2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
On 10 July 2007, Spyker announced that Christijan Albers would no longer be driving for the team. The given reason was a failure to pay sponsorship monies due. Markus Winkelhock raced Spyker's second car at the European Grand Prix. On 25 July 2007 Spyker confirmed that the Japanese driver Sakon Yamamoto would compete in the remaining seven Grands Prix for them. On 31 July 2007, Scuderia Toro Rosso replaced Scott Speed with BMW test driver Sebastian Vettel following an alleged physical altercation between Speed and STR Team Principal Franz Tost.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Driver changes
On 8 October 2007, Williams driver Alexander Wurz announced his immediate retirement from Formula One racing. Williams test driver Kazuki Nakajima replaced Wurz for the Brazilian Grand Prix.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Ferrari technical director, Ross Brawn, was to take a sabbatical year for 2007, after ten seasons at the Italian team since 1997. However, it was later announced that he would leave the team. In 2008, Ross Brawn became Team Principal of the Honda team.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
McLaren signed a title sponsorship deal with the telecommunications company Vodafone late in 2005. With the loss of Vodafone, Scuderia Ferrari began a sponsorship deal with Alice, a brand of Telecom Italia.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Mild Seven confirmed that they would not renew their contract with Renault following its conclusion at the end of 2006 due to current European tobacco laws.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
British American Tobacco's Lucky Strike and 555 brands ceased to sponsor the Honda team, following which the team ran a sponsorless livery in 2007.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Williams changed their engines from Cosworth to Toyota in a three-year deal until 2009. Contrary to speculation at the time, the engines were not rebadged as Lexus.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
Red Bull officially became an Austrian constructor by receiving an Austrian licence, though continued to operate from the same base in Britain.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
On 9 September 2006, MF1 Racing was officially sold to a Dutch-Arab consortium owned by Michiel Mol, along with the aid of Spyker Cars. The team was officially renamed Spyker MF1 Team, keeping the MF1 for the rest of the season due to Concorde Agreement rules. On 30 September 2006, Spyker announced that their engine supplier would be Ferrari.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
On 16 October 2006, Renault confirmed that the Dutch banking company, ING, would become their main sponsor to replace Mild Seven, which has sponsored the Enstone-based team during the 13 years since 1994. On 20 October 2006, Williams announced AT&T as their new main sponsor. On 24 October 2006, Spyker announced they would change their name from Spyker MF1 Team to Spyker F1 from 2007 onwards, subject to all other teams giving their agreement. On 31 October 2006, Red Bull confirmed their engine situation for 2007. Renault engines were used by Red Bull Racing, while Scuderia Toro Rosso used 2006-spec Ferrari engines.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Teams and drivers, Team changes
On 15 March 2007, Spyker announced their new title sponsor for the 2007 season: United Arab Emirates airline company Etihad Airways.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar
On 29 August 2006, The FIA published a provisional calendar for the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. The San Marino and European Grands Prix were excluded, although the European round would later make a comeback (see below). The final calendar (above), which confirmed that the San Marino Grand Prix would not return, was released on 18 October 2006.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar
For the first time in nearly half a century, no German Grand Prix was held as a result of the circuits previously hosting a Grand Prix in Germany beginning to alternate in organizing the German Grand Prix. However, the promoter for the Hockenheim race controlled the rights to the descriptor "German Grand Prix" and an agreement could not be reached between them and the Nürburgring circuits for the naming rights. The Nürburgring event therefore retained its usual Grand Prix of Europe title.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar
After twenty years of being hosted at the Honda-owned Suzuka Circuit since 1987, the Japanese Grand Prix moved to Toyota's rebuilt Fuji Speedway, a circuit that F1 had not raced at since 1977.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps returned after a one-year absence in 2006 due to track maintenance.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season calendar
For the first time since 1975, no country hosted more than one Grand Prix.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season
Pre -season testing began in November 2006 at the Circuit de Catalunya, with ten of the eleven teams participating in the test sessions. The most notable absentees were Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen, who were still under contract at Renault and McLaren respectively. Jenson Button was also absent as he had suffered a hairline fracture on his ribs after a go-karting accident in preparations for the November tests. Lewis Hamilton made his first appearance in a McLaren since being confirmed as Alonso's teammate for 2007.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season
Felipe Massa topped the times on the first two days of testing. Massa's testing partner, Luca Badoer, took the fastest time on the third day, although interest was on the fact that double World Champion Mika Häkkinen joined Hamilton and de la Rosa at McLaren for a one off test, although the Finnish driver was over three seconds slower than Badoer's time, completing 79 laps of the Spanish circuit.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season
The other big story of 2007 was the return to a single tyre supplier (Bridgestone). It was perceived that this accounted for some of the reason why Ferrari led the early tests, although it was claimed by Bridgestone that the 2007 tyre is of a completely new build, thus minimising any real benefit for the 2006 Bridgestone teams (Ferrari, Toyota, Williams, Midland/Spyker and Super Aguri).


2007 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season
Toyota was the only team out for the fourth day of testing at Barcelona, as the Japanese works team chose to miss the first day of testing. Both Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli's fastest laps were quicker than Massa and Badoer's times during the previous three sessions. Testing resumed on 6 December at Jerez, with the majority of teams attending the session. Both Ferraris of Massa and Badoer were first and second fastest, with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton making up the top three in third. Hamilton improved on his position the following day by taking the fastest time, a second faster than Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Pre-season
Japanese works teams Honda and Toyota topped the times for the next two days of testing: Honda's Rubens Barrichello and Toyota's Franck Montagny were fastest, although Toyota had the Jerez track to themselves when Montagny took the fastest time. Heikki Kovalainen and Pedro de la Rosa took the fastest times on the fourth and fifth day of testing at Jerez. Also of note, on the last day of testing Fernando Alonso made his McLaren testing debut after an agreement with manager Flavio Briatore. This did not call for an end to his agreement (which ended on 31 December).


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
The season started at Albert Park in Australia on 18 March. Kimi Räikkönen led the whole race, and became the fourth driver to win on their debut for Ferrari. Fernando Alonso came second and debutant Lewis Hamilton finished 3rd. Felipe Massa took his first pole of the season in Malaysia but Alonso won his first race with McLaren while Hamilton finished second. Massa led the entire race to win in both Bahrain and Spain, and in both races Hamilton finished second, becoming the first rookie to finish on the podium in more than his first two outings. McLaren dominated Monaco with Alonso winning from Hamilton after the pair had lapped everybody apart from themselves and Felipe Massa, who was not too far from being lapped.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
The Canadian GP included four safety car periods and one of the biggest crashes of Formula One in that era. The race started off with the second all-McLaren front row with Hamilton taking his first pole position followed by Alonso. Alonso made a mistake in turn 1, losing several places while Hamilton was opening a gap between himself and Nick Heidfeld. On lap 22 the first safety car period began after Adrian Sutil hit the concrete wall. The safety car went into the pits on lap 28 but before the lap could be completed Robert Kubica had a massive accident.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
He had lost his front wing after hitting Jarno Trulli. He then went wide and hit a bump on the grass that launched him into the air and into a violent impact with the retaining barrier at a peak deceleration of 75G. The safety car was once again deployed and went in on lap 35. Hamilton once again opened up a gap to second-placed Heidfeld until lap 50 when Christijan Albers left a lot of debris on the track after a crash forcing the deployment of the safety car.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
The race restarted on lap 55 and the safety car was deployed again on lap 56 after Vitantonio Liuzzi hit the so-called 'Wall of Champions'. The safety car period was extended after Jarno Trulli hit the tyre barrier at the exit of the pitlane after trying to catch up with the field. On the restart Hamilton led to the finish to claim his maiden win in his sixth race. The next race at Indianapolis saw Hamilton lead from the start until victory after a 300 km/h side by side battle with Alonso for the lead. Ferrari took their first 1–2 finish of the season in France with Kimi Räikkönen winning from polesitter, Felipe Massa.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
In Britain Hamilton took his third pole position, going on to finish a distant third behind winner Kimi Räikkönen and Fernando Alonso. Europe (Germany) would see Hamilton's run of nine consecutive podiums come to an end. After a large crash in qualifying he started in 10th in the race. On lap 4 he aquaplaned off the circuit in a torrential rainstorm but the race was stopped. He restarted after his car was pulled out of the gravel but after taking a gamble to change early to dry tyres on a drying track, he spun off several times but recovered to finish 9th, just missing out on the final point.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
After a qualifying incident between Alonso and Hamilton in which Alonso prevented Hamilton from completing his final flying lap, Alonso was demoted to 6th on the grid at the Hungarian Grand Prix while McLaren was made ineligible for points for the constructors' championship for that race. Hamilton then took victory with Räikkönen coming second. In Turkey Felipe Massa took a dominant victory followed by Räikkönen and Alonso. Hamilton finished fifth after he suffered a tyre failure while running in 3rd. In Italy Alonso won from Hamilton followed by Räikkönen.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
Following that Grand Prix McLaren was excluded from the constructors' championship after having been found guilty of theft and illegal usage of confidentional technical information of Ferrari. The team did not receive any constructors' points from subsequent races. In Belgium Räikkönen won from Massa and Alonso, thus allowing Ferrari to clinch the world constructors' championship from BMW Sauber following McLaren's exclusion.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
The Japanese Grand Prix moved to Fuji Speedway. The event was marked by treacherous weather and was started behind the safety car. Lewis Hamilton survived a brush with Robert Kubica to win from Heikki Kovalainen and Kimi Räikkönen. At the last three corners Kubica and Felipe Massa ran side by side in a battle for 6th, while Fernando Alonso aquaplaned and crashed on lap 41 of 67. In China, Hamilton won his 6th pole of the season and led up to lap 28 when he was overtaken by Räikkönen and he then spun off entering the pitlane.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Season report
The season finale marked the first time since 1986 that three drivers had a chance of becoming World Champion at the season finale, and the first time since the inaugural season in 1950 that the man who stood in third before the final race went on to win the championship (the driver in 1950 being Giuseppe Farina). Hamilton was the favourite with 107 points followed by Alonso with 103 points and Räikkönen with 100 points. Hamilton started 2nd but dropped to the back of the pack after a gearbox problem. He recovered to 7th but Räikkönen won the race and the championship. The final standings were Räikkönen with 110 points followed by Hamilton and Alonso each with 109 points. Räikkönen's late charge, following worse luck at the start of the season, would narrowly give him the World Drivers' Championship.


