mi / 301.621 km |
Weather | Sunny/Cloudy |
Pole position | |
Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (N/H/L Racing) |
Time | 56.363 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (N/H/L Racing) |
Time | 57.601 (on lap 56 of 89) |
Podium | |
First | Paul Tracy (Forsythe Racing) |
Second | Robert Doornbos (Minardi Team USA) |
Third | Neel Jani (PKV Racing) |
The 2007 Grand Prix of Cleveland is the fifth round of the 2007 Champ Car World Series Season. It was held on June 24 at the Burke Lakefront Airport, in Cleveland, Ohio. As of 2024 this is the last race held in the city.
Qualifying results
Pos | Nat | Name | Team | Qual 1 | Qual 2 | Best |
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1 | ![]() | Sébastien Bourdais | N/H/L Racing | 56.961 | 56.363 | 56.363 |
2 | ![]() | Simon Pagenaud | Team Australia | 57.338 | 56.388 | 56.388 |
3 | ![]() | Will Power | Team Australia | 57.301 | 56.473 | 56.473 |
4 | ![]() | Graham Rahal | N/H/L Racing | 57.658 | 56.588 | 56.588 |
5 | ![]() | Robert Doornbos | Minardi Team USA | 57.745 | 56.751 | 56.751 |
6 | ![]() | Dan Clarke | Minardi Team USA | 57.855 | 57.001 | 57.001 |
7 | ![]() | Paul Tracy | Forsythe Racing | 57.782 | 57.065 | 57.065 |
8 | ![]() | Justin Wilson | RSPORTS | 57.427 | 57.079 | 57.079 |
9 | ![]() | Alex Tagliani | RSPORTS | 57.652 | 57.199 | 57.199 |
10 | ![]() | Oriol Servia | Forsythe Racing | 57.722 | 57.380 | 57.380 |
11 | ![]() | Neel Jani | PKV Racing | 57.535 | 57.400 | 57.400 |
12 | ![]() | Tristan Gommendy | PKV Racing | 57.978 | 57.516 | 57.516 |
13 | ![]() | Alex Figge | Pacific Coast Motorsports | 59.117 | 57.626 | 57.626 |
14 | ![]() | Bruno Junqueira | Dale Coyne Racing | 57.811 | 57.758 | 57.758 |
15 | ![]() | Katherine Legge | Dale Coyne Racing | 58.681 | 57.811 | 57.811 |
16 | ![]() | Ryan Dalziel | Pacific Coast Motorsports | 58.238 | 57.928 | 57.928 |
17 | ![]() | Jan Heylen | Conquest Racing | 58.259 | 58.116 | 58.116 |
Sébastien Bourdais lead both Friday and Saturday's qualification sessions. Rookie Simon Pagenaud missed the pole by .025 of a second to score his first Champ Car front row starting position next to Bourdais. Bourdais chose to start from the left side of the track, opposite the traditional inside position leading to Cleveland's often frantic first turn.
Race
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 7 | ![]() | Forsythe Racing | 89 | 1:45:10.860 | 7 | 31 |
2 | 14 | ![]() | Minardi Team USA | 89 | +0.5 secs | 5 | 27 |
3 | 21 | ![]() | PKV Racing | 89 | +5.4 secs | 11 | 26 |
4 | 9 | ![]() | RSPORTS | 89 | +5.9 secs | 8 | 23 |
5 | 15 | ![]() | Team Australia | 89 | +6.3 secs | 2 | 21 |
6 | 8 | ![]() | RSPORTS | 89 | +17.8 secs | 9 | 19 |
7 | 3 | ![]() | Forsythe Racing | 89 | +23.7 secs | 10 | 17 |
8 | 2 | ![]() | N/H/L Racing | 89 | +24.7 secs | 4 | 15 |
9 | 28 | ![]() | Pacific Coast Motorsports | 89 | +27.8 secs | 16 | 13 |
10 | 5 | ![]() | Team Australia | 89 | +55.2 secs | 3 | 11 |
11 | 4 | ![]() | Minardi Team USA | 88 | + 1 Lap | 6 | 10 |
12 | 1 | ![]() | N/H/L Racing | 67 | Mechanical | 1 | 12 |
13 | 22 | ![]() | PKV Racing | 34 | Contact | 12 | 8 |
14 | 42 | ![]() | Conquest Racing | 34 | Contact | 17 | 7 |
15 | 11 | ![]() | Dale Coyne Racing | 32 | Mechanical | 15 | 6 |
16 | 19 | ![]() | Dale Coyne Racing | 6 | Contact | 14 | 5 |
17 | 29 | ![]() | Pacific Coast Motorsports | 3 | Mechanical | 13 | 4 |
An incident-filled race ended with a surprise winner in Paul Tracy, his first victory since the 2005 Cleveland Grand Prix and 31st overall. Despite two early crashes which forced him to pit and have his crew replace his nose cone twice, Tracy managed to stay on the lead lap. Tracy found himself in lead on lap 70 during the last yellow flag period. The extra fuel he gained by his two early pit stops allowed him to gamble on fuel strategy. Robert Doornbos, recovering from an early setback of his own after he was black-flagged for blocking, was catching up to him quickly in the final laps but was unable to pass Tracy before the checkered flag after 89 laps.
Early in the race it looked as if the race would come down to a showdown between Will Power and Sébastien Bourdais as they raced nose to tail, with Bourdais leading from the standing start. Power, following the script Bourdais ran to in the Portland race, passed Bourdais after the first round of pit stops by staying out an extra lap. But the battle was aborted when Bourdais' car broke down on lap 67. Not long later, Power was forced to pit under green on lap 75 to change a tire that failed because of a broken valve.
Caution flags
Laps | Cause |
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4-6 | Rahal/Tracy crash |
7-10 | Junqueira/Tracy crash |
36-41 | Heylen/Gommendy crash |
68-72 | Bourdais/Clarke off course |
Notes
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- New Race Record: Paul Tracy 1:45:10.860
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included.
Attendance
Attendance at the 3 day race weekend was 151,426 people with over 65,000 fans attending the Champ Car raceday main event. This represented a 28% increase over 2006.[1]
References
- ^ "2008 Grand Prix of Cleveland :: Media: News". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
External links
- Full Weekend Times & Results
- Race Box Score
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Previous race: 2006 Grand Prix of Cleveland | Grand Prix of Cleveland | Next race: 2008 Grand Prix of Cleveland canceled by IndyCar/Champ Car merger |
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