2008 European Touring Car Cup Explained

The 2008 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the fourth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. It was held on 19 October 2008 at the Salzburgring near Salzburg in Austria.

Teams and drivers

Super 2000 class^[1]
Team	Car	No	Drivers
Chevrolet Motorsport Danmark	Chevrolet Lacetti	1	Michel Nykjær
Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	2	Tomas Engström
Flash Engineering	BMW 320si	3	Richard Göransson
Flash Engineering	BMW 320si	9	Jan Nilsson
Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	4	Alexander Lvov
Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	5	Andrey Smetsky
Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320i	6	Oleg Petrishin
	BMW 320si	11	Franz Engstler
	BMW 320si	27	César Campaniço
SUNRED Motorsport Development	SEAT León	7	Oscar Nogués
Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	8	Kristian Poulsen
Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	11	Jens Reno Møller
GTM Finland	BMW 320si	14	Mikko Eskelinen
Kissling Motorsport	Opel Astra GTC	15	Wolfgang Treml
Yaco Racing	Toyota Auris	16	Philip Geipel
Yaco Racing	Toyota Corolla T-Sport	17	Charlie Geipel
JH Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R	18	Janis Horeliks
Saksa Auto AMK	BMW 320si	19	Urmas Kitsing
Rikli Motorsport Equipe Bernoise	Honda Accord Euro R	20	Peter Rikli
Sport-Garage	Ford Focus	21	Sergey Krylov
Petrol GT Racing Team	BMW 320si	22	George Tanev
Super Production class
Spice Racing Team	Honda Integra Type-R	52	Egons Lapins
Zaibelis	Honda Integra Type-R	53	Paulius Krukauskas
F. Motorsport	BMW 320i	54	Fabio Fabiani
F. Motorsport	BMW 320i	55	Imerio Brigliadori
Aimol Racing	Opel Astra Coupé	56	Dmitriy Dobrovolsky
Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Golf IV	57	Nikolay Karamyshev
Super 1600 class
TLM Team Lauderbach Motorsport	Ford Fiesta ST	72	Ralf Martin
TLM Team Lauderbach Motorsport	Ford Fiesta ST	75	Andrii Kruglik
NK Racing Team	Ford Fiesta ST	73	Carsten Seifert
Roscher Racing	Citroën C2 VTS	74	Jens Löhnig
ETH Tuning	Peugeot 207 Sport	76	Guido Thierfelder
Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Polo GTi	77	Sergey Ryabov

Results

Race 1

Pos	No	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Class Points
1	1	S2000	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Danmark	Chevrolet Lacetti	12	17:51.594	1	10
2	3	S2000	Richard Göransson	Flash Engineering	BMW320si	12	+0.190	2	8
3	7	S2000	Oscar Nogués	SUNRED Motorsport Development	SEAT León	12	+11.506	6	6
4	10	S2000	Kristian Poulsen	Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	12	+14.750	4	5
5	27	S2000	César Campaniço	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	12	+15.096	7	4
6	11	S2000	Jens Reno Møller	Hartmann Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+29.739	8	3
7	14	S2000	Mikko Eskelinen	GTM Finland	BMW 320si	12	+30.363	10	2
8	9	S2000	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering	BMW 320si	12	+30.703	5	1
9	22	S2000	George Tanev	Petrol GT Racing Team	BMW 320si	12	+32.502	13
10	4	S2000	Alexander Lvov	Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+36.204	11
11	17	S2000	Charlie Geipel	Yaco Racing	Toyota Corolla T-Sport	12	+39.535	12
12	20	S2000	Peter Rikli	Rikli Motorsport Equipe Bernoise	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+41.244	14
13	5	S2000	Andrey Smetsky	Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+50.617	17
14	19	S2000	Urmas Kitsing	Saksa Auto AMK	BMW 320si	12	+1:07.408	27
15	15	S2000	Wolfgang Treml	Kissling Motorsport	Opel Astra GTC	12	+1:20.245	15
16	6	S2000	Oleg Petrishin	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320i	12	+1:20.796	16
17	54	SP	Fabio Fabiani	F. Motorsport	BMW 320i	11	+ 1 Lap	18	10
18	57	SP	Nikolay Karamyshev	Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Golf IV	11	+ 1 Lap	20	8
19	72	S1600	Ralf Martin	TLM Team Lauderbach Motorsport	Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	21	10
20	75	S1600	Andrii Kruglik	TLM Team Lauderbach Motorsport	Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	24	8
21	73	S1600	Carsten Seifert	NK Racing Team	Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	28	6
22	77	S1600	Sergey Ryabov	Sport-Garage	Volkswagen Polo GTi	11	+ 1 Lap	26	5
23	52	SP	Egons Lapins	Spice Racing Team	Honda Integra Type-R	10	+ 2 Laps	25	6
24	76	S1600	Guido Thierfelder	ETH Tuning	Peugeot 207 Sport	10	+ 2 Laps	23	4
NC	12	S2000	Franz Engstler	Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320si	6	+ 6 Laps	3
Ret	2	S2000	Tomas Engström	Honda Racing	Honda Accord Euro R	5	+ 7 Laps	9
Ret	18	S2000	Janis Horeliks	JH Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R	5	+ 7 Laps	19
Ret	74	S1600	Jens Löhnig	Roscher Racing	Citroën C2 VTS	0		22
DNS	16	S2000	Philip Geipel	Yaco Racing	Toyota Auris		DNS
DNS	56	SP	Dmitriy Dobrovolsky	Aimol Racing	Opel Astra Coupé		DNS

Final standings

Super 2000
valign=middle	Pos	valign=middle	Driver	Race 1	Race 2	valign=middle	Pts
1	Michel Nykjær	1	2	18
2	Oscar Nogués	3	1	16
3	Richard Göransson	2	3	14
4	César Campaniço	5	7	6
5	Jens Reno Møller	6	6	6
6	Kristian Poulsen	4	18	5
7	Franz Engstler	NC	4	5
8	Tomas Engström	Ret	5	4
9	Mikko Eskelinen	7	8	3
10	Jan Nilsson	8	Ret	1
11	George Tanev	9	Ret	0
12	Wolfgang Treml	15	9	0
13	Alexander Lvov	10	11	0
14	Oleg Petrishin	16	10	0
15	Charlie Geipel	11	Ret	0
16	Peter Rikli	12	19	0
17	Andrey Smetsky	13	12	0
18	Urmas Kitsing	14	Ret	0
19	Janis Horeliks	Ret	DNS	0
20	Philip Geipel	DNS	Ret	0
Super Production
1	Fabio Fabiani	17	13	20
2	Nikolay Karamyshev	18	17	16
3	Egons Lapins	23	21	12
-	Dmitriy Dobrovolsky	DNS	DNS	0
Super 1600
1	Ralf Martin	19	14	20
2	Carsten Seifert	21	15	14
3	Andrii Kruglik	20	16	14
4	Sergey Ryabov	22	20	10
5	Guido Thierfelder	24	22	8
6	Jens Löhnig	Ret	Ret	0
valign=middle	Pos	valign=middle	Driver	Race 1	Race 2	valign=middle	Pts

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

Official website of the FIA European Touring Car Cup

Notes and References

Web site: 2008 Entry List. fiaetcc.com. 2010-01-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20110711000201/http://www.fiaetcc.com/2k9/2008-EntryList.asp. 2011-07-11. dead.