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 2007 WTCC Sporting Regulations Retrieved from fiawtcc.com via web.archive.org on 22 December 2014 as defined by the relevant FIA regulations. The Drivers' Championship was won by Andy Priaulx and the Manufacturers' Championship by BMW.Championship point standings Retrieved from www.fiawtcc.com via web.archive.org on 22 December 2014
Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers contested the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship - Entry List Retrieved from www.fiawtcc.com via web.archive.org on 22 December 2014
TeamCarNo.DriversRounds Manufacturer Teams BMW Team UK BMW 320si 1 Andy Priaulx All 14 Fredrik Ekblom 7, 10–11 BMW Team Germany 2 Jörg Müller All 3 Augusto Farfus All BMW Team Italy-Spain 4 Alessandro Zanardi All 5 Félix Porteiro All Chevrolet RML Chevrolet Lacetti 6 Robert Huff All 7 Nicola Larini All 8 Alain Menu All 88 Rickard Rydell 7 SEAT Sport SEAT León 9 Jordi Gené 1–6 SEAT León TDI 7–11 SEAT León 10 Michel Jourdain Jr. 1–1011 Gabriele Tarquini 1–9 SEAT León TDI 10–11 SEAT León12 Yvan Muller 1–6 SEAT León TDI 7–11 SEAT León 18 Tiago Monteiro 2–11 38 Oscar Nogués 10 40 Peter Terting 8 88 Rickard Rydell 11 N.technology Alfa Romeo 156 15 James Thompson All 16 Olivier Tielemans 1–10 66 André Couto 11 GR Asia SEAT León 20 Tom Coronel All Team RAC/Aviva BMW 320si 25 Duncan Huisman 11 Independents' Trophy Honda Dealer Team Sweden Honda Accord Euro R 17 Tomas Engström 10 SEAT Sport Italia SEAT León 19 Roberto Colciago 1–4, 6–10 34 Massimiliano Pedalà 3, 5, 8–9 GR Asia SEAT León 21 Emmet O'Brien 1–6 22 Maurizio Ceresoli 3–11 35 Timur Sadredinov 8 45 Sergey Krylov 9 Exagon Engineering SEAT León 23 Pierre-Yves Corthals All 24 Anthony Beltoise 4 77 Luís Pedro Magalhães 6 Wiechers-Sport BMW 320si 26 Stefano D'Aste All Elgh Motorsport BMW 320si 28 Carl Rosenblad 7, 11 Scuderia Proteam Motorsport BMW 320si 30 Luca Rangoni All 31 Sergio Hernández 1, 3–4, 6–11 32 Davide Roda 5 Racing for Belgium Alfa Romeo 156 33 Miguel Freitas 2–6, 8, 10–11 Maurer Motorsport Chevrolet Lacetti 36 María de Villota 3 Engstler Motorsport BMW 320i 43 Franz Engstler 11 44 Andrey Romanov 11 Russian Bears Motorsport BMW 320i 50 Lev Fridman 2–3 51 Evgeny Zelenov 2 52 Viktor Shapovalov 2–3 Golden Motors Honda Accord Euro R 54 Alexander Lvov 7 55 Andrey Smetsky 7 Ao's Racing Team BMW 320i 62 Ao Chi Hong 11 Avtodom Racing BMW 320i 63 Henry Lee Jr. 11 Team RAC/Aviva BMW 320si 27 Colin Turkington 9, 11 TFS-Yaco Racing Toyota Corolla T-Sport 37 Philip Geipel 5 Engstler Motorsport BMW 320i 46 David Louie 11 Polestar Racing Volvo S60 Flexifuel 60 Robert Dahlgren 7
Driver changes Changed Teams Augusto Farfus: N-Technology → BMW Team Germany James Thompson: SEAT Sport → N-Technology Emmet O'Brien: Wiechers-Sport → GR Asia Pierre-Yves Corthals: Jas Motorsport → Exagon Engineering Stefano D'Aste: Proteam Motorsport → Wiechers-Sport