2007 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top eight classified finishers using the following structure:


2007 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, World Constructors' Championship standings
BMW Sauber F1 Team placed second in the Constructors' Championship


2007 Formula One World Championship, Results and standings, World Constructors' Championship standings
Although its drivers scored the most points combined, McLaren were excluded from the Constructors' Championship


2007 Formula One espionage controversy
The 2007 Formula One espionage controversy, also known as Spygate and Stepneygate, was a set of accusations among Formula One racing teams that confidential technical information had been passed between them. It involved the McLaren, Ferrari and Renault F1 teams.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy
The original case involved allegations made by the Ferrari Formula One team against a former employee (Nigel Stepney), a senior McLaren engineer, Mike Coughlan, and his wife Trudy Coughlan concerning the theft of technical information. These allegations were the subject of legal action in Italy and an Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) investigation. A High Court case in England was dropped after Ferrari reached an agreement with the Coughlans.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy
An FIA hearing into the matter took place on 26 July 2007 but did not result in any penalty for McLaren. However, a second hearing took place on 13 September 2007, and by then, compelling evidence resulted in several penalties for the team. The most important of these were the team's exclusion from the 2007 Constructors' Championship and a record-breaking fine of $100 million.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy
Following information from McLaren, allegations were subsequently made during November 2007 by the FIA against the Renault F1 team regarding information they were found to have in their possession concerning the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars. These allegations were also the subject of an FIA investigation, with a hearing taking place on 6 December 2007.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Background
Along with Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne, Nigel Stepney was part of the "dream team" credited with the change of fortunes of Ferrari in the late 1990s.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Background
In February 2007, Stepney made public comments regarding his "unhappiness" following the team's reorganization which had resulted from Ross Brawn's departure:


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Background
I am looking at spending a year away from Ferrari, I'm not currently happy with the situation within the team - I really want to move forward with my career and that's something that's not happening right now. Ideally, I'd like to move into a new environment here at Ferrari - but if an opportunity arose with another team, I would definitely consider it.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Background
Later that month, Ferrari announced another change in the team structure which saw Stepney appointed as head of Team Performance Development: "After many years spent working on the Formula One circuits, the last 13 of those as part of the Ferrari Race Team, Nigel Stepney, with the approval of the company, has chosen to take on a different role that will see him no longer have to attend the races."


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Stepney
In the week beginning 17 June 2007, at the 2007 United States Grand Prix Ferrari filed a formal complaint against Stepney, leading to the commencement of a criminal investigation by the Modena district attorney in Italy.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Stepney
On 3 July 2007, Gazzetta dello Sport reported that Ferrari had completed its internal investigation and had dismissed Stepney as a result. At the same time, Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni told ITV Sport that Ferrari’s action against Stepney related to "irregularities discovered at the Ferrari factory prior to the Monaco Grand Prix".


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
On the day Ferrari announced Stepney’s dismissal, the team also announced it had taken action against "an engineer from the Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes team", later named as Mike Coughlan. Coughlan was suspended by McLaren as a result.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
Ferrari announces it has recently presented a case against Nigel Stepney and an engineer from the Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes team [named by Autosport.com as Coughlan] with the Modena Tribunal, concerning the theft of technical information. Furthermore, legal action has been instigated in England and a search warrant has been issued concerning the engineer. This produced a positive outcome.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
The search warrant is understood to have been related to Coughlan's home and the "positive outcome" is reported to be documents claimed to have originated at Ferrari's Maranello factory. Stepney's dismissal from Ferrari had been announced earlier the same day.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
On 10 July 2007 a High Court hearing was opened and adjourned until the following day, to allow Mike Coughlan to submit an affidavit. However, details released include the fact that Mike Coughlan is alleged by Ferrari to be in possession of 780 pages of Ferrari documentation, and that his wife is alleged to have taken them to a photocopying shop near Woking. Ferrari were unaware that their technical information had been stolen until they received a tip from an employee in the photocopying shop. The staff member saw that the documents were confidential and belonged to Ferrari and, after copying them, decided to contact the team’s headquarters in Italy.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
Coughlan did not submit the affidavit because of the possibility of it being used against him in an Italian court case. However, late on 10 July 2007, Ferrari reached an agreement with Mr. and Mrs. Coughlan under which Ferrari dropped its High Court case in return for their full disclosure of all they know about the case and a promise of future cooperation.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Coughlan
On 16 July 2007, McLaren announced that its own internal investigation had revealed that "no Ferrari materials or data are or have ever been in the possession of any McLaren employee other than the individual sued by Ferrari. The fact that he held at his home unsolicited materials from Ferrari was not known to any other member of the team prior to July 3."


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, Allegations against Renault F1
On 8 November 2007, the FIA announced that the Renault F1 team would be summoned before the FIA World Motorsport Council to answer a charge of possession of confidential information relating to the 2006 and 2007 McLaren Formula One cars. The statement issued by the FIA states that Renault F1 was found to have information "including, but not limited to the layout and critical dimensions of the McLaren F1 car, together with details of the McLaren fuelling system, gear assembly, oil cooling system, hydraulic control system and a novel suspension component used by the 2006 and 2007 McLaren F1 cars". The date for the hearing was set for 6 December 2007. The espionage claims are thought to revolve around an employee, Philip Mackereth, who transferred from McLaren to Renault, according to FIA President Max Mosley.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 4 July 2007, McLaren announced it had conducted an investigation and concluded that "no Ferrari intellectual property has been passed to any other members of the team or incorporated into [our] cars." The team also invited the FIA to inspect its cars to confirm these facts; "In order to address some of the speculation McLaren has invited the FIA to conduct a full review of its cars to satisfy itself that the team has not benefited from any intellectual property of another competitor." Since the revelation of Coughlan's involvement in the affair, McLaren provided a full set of drawings and development documents to the FIA, detailing all updates made to the team's chassis since the incident occurred at the end of April.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 12 July 2007, the FIA announced that it had summoned McLaren to an extraordinary meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council to answer charges that they had breached Article 151C of the International Sporting Code. At the hearing on 26 July 2007, FIA found that Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes was in possession of confidential Ferrari information and is therefore in breach of the Code, but with no evidence that they had used the information no punishment was levied. However, the FIA reserved the right to reconvene on the matter if any such evidence subsequently came to light.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
Ferrari labelled the decision "incomprehensible"; Autosport judged the team to be "furious". McLaren said "[a] unanimous decision has been taken by the FIA which in McLaren's opinion is very balanced and fair." The matter was referred to the FIA International Court of Appeal, with the hearing scheduled for 13 September 2007.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 1 August 2007, Ron Dennis, in an open letter to the president of the Italian motorsport authority Luigi Macaluso, accused Ferrari of giving a false and dishonest version of events and further that the car used to win the 2007 Australian Grand Prix was illegal. McLaren learned of the "illegal" floor device from Nigel Stepney, with the team describing this contact as whistle-blowing. However the team insists that following this incident, Jonathan Neale instructed Coughlan to cease contact with Stepney. McLaren accuse Ferrari of trying to blur this "whistle-blowing" of which McLaren was aware, with Coughlan's possession of the 780 page Ferrari dossier of which it insists it was not aware.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
The 2007 Hungarian Grand Prix was a controversial weekend for McLaren; Lewis Hamilton had disobeyed a team instruction, disadvantaging Fernando Alonso, and so Alonso held Hamilton up in the pit lane during qualifying, denying Hamilton a chance to record a final lap time. In the following discord within the team, TV pictures showed Ron Dennis angrily throwing his headphones down as Alonso pulled out of the pits, and after the session was over he was then shown having a serious conversation with Alonso's trainer.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On the morning of the race (August 5), Alonso met Ron Dennis in his motorhome and allegedly threatened to send his email exchanges with McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa and Coughlan to the FIA. According to Max Mosley, Ron Dennis informed him of the conversation and told Mosley that the threat was an empty one, "There's no information, there's nothing to come out; I can assure you that if there was something, Max, I would have told you." Mosley subsequently retracted the implication that Dennis had lied.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 5 September 2007, the FIA announced that it had received new evidence regarding the case, and would re-open the investigation on September 13. This replaced the planned appeal hearing. It later transpired that the new evidence was the driver's emails that were sent to Bernie Ecclestone, F1's commercial rights holder who then informed the FIA. The FIA requested the three McLaren drivers (Alonso, Hamilton, and de la Rosa) to provide relevant evidence and help the FIA in further investigation.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
In return, the FIA offered assurance that any information made available would not result in any proceeding against the driver personally under the International Sporting Code or the Formula One Regulations. However, the drivers were notified that if it later came to light that they had withheld any potentially relevant information, serious consequences could follow.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 11 September, McLaren approached the FIA with questions about the Renault F1 team, and possibly other (then unknown) teams as well. At the time, it was unknown if the meeting related directly to the espionage scandal, but a key McLaren argument made was that if McLaren was guilty, other teams were as well.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 13 September, the FIA hearing imposed a penalty for illicitly collecting and holding information from Ferrari to confer a dishonest and fraudulent sporting advantage upon McLaren. The penalty consisted of exclusion from and withdrawal of all points awarded to McLaren in all rounds of the 2007 Constructors' Championship, a record fine of $100 million (less the TV and travel income lost as a result of the points deduction), and the obligation for the team to submit its 2008 chassis for scrutiny.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
However, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton's points were not affected, and the two were free to contest the Drivers' Championship, because McLaren's drivers were offered immunity in exchange for cooperation. The team was not banned and all drivers points earned only counted towards the driver's championship points. Whenever a McLaren driver won any of the remaining races, (the only example being Hamilton at the Japanese Grand Prix), no McLaren representative other than a driver was allowed onto the podium.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 14 September, Ron Dennis announced that he was the one who alerted the FIA that further evidence existed.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 15 September, Max Mosley contested Ron Dennis' claim that he alerted the FIA to the existence of further evidence, claiming that Dennis actually alerted him that Alonso had decided to send the emails in himself, and that Mosley had been erroneously assured by Dennis that the emails contained nothing incriminating.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 6 December, Renault were found guilty of breaching article 151(c) of the International Sporting Code by another FIA WMSC hearing, but escaped penalty.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 13 December, McLaren issued a press release detailing a letter sent by Martin Whitmarsh, COO of the team, to the FIA. In the letter, Whitmarsh stated that the team accepted that "a number of McLaren employees" had access to Ferrari technical information, and apologised that it took the intervention of the FIA for this to come to light. The team also offered to "enter into discussion... as to a moratorium of an appropriate length in respect of the use" of the systems. On the same day, the FIA issued a press release stating that the FIA president would ask the members of the World Council "for their consent to cancel the hearing scheduled for 14 February 2008 and, in the interests of the sport, to consider this matter closed."


