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2007 Meijer Indy 300

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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.

Classification

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

References

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2007 Firestone Indy 400
IndyCar Series
2007 season
Next race:
2007 Motorola Indy 300
Previous race:
2006 Meijer Indy 300
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2008 Meijer Indy 300