Английская Википедия:2007 Gran Premio Tecate

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The 2007 Gran Premio Tecate was the fourteenth and final round of the 2007 Champ Car World Series season. It was held on November 11, 2007 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City, Mexico. The race was won by Sébastien Bourdais in his last Champ Car race before joining the Scuderia Toro Rosso team in Formula One. With the merger of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series in 2008 it would turn out to be the final event run under the Champ Car banner, and 2nd last under the v8 turbo formula.

Qualifying results

Pos Nat Name Team Qual 1 Qual 2 Best
1 Шаблон:Flagicon Will Power Team Australia 1:25.199 1:23.558 1:23.558
2 Шаблон:Flagicon Sébastien Bourdais N/H/L Racing 1:24.698 1:24.901 1:24.698
3 Шаблон:Flagicon Robert Doornbos Minardi Team USA 1:26.220 1:24.152 1:24.152
4 Шаблон:Flagicon Oriol Servià PKV Racing 1:25.436 1:24.324 1:24.324
5 Шаблон:Flagicon Justin Wilson RuSPORT 1:24.825 1:24.365 1:24.365
6 Шаблон:Flagicon Simon Pagenaud Team Australia 1:25.952 1:24.394 1:24.394
7 Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Rahal N/H/L Racing 1:25.889 1:24.515 1:24.515
8 Шаблон:Flagicon Paul Tracy Forsythe Racing 1:26.130 1:24.608 1:24.608
9 Шаблон:Flagicon Dan Clarke Minardi Team USA 1:26.617 1:24.764 1:24.764
10 Шаблон:Flagicon David Martínez Forsythe Racing 1:26.056 1:24.888 1:24.888
11 Шаблон:Flagicon Neel Jani PKV Racing 1:26.156 1:24.929 1:24.929
12 Шаблон:Flagicon Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 1:26.190 1:25.361 1:25.361
13 Шаблон:Flagicon Nelson Philippe Conquest Racing 1:26.952 1:25.405 1:25.405
14 Шаблон:Flagicon Alex Tagliani Rocketsports Racing 1:27.277 1:25.446 1:25.446
15 Шаблон:Flagicon Mario Domínguez Pacific Coast Motorsports 1:26.181 1:25.602 1:25.602
16 Шаблон:Flagicon Katherine Legge Dale Coyne Racing 1:28.069 1:26.277 1:26.277
17 Шаблон:Flagicon Alex Figge Pacific Coast Motorsports 1:27.230 1:26.582 1:26.582

24 hours after Sébastien Bourdais established a new track record in Friday qualifying at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, seven drivers were able to improve on that mark during Saturday's session. But Will Power was far and away the fastest of the fast on the day, finishing .594 seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Robert Doornbos, thus clinching his fifth pole position of the year and second in succession. Power was driving with a broken wrist suffered in his home race three weeks ago in Australia. Bourdais was unable to better his Friday time, but started the race next to Will Power on the front row of the grid.

Race

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Sébastien Bourdais N/H/L Racing 64 1:45:02.885 2 32
2 5 Шаблон:Flagicon Will Power Team Australia 64 +1.906 1 29
3 22 Шаблон:Flagicon Oriol Servià PKV Racing 64 +3.364 4 25
4 2 Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Rahal N/H/L Racing 64 +7.346 7 23
5 3 Шаблон:Flagicon Paul Tracy Forsythe Racing 64 +8.593 8 21
6 15 Шаблон:Flagicon Simon Pagenaud Team Australia 64 +9.638 6 19
7 19 Шаблон:Flagicon Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 64 +15.823 12 17
8 28 Шаблон:Flagicon Mario Domínguez Pacific Coast Motorsports 64 +16.077 15 16
9 21 Шаблон:Flagicon Neel Jani PKV Racing 64 +16.199 11 13
10 9 Шаблон:Flagicon Justin Wilson RuSPORT 64 +16.954 5 11
11 29 Шаблон:Flagicon Alex Figge Pacific Coast Motorsports 63 + 1 Lap 17 10
12 34 Шаблон:Flagicon Nelson Philippe Conquest Racing 63 + 1 Lap 13 9
13 8 Шаблон:Flagicon Alex Tagliani Rocketsports Racing 62 + 2 Laps 14 8
14 7 Шаблон:Flagicon David Martínez Forsythe Racing 58 + 6 Laps 10 7
15 19 Шаблон:Flagicon Katherine Legge Dale Coyne Racing 56 Mechanical 16 6
16 14 Шаблон:Flagicon Robert Doornbos Minardi Team USA 12 Mechanical 3 6
17 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Dan Clarke Minardi Team USA 0 Mechanical 9 4

The final race of the season got off to a ragged start as Oriol Servià, Nelson Philippe, and Alex Tagliani all stalled on the grid. At the front, Will Power held off Sébastien Bourdais at the start and took charge of the field behind the pace car. A potential fight for second place in the championship standings between Justin Wilson and Robert Doornbos was blunted when Doornbos' car developed a clutch problem. Doornbos' mechanics valiantly worked to fix the problem in the hopes of securing the point for fastest lap, and after 51 minutes of work, Doornbos did exactly that, securing his third place in the championship over Will Power.

At the front of the race Bourdais was working with a bit of a disadvantage for the race because he and teammate Graham Rahal were docked 22 seconds off the allotted 75 seconds of Power-to-Pass time after they laid rubber down on their grid spots making practice starts during the Sunday morning session. But Bourdais was able to get the power down coming out of the Peraltada corner before Power could. This slight handling difference gave Bourdais a critical speed advantage at the end of the long main straight. Bourdais easily passed Power on the main straight on lap 24 and then held off the Australian for the rest of the race, even after a late race yellow flag tightened up the field.

Bourdais' victory in his final Champ Car race before heading off to Formula One for the 2008 season was his 31st overall, putting him into a tie for 6th on the all-time Champ Car victory list with Paul Tracy and Al Unser Jr.

Highlighting the race behind the Bourdais and Power was the performance of Oriol Servià who recovered from the stall on the grid and fought through the entire field all the way to third place. His performance allowed him to leapfrog from ninth to sixth place in the final championship standings.

Caution flags

Laps Cause
1-3 Servià (22), Philippe (34), Tagliani (8) stalled on grid; Clarke (4) off course
55-59 Debris; Legge (11) stalled

Notes

Laps Leader
1-23 Will Power
24-64 Sébastien Bourdais
 
Driver Laps led
Sébastien Bourdais 41
Will Power 23

Final Championship standings

Шаблон:Col-start Шаблон:Col-2

  • Bold indicates the Season Champion.
Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 1 Шаблон:Flagicon Sébastien Bourdais 364
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 2 Шаблон:Flagicon Justin Wilson 281
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 3 Шаблон:Flagicon Robert Doornbos 268
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 4 Шаблон:Flagicon Will Power 262
Файл:1rightarrow blue.svg 5 Шаблон:Flagicon Graham Rahal 243

Шаблон:Col-end

  • Note: Only the top five positions are included.

External links

Шаблон:Champ Car World Series race report