2007 Firestone Indy 400
The 2007 2007 IRL IndyCar Series, held at Michigan International Speedway. It was held over the weekend of August 3–5, 2007, as the thirteenth round of the seventeen-race calendar. It was the last race, for the time being, for the IndyCar Series at the track. The race was also notable in that only seven cars were running at the finish, after a massive accident on lap 144 of the race which included Dario Franchitti flipping upside-down after hitting Dan Wheldon. Franchitti would walk away unharmed.
Classification
| Fin. Pos |
Car No. |
Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Laps Led |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |  Tony Kanaan
|
Andretti Green Racing
|
200 | 2:49:38.0509 | 8 | 29 | 50 |
| 2 | 26 |  Marco Andretti
|
Andretti Green Racing
|
200 | +0.0595 | 13 | 12 | 40 |
| 3 | 8 | Scott Sharp
|
Rahal Letterman Racing | 200 | +0.3867 | 4 | 11 | 35 |
| 4 | 55 |  Kosuke Matsuura
|
Panther Racing | 200 | +0.4703 | 14 | 0 | 32 |
| 5 | 15 | Buddy Rice
|
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | 200 | +4.9097 | 17 | 0 | 30 |
| 6 | 17 | Ryan Hunter-Reay
|
Rahal Letterman Racing | 200 | +10.0114 | 12 | 0 | 28 |
| 7 | 7 | Danica Patrick
|
Andretti Green Racing
|
199 | +1 Lap | 9 | 5 | 26 |
| 8 | 22 | A. J. Foyt IV
|
Vision Racing | 167 | Mechanical | 15 | 0 | 24 |
| 9 | 6 | Sam Hornish Jr.
|
Team Penske | 148 | Mechanical | 2 | 1 | 22 |
| 10 | 9 |  Scott Dixon
|
Chip Ganassi Racing | 145 | Handling | 7 | 14 | 20 |
| 11 | 2 |  Tomas Scheckter
|
Vision Racing | 144 | Collision | 6 | 2 | 19 |
| 12 | 10 |  Dan Wheldon
|
Chip Ganassi Racing | 143 | Collision | 5 | 24 | 18 |
| 13 | 27 | Dario Franchitti
|
Andretti Green Racing
|
143 | Collision | 1 | 102 | 17+3 |
| 14 | 20 | Ed Carpenter
|
Vision Racing | 143 | Collision | 10 | 0 | 16 |
| 15 | 14 | Darren Manning
|
A.J. Foyt Racing
|
113 | Accident | 18 | 0 | 15 |
| 16 | 5 | Sarah Fisher
|
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | 83 | Accident | 16 | 0 | 14 |
| 17 | 3 | Hélio Castroneves
|
Team Penske | 58 | Collision | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| 18 | 4 | Vítor Meira
|
Panther Racing | 58 | Collision | 11 | 0 | 12 |
| 19 | 23 |  Milka Duno (R)
|
SAMAX Motorsport | 43 | Mechanical | 19 | 0 | 12 |
| 20 | 19 | Jon Herb
|
Racing Professionals | 26 | Accident | 20 | 0 | 12 |
| Lead changes: 23 between 9 drivers | ||||||||