2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series

The 2007 V8 Supercar season featured the ninth V8 Supercar Championship Series which began on 1 March and concluded on 2 December. This championship consisted of 14 rounds covering all states and the Northern Territory of Australia as well as rounds in New Zealand and Bahrain. The series also carried the Australian Touring Car Championship title, which was awarded by CAMS for the 48th time in 2007.
The 2007 season was significant in that two new cars were being used by the teams. The Holden VE Commodore was a completely new car and the Ford BF Falcon consisted of several changes from the previous model. These cars debuted at the first round of the season at the Clipsal 500.
This season was also significant in that Seven Network broadcast the series for the first time since 1996, after Channel Ten and Fox Sports had rights to the series for the past ten years, and then revived in 2015.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers competed in the 2007 championship.

Manufacturer

Model

Team

Driver name

Rounds

Co-driver name

Ford

Falcon BF

Stone Brothers Racing

Team changes

The Holden Racing Team and HSV Dealer Team temporarily had their TEGA licences revoked due to issues relating to the ownership of both teams, where under V8 Supercar regulations one person can only own one team. Officially, Mark Skaife owned HRT and John Kelly owned HSV Dealer Team, however the close relationship between the two and the presence of Tom Walkinshaw in both teams clouded the ownership. Both teams had their licenses reinstated temporarily pending the presentation of documents proving the ownership of each team to TEGA. On 22 February 2007, the HSV Dealer Team produced the required documents and were fully reinstated to the championship, followed by HRT who were reinstated on 27 February 2007 after they satisfied TEGA that Mark Skaife was the true owner of the team.
WPS Racing underwent a complete re-structure of the team with Team Principal Mark Larkham departing.
Team Kiwi Racing swapped from running Paul Morris Motorsport-prepared Holdens to Ford Performance Racing-prepared Fords for 2007. The deal with FPR was terminated after four rounds, leaving TKR on the sidelines for three events before returning at Oran Park with a Stone Brothers Racing-prepared Ford.

Driver changes

Greg Murphy moved to Tasman Motorsport, with Paul Dumbrell replacing Murphy at Paul Weel Racing.
Steven Richards was announced as the second driver for Ford Performance Racing, replacing Jason Bright. Bright moved to his own Britek Motorsport, replacing Warren Luff.
Perkins Engineering ran two V8 Supercar rookies, Shane Price and Jack Perkins. Perkins was replaced with Marcus Marshall for Bahrain and Launceston after he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Andrew Jones joined his father's and uncle's team and raced in the second Brad Jones Racing car.
Alan Gurr drove for Britek Motorsport as the teammate to Jason Bright.
John Bowe replaced Marcus Marshall at Paul Cruikshank Racing in his final year of V8 Supercar racing before retirement.
Fabian Coulthard was dropped from Paul Morris Motorsport's older VZ Commodore after the Bathurst 1000 and replaced with Ford Performance Racing's endurance co-driver, Owen Kelly.
Paul Radisich was retained by Team Kiwi Racing, but was unavailable for the first round as he was recovering from his 2006 season-ending crash at Bathurst. Reigning Fujitsu Series champion Adam Macrow substituted for him. Radisich later left the team entirely after their deal with FPR fell over, and was replaced with rookie Shane van Gisbergen for the duration of the season when the team returned with Stone Brothers machinery.

Mid-season changes

Simon Wills replaced Brad Jones at Brad Jones Racing after round 3. Jones announced his retirement from full-time driving.

Race calendar

Rule changes

Points would only be awarded to the top 15 finishers.
The top ten shootout would only be run at the endurance events.
A single 45-minute qualifying session would be held in a fashion similar to Formula One, where all cars compete in the first 15 minutes. The quickest 20 would then complete in the second 15 minutes and the quickest 10 would complete in the final 15 minutes.
No rounds would be dropped for the championship.
There would be a greater spread of points between the point scoring positions.

Results and standings

Team championship

Pos	Team	Penalty	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Rd 7	Rd 8	Rd 9	Rd 10	Rd 11	Rd 12	Rd 13	Rd 14	Pts
1	HSV Dealer Team	0	88	129	116	114	80	106	95	44	105	0	81	68	57	94	1177
2	Triple Eight Race Engineering	0	60	46	77	89	81	93	102	70	96	111	68	37	106	98	1134
3	Holden Racing Team	0	87	73	76	21	117	90	46	60	39	18	10	17	46	100	800
4	Ford Performance Racing	0	44	46	44	33	64	54	36	70	81	36	50	77	100	53	788
5	Stone Brothers Racing	0	92	17	66	34	35	6	62	37	33	60	78	86	26	38	670
6	Dick Johnson Racing	0	44	80	32	37	47	28	46	36	0	81	26	84	47	38	626
7	Tasman Motorsport	0	22	34	26	26	15	28	30	40	9	45	72	28	44	12	431
8	Garry Rogers Motorsport	0	16	24	4	16	5	28	22	47	39	27	20	29	22	23	322
9	WPS Racing	0	3	4	8	17	10	17	8	21	0	39	40	23		2	192
10	Paul Weel Racing	0	3	0	5	5	0	0	3	8	36	15	17	6	4	2	104
11	Rod Nash Racing	0	0	5	0	21	0	9	0	10	18	36	2	0	2	0	103
12	Paul Morris Motorsport	0	0	6	0	10	10	14	16	6	6	0	0	0	6	4	78
13	Britek Motorsport	0	17	0	0	22	13	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	9	7	73
14	Team Kiwi Racing	0	0	6	21	9				4	0	0	5	6	2	6	59
15	Paul Cruickshank Racing	0	0	3	2	3	0	4	5	0	15	9	6	0	0	0	47
16	Perkins Engineering	0	0	4	0	12	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	14	6	0	42
17	Brad Jones Racing	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	19	0	0	2	2	0	0	31

denotes a single-car team.