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Details, FIA investigation
On 23 February 2009, legal proceedings against McLaren employees in Italy were dropped. In return, Mike Coughlan had to pay €180,000 while three employees of McLaren (Paddy Lowe, Jonathan Neale and Rob Taylor) had to pay €150,000.


2007 Formula One espionage controversy, Legacy
The $100 million fine remains one of the largest in sporting history.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season
2007 saw the 10th season of the Formula Palmer Audi open wheel racing series, contested over 20 races between 7 April and 23 September. The championship was won by Tim Bridgman in his first Palmer Audi season.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, Championship
For 2007, Formula Palmer Audi underwent a change in its target market, focusing primarily on young aspiring Formula One drivers rather than affluent businessmen. Of the 22 drivers in the field for each round, 16 were "career drivers", with a group of around six “gentleman drivers" remaining. The number of races increased from 15 in 2006 to 20, the number of meetings increasing from six to eight. Despite this 33 per cent increase, the cost of competing in the series was reduced, the advertised price of £55,000 plus VAT being a reduction of nearly £3,000 on the 2006 season.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, Championship
The race calendar for 2007, while expanded, did not feature any meetings outside of the UK. However, FPA continues to support large international events at Brands Hatch such as A1 Grand Prix and DTM.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Silverstone (6/7 April)
The season began at Silverstone on Easter Saturday, with a pair of 22-lap races scheduled for the 1.6-mile National circuit. Series newcomer Matthew Hamilton took both pole positions after topping the two qualifying sessions on Saturday morning, having come out on top of a bizarre tiebreak in the second session. Both Hamilton and Luciano Bacheta set identical fastest times of 55.328 seconds. Hamilton was awarded pole having set the time before Bacheta did.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Silverstone (6/7 April)
Bacheta took the lead at the start of Round 1 with Hamilton slotting into second. They would be forced to hold station for the opening laps as the safety car was deployed for a collision between Jack Clarke and Andreas Demetriou at Becketts. At the restart on lap seven, Bacheta held off Hamilton, but was passed by him down the National Straight half a lap later. Hamilton went on to win the race by around two seconds, with Jason Moore taking a podium in his first-ever car race, holding off more experienced drivers Dominik Jackson and Tim Bridgman on the final lap to take third.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Silverstone (6/7 April)
The start of Round 2 was marred by a serious crash at the startline. A fast-changing red starting light caused some drivers to miss the start, including polesitter Hamilton who was then hit from behind by numerous other cars as they charged off the grid around Woodcote Bend. Hamilton was extracted from the cockpit and airlifted to hospital in Coventry with a broken right femur. After a delay of around an hour, the race restarted with Bacheta leading away Clarke, who then assumed the lead on lap three. On lap six Clarke spun at Luffield and resumed in sixth (where he would finish the race), leaving Bacheta to take the victory. Stefan Wilson and Moore charged through the field to take second and third respectively.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Brands Hatch GP (27–29 April)
Rounds 3, 4 and 5 of the season took place on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit in Kent, where a trio of 16-lap races on the 2.3-mile track would support the final round of A1GP's second season.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Brands Hatch GP (27–29 April)
Friday's qualifying sessions for the first two races of the weekend saw Jolyon Palmer and Tim Bridgman take the pole positions, with points leader Luciano Bacheta having to settle for a pair of fourths. In Saturday morning's first race (Round 3), Bridgman took the lead from the start and pulled away to take his first victory of the season. Behind, Palmer's challenge for a first podium of 2007 ended with a crash at Surtees. Bacheta took second, with Giacomo Petrobelli in third after withstanding pressure from Dominik Jackson in the closing laps.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Brands Hatch GP (27–29 April)
In Round 4 on Saturday afternoon, Bridgman held first place from the start, while Stefan Wilson kept his second-place grid position as he stayed in touch with the leader. Late in the race, Wilson started to reel in Bridgman, using his turbo boost to pass him on lap 13, and going on to take his first car racing win at only his 10th attempt. Bacheta took third, ahead of Palmer.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Brands Hatch GP (27–29 April)
Round 5 took place on Sunday, with Palmer being awarded pole position for setting the fastest lap over the previous day's races. Once again, Palmer lost the lead at the start, Bacheta hitting the front to take his second win of the campaign. Palmer spent the latter stages of the race trying to hold off Bridgman, who made it past at Paddock Hill Bend on the penultimate lap, only for Palmer to dive up the inside at Pilgrim's Drop half a lap later to reclaim the position.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Snetterton (11–13 May)
Rounds 6, 7 and 8 took place at Snetterton in Norfolk. In qualifying, Luciano Bacheta and Jack Clarke both took their first pole positions of the season in overcast conditions, although Bacheta could only manage fifth on the grid for the second race. Tim Bridgman would start both races from second.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Snetterton (11–13 May)
Sunday's race day, the only day all season to include three races, was marred by changeable weather conditions. Round 6 was held in light rain, with Bridgman making the best start to take the lead and pull away from Bacheta. Further back, Tom Bradshaw was scything through the field and catching Bacheta quickly in the latter stages. Then, Bridgman spun on the 16th lap of 18 at Russell chicane, allowing Bacheta and Bradshaw through to fight for the victory. That fight never materialised, a red flag being thrown on the last lap for a spinning backmarker at the Esses, ensuring Bacheta's third win of the season from Bradshaw and Bridgman.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Snetterton (11–13 May)
A break in the rain shortly before Round 7 caused the field to make last-minute changes to slick tyres. Once again, Bridgman made the best start from second, and made up for his earlier mistake by leading all the way to victory. Bacheta, meanwhile, suffered his first retirement of the season, tangling with polesitter Clarke at the Esses on the opening lap while fighting for second. Tom Bradshaw inherited second and held it to the end, securing pole for the Round 8 in the process with fastest lap, while Stefan Wilson came out on top of a battle with friend Richard Plant for third.


2007 Formula Palmer Audi season, 2007 Events, Snetterton (11–13 May)
Round 8 was held in torrential rain, with the first three laps run behind the safety car at slow speed. When the race finally got underway with a rolling start, poleman Bradshaw left the door open for Bridgman at Riches, who made a robust move to take the lead. Bradshaw ran out of road, spinning on to the grass, although he later rejoined to finish 12th. Bridgman cruised from then on to a 10-second victory over Stefan Wilson, with Richard Kent securing his first car racing podium in third. For Bacheta, the race was much more eventful as he fought his way up from 19th on the grid to finish fifth. This meant he held on to his championship lead by just two points from Bridgman, with Wilson another three further back.


2007 Formula RUS season
The 2007 season of Formula RUS motor racing, a Russian formula racing class.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 1
Stage 1 took place at the Autodrom Moscow (ADM), on 25 May.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 2
Stage 2 took place at the Autodrom Moscow (ADM), on 16–17 June.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 2, Race 1
Sergey Mokshantsev has won both heats of season opening racing held at ADM racetrack. Experienced driver from whom 2007 will be second consecutive season in Formula RUS managed to resist hard charge for the lead from talented youngster Maksim Chernev.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 2, Race 1
First race of the weekend started with a small pile-up in the first turn with Yuri Kim retiring from the race with bent suspension. Action from the drivers camp continued on the second lap as Maksim Travin nearly came on top of his fellow rival David Ramishvili. Trying to squeeze part in the first turn Travin could not avoid direct contact and was somersaulted in the air. Thanks to car structures absorbing forces of impact driver managed to escape unscathed with Ramishvilli rejoined race with much battered car.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 2, Race 1
In fight for the lead Maksim Chernev was mounting pressure on race leader but despite setting faster lap times could not find his way past Sergey Mokshantsev and finished runner-up with Denis Komarov taking final step on the rostrum.


