Legge, meanwhile, suffered with the move from PKV to Coyne, despite flashes of promise as she got close to team-mate Junqueira in qualifying. Where the Brazilian excelled in the races, however, Legge struggled to build on her season-opening sixth in Las Vegas as a combination of mechanical DNFs and finding herself in the wrong place at the wrong time prevented her from earning another top ten result.
There were a few bigger names behind Legge on the final points list, but all contested fewer than half the events. Heylen was a mid-season pick-up for Conquest Racing and rewarded Eric Bachelart's team with a surprise podium at Assen just one week after his Zolder disaster, but then found himself dropped in favour of fellow returnee Nelson Philippe as another set of different sponsors came on board for the final two rounds. Dominguez, meanwhile, inherited Moreno's mantle as ‘supersub', running with no fewer than four teams during the course of the year, ironically earning his best result with the only one to voluntarily dispense with his services.
Philippe, Moreno and rookies Alex Figge, David Martinez and Matt Halliday were the other runners in 2007, the American contesting the entire year with Pacific Coast, while the others combined for eight events as the merry-go-round spun.
Off-track, there were continuing questions about the series' future, the drawn-out saga of whether the
FIA would permit Champ Car to race in China – eventually the event died a quiet death – complaints about the frequent large gaps between rounds when others ran back-to-back, the loss of the stillborn Phoenix round and the end-of-year focus on series and team owner Kevin Kalkhoven's court case, from which he was eventually acquitted.
Despite the uncertainty, however, the calendar for 2008 has already been put together, featuring a return to Laguna Seca and a third event in Europe – FIA approval of a
Jerez date permitting – but the loss of not only the much-heralded Vegas event, but also the popular trip to San Jose.
