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]

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.

Drivers and teams

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

Pos	Name	SEB	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
Pos	Name	SEB	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)
Blank	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

^ ^a ^b 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
^ 2007 Star Mazda Points Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Star Mazda Championship, Retrieved 2011-07-25
^ Star Mazda: Davison Triumphs at Mosport Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, August 28, 2007, Retrieved 2011-08-09
^ 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
^ Di Leos one two at Sebring Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Racers, Retrieved 2011-08-09
^ White's Late Pass Good for Star Mazda Win at Mosport, Paddock Talk, Retrieved 2011-08-09
^ Star Mazda: White Wins Second Consecutive Race Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, August 20, 2007, Retrieved 2011-08-09

External links

Star Mazda Championship Official website

[speed-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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