The 2007 World Touring Car Championship season was the 4th season of

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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 Diesel 2000 is an FIA circuit racing classification for modified production based touring cars using turbodiesel engines. Like its counterpart, Super 2000, the category is open to large-scale series production touring cars modified by a kit. Car ...

Cars and Super Production Cars 2007 WTCC Sporting Regulations
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regulations. The Drivers' Championship was won by

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and the Manufacturers' Championship by BMW.Championship point standings
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Teams and drivers

Alfa Romeo 156 N Technology James Thompson WTCC 2007 Curitiba

The following teams and drivers contested the 2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship.2007 FIA World Touring Car Championship - Entry List
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Driver changes

Changed Teams * Augusto Farfus: N-Technology → BMW Team Germany * James Thompson: SEAT Sport → N-Technology *

Emmet O'Brien Emmet O'Brien (born 7 March 1981, in Dublin) is an Irish auto racing driver. Career O'Brien started competing in the Irish Karting championships at a young age, he finished 2nd in the National Irish Formula A karting championship for PCR in 1998 ...

: 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 Félix Porteiro Pérez (born 26 August 1983 in Castellón) is a Spanish racing driver. He competed in GP2 in 2006 and 2007, his best finish was 4th in 2007. Racing career Single-seaters In 2001 Porteiro drove in the Spanish Formula Three Ch ...

: GP2 Series → BMW Team Italy-Spain *

Michel Jourdain Jr. Michel Jourdain Lascurain, better known as Michel Jourdain Jr. (born September 2, 1976), is a Mexican racecar driver, best known for winning two Champ Car races in 2003. He is the 2020 Super Copa GTM Champion. Formula racing Jourdain started rac ...

: NASCAR Craftman Truck Series → SEAT Sport *

Tiago Monteiro Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro (; born 24 July 1976) is a Portuguese professional racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup, driving a Honda Civic TCR for Engstler Motorsport. He competed in Formula One between 2005 an ...

: Formula 1 → SEAT Sport *

Olivier Tielemans Olivier Tielemans (born June 1, 1984 in Weert) is a Dutch race car driver. His career started back in 1991 when he came 4th in the Dutch Kart Championship. Between 1995 and 1997 he raced in the Belgian Kart Championship and became Rookie of The Y ...

: DTM → N-Technology *

Roberto Colciago Roberto Colciago (born 4 April 1968) is a racing driver from Saronno, Italy. He has spent most of his career in touring car racing – first in Super Touring and then in Super 2000 – followed by the World Touring Car Championship and cur ...

: Italian Superturismo Championship → SEAT Sport Italia * Sergio Hernández: GP2 Series → Scuderia Proteam Motorsport *

Miguel Freitas Miguel Freitas (born 2 March 1984 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese auto racing driver. Career Freitas competed in the Mégane Trophy Eurocup in 2005 and 2006 for the Racing for Belgium team.http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/4418/career/ Career statisti ...

: Eurocup Mégane Trophy → Racing for Belgium Leaving WTCC *

Peter Terting Peter Terting is a German auto racing driver, born on 19 February 1984 in Kempten. He won the Volkswagen Lupo Cup in 2002, earning him a DTM drive for Abt Sportsline in 2003, although this proved to be too big a step up, and the teenager struggle ...

: SEAT Sport → International GT Open *

Duncan Huisman Duncan Huisman (born 11 November 1971 in Doornspijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch racing driver. He won the Guia Race four times and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in 2005. He claimed three titles at the Dutch Touring Car Championship in 1997, 2000 and ...

: BMW Team Italy-Spain → No full-time drive *

Gianni Morbidelli Gianni Morbidelli (born 13 January 1968) is an Italian racing driver. He participated in 70 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 March 1990. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 8.5 championship points. He currently competes in the T ...

: N-Technology → Superstars Series *

Salvatore Tavano Salvatore Tavano (born 13 March 1980 in Siracusa) is an Italian racing driver, winner of the TCR Italy Touring Car Championship 2018, 2019 and 2020 and who has had several seasons in the WTCC, ETCC and TCR Italy championships. Career After start ...

: N-Technology → Le Mans Series *

Ryan Sharp Ryan Sharp (born 29 April 1979 in Newtonhill, Scotland) is a race car driver and team manager. He raced in the FIA GT Championship in 2007 with JetAlliance Racing in their lead No. 33 Aston Martin DBR9 – with ex-F1 Driver Karl Wendlinger as ...

: Jas Motorsport → FIA GT Championship *

Diego Romanini Diego Romanini (born 30 December 1978 in Pietrasanta) is an Italian auto racing driver. He has competed in the World Touring Car Championship and was the Austria Formula 3 Cup champion in 2001 and 2003. Career After starting his career in karting ...

: Wiechers-Sport → Eurocup Mégane Trophy * Dirk Müller: BMW Team Germany → FIA GT Championship

Calendar

A provisional calendar was released on 15 January 200

https://web.archive.org/web/20070118114243/http://www.fiawtcc.com/fiawtcc/puebla/2006/sport_sto1055954.shtml]. On 27 February 2007, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA announced that the 13th and 14th races of the series originally scheduled to be run in

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would instead take place at the Anderstorp circuitbr>
Each race weekend featured two races of 50 kilometres each (similar to

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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.

Results and standings

Races

Standings

Drivers' Championship

† — 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 Robert Dahlgren (born 1 December 1979 in Skellefteå) is a Swedish auto racing driver who currently competes for the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He previously competed in Australia and New Zealand for a single season in the V8 Superc ...

Colin Turkington Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a British racing driver from Northern Ireland who competes in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW. He is a 4 time BTCC champion, winning the title in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019, havi ...

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. * * Guest driver

Yokohama Teams' Trophy

The Yokohama Teams' Trophy was won by

Proteam Motorsport Proteam Motorsport is an Italian auto racing team based in Arezzo that was set up by former driver Valmiro Presenzini in 1997. They are best known for their efforts in the FIA World Touring Car Championship. Their time in the WTCC has seen them b ...

.Yokohama Teams' Trophy
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Manufacturers' Championship

Points were awarded on a 10–8–6–5–4–3–2–1 basis in each race but only to the top two placegetters from each manufacturer. All the other cars of that same manufacturer were considered invisible as far as scoring points was concerned.

Notes

References

External links

2007 Season at www.fiawtcc.com via web.archive.org

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