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 2, Race 2
Second race happened much to the same scenario as the first race but with less damage done. Sixteen years old driver from Ekaterinburg city was setting fast lap time right on but his relative inexperience paid its dues. Having taken the lead in the second heat race Chernev missed braking and lost his short-lived lead to Mokshantsev. Final podium place was taken by David Ramishvili


2007 Formula RUS season, Stage 3
Stage 3 took place at the Autodrom Moscow (ADM), on 30 June - 1 July.


2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup
The 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup was the second Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup season. The season began at Zandvoort on 28 May and finished on 21 October at Hockenheim, after sixteen races.


2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup
Motopark Academy driver Frank Kechele won the NEC championship title, having won eight races during the season, bringing the team their second successive drivers' championship title.


2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, Standings, Drivers
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.


2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship
The 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Championship was the 19th British Formula Renault Championship season. The season began at Brands Hatch on March 31 and finished at Thruxton on October 14, after twenty rounds. The championship was won by Duncan Tappy with Adam Christodoulou winning the Graduate Cup.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series
The 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series was the third Formula Renault 3.5 Series season. began on 14 April 2007 in Monza, Italy and finished in Barcelona, Spain on 28 October 2007 after 17 races.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Technical
New to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for the 2007 season was a 'push to pass' system, similar to the one that was used in the Champ Car World Series. In a bid to promote more overtaking, drivers were now be able to boost their power for up to 60 seconds per race.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Technical
The cars also featured modifications to the gearbox, shock absorbers, rear anti-roll bar and steering system.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Regulation Changes, Sporting
A number of new rules were introduced for 2007 in order to improve the racing and to create more excitement:


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Race calendar and results
Eight rounds formed meetings of the 2007 World Series by Renault season, with an additional round supporting the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Season results
In addition, two points were awarded for the fastest lap in each race.


2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series, Season results
The maximum number of points a driver could earn each weekend (except Monaco) was 31 and the maximum number for a team was 55.


2007 Formula Renault V6 Asia Championship
The 2007 Formula V6 Asia season took place in five Asian countries. The season started on May 5–6 in Sepang and ended on November 3–4 in Zuhai.


2007 Formula Renault V6 Asia Championship
British driver James Winslow was crowned the 2007 Formula V6 Asia Champion after last round of the championship.


2007 Formula Renault V6 Asia Championship, Full Series Results
Points are awarded in both races as following: 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 bonus points for pole position in the first of the two venue races but only awarded to drivers, not for teams. Only the drivers that achieve races are awarded by points.


2007 Formula Renault seasons
This page describe all the 2007 seasons of Formula Renault series.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Calendar
This table indicate the round number of each Formula Renault series according to weekend dates. The dark note indicate Winter Series.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0 season
The 2007 season was the last of the French Formula Renault championship as independent series. It was included in 2008 in the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup. The last round of the French championship was held out of France, in the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona as symbol of the series mutations that expand to Western Europe (Portugal, Spain, France and Belgium) in 2008.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0 season
A Rookie (R) and Challenger Cup (C) classifications are also established for newcomers and young drivers.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK season
The season include 20 rounds. The final standing was established with the best 18 results of the season. A Graduate Cup (G) classification is also established for young drivers.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK season, 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Cup
The Formula Renault UK Winter Cup and Formula Renault BARC Winter Cup are held in same time, but with separated classification. Some drivers take part of the UK Winter Cup but are not eligible to score points as a non-MSA licence holder.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault BARC FR2000 season
The season include 12 rounds in 8 venues. The final standing was established with the best 11 results of the season. A Club Class classification is also established for young drivers (see 2007 Formula Renault BARC Club Class season below), they participe on the same race as the FR2000 series


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault BARC FR2000 season, 2007 Formula Renault BARC Club Class season
The season include 12 rounds in 8 venues. The final standing was established with the best 11 results of the season. The Club Class category is raced in same time as the main Formula Renault BARC FR2000 series. The cars use Tatuus RC (97/98/99) or Mygale SJ99 chassis and are powered by Renault Laguna 2.0L 6 valves engine providing lower Horsepower than the FR2000 class.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault BARC FR2000 season, 2007 Formula Renault BARC Winter Cup
The Formula Renault BARC Winter Cup and Formula Renault UK Winter Cup are held in same time, but with separated classification.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia season, 2007 Formula Renault 2.0 Italia Winter Series
César Ramos realize the perfect Winter Series with 4 wins, 4 Pole positions and 4 fastest laps.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Formula Renault 2000 de America season
On May 13, a race in El Salvador and on January 27, 2008, a race in Puebla, Mexico were planned but cancelled.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 2.0L, 2007 Asian Formula Renault Challenge season
The Asian Challenge Category (A) reward the best asian driver. The China Formula Renault Challenge (C) reward the best driver including only rounds held on China. The table indicate the final position of the race including all drivers and categories but total points are based on results according to participating categories of each driver.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 1.6L, 2007 Championnat de France FFSA Formule Campus Renault Elf season
This is the last season of the Championnat de France Formule Campus Renault Elf replaced by Formul’Academy Euro Series in 2008.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 1.6L, 2007 Formula Renault 1.6 Belgium season
The Belgian series is held on 6 venues, 2 races by venues. In 2007, the championship use Zolder (venue 1, 2 and 4), Dijon-Prenois (venue 3) and Spa (venues 5 and 6) circuits. Each round duration is 20 minutes.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 1.6L, 2007 Formula Renault 1.6 Argentina season
The cars use various chassis like Tito or Tulia. The contest consists of 13 races on 13 different venues : Comodoro Rivadavia, Parque Ciudad, Autódromo Ezequiel Crisol, Autódromo Jorge Ángel Pena, El Zonda - Eduardo Copello, Autódromo Oscar Cabalén, Callejero de Santa Fe, Las Paredes, Viedma, Autódromo Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Oberá, Autódromo Rosendo Hernández and the last in Circuito callejero de Punta del Este, Uruguay.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 1.6L, 2007 PanamGPSeries Formula 1600 Junior season
The PanamGPSeries Formula 1600 Junior is held with the Formula de America 2000 on the same 9 races. The same point system is used.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Formula Renault 1.6L, 2007 Formula TR 1600 Pro Series season
The Formula TR 1600 Pro Series is held with the Formula TR 2000 Pro Series on 20 rounds. The same point system is used.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships
This section resume unofficial and/or renault engine supplier formulas series.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2007 GP2 Series seasons
The GP2 Series are powered by 4 liters, V8 Renault engine and Bridgestone tyres with a Dallara chassis.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2007 Austria Formel Renault Cup season
This is the first season of this series using Formula Renault 2.0L. The season is held on 10 races.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2007 Fórmula Renault Plus season
The last round was cancelled after the death of Gabriel Werner, brother of Mariano Werner (multiple champion in Formula Renault 1.6 Argentina) during the preparation of the Autódromo Oscar Cabalén venue with its team Recta Final Sport.


2007 Formula Renault seasons, Other Formulas powered by Renault championships, 2007 Fórmula 4 Nacional season
This is the first season of the Fórmula 4 Nacional series held on Argentina. Cars use Renault Clio K4M engine (1598cc) with lower power than the official 1.6L series. Teams can choose chassis manufacturer (Tulia, Tito...). A Fórmula 4 Metropolitana was planned for the 2008 season.


2007 Formula Toyota season
The 2007 Formula Toyota season was the 18th and last season for this racing class.


2007 Formula Toyota season, Drivers and teams
All cars are Bridgestone shod Toyota FT30 cars with a Toyota 4A-GE engine.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot
The 2007 Fort Dix attack plot involved a group of six radicalized individuals who were found guilty of conspiring to stage an attack against U.S. Military personnel stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot
The men were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 8, 2007, and were prosecuted in federal court in October 2008. On December 22, 2008, five were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in their intentions to kill U.S. military personnel; four received life sentences, while one received 33 years in prison. The remaining member was thought to have had a minor role in the plot and was sentenced to five years in prison for weapons offenses.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot
Critics accuse the FBI of being a trap, saying the FBI informants created the conspiracy. The FBI used two convicts as paid informants in the case, one of whom was fighting deportation. In addition, they point to issues such as the ineffective assistance of their lawyers, the lack of impartiality of the judge, and the absence of explicit evidence of participation in the alleged plot. Mahmoud Omar, an FBI informant and key witness in the case later claimed that the Dukas were "people and good" and said the brothers were innocent. Due to the case, the three Duka brothers, Shnewer, and Abdullahu have been referred to as the Fort Dix Five.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Background
In the late 1980s, the Dukas abandoned life in Albania and moved to the United States as illegal immigrants and settled in Brooklyn in New York. The Dukas brothers did not adapt to the school and gradually gave up their studies and started to work and to live on the streets. During these periods they were detained numerous times for disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana. Dissatisfied with the situation, Dukas' parents moved into a small apartment in Cherry Hill, New Jersey where the brothers converted to Islam.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Background
Once established, the Duka family opened a small restaurant and then opened a roofing business. Mohamad Shnewer worked as a taxi driver and grew up with the Dukas in Brooklyn, his sister was engaged to Eljivir. Sedar Tatar worked at his father's pizzeria and later went to work at 7-Eleven in Philadelphia.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
The six men took a trip to the Poconos mountains, where they allegedly practiced firing "semi-automatic weapons" at a shooting range in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania. The shooting range, at Pennsylvania State Game Land 127, is operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A group of ten men had recorded video footage of themselves shooting weapons and shouting Allahu Akbar ("God is great"). They had also recorded themselves skiing, playing paintball, and riding horses on their trip to Poconos. The defense argued it was not a terrorist training video.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
On January 31, 2006, the men took the video to the Circuit City in Mount Laurel, New Jersey to convert it to a DVD. After viewing it, two employees of the store, Brian Morgenstern and another not named in the indictment, alerted authorities, who initiated a full-scale investigation.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
An informant from the FBI infiltrated the group to gather information. The group's planning was caught on video and audio tape by federal authorities. They also trained in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. US Attorney Chris Christie (later elected Governor of New Jersey) said that one of the suspects was able to draw a detailed map of Fort Dix from memory. Serdar Tatar even went to the police in Philadelphia to report that he was being pressured to provide a map of Fort Dix, and that he suspected a terrorist plan. However, he did not have a response from the authorities.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
The men continued to work at their jobs. The Duka brothers, Eljvir, Dritan, and Shain (Albanians), worked in roofing. Agron Abdullahu (Albanian), Serdar Tatar (a Turkish legal immigrant), and Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer (a U.S. citizen from Jordan) held a variety of jobs, including as a taxi driver and clerk for 7-Eleven.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
According to news reports, five of the men arrested intended to attack the Fort Dix military base and kill as many servicemen as they could. The sixth man arrested, Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting the possession of firearms by the Duka brothers. In a conversation that was recorded by the informant, Shnewer told the FBI informant "My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers [...] You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole place [up] and retreat completely without any losses".


