2007 Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix

The 2007 Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix was a race in the 2007 IRL IndyCar Series, held at Watkins Glen International. It was held over the weekend of July 6–8, 2007, as the tenth round of the seventeen-race calendar.

Race Summary

Hélio Castroneves started on pole, but after leading the first 19 laps, dropped out under heavy pressure from Scott Dixon. Dixon, who led 23 laps, held off Sam Hornish Jr. to win the race.

Tony Kanaan was angry with Hornish Jr. for a previous wreck and said he wanted to talk with Hornish after the race. On pit road Kanaan and Hornish walked up to have a civil talk about their incident when Sam Hornish Sr. tried to defend his son by wrestling Tony Kanaan. A brawl broke out and Sam Hornish Sr. had to be physically restrained by IndyCar officials and security. Michael Andretti tried to get into the brawl but Marco Andretti held his father back while driver Dan Wheldon helped Kanaan out of the brawl.

For punching Kanaan and interfering with the intended civil discussion, Sam Hornish Sr. was fined $25,000 and banned from the garages for one race. Kanaan and Hornish Jr. were both fined $25,000 and put on indefinite probation.

Classification

Fin.
Pos		 Car
No.		 Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Laps
Led		 Points
1 9 Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 60 1:43:51.5094 2 23 50+3
2 6 Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske 60 +6.2591 5 0 40
3 27 Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 60 +9.7492 3 0 35
4 11 Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 60 +14.4830 4 0 32
5 26 Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 60 +15.4749 6 9 30
6 15 Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 60 +26.9171 7 0 28
7 10 Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 60 +35.3515 10 1 26
8 55 Kosuke Matsuura Panther Racing 60 +40.7037 11 0 24
9 14 Darren Manning A.J. Foyt Racing 60 +47.6893 9 0 22
10 17 Jeff Simmons Rahal Letterman Racing 60 +54.8895 12 0 20
11 7 Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 60 +57.0833 15 0 19
12 20 Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 60 +1:06.9352 17 0 18
13 2 Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 60 +1:07.7275 13 0 17
14 8 Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing 60 +1:10.3164 14 0 16
15 22 A. J. Foyt IV Vision Racing 60 +1:25.2853 16 0 15
16 5 Sarah Fisher Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 58 +2 Laps 18 0 14
17 4 Vítor Meira Panther Racing 58 +2 Laps 8 8 13
18 3 Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 19 Crash 1 19 12
Lead changes: 6 between 5 drivers

Full Course Caution Periods

There were three full course caution periods during the race, with a total of seven laps run under full course yellow.

Laps Cause
20-22 Hélio Castroneves crash in turn 11
25 A.J. Foyt IV spin in turn 8
33-35 Vítor Meira tow-in from turn 4

References

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