2007 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300

The 2007 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 was a race in the 2007 IRL IndyCar Series, held at Chicagoland Speedway. It was held over the weekend of 7 -September 9, 2007, as the seventeenth and final round of the 2007 calendar.

The layout of Chicagoland Speedway

Dario Franchitti secured the title after title rival Scott Dixon ran out of fuel in turn 3 of on the final lap, some 800 metres shy of the finish fine. After this race, Franchitti moved on to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, meaning that for the first time in IRL history, a champion would not defend his title in the following season. Franchitti returned to IndyCar in 2009 and would go on to win three straight Indycar championships from 2009 to 2011 and two Indy 500s in 2010 and 2012. Before he retired following a crash in the second race of the 2013 Shell-Pennzoil Grand Prix of Houston.

Another notable farewell was 2006 Indy 500 winner & three time Indy Racing League champion Sam Hornish Jr. as he would also move in 2008 to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with Team Penske. Unlike Franchitti, Hornish never came back to IndyCar since then.

Classification

Fin.
Pos
Car
No.
DriverTeamLapsTime/RetiredGridLaps
Led
Points
1 27 United Kingdom Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 200 1:44:53.7950 1 10 50
2 9 New Zealand Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 200 +1.8439 6 41 40
3 6 United States Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske 199 +1 Lap 2 90 35+3
4 3 Brazil Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 199 +1 Lap 3 56 32
5 8 United States Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing 199 +1 Lap 8 0 30
6 11 Brazil Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 199 +1 Lap 4 0 28
7 17 United States Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing 198 +2 Laps 12 0 26
8 60 Japan Hideki Mutoh (R) Panther Racing 198 +2 Laps 13 0 24
9 15 United States Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 198 +2 Laps 19 0 22
10 22 United States A. J. Foyt IV Vision Racing 198 +2 Laps 18 0 20
11 7 United States Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 198 +2 Laps 7 0 19
12 5 United States Sarah Fisher Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 196 +4 Laps 17 0 18
13 10 United Kingdom Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 193 Gearbox 5 3 17
14 25 Canada Marty Roth Roth Racing 190 +10 Laps 21 0 16
15 23 Venezuela Milka Duno (R) SAMAX Motorsport 184 +16 Laps 22 0 15
16 20 United States Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 164 +36 Laps 14 0 14
17 55 Japan Kosuke Matsuura Panther Racing 156 Electrical 16 0 13
18 4 Brazil Vítor Meira Panther Racing 133 Accident 15 0 12
19 76 United States P. J. Chesson Roth Racing 94 +106 Laps 20 0 12
20 2 South Africa Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 73 Mechanical 9 0 12
21 14 United Kingdom Darren Manning A.J. Foyt Racing 62 Mechanical 8 0 12
22 26 United States Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 34 Accident 10 0 12
Lead changes: 14 between 5 drivers

References

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