Felipe Massa finished second for Ferrari with Mark Webber third in a Red Bull Racing car.

During the weeks leading up to the race it was announced that McLaren would appear in front of the FIA on 26 July regarding claims they had received information from Ferrari.

[4] As a tribute to the passengers of TAM Airlines Flight 3054, Felipe Massa had a black stripe on his helmet in memory of the victims.

[5] Kimi Räikkönen overtook Felipe Massa during the final minute of qualifying and Fernando Alonso pushed him further down into third.

Red Bull had mistakenly let David Coulthard out too late from the pits in Q1 which led him to be stuck back in 20th place, only ahead of the two Spykers of Adrian Sutil and debutant Markus Winkelhock who had not been expected to do much better.

Leader Kimi Räikkönen attempted to pit, but lost grip and ran wide, having to do an extra lap on dry tyres and dropping to seventh place.

Winkelhock thus found himself in the lead as a result of his early gamble, the first time that a Spyker had led a Grand Prix.

[6] At about 2:20 p.m. local time the rain stopped and the drivers were pushed on to the starting grid, in the order that they were one lap before the red flag.

Jenson Button, Adrian Sutil, Nico Rosberg, Scott Speed and Vitantonio Liuzzi did not take the restart as they all aquaplaned off the track at turn one on lap three, causing the red flag.

The only lapped car was that of Lewis Hamilton, who unlapped himself and then pitted to change to dry tyres, a gamble which did not pay off due to the track still being too wet.

Winkelhock had only driven the Spyker for a total of three days before the race, and had not previously experienced wet weather in a Formula One car.

Pole position holder Kimi Räikkönen also retired due to mechanical problems while catching up to the leaders running third.

Red Bull earned ten points to move past Toyota in the Constructors' Championship into sixth.