The 2007 GP2 Series season was the forty-first season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also third season under the GP2 Series moniker. The series began on 14 April at Bahrain. Timo Glock was crowned series champion on 30 September after winning the final round at Valencia, with Brazilian Lucas di Grassi finishing second.
Season summary
The season started in Bahrain. Luca Filippi started the season with win from pole, while Nicolas Lapierre took his first GP2 win in his third season in the sprint race. One of pre-season favourites, Timo Glock finished 2nd in both races. Michael Ammermüller, who was driving for defending teams' champion ART Grand Prix was injured and missed next two races.
Next event started with big start crash involving several drivers, including series leader Filippi. Safety car was instantly deployed and majority of the field opted to make their mandatory pit stop. Glock wasn't one of those and he lost his chances to win the race as a result. Bruno Senna took his first GP2 victory in his third race. Glock finally got his first win of the season after three second places in the sprint.
At Monaco, only one race was held which was won by Pastor Maldonado who had celebrated a victory in World Series there in the previous year. Glock increased his podium streak to five races after finishing 3rd.
Two drivers made their comeback to GP2 in Magny-Cours. Adam Carroll replaced underperforming Antônio Pizzonia while Ernesto Viso replaced Sérgio Jimenez.
Glock took pole position in Magny-Cours but the race started difficult time for him. He crashed with his teammate Andreas Zuber who started second, just a few metres after the start. Later on the first lap, Viso had massive shunt in which his car turned over and flew over the concrete barrier. Viso was lucky not to suffer serious injuries. The race was eventually won by a veteran Giorgio Pantano, giving Campos Racing its first victory in GP2. Viso's teammate Javier Villa won the sprint race, becoming youngest ever winner in GP2 at that time (the record was broken a year later by Sébastien Buemi).
Glock failed to finish both Silverstone races as well. Zuber won the feature race while Carroll took the sprint, making it nine winners in nine races. More amazingly, they were divided to eight different teams: only iSport International had two drivers who had won a race at this point.
Glock rebounded to take feature race victory at his home soil in Nürburgring. Sprint race was won by Villa. Glock was also on pole in Hungaroring but failed to score after mistake during the race. Hungaroring race was won by Carroll who leap-frogged several positions with well-timed pit stop during the safety car, as those who had made their stops already had to use start/finish straight which had a lot of debris on it. Villa was again victorious in sprint race, with Carroll taking 2nd. Despite starting later in the season, he was en route to good position in the championship.
At Istanbul, Lucas di Grassi, who had finished in the points in every race except one at that point, took his first victory of the season. Glock won the sprint race, so he eventually got more points than di Grassi while these two were battling for the championship.
At Monza, Pantano won the feature race and Glock the sprint. di Grassi failed to get podium after car troubles at the end of the feature race. Pantano, meanwhile, was disqualified in the sprint race after driving several laps with broken front wing.
At Spa, Glock stalled at the start and finished the race in 17th position. Lapierre was the eventual winner. Glock then collided with Ricardo Risatti during reconnaissance lap of the sprint race and failed to start. di Grassi got good chance to close the gap on him but couldn't do better than third in a race which was won by the Indian Karun Chandhok.
The final race was held in Valencia and that was only race of the season which was not supporting F1. Glock started the weekend two points ahead of di Grassi. The feature race started on damp track. Tyre choice was crucial. The best drivers started on intermediates and then quite soon moved to slicks as the mandatory pit window had opened. The gaps in the race were exceptionally big, only five drivers finished in the same lap with the winner Vitaly Petrov. Glock was seventh while di Grassi spun off on damp track, just after switching to slicks. Glock got to start from the front row in the sprint race while di Grassi's place was near the back of the grid. Glock confirmed his championship with the victory in the final race, 11 points ahead of di Grassi. Pantano finished third in the series on countback ahead of Filippi.