Entering WTCC including those who entered one-off rounds in 2006 Félix Porteiro: GP2 Series → BMW Team Italy-Spain Michel Jourdain Jr.: NASCAR Craftman Truck Series → SEAT Sport Tiago Monteiro: Formula 1 → SEAT Sport Olivier Tielemans: DTM → N-Technology Roberto Colciago: Italian Superturismo Championship → SEAT Sport Italia Sergio Hernández: GP2 Series → Scuderia Proteam Motorsport Miguel Freitas: Eurocup Mégane Trophy → Racing for Belgium
Leaving WTCC Peter Terting: SEAT Sport → International GT Open Duncan Huisman: BMW Team Italy-Spain → No full-time drive Gianni Morbidelli: N-Technology → Superstars Series Salvatore Tavano: N-Technology → Le Mans Series Ryan Sharp: Jas Motorsport → FIA GT Championship Diego Romanini: Wiechers-Sport → Eurocup Mégane Trophy Dirk Müller: BMW Team Germany → FIA GT Championship
Calendar
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 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
Results and standings
Races Race Race Name Pole Position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team Winning independent Report 1 Race of Brazil Jörg Müller Jörg Müller Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany Pierre-Yves Corthals Report 2 Jörg Müller Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany Luca Rangoni 3 Race of the Netherlands Alain Menu Luca Rangoni Alain Menu Chevrolet Luca Rangoni Report 4 Gabriele Tarquini Gabriele Tarquini SEAT Sport Luca Rangoni 5 Race of Spain James Thompson James Thompson James Thompson N.Technology Luca Rangoni Report 6 Robert Huff James Thompson N.Technology Luca Rangoni 7 Race of France Alain Menu Alain Menu Alain Menu Chevrolet Stefano D'Aste Report 8 Augusto Farfus Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany Pierre-Yves Corthals 9 Race of the Czech Republic Félix Porteiro Augusto Farfus Félix Porteiro BMW Team Italy-Spain Massimiliano Pedalà Report 10 Alessandro Zanardi Jörg Müller BMW Team Germany Stefano D'Aste 11 Race of Portugal Alain Menu Robert Huff Alain Menu Chevrolet Stefano D'Aste Report 12 Jörg Müller Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK Pierre-Yves Corthals 13 Race of Sweden Tiago Monteiro Alain Menu Robert Huff Chevrolet Luca Rangoni Report 14 Alessandro Zanardi Rickard Rydell Chevrolet Roberto Colciago 15 Race of Germany Gabriele Tarquini Roberto Colciago Yvan Muller SEAT Sport Roberto Colciago Report 16 James Thompson Augusto Farfus BMW Team Germany Massimiliano Pedalà 17 Race of UK Alain Menu Yvan Muller Alain Menu Chevrolet Pierre-Yves Corthals Report 18 Colin Turkington Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK Pierre-Yves Corthals 19 Race of Italy Yvan Muller Jordi Gené Yvan Muller SEAT Sport Luca Rangoni Report 20 James Thompson Jordi Gené SEAT Sport Roberto Colciago 21 Guia Race of Macau Alain Menu Gabriele Tarquini Alain Menu Chevrolet Luca Rangoni Report 22 Gabriele Tarquini Andy Priaulx BMW Team UK Luca Rangoni
Championship standings Points system 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 108654321
