2007 Formula 1.5 Season

The 2007 Formula 1.5 season was the 58th running of the Formula 1.5 World Championship. Nick Heidfeld won his second and final title, scoring 118 points for BMW-Sauber - who would also claim the Constructors' Championship with 211 points.

2007 would mark the beginning of the end for Sauber after a six-year stretch as one of the "Big Three" of Formula 1.5 (which poetically began with Heidfeld's first title in 2001). Although they found success in the following years, even graduating to F1.0 the next season and placing 2nd and 3rd in 2012 and 2013 respectively, the team saw a decline in results during the 2010s and were eventually rebranded to Alfa Romeo following the 2018 season.

Another significant highlight was the notable drop in performance from defending champion Jenson Button and Honda. Button, who had won the 2006 title in one of the most dominant F1.5 campaigns of all time with Honda, was incapacitated by the ill-designed RA107, finishing a torrid 11th and notching just one podium finish the entire season - a far cry from his 2006 season which featured nine wins from eighteen races. Honda finished 6th in the WCC on a mere 45 points.

## Entries

### Excluded Teams

* Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, and Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro,

### Team Changes

* Williams would undergo an engine change, ending their deal with Cosworth and signing a three-year supplier contract with Toyota - thus the constructor rebranded from Williams-Cosworth to Williams-Toyota.
* Red Bull Racing obtained an Austrian racing license, altering their constructor nationality to Austrian. Additionally, the team purchased Renault engines for the season in favour of their previous Ferrari outfit. Feeder team Toro Rosso would switch from Cosworths to the 2006-spec Ferrari engines.
* Following their buyout of Midland F1 Racing partway through the 2006 season, Spyker Cars in collaboration with a Dutch-Arab consortium finalised the purchase of the team, changing the team name to Etihad Alder Spyker F1 Team and utilising Ferrari engines in lieu of last season's Toyotas.
* After a dominant F1.0 campaign in 2006, Renault would return to Formula 1.5 for the 2007 season with 1997 champion Giancarlo Fisichella and rookie Heikki Kovalainen.

### Driver Changes

* Mark Webber departed Williams for Red Bull, taking the seat jointly filled by Christian Klien and Robert Doornbos. Williams signed on veteran Alexander Wurz in replacement.
* Robert Kubica ran all but one race of the 2007 season for BMW-Sauber after replacing Jacques Villeneuve partway through the 2006 championship. Test driver Sebastian Vettel replaced Kubica at the United States Grand Prix.
* Honda test driver Anthony Davidson was signed to drive full-time for Super Aguri alongside Takuma Sato, replacing the multitude of drivers that had previously filled his seat.
* Tiago Monteiro was dropped from his Spyker seat, being replaced by German rookie Adrian Sutil full-time.

### Mid-Season Changes

* Toro Rosso would sack Scott Speed following the European GP after an alleged physical altercation with team principal Franz Tost, being replaced by Sebastian Vettel.
* Driving for Spyker, Christijan Albers was replaced following the British GP by Markus Winkelhock and later Sakon Yamamoto for failure to pay sponsorship funds.
* Alexander Wurz retired from F1.5 before the penultimate race of the season. Consequently, Williams ran test driver Kazuki Nakajima at the Brazilian GP in his place.

## Season Calendar

### Calendar Changes

* After being held continually between the 1995 and 2006 seasons, the San Marino Grand Prix was excluded from the 2007 season schedule.
* For the first time in almost twenty-five years, there was no German Grand Prix on the calendar. However, a race in Germany was still run - the European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.
* The Belgian Grand Prix returned after being absent the season previous due to track maintenance.
* The Japanese Grand Prix was moved from its usual staging ground at Suzuka Circuit to the historic Fuji Speedway, which had not hosted an F1.5 race since 1977.

## Results and Standings

### World Drivers' Championship Standings

The 2008 World Drivers' Championship awarded points to the top eight finishers of each race on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

Key: **Bold = Pole Position** *Italics = Fastest Lap*

### World Constructors' Championship Standings

The 2008 World Constructors' Championship points were awarded by combining the results of all drivers for each constructor.

Key: **Bold = Pole Position** *Italics = Fastest Lap*