Teams and drivers All of the teams used the Dallara GP2/05 chassis with Renault-badged 4.0 litre (244 cu in) naturally-aspirated Mecachrome V8 engines order and with tyres supplied by Bridgestone. Team Driver name Rounds ART Grand Prix 1 Michael Ammermüller 1, 4–5 Mikhail Aleshin 2, 11 Sébastien Buemi 3, 6–10 2 Lucas di Grassi All Minardi Piquet Sports 3 Alexandre Negrão All 4 Roldán Rodríguez All iSport International 5 Timo Glock All 6 Andreas Zuber All Arden International 7 Bruno Senna All 8 Adrian Zaugg 1–10 Filipe Albuquerque 11 Petrol Ofisi FMS International 9 Antônio Pizzonia 1–3 Adam Carroll 4–11 10 Jason Tahinci All Trident Racing 11 Pastor Maldonado 1–7 Ricardo Risatti 8–10 Sergio Hernández 11 12 Kohei Hirate All Racing Engineering 14 Javier Villa All 15 Sérgio Jimenez 1–3 Ernesto Viso 4, 6 Filipe Albuquerque 5 Marcos Martinez 7–11 Super Nova International 16 Luca Filippi All 17 Mike Conway All BCN Competición 18 Sakon Yamamoto 1–6 Markus Niemelä 7, 9–11 Henri Karjalainen 8 19 Ho-Pin Tung All DPR 20 Christian Bakkerud 1–8, 10–11 Olivier Pla 9 21 Andy Soucek All DAMS 22 Kazuki Nakajima All 23 Nicolas Lapierre All Campos Grand Prix 24 Vitaly Petrov All 25 Giorgio Pantano All Durango 26 Borja García All 27 Karun Chandhok AllSources:
Calendar Round Location Circuit Date Time Tyres Supporting Local UTC 1 Sakhir, Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit 14 April 16:00 13:00 Medium Bahrain Grand Prix 15 April 10:30 07:30 2 F Montmeló, Spain Circuit de Catalunya 12 May 16:00 14:00 Hard Spanish Grand Prix S 13 May 10:00 08:00 3 F Monte Carlo, Monaco Circuit de Monaco 26 May 16:00 14:00 Soft Monaco Grand Prix 4 F Magny-Cours, France Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 30 June 16:00 14:00 Medium French Grand Prix S 1 July 10:00 08:00 5 F Silverstone, Great Britain Silverstone Circuit 7 July 15:00 14:00 Hard British Grand Prix S 8 July 09:00 08:00 6 F Nürburg, Germany Nürburgring 21 July 16:00 14:00 Medium European Grand Prix S 22 July 10:00 08:00 7 F Mogyoród, Hungary Hungaroring 4 August 16:00 14:00 Medium Hungarian Grand Prix S 5 August 10:00 08:00 8 F Istanbul, Turkey Istanbul Park 25 August 16:00 13:00 Hard Turkish Grand Prix S 26 August 11:00 08:00 9 F Monza, Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza 8 September 16:00 14:00 Hard Italian Grand Prix S 9 September 10:00 08:00 10 F Stavelot, Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 15 September 16:00 14:00 Medium Belgian Grand Prix S 16 September 10:00 08:00 11 F Valencia, Spain Circuit de Valencia 29 September 16:00 14:00 Medium Spanish F3 ChampionshipSpanish GT Championship S 30 September 12:00 10:00Source:
Results Round Circuit Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Report 1 Bahrain International Circuit Luca Filippi Kazuki Nakajima Luca Filippi Super Nova International Report Timo Glock Nicolas Lapierre DAMS 2 F Circuit de Catalunya Timo Glock Kazuki Nakajima Bruno Senna Arden International Report S Timo Glock Timo Glock iSport International 3 F Circuit de Monaco Pastor Maldonado Alexandre Negrão Pastor Maldonado Trident Racing Report 4 F Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours Timo Glock Roldán Rodríguez Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix Report S Andreas Zuber Javier Villa Racing Engineering 5 F Silverstone Circuit Andreas Zuber Timo Glock Andreas Zuber iSport International Report S Kazuki Nakajima Adam Carroll Petrol Ofisi FMS International 6 F Nürburgring Timo Glock Mike Conway Timo Glock iSport International Report S Sébastien Buemi Javier Villa Racing Engineering 7 F Hungaroring Timo Glock Sébastien Buemi Adam Carroll Petrol Ofisi FMS International Report S Sébastien Buemi Javier Villa Racing Engineering 8 F Istanbul Park Luca Filippi Nicolas Lapierre Lucas di Grassi ART Grand Prix Report S Andreas Zuber Timo Glock iSport International 9 F Autodromo Nazionale Monza Giorgio Pantano Giorgio Pantano Giorgio Pantano Campos Grand Prix Report S Adam Carroll Timo Glock iSport International 10 F Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Nicolas Lapierre Timo Glock Nicolas Lapierre DAMS Report S Nicolas Lapierre Karun Chandhok Durango 11 F Circuit de Valencia Kazuki Nakajima Karun Chandhok Vitaly Petrov Campos Grand Prix Report S Timo Glock Timo Glock iSport InternationalSource:
Championship standings Scoring system Points are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 6 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap in the feature and sprint races. The driver also had to start the race from his allocated grid position to be eligible to claim the fastest lap and has to drive 90% of race laps. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.
Feature race points Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Pole FL Points 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 2 1
Sprint race points Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers.
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th FL Points 6 5 4 3 2 1 1
Drivers' Championship