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
The men tried unsuccessfully to purchase weapons from an FBI informant, including AK-47s, M16s, semi-automatic SIG Sauer 9 mm handguns, and a Smith & Wesson 9 mm. The informant stated that the weapons were to come from an underground military dealer from Baltimore, Maryland, who had recently returned from Egypt.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Context
One of the men in the Fort Dix plot was recorded on a surveillance tape commenting on a lecture by Anwar al-Awlaki, a prominent Muslim cleric of American and Yemeni citizenship, who went into hiding in Yemen after becoming radicalized in prison there during 2006–2007. (He was targeted for killing by President Obama in 2010 because of his numerous alleged terrorist activities, and killed in September 2011 by an unmanned US drone in Yemen.) On that tape, Shain Duka exclaimed "You gotta hear this lecture ... it's the truth, no holds barred, straight how it is!"


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
The six suspects were indicted on June 5, 2007 and were arraigned in federal court in Camden, New Jersey on June 14 where they pleaded not guilty. The U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler called it "an unusual case" and called for the trial to begin by early October, adding, "If the government is not able to prove this case, they should not be in jail. I want to get this resolved."


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
Agron Abdullahu, suspected of having the smallest role in the attack plot, accepted a plea bargain with a limit of 5 years in prison for his weapons offenses. Prosecutors say that while Abdullahu supplied weapons to the other five men, he resisted the idea of attacking the military base.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick asserted that the defendants were inspired by jihad, saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Their intention was to attack the U.S." Prosecutors presented recordings of the plot obtained by two paid FBI informants during a 16-month undercover investigation, as well as suspicious videos that were found on one defendant's computer. Defense attorneys countered that the videos, alleged by the prosecution to be terrorist training videos, showed the defendants on holiday exhibiting "false bravado".


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
They attacked the credibility of the prosecution's witnesses. Informant Mahmoud Omar confessed during the trial that two Duka brothers - Dritan and Shain - knew of no Fort Dix plot. "They had nothing to do with this," he said. On December 22, 2008, the jury found the plotters to be guilty of charges of conspiracy to harm US military personnel. They were acquitted on the charge of attempted murder.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
During sentencing, Dritan and Shain Duka received life sentences for the conspiracy conviction, with an additional 30 years for related weapons charges. Eljvir Duka and Mohamad Shnewer both received life sentences, and Serdar Tatar was sentenced to 33 years in prison.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
A 2011 NPR report said that some of the men associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
In June 2016, Judge Robert Kugler denied requests for a retrial. In his decision, Judge Kugler - the same as the original trial - stated that the Dukas were aware of their right to testify and consciously decided not to. Shain Duka's lawyer, Robert Boyle, called the judge's decision "disappointing but not entirely unexpected" and said he would appeal the decision. Lynne Jackson, an attorney for SALM, said: “Fort Dix Five supporters will continue to advocate for them and will continue to seek justice for the brothers. We will never give up until they are free. "


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Trial
In December 2020 Sedar Tatar applied to be released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic due to having tuberculosis. Judge Robert Kuegler denied the request.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Imprisonment
Eljvir Duka is currently being held at United States Penitentiary, Florence High, while Dritan Duka is at Communications management unit (CMU) at Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute and Shain Duka is at United States Penitentiary, Florence ADMAX.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Imprisonment
Mohamad Shnewer is serving his life sentence at the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, a high-security facility in Indiana.


2007 Fort Dix attack plot, Imprisonment
Serdar Tatar is serving his 33-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Memphis, a medium-security facility in Tennessee, and is scheduled for release in 2036.


2007 Fort Worth mayoral election
The 2007 Fort Worth mayoral election took place on May 12, 2007, to elect the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and was officially nonpartisan. The election saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Mike Moncrief.


2007 Fort Worth mayoral election
If no candidate received a majority of the vote in the general election, a runoff would have been held.


2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg
The 2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 12th edition of the Fortis Championships Luxembourg, and was part of the Tier II Series of the 2007 WTA Tour. It was held in Kockelscheuer, Luxembourg. The singles title was won by Ana Ivanovic while the doubles title was won by Iveta Benešová and Janette Husárová.


2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg, Champions, Doubles
Iveta Benešová /  Janette Husárová defeated  Victoria Azarenka /  Shahar Pe'er, 6–4, 6–2


2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg – Doubles
Květa Peschke and Francesca Schiavone were the defending champions, but neither participated in the doubles competition of the tournament. Iveta Benešová and Janette Husárová won the title, defeating Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Pe'er 6–3, 6–4 in the final.


2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg – Singles
Alona Bondarenko was the defending champion, but she was defeated in the first round by Marion Bartoli.


2007 Fortis Championships Luxembourg – Singles
Second seeded Serbian Ana Ivanovic was the champion, coming back from a 3-6, 0-3 deficit to beat Slovak Daniela Hantuchová. It was her third title of the year and her fifth career title overall.


2007 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships
The 2007 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2006–07 season. It was held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, USA on February 7–10. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


2007 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, Results, Pairs
Jessica Dubé / Bryce Davison did not complete their free skating and so automatically withdrew. During a side-by-side camel spin, the two drifted too close to each other, and Davison's blade hit Dubé in the face. She was immediately taken to the hospital and underwent surgery to repair the damage. Dubé later made a complete recovery and the two were able to compete at the 2007 World Championships.


2007 Four Nations Tournament (women's football)
The 2007 Four Nations Tournament was the seventh edition of the Four Nations Tournament, an invitational women's football tournament held in China. The venue for this edition of the tournament was Guangdong Olympic Stadium, in the city of Guangzhou.


2007 France rugby union tour of New Zealand
The 2007 France rugby union tour of new Zealand was a series of matches played in June 2007 in new Zealand by France national rugby union team.


2007 France rugby union tour of New Zealand
The final rounds of the 2006–07 Top 14 season conflicted with the tour, so France sent a Test team short of 30 of their top players. The team was labelled "France C" by the New Zealand media. Featuring 11 new caps, France were defeated 42–11 in the first Test at Eden Park. The second Test was played the following week in Wellington, and the All Blacks achieved their largest ever victory over France with a 61–10 win. The defeat was France's heaviest in their history.


2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season
The 2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season was the 15th and final season for the franchise in the NFL Europa League (NFLEL). The team was led by head coach Mike Jones in his fourth year, and played its home games at Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. They finished the regular season in second place with a record of seven wins and three losses. In World Bowl XV, Frankfurt lost to the Hamburg Sea Devils 37–28. The National Football League (NFL) announced the closure of its European branch on June 29.


2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season, Honors
After the completion of the regular season, the All-NFL Europa League team was selected by the NFLEL coaching staffs, members of a media panel and fans voting online at NFLEurope.com. Overall, Frankfurt had seven players selected. The selections were:


2007 Frankfurt Galaxy season, Honors
Additionally, O'Sullivan was named offensive co-MVP alongside running back Derrick Ross of the Cologne Centurions. O'Sullivan started all ten games and led the league in passer rating (104.8), and passing yards (2,201) while tying for the lead with 16 touchdown passes. He completed 174 of 254 passes with seven interceptions and also rushed 31 times for 110 yards and two touchdowns.


2007 Free Airlines L-410 crash
On June 21, 2007 an overloaded Free Airlines Let L-410UVP (registration 9Q-CEU) in Karibu Airways livery crashed shortly after takeoff from Kamina Town (fr:Kamina Ville) for Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Landing in a swamp east of the unpaved strip, the aircraft came to rest inverted in the water.


2007 Free Airlines L-410 crash, Background
Free Airlines and Karibu Airways (also cited as the operator) were both on the List of air carriers banned in the EU. That list now bans "All air carriers certified by the authorities with responsibility forregulatory oversight of Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC)".


