page_title: 2007 Macau Grand Prix
section_title: Practice and qualifying
hierarchical_section_title: 2007 Macau Grand Prix / Practice and qualifying
caption_attribution_description: English: Romain Grosjean at the Renault Word Series event at Silverstone in 2011 as a test driver for Lotus Renault GP to demonstrate the Renault Formula 1 car.
context_page_description: The 2007 Macau Grand Prix was a motor race for Formula Three cars that was held on the streets of Macau on 18 November 2007. Unlike other races, such as the Masters of Formula 3, the 2007 Macau Grand Prix was not a part of any Formula Three championship, but was open to entries from all Formula Three championships. The race itself was made up of two races: a ten-lap qualifying race that decided the starting grid for the fifteen-lap main race. The 2007 race was the 54th running of the Macau Grand Prix and the 25th for Formula Three cars.
  The Grand Prix was won by TOM'S driver Oliver Jarvis, having won the event's Qualification Race the previous afternoon. Jarvis started from pole position and led the majority of the race meeting which included every lap of the main race to take his first and only victory in Macau. Second place went to Koudai Tsukakoshi of Manor Motorsport, while the podium was completed by another Japanese driver and Jarvis's TOM's teammate Kazuya Oshima.
context_section_description: Two practice sessions lasting half an hour were held before the race on Sunday: one on Thursday morning and one on Friday morning. Grosjean set the fastest time for ASM in the opening practice session with a late lap of 2 minutes, 14.223 seconds, nearly one-tenth of a second faster than anyone else in spite of heavy damage to his car's left-hand side in avoiding Stephen Jelley's stricken vehicle at Policeman's Bend. His closest challenger was Sébastien Buemi in second in front of third-placed Asmer. Prema Powerteam's Roberto Streit, Koudai Tsukakoshi, Edoardo Mortara, Oliver Jarvis, Jelley, Senna and Nico Hülkenberg rounded out the session's top ten drivers. The session was stopped halfway through when Franck Mailleux spun into a barriera lining the track at the R Bend and his car was stranded on the track. Other incidents included Lei spinning at Lisboa corner but avoided damage to his car. Sam Bird later swiped the turn's wall and Walter Grubmüller limped to the pit lane with his front-right suspension bent.
  Qualifying was divided into two 45 minute sessions; the first was held on Thursday afternoon, and the second on Friday afternoon. The fastest time set by each driver from either session counted towards his final starting position for the qualification race. The first qualifying session had Asmer come out on top with a time of 2 minutes, 13.122 seconds set with nine minutes remaining. The heavy damage to Grosjean's car forced him to sit out the session's opening minutes and gradually improved to be two-tenths behind and take provisional second. Despite clipping the wall Yelmer Buurman ran strongly throughout and finished in third place. Buemi battled for pole position for the majority of the session before falling to fourth. Esteban Guerrieri improved late on to end up fifth in front of Tsukakoshi in sixth and 2006 pole sitter Kamui Kobayashi in seventh. James Jakes, Streit and Jelley rounded out the top ten. Although he was at one point high up as fourth Jarvis was the quickest driver not to reach the top ten. Following him were the highest-placed rookie Mortara, Oshima with Hülkenberg provisionally joining the Japanese driver on the seventh row in spite of a collision against a tyre barrier at Lisboa corner. Niall Breen was next up ahead of Atte Mustonen, Jonathan Kennard, Van Dam, Renger van der Zande and Senna. The rest of the order was completed Bird, Mailleux, Hartley, Grubmüller, Takuya Izawa, Ávila, Ho, Lei. Cheong Lou Meng and the only driver to fail to record within 110 per cent of Asmer was Merszei. Other incidents that occurred were Mustonen damaging his suspension against the tyre wall and Bird went into the barrier at Fisherman's Bend. Senna crashed against a tyre barrier at San Francisco Bend and Izawa hit him, prompted red flags to stop the session. After qualifying, numerous penalties were imposed. Kobayashi and Mutstonen incurred three-place grid penalties for moving onto the fast lane of the pit lane before it was declared open. Hülkenberg and Cheong were similarly penalised for ignoring the red light signal at the end of the pit lane which mandated them to enter the weighbridge.
  In the second 30 minute practice session, Asmer spent much of the session evaluating a new car setup that improved straightline speed and posted the fastest lap of 2 minutes, 12.894 seconds. Tsukakoshi ended the session second-fastest and 0.038 seconds behind Asmer. Jarvis ran consistently near the top of the time sheets and was third. Mortara, Oshima, Grosjean, Buemi, Streit, Jelley and Van Dam occupied positions four to ten. Although no red flags were necessitated during the session, several drivers came unstuck. Mailleux spun at Lisboa corner and broke his rear wing. Mustonen continued after a spin at the R Bend but later crashed at Lisboa after colliding with another vehicle. Jakes prematurely ended his session in a barrier at Moorish Hill with 11 minutes remaining.
  The second qualifying session began fifteen minutes later than scheduled due to freight for the Guia Race of Macau being stranded in Beijing, and was furt
caption: Romain Grosjean (pictured in 2011) crashed heavily in first practice but came back to take provisional second in the first qualifying session.
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