2007 Star Mazda Championship

The 2007 Star Mazda Championship was the ninth season of the Star Mazda Championship, an open wheel auto racing series that competes using spec chassis and engines. The season featured 12 races over 12 weekends, with only road courses and street circuits featuring on the schedule. The overall season champion was Dane Cameron,[1] while Dan Tomlin, III and Steve Hickham won the Expert and Masters classes respectively.[2]

2007 Star Mazda Championship
Previous: 2006 Next: 2008

Cameron finished on the podium in eight of the twelve races and finished well ahead of second-place finisher, Australian James Davison who won once at Mosport.[3] Canadian Lorenzo Mandarino won twice[1][4] and finished eights in points as he finished outside the top-ten seven times. Canadian Marco Di Leo won the season opener at Sebring International Raceway but it would be his only win of the season. His brother Daniel finished second in that race.[5] Ron White won back-to-back races in the rounds at Road America and Circuit Trois-Rivières[6][7] and finished third in points.

Race calendar and results
Rnd Circuit Location Date Pole position Winning driver Supporting
1 Sebring International Raceway Sebring, Florida March 16 Dane Cameron Marco di Leo American Le Mans Series
2 Grand Prix of Houston Houston, Texas April 22 Dane Cameron Dane Cameron American Le Mans Series / Champ Car World Series
3 Virginia International Raceway Alton, Virginia April 28 James Davison Dane Cameron Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series
4 Miller Motorsports Park Tooele, Utah May 19 James Davison Lorenzo Mandarino American Le Mans Series
5 Portland International Raceway Portland, Oregon June 9 Marco di Leo Devin Cunningham Champ Car World Series
6 Grand Prix of Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio June 24 Dane Cameron Jonathan Goring Champ Car World Series
7 Grand Prix of Toronto Toronto, Ontario July 7 Dane Cameron Dane Cameron Champ Car World Series
8 Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin August 11 Marco di Leo Ron White American Le Mans Series
9 Circuit Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières, Quebec August 19 Alex Ardoin Ron White Stand alone
10 Mosport International Raceway Bowmanville, Ontario August 25 Dane Cameron James Davison American Le Mans Series
11 Road Atlanta Braselton, Georgia October 5 James Davison Lorenzo Mandarino American Le Mans Series
12 Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Monterey, California October 20 Dane Cameron Alex Ardoin American Le Mans Series

Final points standings
PosNameSEB
HOU
VIR
MMP
POR
CLE
TOR
RAM
TRO
MOS
RAT
LAG
Pts
1 Dane Cameron 4 1 1 4 17 2 1 2 2 3 8 2 450
2 James Davison 3 7 4 2 13 17 5 4 11 1 5 3 389
3 Ron White 21 4 2 7 3 5 17 1 1 17 6 19 360
4 Nick Haye 9 5 8 6 15 11 15 3 3 9 7 4 348
5 Jonathan Goring 10 3 15 3 9 1 14 18 15 7 4 6 346
6 Alex Ardoin 12 10 11 10 8 6 3 17 13 11 3 1 345
7 Devin Cunningham 15 13 13 12 1 8 2 6 16 12 2 9 344
8 Lorenzo Mandarino 5 22 5 1 11 18 19 15 12 2 1 18 329
9 Marco di Leo 1 18 3 5 7 7 13 8 14 20 10 7 319
10 Russell Walker 17 6 20 8 4 19 7 16 4 18 16 8 293
11 Eric Freiberg 11 19 7 13 14 21 8 5 18 6 9 17 285
12 Jonny Baker 20 20 9 19 18 13 9 20 5 4 17 11 270
13 Charles Anti 8 17 10 11 16 9 16 10 17 10 14 258
14 Steve Hickham 23 16 17 16 16 10 12 8 16 13 13 236
15 Natacha Gachnang 9 2 3 6 7 10 8 217
16 Scott Rettich 19 17 12 12 18 9 6 13 10 208
17 Dan Tomlin, Jr. 22 23 18 15 11 14 15 15 12 179
18 Tyson Sy 16 9 22 5 4 4 161
19 Dan Tomlin, III 20 12 13 7 19 14 15 152
= Phil Fogg, Jr. 13 14 18 10 20 9 16 152
21 Tony Rivera 24 8 12 15 6 5 147
22 Richard Zober 14 14 10 11 12 119
23 Gerry Kraut 26 16 14 19 14 11 116
24 Daniel di Leo 2 2 6 110
25 Cole Morgan 6 21 19 62
= Jamie Morrow 14 11 21 62
27 John Zartarian 12 5 56
28 Michael Duncalfe 25 15 24 44
29 Ricardo Vassmer 7 23 42
30 Sean Burstyn 18 18
PosNameSEB
HOU
VIR
MMP
POR
CLE
TOR
RAM
TRO
MOS
RAT
LAG
Pts
Color Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green 4th & 5th place
Light Blue 6th–10th place
Dark Blue Finished
(Outside Top 10)
Purple Did not finish
Red Did not qualify
(DNQ)
Brown Withdrawn
(Wth)
Black Disqualified
(DSQ)
White Did not start
(DNS)
Blank Did not
participate
(DNP)
Not competing
In-line notation
Bold Pole position
(1 point)
Italics Ran fastest race lap
* Led most race laps
1 Qualifying cancelled
no bonus point awarded
Rookie of the Year
Rookie
Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
Points 44 40 37 34 32 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

References
  1. Krefting, Kevin. STAR MAZDA: Mandarino Wins, Cameron is Champ Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, Speed, October 4, 2007, Retrieved 2011-07-25
  2. 2007 Star Mazda Points Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Star Mazda Championship, Retrieved 2011-07-25
  3. Star Mazda: Davison Triumphs at Mosport Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, August 28, 2007, Retrieved 2011-08-09
  4. Lorenzo Mandarino Cruises Into First Victory Of The Season in Star Mazda Championship Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Auto Racing Daily, May 23, 2007, Retrieved 2011-08-09
  5. Di Leos one two at Sebring Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Racers, Retrieved 2011-08-09
  6. White's Late Pass Good for Star Mazda Win at Mosport, Paddock Talk, Retrieved 2011-08-09
  7. Star Mazda: White Wins Second Consecutive Race Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, August 20, 2007, Retrieved 2011-08-09
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