2007 Free Airlines L-410 crash, Background
The L-410UVP is only rated for a maximum of 17 passengers, but there were 21 people aboard, including three crew. The aircraft was previously registered as 5R-MGO by the now-defunct Madagascar Flying Services. It was reported to have previously crashed in southern Sudan in 2005.


2007 Free Airlines L-410 crash, Crash
There was one fatality, Mbuyu Mibanga, a deputy in the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 12 more were injured, including two Congolese doctors working for the World Health Organization and one Engineer working for Vodacom-Congo.,


2007 Free Airlines L-410 crash, Aftermath
After another crash occurred in August 2007, the licenses of Karibu Airways and pilot Isaac Besongo were subsequently suspended.


2007 Freetown explosion
On 20 December 2007, a series of explosions which occurred in the shopping district of Free Street in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone killed 18 people while injuring at least five more.


2007 Freetown explosion, Explosion
The explosions were preceded by a fire that had started in a Lebanese used clothing store in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone and was spreading to the rest of the four-storey residential building that the store was located in. According to Ahmad Kamara-Bongay, the deputy chief of the local fire brigade, there had likely been a gas leak which was ignited by the fire.


2007 Freetown explosion, Casualties and initial response
The explosions killed at least 17 people and injured an estimated five others, while destroying much of the building it had occurred in and trapping "many people" underneath the rubble. An onsite fire engine was also damaged. The Connaught Hospital was reported to have struggled to care for the wounded.


2007 French Figure Skating Championships
The 2007 French Figure Skating Championships (French: Championnat de France Elite) took place between December 1 and 2, 2006 at the Patinoire du Baron in Orléans. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating. The event was used to help determine the French team to the 2007 World Championships and the 2007 European Championships.


2007 French Grand Prix
The 2007 French Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix de France 2007) was a Formula One motor race held on 1 July 2007 at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours, Magny-Cours, France. It was the eighth race of the 2007 Formula One World Championship. Kimi Räikkönen for the Ferrari team won the 70-lap race starting from third position. Felipe Massa, who started the race from pole position, finished second in the latter Ferrari, with Lewis Hamilton third in a McLaren car.


2007 French Grand Prix
Massa controlled most of the race from the front, but Räikkönen overtook him during the second round of pit stops to take the lead.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Background
Following the United States Grand Prix, the Formula One teams headed to Silverstone for a three-day test. Nine teams participated, with the exception of Honda and Super Aguri, who opted to test at the Jerez circuit. Neither Ferrari nor McLaren were fastest on the first two days at Silverstone, rather it was Toyota that was fastest on both of the days. However, on the third and final day of testing Felipe Massa put Ferrari on top with a time of 1:20.805. The nearest challenger, Nico Rosberg was 0.469 behind, with Fernando Alonso a further 0.010 behind. With Ferrari fastest on the third day, both of their drivers, Massa and Kimi Räikkönen were very confident heading into the French round of the season.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Background
Off track Ferrari launched a criminal investigation in Modena against their own employee Nigel Stepney. Stepney's lawyer ruled out sabotage claims, and Stepney said it was part of a "dirty tricks" campaign.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Background
There was also controversy at the rear-end of the grid, as Spyker asked the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) to look at the new updates that were put on the Super Aguri at Indianapolis to see whether the Aguri team are receiving current Honda parts. On Saturday, Super Aguri's managing director Daniel Audetto said "We have rules – they [Spyker] can just protest. Tell them to protest – if I have something to complain about, I will make a protest."


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Background
Robert Kubica was back in his BMW after his crash at the Canadian Grand Prix. Early on Saturday, Nick Heidfeld was cleared to continue in his BMW after experiencing back pains during Friday practice.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Practice
Ferrari dominated both practice sessions on the Friday, with Räikkönen fastest in the first Practice Session and Felipe Massa was fastest in the second Practice Session. Behind the Ferraris, Alonso was third in his McLaren, but seven tenths behind, with his teammate and World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton sixth, but lost nearly an hour of the session due to car trouble. The two McLarens were split by David Coulthard and Nico Rosberg.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Practice
Hamilton managed to recover from his morning trouble to post the fourth fastest time in the second Practice Session on Friday afternoon. The Ferraris were still leading, but Massa was fastest, just 0.035 seconds ahead of Räikkönen. However, one of the major surprises came from Scuderia Toro Rosso, as Scott Speed posted the third quickest time, with Vitantonio Liuzzi posting the fifth quickest time. During the session, Liuzzi was involved in a bizarre incident with Anthony Davidson; Davidson exited his garage, and smashed his Super Aguri into the side of Liuzzi's Toro Rosso; knocking his front wing off in the accident. Alonso finished the second practice session eighth.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Practice
In the final practice session on Saturday morning, Hamilton managed to beat Ferrari, with the Englishman ahead of second-placed Massa by 0.063 seconds. Hamilton and the two Ferraris completed the top three, but Alonso was again down in eighth, having missed nearly the whole of the session with a faulty brake sensor. The Renaults sparked a return to form with Heikki Kovalainen and Giancarlo Fisichella fourth and fifth, both ahead of rivals BMW, who were sixth and fifteenth respectively.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Both Spykers and both Super Aguris were knocked out of the first phase of qualifying, along with Alexander Wurz's Williams and Vitantonio Liuzzi's Toro Rosso. For Super Aguri's Takuma Sato, it did not matter where he qualified, as he was docked ten places, due to overtaking Jenson Button under yellow flags at the last Grand Prix. Spyker's Adrian Sutil was hoping for a wet race after an unspectacular qualifying. At the front end of the grid, the McLarens were first and fourth, with Hamilton on top, and the Ferraris splitting them in second and third. Heikki Kovalainen rounded out the top five.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
David Coulthard failed to complete a single timed lap in the second part of qualifying due to a gearbox problem, and started sixteenth. Both Hondas were knocked out also, along with Mark Webber, Scott Speed and Ralf Schumacher. Both Button and Barrichello were happier with the upgraded Honda, with Button saying "the car is certainly better than the last race in Indianapolis, although the positions don't reflect that". Hamilton was again fastest in Part two, with teammate Alonso down in fifth. Massa, Räikkönen and Kubica rounded out the top four.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
After topping the first two parts of qualifying, Hamilton dropped to second in the third and final part, with Massa taking pole position, just 0.070 ahead of the Englishman. Massa stated in the post-Qualifying press conference that "it looks like we [Ferrari] are back and fighting", with Hamilton believing pole was possible had he not made a mistake at Turn 15. Räikkönen qualified third as he lost time on one corner, which he called "all my fault". Alonso was unable to complete a single lap in the session due to a gearbox problem.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
He was classified tenth and stated that he'd "prefer a wet race". Behind Räikkönen was Kubica in fourth, but despite qualifying fifth, Giancarlo Fisichella believed there was "potential for more" from the Renault. Fisichella's teammate Kovalainen was sixth, with Nick Heidfeld seventh. Jarno Trulli, Nico Rosberg and Alonso rounded out the top ten. Rosberg also had a slight gearbox problem in the final part of qualifying, which he believed cost him a few tenths coming into the final few corners.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Race
Three people were killed in a helicopter crash at the circuit on Saturday night. They were Emmanuel Longobardi, a PR operative; the pilot Pierre Bennehard; and Simon McGill, a New Zealand national. A Bridgestone employee and his niece were injured. Longobardi was a popular member of the Formula One Paddock.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Race
Adrian Sutil in the Spyker opted to start from the pitlane. Massa got off to the best possible start and retained his lead, but Räikkönen passed Hamilton into Turn One. At the back of the field, Anthony Davidson hit the back of Vitantonio Liuzzi's Toro Rosso. The Toro Rosso came back onto the track and smashed into the side of the Super Aguri. Liuzzi said afterwards that "all we can do is wait for Silverstone and hope that the definite improvement we have made with the car pays off". At the Adelaide hairpin, Jarno Trulli rammed into the back of Heikki Kovalainen. Trulli was out, but Kovalainen continued at the back of the field. Trulli apologised to Kovalainen after the race, and declared it "a racing accident". The tangle promoted Alonso up to eighth.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Race
Robert Kubica was quickly losing ground on the two Ferraris and Hamilton. Alonso passed Rosberg for seventh, and quickly closed in on Heidfeld, but stayed behind him until he pitted on Lap 16. Alonso attempted to get past on Lap five, but ran wide, giving the position back to the German. Hamilton also pitted on Lap 16, with Massa pitting on Lap 19 and Räikkönen on Lap 21.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen decreased Massa's lead back down from four seconds to two seconds. Alonso passed both Heidfeld and Fisichella in the middle section of the race. In the second round of stops, Räikkönen pitted two laps after Massa. These two laps extra gave Räikkönen the lead after his second stop, with Massa now second. Alonso pitted for the second time on lap 35. Heidfeld and Fisichella pitted several laps later, and both of them got out in front of Alonso. Christijan Albers had an unusual accident, his car left the pit lane with the fuel rig attached without being detached by the pit crews. Eventually, he drove to the side of the track and retired.


2007 French Grand Prix, Report, Race
Räikkönen won the race from teammate Massa, with Hamilton third. This marked Ferrari's first one-two of the season. Massa stated that the race win was lost "because of traffic", while teammate Räikkönen stated he was "much happier with the car", as he became the first Finn to win the race. Kubica was a lonely fourth, with Fisichella, Heidfeld, Alonso and Button rounding out the points. Despite it being Button's first points of 2007, he said that he was "not getting too excited about it". Despite finishing seventh, Alonso was still confident about his title chances, saying that he hoped the "two points are important at the end of the season".


