What happened in the 2007 F1 season?
It began on 18 March and ended on 21 October after seventeen events. The Drivers’ Championship was won by Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen by one point at the final race of the season, making him the third Finnish driver to take the title. On this day in 2007 at the Brazilian GP – Kimi Raikkonen won the race and became the F1 World Champion! He won the championship by a single point finishing with 110 points ahead of Hamilton and Alonso on 109.
What happened between Alonso and Hamilton in 2007?
On August 4, 2007, it was Alonso’s turn to lead the way in qualifying. But when Hamilton took to the front and refused to let his team-mate pass – claiming that Raikkonen would then get through if he had done so – Alonso fumed, and duly retaliated when it came to McLaren’s final Q3 pitstops.Lewis Hamilton was left lamenting what might have been as he qualified a disappointing 18th for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix after hitting a bollard in what is his final race weekend competing with Mercedes, with team boss Toto Wolff apologising for an inexcusable and idiotic mistake.
How did Raikkonen win in 2007?
On this day in 2007 at the Brazilian GP – Kimi Raikkonen won the race and became the F1 World Champion! He won the championship by a single point finishing with 110 points ahead of Hamilton and Alonso on 109. After the race, Schumacher announced that he would retire at the end of the season. Later, Ferrari announced that he would be replaced in the 2007 season by Räikkönen.
Why didn’t McLaren win in 2007?
When we look back at 2007, obviously, we know that there’s been quite a lot of internal competition at McLaren,” Stella acknowledged. I was on the other side. Potentially, that competition went a little too far, and we could say that racing led to the victory to the third one, of another team. Alonso vs. Lewis Hamilton made his F1 debut in 2007 for the sport’s second most successful team alongside the reigning two-time world champion Fernando Alonso.