The 2007 Chinese Grand Prix was held on 7 October 2007 at Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai, China. The race was won by Scuderia Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen with Fernando Alonso finishing second and Felipe Massa finishing third.
Championship leader Lewis Hamilton retired from the race after going off at a wet pit entrance on worn tyres left him stuck in the gravel. Kimi’s win marked the 200th Grand Prix victory for Scuderia Ferrari.
After the storm, both meteorological and polemic of the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji, everything seemed set for the coronation of Lewis Hamilton as world champion. Ferrari arrived in Shanghai, hanging on to hopes that were pretty much no more than theoretical, given the 17 points that separated Raikkonen and Hamilton, at a time when a win was worth 10 and the 12 point lead the Englishman had over his team-mate, Alonso. “It will take a miracle,” said Jean Todt in Fuji after the race. “What is certain is that we will do our utmost to win the last two races of the Championship.”
It’s impossible to say if it really was a miracle, but there can be no doubt that Ferrari did all it could in the last two races of the season, taking two wins with Kimi and two podiums with Felipe. The rest was down to the opponents being below par, starting with the round in Shanghai.
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