2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach explained

The 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was the second round of the 2007 Champ Car World Series Season, held on April 15 on the streets of Long Beach, California.

Qualifying results

Pos	Name	Team	Qual 1	Qual 2	Best
1	Sébastien Bourdais	N/H/L Racing	1:07.970	1:07.546	1:07.546
2	Will Power	Team Australia	1:07.920	1:07.695	1:07.695
3	Simon Pagenaud	Team Australia	1:08.200	1:07.883	1:07.883
4	Alex Tagliani	RSPORTS	1:08.304	1:08.047	1:08.047
5	Graham Rahal	N/H/L Racing	1:09.063	1:08.170	1:08.170
6	Robert Doornbos	Minardi Team USA	1:09.865	1:08.183	1:08.183
7	Justin Wilson	RSPORTS	1:09.553	1:08.200	1:08.200
8	Bruno Junqueira	Dale Coyne Racing	1:09.099	1:08.430	1:08.430
9	Tristan Gommendy	PKV Racing	1:08.823	1:08.527	1:08.527
10	Mario Dominguez	Forsythe Racing	1:08.708	1:08.554	1:08.554
11	Paul Tracy	Forsythe Racing	1:08.573	–	1:08.573
12	Neel Jani	PKV Racing	1:09.991	1:08.609	1:08.609
13	Matt Halliday	Conquest Racing	1:10.155	1:08.864	1:08.864
14	Dan Clarke	Minardi Team USA	1:09.773	1:08.890	1:08.890
15	Oriol Servia	Forsythe Racing	–	1:08.922	1:08.922
16	Ryan Dalziel	Pacific Coast Motorsports	1:09.790	1:09.070	1:09.070
17	Alex Figge	Pacific Coast Motorsports	1:09.585	1:09.151	1:09.151
18	Katherine Legge	Dale Coyne Racing	1:09.766	1:10.418	1:09.766

note: Paul Tracy was injured in practice between Q1 and Q2. Oriol Servia replaced him and drove his backup car in Q2 and will drive in the race.

Grid

Row	Inside		Outside
1	1	Sébastien Bourdais	5	Will Power
2	15	Simon Pagenaud	8	Alex Tagliani
3	2	Graham Rahal	14	Robert Doornbos
4	9	Justin Wilson	19	Bruno Junqueira
5	22	Tristan Gommendy	7	Mario Dominguez
6	21	Neel Jani	42	Matt Halliday
7	4	Dan Clarke	3	Oriol Servia
8	28	Ryan Dalziel	29	Alex Figge
9	11	Katherine Legge

Race

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	1	Sébastien Bourdais	N/H/L Racing	78	1:40:43.975	1	32
2	3	Oriol Servia	Forsythe Racing	78	+2.6 secs	14	28
3	5	Will Power	Team Australia	78	+3.9 secs	2	26
4	9	Justin Wilson	RSPORTS	78	+5.4 secs	7	23
5	8	Alex Tagliani	RSPORTS	78	+6.2 secs	4	21
6	19	Bruno Junqueira	Dale Coyne Racing	78	+6.4 secs	8	19
7	21	Neel Jani	PKV Racing	78	+7.7 secs	12	17
8	2	Graham Rahal	N/H/L Racing	78	+8.3 secs	5	15
9	28	Ryan Dalziel	Pacific Coast Motorsports	78	+9.0 secs	16	13
10	11	Katherine Legge	Dale Coyne Racing	78	+9.9 secs	18	11
11	22	Tristan Gommendy	PKV Racing	78	+10.3 secs	9	10
12	4	Dan Clarke	Minardi Team USA	77	+ 1 Lap	14	9
13	14	Robert Doornbos	Minardi Team USA	74	+ 4 Laps	6	8
14	15	Simon Pagenaud	Team Australia	73	+ 5 Laps	3	8
15	42	Matt Halliday	Conquest Racing	72	Mechanical	13	6
16	29	Alex Figge	Pacific Coast Motorsports	69	Contact	17	5
17	7	Mario Dominguez	Forsythe Racing	7	Contact	10	4

Caution flags

Laps	Cause
9-11	Dominguez crash
54–57	Pagenaud crash
72–76	Figge crash

Notes

Laps	Leader
1–31	Sébastien Bourdais
32–38	Oriol Servia
39–54	Sébastien Bourdais
55–67	Tristan Gommendy
68–78	Sébastien Bourdais

Driver	Laps led
	58
	13
	7

New Race Record: Sébastien Bourdais: 1:40:43.975 (78 Laps)

Championship standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

	Pos	Driver	Points
	1	Will Power	59
2	2	Alex Tagliani	44
10	3	Sébastien Bourdais	40
3	4	Bruno Junqueira	36
3	5	Robert Doornbos	35

Note: Only the top five positions are included.

Attendance

Attendance at the 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was approximately 200,000 people over the race weekend with 100,000 of those fans in attendance for the Champ Car main event. This represented a 10% increase over 2006.^[1]

References

Web site: 2008 Grand Prix of Houston – Press Release . 2007-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928055517/http://www.grandprixofhouston.com/content2007/release_04_22_2007_attendance.html . 2007-09-28 . dead .