Drivers' Championship Pos Driver BRA NED ESP FRA CZE POR SWE GER UK ITA MAC Pts 1 Andy Priaulx 2 2 8 5 5 3 6 2 Ret 7 7 1 11 13 5 2 7* 1 NC Ret 8 1 92 2 Yvan Muller 8 4 NC 12 3 4 2 6 6 DNS 5 5 6 Ret 1 5 4* 5* 1 5 27† DNS 81 3 James Thompson Ret 11 13 19 1 1 10 7 9 5 10 10 3 5 3 4 2 8* 3 3 5 3 79 4 Augusto Farfus Jr. 3 1 5 2 22† 10 7 1 4 2 9 6 16 9* 7 1 11 Ret 7 Ret 26† DNS 71 5 Nicola Larini Ret 10 2 4 2 5 Ret 11 5 6 3 20† 7 2 Ret 21 Ret 12 4 2 7 2 71 6 Alain Menu Ret Ret 1 Ret 9 14 1 8 8 Ret 1 3 8 3 NC 10 1 Ret 5 Ret 1 21† 69 7 Jörg Müller 1 3 10 3 8 2 11 10 2 1 8 2 15 10 4 Ret 14 7* 16 14 13 20† 66 8 Gabriele Tarquini 4 5 7 1 Ret 24† 19 12 7 4 4 7 5 7 2 7 10 Ret 6 Ret 2 14 62 9 Robert Huff 5 Ret Ret 13 Ret 13 4 4 20 NC 2 11 1 11 11 6 6* 3 8 4 3 Ret 57 10 Jordi Gené 9 12 9 10 4 6 8 5 15 8 14 21† 18 24 6 3 5* 6* 2 1 4 22† 55 11 Tiago Monteiro 4 9 Ret 12 3 3 13 9 15 13 2 6 10 8 21 11 Ret 8 6 4 38 12 Félix Porteiro Ret Ret 11 8 Ret 19 5 Ret 1 3 17 18 14 16 Ret 20 9* 2 18 Ret 12 7 32 13 Tom Coronel 6 8 Ret 14 21 25† 9 Ret Ret 11 6 4 4 4 Ret 12 13 9* 9 7 15 5 29 14 Luca Rangoni Ret 7 3 6 7 7 Ret 17 18 Ret 20 12 17 20 16 18 16 21† 10 DNS 17 10 15 15 Alessandro Zanardi 7 6 12 11 Ret DNS Ret 9 3 20 16 15 20 15 Ret 15 15 Ret 13 6 10 Ret 14 16 Rickard Rydell 9 1 11 6 13 17 Roberto Colciago WD WD 6 7 Ret Ret DNS DNS Ret DNS 19 18 8 14 12 15 22† 9 6 18 Michel Jourdain Jr. 12 15 15 16 6 9 12 Ret 11 13 12 9 Ret 12 12 9 19 13 14 13 3 19 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 3 20 Sergio Hernández 14 Ret 10 8 14 Ret Ret DNS Ret 22 14 17 18 16 19 17 21 15 1 = Fredrik Ekblom 12 14 11 12 16 9* 1 NC Olivier Tielemans Ret 14 16 17 14 11 Ret 16 19 16 Ret DNS 13 21 9 Ret 20 14 Ret 11 0 NC Duncan Huisman 9 11 0 NC 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 0 NC Massimiliano Pedalà 11 15 10 12 Ret 11 NC 18 0 NC Oscar Nogués 12 DNS 0 NC Emmet O'Brien 13 Ret 18 20 17 17 17 Ret 16 17 Ret 19 0 NC Timur Sadredinov 13 19 0 NC Maurizio Ceresoli 15 23 Ret 15 17 14 18 16 23 25 15 16 Ret 19 17 Ret 22 18 0 NC Anthony Beltoise 15 14 0 NC Miguel Freitas Ret 21 16 Ret 16 Ret 21 18 19 Ret DNS DNS 20 15 23 19 0 NC Tomas Engström 15 16 0 NC Franz Engstler 19 16 0 NC Carl Rosenblad 25 17 20 17 0 NC 21 17 0 NC María de Villota 18 20 0 NC Viktor Shapovalov 19 23 20 21 0 NC Lev Fridman 20 22 19 22 0 NC Sergey Krylov Ret 20 0 NC Davide Roda 23 21† 0 NC Evgeny Zelenov 21 24 0 NC Peter Terting Ret 22† 0 NC Alexander Lvov 24 26 0 NC Andrey Romanov 24 Ret 0 NC Andrey Smetsky 26 27 0 NC Henry Lee Jr. Ret DNS 0 NC André Couto DNS DNS – NC Ao Chi Hong WD WD – guest drivers ineligible for points NC Colin Turkington 3* 4* 14 8* * NC Robert Dahlgren 10 8* * NC Phillip Geipel 22 19 * NC David Louie 25 Ret * Pos Car BRA NED ESP FRA CZE POR SWE GER UK ITA MAC Pts Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † — 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.
* 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.
Yokohama Independents' Trophy Championship promoter KSO organised the Yokohama Independents’ Trophies within the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.Yokohama Independents' Trophies - Regulations Retrieved from fiawtcc.com via web.archive.org on 22 December 2014
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. Points were awarded in the final two rounds on a 20-16-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis.