Circuit: Watkins Glen International Raceway (3.77-mile road course) Watkins Glen, NY
2006 Winner: Scott Dixon (Honda) 92.418 mph average
Weather: Increasing clouds, breezy, 89 degrees F
Race Results:
| Fn. | St. | Driver | Team | Chassis | Laps | Average Speed/Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Scott Dixon | Target Chip Ganassi | Honda Dallara | 60 | 116.813 mph average, led 23 laps |
| 2 | 5 | Sam Hornish Jr. | Team Penske | Honda Dallara | 60 | -6.2591 seconds |
| 3 | 3 | Dario Franchitti | Andretti Green Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -9.7492 seconds |
| 4 | 4 | Tony Kanaan | Andretti Green Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -14.4830 seconds |
| 5 | 6 | Marco Andretti | Andretti Green Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -15.4749 seconds, led 9 laps |
| 6 | 7 | Buddy Rice | Dreyer & Reinbold | Honda Dallara | 60 | -26.9171 seconds |
| 7 | 10 | Dan Wheldon | Target Chip Ganassi | Honda Dallara | 60 | -35.3515 seconds |
| 8 | 11 | Kosuke Matsuura | Super Aguri Panther | Honda Dallara | 60 | -40.7037 seconds |
| 9 | 9 | Darren Manning | A.J. Foyt Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -47.6893 seconds |
| 10 | 12 | Jeff Simmons | Rahal Letterman Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -54.8895 seconds |
| 11 | 15 | Danica Patrick | Andretti Green Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -57.0833 seconds |
| 12 | 17 | Ed Carpenter | Vision Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -66.9352 seconds |
| 13 | 13 | Tomas Scheckter | Vision Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -67.7275 seconds |
| 14 | 14 | Scott Sharp | Rahal Letterman Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -70.3164 seconds |
| 15 | 16 | A.J. Foyt IV | Vision Racing | Honda Dallara | 60 | -85.2853 seconds |
| 16 | 18 | Sarah Fisher | Dreyer & Reinbold | Honda Dallara | 58 | Running |
| 17 | 8 | Vitor Meira | Delphi Panther Racing | Honda Dallara | 58 | Running, led 8 laps |
| 18 | 1 | Helio Castroneves | Team Penske | Honda Dallara | 19 | Did not finish – contact , led 19 laps |
Dixon 'Three-Peats' at Watkins Glen
For the third consecutive season, Target Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon was unstoppable at Watkins Glen International Raceway, scoring his first IndyCar Series win of 2007 Sunday at the Watkins Glen Indy GP and closing his points gap to championship leader and third-place finisher Dario Franchitti.
Starting on the outside of the front row, Dixon shadowed and challenged early race leader Helio Castroneves for the first 19 laps, then took over at the front when Castroneves lost control and crashed without injury exiting the final turn of the 3.77-mile road course. Although several drivers gambled with alternative pit strategies mid-race, Dixon continued to have the quickest car on course, and reclaimed the lead for the second and final time on Lap 43 to take the checker just over six seconds ahead of Team Penske's Sam Hornish Jr.
Dixon has now won all three IndyCar races to be held at 'The Glen'. He and teammate Dan Wheldon are the only drivers in IndyCar Series history to post three consecutive wins at the same circuit. Wheldon has won the last three races at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida.
It was another weekend of 100 per cent reliability for the Honda Indy V-8 engine, as the IndyCar Series completed the second road course event of the season, and the second of five consecutive races in a swing through the Midwest and East Coast.
For Hornish, today's result marks his best road-course performance in three seasons of IndyCar Series events with both right and left turns. Starting fifth, the defending series champion survived a bumping incident with Tony Kanaan on Lap 31 while the pair battled for position.
Kanaan also continued on after the contact, both cars running with wheel marks on their respective sidepods. After finishing fourth, Kanaan exchanged words with Hornish in Pit Lane, while IndyCar Series officials defused a scuffle involving members of their two teams.
One of those on alternative pit strategies, Marco Andretti finished fifth after leading nine laps, while Buddy Rice had his fourth consecutive strong race, running sixth for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing. Dan Wheldon overcame problems with the on-board jacking system to run seventh, and Kosuke Matsuura gained three positions from qualifying to finish eighth for Super Aguri Panther Racing.
Next week, the IndyCar Series travels to the high banks of Nashville Super Speedway for the July 14 Firestone Indy 200, the fourth of five successive race weekends.
| IndyCar Series Drivers' Championship (after 10 of 17 races) | |||
| 1. Dario Franchitti | 394 points (3 wins) | 7. Scott Sharp | 239 points |
| 2. Scott Dixon | 347 (1 win) | 8. Danica Patrick | 232 |
| 3. Tony Kanaan | 319 (2 wins) | 9. Vitor Meira | 220 |
| 4. Dan Wheldon | 313 (2 wins) | 10. Tomas Scheckter | 214 |
| 5. Sam Hornish Jr. | 297 (1 win) | 11. Buddy Rice | 208 |
| 6. Helio Castroneves | 257 (1 win) | 12. Marco Andretti | 197 |
Scott Dixon (#9 Target Chip Ganassi Racing Honda) Started 2nd, finished 1st, first win of 2007, seventh career IndyCar victory: "This was a fantastic day for us. It was a bit of a rough race, with everyone on different fuel strategies it was very difficult in traffic. You were never sure if you needed to try as hard as possible to pass the car in front of you, or just be patient and wait for an opportunity. Then we had a few spots of rain at the end, and that was a bit nerve-wracking as well. But our car was bloody fast all day, we've had such good luck here over the years and the guys did a great job in the pits. We gained on Dario [Franchitti] in the [championship] points today, and that certainly helps as well."
Sam Hornish Jr. (#6 Team Penske Honda) Started 5th, finished 2nd , his career best IndyCar Series road-course finish: "I got a good run off Turn Five and got along side of him [Kanaan]. He started coming in but I was already up against the curb, so we bumped. But neither one of us spun, it was just hard racing. After the race we argued about it, and we probably both got a bit too loud. But it was a very physical race on a hot day, and tempers were up there."
Robert Clarke (President, Honda Performance Development) on today's race: "It was going to be tough for anyone to catch Scott Dixon today. He's had the dominant combination here all three years and the Target Chip Ganassi Team demonstrated it again today. Congratulations to them for a well-earned victory. And again, congratulations to all the associates at Honda Performance Development and our technical partners at Ilmor. It was another weekend of perfect reliability for us in our second road-course race of the season."