2007 French National Badminton Championships
The 2007 French National Badminton Championships were held in Villeneuve d'Ascq, from 2  to February 4, 2007.


2007 French Open
The 2007 French Open (Roland Garros) was held in Paris, France from 27 May through to 10 June 2007. Rafael Nadal became the first man to win the tournament 3 times consecutively since Björn Borg, 1978–81; and maintained his unbeaten run at Roland Garros. Justine Henin also equaled Monica Seles' record of three consecutive wins. This was the third straight year that Rafael Nadal and Justine Henin won the French Open singles titles.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 1
Most of the day's matches were canceled due to rain. Serena Williams and Justine Henin both won on the women's side. Marat Safin won his match, and was the 2007 French Open's first victor. Other winners include Dinara Safina, Tamira Paszek, Potito Starace and Janko Tipsarević.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 2
Most of the day was again canceled due to rain. However, Venus Williams, Michaëlla Krajicek and Nikolay Davydenko were amongst that day's winners.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3
The third day saw almost the entire men's draw completed, with only seven of 64 matches yet to play. The top half of the women's singles draw also completed their action. The Americans struggled; only two of the eleven Americans in action are still in the tournament, one of nine men and one of two women. The only American woman to advance was Shenay Perry, who survived a loss of the first set against Olivia Sanchez. The other American man still in the tournament was Robby Ginepri, who didn't even advance yet.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3
He split sets with Diego Hartfield before play was suspended. Spanish players enjoyed the opposite fortune, with six of eight men and the only woman all winning their matches. Ernests Gulbis, who became the first Latvian man in the main draw of a Grand Slam, saw off Britain's only representative, Tim Henman.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3
The longest match of the men's singles draw was Philipp Kohlschreiber's clash with Lukáš Dlouhý where the fifth set was eventually taken by Kohlschreiber, 17–15. Eight male seeds left the tournament:


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 3
Also, the injured Russian eleventh seed Nadia Petrova went out 5–7, 7–5, 0–6 to Květa Peschke. Nicole Vaidišová and Jelena Janković defeated their opponents in straight sets.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 4
Tenth seed Tomáš Berdych failed to turn his overnight two-set deficit against Guillermo García-López, and became the ninth men's seed to bow out in the first round. The conqueror of Fernando González, Radek Štěpánek, lost in five sets to wildcard Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the second round. Justine Henin, Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova and Amélie Mauresmo won through as well. The unseeded Kristof Vliegen was able to beat eleventh seed Richard Gasquet in straight sets, 7–6(4), 6–3, 6–1.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 5
Gastón Gaudio, the 2004 champion, was up 6–4, 6–3 on fourteenth-seeded and former number one Lleyton Hewitt, but ended up losing the match in five sets. Hewitt came from behind two sets to defeat Gaudio. Also, Maria Sharapova, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and other players advanced, however rain once again stopped play around 6 P.M. Andreea Ehritt-Vanc and Anastasia Rodionova were amongst the first to win their doubles match today.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 6
On Day 6, a repeat of last year's mixed doubles final came when Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić beat Elena Likhovtseva and Daniel Nestor 6–2, 5–7, 10–7 in the first round. Number four seed Jelena Janković beat Venus Williams 6–4, 4–6, 6–1 in the third round. Filippo Volandri, seeded 29th, then the most recent person who defeated Roger Federer (at the 2007 Rome Masters), upset the 7th seed Ivan Ljubičić 6–4, 6–7, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the third round, and he will play Tommy Robredo in the fourth round, which is his best French Open of his career.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 7
On Day 7, there was no rain delay. According to coverage on NBC, a game in the first set between Rafael Nadal and Albert Montañés went to over ten deuces, and thirty two points. Today, number five seed Amélie Mauresmo lost to Lucie Šafářová for the second time at a major in a row.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8
On Day 8, the women's quarterfinal draw took shape. Two men's quarterfinals also took shape, and many matches in doubles and juniors were also played. The four women's quarterfinals are:


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 8
The men's quarterfinals that have been formed by winning their fourth round matches are:


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 9
The last two men's quarterfinals were formed. Junior singles and doubles matches as well as other senior doubles matches were played. The men's quarterfinals are as so:


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 10
In the men's singles quarterfinals, Roger Federer beat Tommy Robredo, and Nikolay Davydenko beat Guillermo Cañas. Federer will meet Davydenko in the semifinals.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 11
The last men's semifinal was formed. Novak Djokovic beat Igor Andreev, and Rafael Nadal beat Carlos Moyá, and these two winners would take each other on in the semifinals.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 12
In the women's semifinals Ana Ivanovic beat Maria Sharapova 6–1, 6–2 to make it to her first Grand Slam singles final and Justine Henin beat Jelena Janković, and still hasn't lost a set in over two years at the French Open. The first champions were Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram after finals victory over the 2006 champions Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić in mixed doubles.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 13
Finalists of men's singles are Roger Federer (who beat Nikolay Davydenko 7–5, 7–6, 7–6) and Rafael Nadal (who beat Novak Djokovic 7–5, 6–4, 6–2). 17th seeded Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo beat Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama, the seventh seeds, to win the women's doubles championship.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 14
Justine Henin beat Ana Ivanovic in straight sets, and is the three-time champion who has not lost a set since the 2005 fourth round when she saved match points against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The men's doubles and juniors doubles finals were played.


2007 French Open, Notable stories, Day-by-day summaries, Day 15
Rafael Nadal defeated Roger Federer in 4 sets to win his 3rd straight French Open title. Nadal has now won 3 French Opens. He won all of twenty-one matches playing on Roland Garros. This was also the second consecutive year that Nadal denied Federer winning 4 slams in a row.


2007 French Open, Seniors, Men's doubles
Mark Knowles /  Daniel Nestor defeated  Lukáš Dlouhý /  Pavel Vízner, 2–6, 6–3, 6–4


2007 French Open, Seniors, Women's doubles
Alicia Molik /  Mara Santangelo defeated  Katarina Srebotnik /  Ai Sugiyama, 7–6(7–5), 6–4


2007 French Open, Seniors, Mixed doubles
Nathalie Dechy /  Andy Ram defeated  Katarina Srebotnik /  Nenad Zimonjić, 7–5, 6–3


2007 French Open, Juniors, Boys' doubles
Thomas Fabbiano /  Andrei Karatchenia defeated  Kellen Damico /  Jonathan Eysseric 6–4, 6–0


2007 French Open, Juniors, Girls' doubles
Ksenia Milevskaya /  Urszula Radwańska  defeated  Sorana Cîrstea /  Alexa Glatch 6–1, 6–4


2007 French Open, Legends, Legends Under 45 Doubles
Arnaud Boetsch /  Guy Forget defeated  Henri Leconte /  Cédric Pioline 6–3, 3–6, 1–0(14)


2007 French Open, Legends, Legends Over 45 Doubles
Anders Järryd /  John McEnroe defeated  John Fitzgerald /  Guillermo Vilas 6–1, 6–2


2007 French Open, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Men's Doubles
Stéphane Houdet /  Michaël Jeremiasz defeated  Shingo Kunieda /  Satoshi Saida 7–6(7–4), 6–1


2007 French Open, Wheelchair, Wheelchair Women's Doubles
Maaike Smit /  Esther Vergeer defeated  Florence Gravellier /  Mie Yaosa 6–1, 6–4


2007 French Open, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Players in bold are still in the competition. The players no longer in the tournament are listed with the round in which they exited.


2007 French Open, Qualifier entries, Men's Qualifiers entries
The following players received entry into a lucky loser spot:


2007 French Open, Qualifier entries, Women's Qualifiers entries
The following players received entry into a lucky loser spot:


2007 French Open, Protected ranking
The following players were accepted directly into the main draw using a protected ranking:


2007 French Open – Boys' Doubles
The 2007 French Open boys' doubles junior tennis competition was won by Thomas Fabbiano of Italy and Andrei Karatchenia of Belarus.


2007 French Open – Boys' Singles
In the 2007 French Open tennis tournament, the boys' singles competition was won by Uladzimir Ignatik of Belarus.


2007 French Open – Girls' Doubles
Sharon Fichman and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova were the defending champions, but did not participate in the juniors that year.


2007 French Open – Girls' Doubles
Ksenia Milevskaya and Urszula Radwańska won the title, defeating Sorana Cîrstea and Alexa Glatch in the final, 6-1, 6-4.


2007 French Open – Girls' Singles
France's Alizé Cornet won the title, defeating Mariana Duque Marino in the final, 4-6, 6–1, 6–0.


2007 French Open – Girls' Singles
Agnieszka Radwańska was the defending champion, but chose to participate in the main draw instead.


2007 French Open – Men's Doubles
The defending champions were Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi; however, they lost in the quarterfinals against Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek. Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor won the title, defeating ninth seeds Lukáš Dlouhý and Pavel Vizner in the final.


2007 French Open – Men's Singles
Two-time defending champion Rafael Nadal defended his title, defeating rival Roger Federer in a rematch of the previous year's final 6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 6–4, to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 2007 French Open. It was his third French Open title and his third major title overall.


2007 French Open – Men's Singles
For the second consecutive year, Federer had a chance to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to achieve a non-calendar  year Grand Slam (holding all four major tournament titles at once), having won the Wimbledon, US Open and Australian Open in 2006–07, but he lost a second consecutive final to Nadal, and for the third consecutive year (losing to Nadal in 2005 semifinals). Novak Djokovic, who would go on to achieve this feat at the 2016 French Open, made his first major semifinal at the event.


