2007 Meijer Indy 300

Summary

The 2007 Meijer Indy 300 was a race in the 2007 IRL IndyCar Series, held at Kentucky Speedway. It was held over 9 -August 11, 2007, as the fourteenth round of the seventeen-race calendar. It was the fourth and final night race of the season. After the checkered flag, Dario Franchitti crashed and flipped his car flipped for the second race in succession, as he mistakenly thought there was another lap left of the race, and went over the back of Kosuke Matsuura's car.

The layout of Kentucky Speedway

Classification edit

Fin.
Pos
Car
No.
Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Laps
Led
Points
1 11   Tony Kanaan Andretti Green Racing 200 1:38:21.7078 1 131 50+3
2 9   Scott Dixon Chip Ganassi Racing 200 +1.7457 4 4 40
3 22   A. J. Foyt IV Vision Racing 200 +2.1070 10 13 35
4 26   Marco Andretti Andretti Green Racing 200 +2.2998 15 0 32
5 2   Tomas Scheckter Vision Racing 200 +2.3660 6 0 30
6 8   Scott Sharp Rahal Letterman Racing 200 +2.6491 3 0 28
7 20   Ed Carpenter Vision Racing 200 +2.8150 9 0 26
8 27   Dario Franchitti Andretti Green Racing 200 +6.2839 2 52 24
9 3   Hélio Castroneves Team Penske 199 +1 Lap 13 0 22
10 4   Vítor Meira Panther Racing 199 +1 Lap 12 0 20
11 55   Kosuke Matsuura Panther Racing 199 +1 Lap 17 0 19
12 15   Buddy Rice Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 199 +1 Lap 16 0 18
13 14   Darren Manning A.J. Foyt Racing 198 +2 Laps 18 0 17
14 5   Sarah Fisher Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 197 +3 Laps 14 0 16
15 17   Ryan Hunter-Reay Rahal Letterman Racing 183 +17 Laps 8 0 15
16 7   Danica Patrick Andretti Green Racing 180 Accident 11 0 14
17 10   Dan Wheldon Chip Ganassi Racing 37 Collision 5 0 13
18 6   Sam Hornish Jr. Team Penske 35 Collision 7 0 12
Lead changes: 11 between 4 drivers

References edit

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