Automobile Grand Prix of the United States 2007

The Grand Prix of the United States of Formule 1 2007, disputed the June 17th on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the 775e test of the history of the championship of the world of Formula 1 run since 1950, and the seventh test of the championship 2007.

Course of the race

Free tests

Friday morning

Friday afternoon

Saturday morning

Classification of the qualifications

Classification of the race

Legend :

  • Abd = Abandonment

Pole position & Record of the turn

  • Pole Position : Lewis Hamilton (McLaren - Mercedes) in 1min 12s 331 (208,641 km/h). The best time of the qualifications as for him was established by Alonso at the time of Q2 in 1min 11s 926.
  • Meilleur turn : Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) in 1min 13s 117 with the 49e turn (206,398 km/h).

Turns at the head

To note

  • 2nd victory for Lewis Hamilton (McLaren - Mercedes).
  • 152e victory for McLaren as a manufacturer.
  • 57e victory for Mercedes as a motor mechanic.
  • 2nd pole position for Lewis Hamilton.
  • At the conclusion of the GP of the United States 2007, Lewis Hamilton is the first pilot of the history of Formula 1 to go up on the podium at the time of each one of its first seven races.
  • At the conclusion of the GP of the United States 2007, the Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso is the only pilots to have registered points at the time of each test.
  • In the days preceding the race, the topicality of Formula 1 turned around the health condition of Robert Kubica, victim one week before of an accident of a rare violence at the time of the Grand Prix of Canada. Left the hospital as of the following day and suffering only from one concussion and one ankle sprain, the Polish pilot had immediately expressed his desire to take again the wheel in Indianapolis, but Thursday preceding the first tests, the doctors of TRUSTED refused to grant the right to him to take part in the test and imposed to him an additional rest, asserting consequences which a new accident could have. To replace Kubica, BMW Sauber turned to Sebastian Vettel, one of two pilots testers of the stable which disputes on this occasion its first Grand Prix.
  • Sebastian Vettel, qualified in 7th position and which began in GP registered its first point for its first race. It becomes, at only 19 years, 11 months and 14 days, the youngest pilot of the history of Formula 1 to register a point (the preceding record belonged to Jenson Button since GP of Brazil 2000).
  • Heikki Kovalainen, beginning this year in F1, for the first time carried out a GP (during 5 turns, of the 22e to the 26e).
  • Liam Flanagan which had worked for 25 years at Toyota (it had begun within the team engaged in rally) and which was responsible for the frame team of Toyota F1 TEAM is drowned during its holidays in Turkey right before the GP of the United States. With the departure of Tsutomu Tomita (which was the director of the team Toyota F1 TEAM and from now on owner of the circuit of the Mount Fuji) after GP of Canada, the Japanese stable will have lost two of its leaders in the one week space.
  • the contract binding the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the FOM not having been taken back, it will not have there a GP of F1 to Indianapolis in 2008.

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