2007 French Open – Men's Singles
Federer reached a record-breaking 8th consecutive Grand Slam final appearance (streak starting at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships), surpassing Jack Crawford who had reached 7 consecutive finals between 1933 and 1934.


2007 French Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for men's singles at the 2007 French Open.


2007 French Open – Mixed Doubles
The defending champions were Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjić, but they lost to Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram in the finals.


2007 French Open – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
1.Francesca Schiavone / Jonas Björkman did not take part, Anastasia Rodionova / Jordan Kerr took their place


2007 French Open – Women's Doubles
Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama.


2007 French Open – Women's Doubles
Alicia Molik and Mara Santangelo won the title, defeating Srebotnik and Sugiyama in the final 7–6(7–5), 6–3.


2007 French Open – Women's Singles
Justine Henin was the two-time defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Ana Ivanovic in the final, 6-1, 6-2 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 2007 French Open. Henin won the title without losing a set, or facing a tiebreak in any set, in the entire tournament for the second consecutive time. It was Henin's fourth French Open title, and Henin's third consecutive French Open title.


2007 French Open – Women's Singles
The tournament saw the Grand Slam debut of two future World No. 1's and Grand Slam champions, Caroline Wozniacki and Angelique Kerber. Both players lost in the first round, to Nathalie Dechy and Elena Dementieva, respectively. This was also the Grand Slam debut of future WTA Finals champion and Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulková, who reached the third round as a qualifier before losing to Svetlana Kuznetsova.


2007 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for the Women's Singles at the 2007 French Open.


2007 French Pacific Women's Handball Cup
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2007 French Pacific Women's Handball Cup
The 2007 Women's French Pacific Handball Championship was held in Auckland, New Zealand from 25–26 May 2005, as part of the Women's Pacific Handball Cup.


2007 French Pacific Women's Handball Cup
The competition participants Tahiti, and New Caledonia. Wallis and Futuna did not send a team.


2007 French Road Cycling Cup
The 2007 French Road Cycling Cup was the sixteenth edition of the French Road Cycling Cup. It started on February 25 with the Tour du Haut Var and finished on October 11 with Paris–Bourges. Sébastien Chavanel of La Française des Jeux won the overall competition.


2007 French Super Series
The 2007 French Super Series is the tenth tournament of the 2007 BWF Super Series in badminton. It was held in Paris, France from October 30 to November 4, 2007.


2007 French legislative election
The French legislative elections took place on 10 June and 17 June 2007 to elect the 13th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic, a few weeks after the French presidential election run-off on 6 May. 7,639 candidates stood for 577 seats, including France's overseas possessions. Early first-round results projected a large majority for President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP and its allies; however, second-round results showed a closer race and a stronger left. Nevertheless, the right retained its majority from 2002 despite losing some 40 seats to the Socialists.


2007 French legislative election
Taking place so shortly after the presidential poll, these elections provided the newly elected president with a legislative majority in line with his political objectives – as was the case in 2002, when presidential victor Jacques Chirac's UMP party received a large majority in the legislative elections. It is the first time since the 1978 elections that the governing coalition has been returned after a second consecutive election. The majority, however, was slimmer than the "blue wave" predicted by opinion polls (blue being the colour of French conservatives).


2007 French legislative election, Election system
The procedure by which deputies are elected is a mixture of first past the post and run-off systems. A candidate must take an absolute majority (more than 50%) in their constituency to win in the first round, and receive the support of at least 25% of all registered voters. Otherwise, if they get at least 12.5% of the votes of all registered voters in the first round, or are one of the top two candidates remaining, they go through to the second round, where only a simple plurality is needed to win.


2007 French legislative election, Election system
In most cases, there are only two candidates remaining for the second round: one left-wing (generally from the Socialist Party) and one right-wing (generally from the Union for a Popular Movement). Triangulaires happen when a third candidate reaches the second round and refuses to either abandon his candidacy or to enter any form of electoral alliance. In 2007, only one constituency experienced a triangulaire in the second round (in which Jean Lassalle, a MoDem candidate, was elected).


2007 French legislative election, Election system
The Constitutional Council had beforehand warned the government of the necessity to renew the electoral map, as the 577 electoral districts are made on the basis of the 1982 census of the population (thus being 25 years late on the current spread-out of the population). Because of this miscorrelation between the electoral map and the geographical map of the population, a deputy would need only 5,000 votes to be elected in some districts (such as in Saint-Barthélemy) while it would need 180,000 votes in others (such as the Seine-Saint-Denis). The Constitutional Council noted that this contradicted article 6 of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen as well as articles 3 and 24 of the Constitution.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign
Opinion polls and seat projections gave President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP-led coalition a wide lead, sometimes nearing three-quarters of all 577 seats. The UMP polled marginally above 40%, around a 10-point increase over its score of 33% in the first round of the 2002 elections. Prime Minister François Fillon, also a candidate in Sarthe, led the UMP campaign. On the far-right, following Jean-Marie Le Pen's relatively low score in the presidential election, the National Front tried to regain lost ground in the legislative election, but opinion polls gave the FN only 4 or 5 per cent of votes, one of its lowest scores in a general election.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, Socialist Party
The Socialist Party's defeated 2007 presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, also campaigned on behalf of her party, even though she did not run for re-election as a deputy in Deux-Sèvres. The Socialists sought to prevent the UMP from winning too wide a majority that would give Sarkozy "full powers".


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, Union for French Democracy
Between the two rounds of the presidential election, the UDF leader François Bayrou had announced the creation of a new political party, the Democratic Movement (MoDem), and refused to continue the alliance between centrists and the UMP. This strategy was dangerous for the centrist MPs, one month before the legislative election. The ballot system for the election of the deputies favoured the coalitions to the detriment of the isolated parties.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, Union for French Democracy
In this, contrary to Bayrou, the most part of the UDF deputies and senators called to vote for Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round of the presidential election, then joined the "Presidential Majority" and founded the New Centre. Incumbent president of the UDF group in the National Assembly, Hervé Morin, led this new political formation and was nominated Defense Minister. For the first time, François Bayrou was challenged by a right-wing candidate in his constituency.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, Union for French Democracy
Interest in one local election race surrounded Gérard Vignoble of the UDF, who had represented Roubaix since 1988. Vignoble announced that he would not stand again since this would put him against cardiologist Salem Kacet of the UMP, who had operated on him in 1999 and saved his life. The two candidates had become close friends. Vignoble said that it was impossible for him to come to any other decision. Nevertheless, Kacet still failed to take the seat, the winner being the Socialist Dominique Baert.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, French Communist Party
The Communists hoped that their vote would hold up following their lowest percentage vote ever (1.93%) in the presidential race in May. While polls seemed unfriendly to the Communists, with some predicting less than 10 seats for the party, the second round's left surge prevented a massive Communist defeat. Although losing seats, they were able to gain or hold 15 seats. However, the PCF lost previously safe seats.


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, VAT Polemic
During the electoral TV programme of the first round, the former Socialist Prime Minister Laurent Fabius called out to the Minister of Economy Jean-Louis Borloo about the project of a new VAT to finance the social security. Borloo confirmed it was examined by the government. This new tax was the main theme of campaign between the two rounds. It was criticized by the left because it could rise the prices for all the housekeepings. This project was perceived as contradictory to candidate Sarkozy's promise to be "President of the purchasing power".


2007 French legislative election, Campaign, VAT Polemic
According to the former UMP Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in re-mobilizing the left-wing voters, this controversy caused the defeat of around 60 UMP candidates in the second round. In this, if the right stood majority, the left won 49 seats since 2002. Accused to be responsible of this result, Jean-Louis Borloo was nominated Minister of Ecology, replacing Alain Juppé, beaten in his constituency.


2007 French legislative election, Results
Contrary to the polls, the UMP lost ground, but it maintained a workable majority. The Socialists unexpectedly gained seats. Their plea to voters to prevent an overwhelming UMP dominance of the legislature appears to have paid off, providing the Socialists with a measure of redemption from the election loss. UDF splinter groups, François Bayrou's MoDem and the New Centre, contested their first elections. MoDem won 4 seats (including Mayotte regionalist Abdoulatifou Aly), while the New Centre was able to form a parliamentary group, with 22 seats.


2007 French legislative election, Results
It remains to be seen whether Bayrou's party, which polled the third highest vote (7.61% in round one), will develop into a major political force. Their result is an improvement on the UDF's result of 4.9% in 2002. The National Front (FN) polled its lowest vote since its splash onto the political scene in 1986. The FN lost more than 60% of its support base since 2002. Support for the Communist Party also declined, and they saw a loss of several seats, whilst several other left-wing parties won nine new seats.


2007 French legislative election, Results
The Greens gained one new seat, despite a fall in their vote. One of the most stunning results was the surprise defeat of UMP party leader Alain Juppé by the Socialist Party candidate Michèle Delaunay. Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres was defeated as well losing to Socialist Party candidate Jean-Patrick Gille. The far right did not win any seats.


2007 French legislative election, Results, Change since 2002
*Both formed from a split of the UDF, a traditionally centre-right party, in early 2007. The MoDems pursued a path of independence from the right-wing while the Nouveau Centre supported Nicolas Sarkozy (and was supported by the UMP).


2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix
The 2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifth round of the 2007 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 18–20 May 2007 at the Le Mans Bugatti Circuit.


2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix
The MotoGP race was subject to wet weather and the race saw the first time in the 800cc MotoGP formula era where riders changed bikes mid-race as a result of the conditions.


2007 French motorcycle Grand Prix, Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)
Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round five has concluded.