2008 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Explained

The 2008 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season was the 23rd German Porsche Carrera Cup season. It began on 13 April at Hockenheim and finished on 26 October at the same circuit, after nine races. It ran as a support championship for the 2008 DTM season. René Rast won the first of his two championships with the MRS-Team.

Teams and drivers

Team		Drivers	Rounds
UPS Porsche-Junior Team	1	Martin Ragginger	All
	2	Marco Holzer	All
ARAXA Racing	3	Nicolas Armindo	All
	4	Carl-Olov Carlsson	All
Farnbacher RT	5	Robert Renauer	All
	6	Niclas Kentenich	All
Mamerow Racing	7	Tim Buijs	1, 3
		Jeroen Bleekemolen	2, 4–5
		Pascal Kochem	6
		Lance David Arnold	7–9
	8	Christian Mamerow	All
Schnabel Engineering	9	Jiří Janák	1–8
		David Saelens	9
	10	Hannes Plesse	All
Herberth Motorsport	11	Alex Davison	1
		Uwe Alzen	2–9
	12	Jörg Hardt	All
MRS-Team	14	René Rast	All
	15	Mario Josten	All
	45	Norbert Schratter	9
Eichin Racing	16	Pascal Kochem	1–3
		Tim Buijs	4–9
	17	Mike Verschuur	All
	46	Swen Dolenc	9
SMS Seyffarth-Motorsport	18	Jan Seyffarth	All
	19	Robert Lukas	All
Land Motorsport	20	Patrick Hirsch	All
	21	Andzej Dzikevic	All
Mičának Motorsport	22	Jiří Mičának	All
	23	Oleg Kesselman	All
MS Racing	24	Florian Stoll	All
	25	Ivan Jacoma	All
tolimit	33	Christian Abt	All
	44	Christian Engelhart	All
Online Leasing RT	66	Florian Scholze	1–2, 4–9
		Christoph Schrezemmeier	3
	77	Thomas Jäger	All
Hermes Attempto Racing	88	Patrick Huisman	All
	99	Philipp Wlazik	All

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1		Hockenheimring	13 April	René Rast	Jan Seyffarth	René Rast	MRS-Team
2		Oschersleben	20 April	Jörg Hardt	Uwe Alzen	Jörg Hardt	Herberth Motorsport
3		Mugello	4 May	Uwe Alzen	Uwe Alzen	Uwe Alzen	Herberth Motorsport
4		EuroSpeedway Lausitz	18 May	René Rast	Nicolas Armindo	Jörg Hardt	Herberth motorsport
5		Norisring	29 June	Nicolas Armindo	Nicolas Armindo	Nicolas Armindo	ARAXA Racing
6		Zandvoort	13 July	Christian Mamerow	René Rast	Jan Seyffarth	SMS Seyffarth-Motorsport
7		Nürburgring Short	27 July	René Rast	Jörg Hardt	Jan Seyffarth	SMS Seyffath-Motorsport
8		Circuit de Catalunya National	21 September	Jan Seyffarth	René Rast	Jan Seyffarth	SMS Seyffarth-Motorsport
9		Hockenheimring	26 October	Marco Holzer	Marco Holzer	Marco Holzer	UPS Porsche-Junior Team

Championship standings

Points system
1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver HOC OSC MUG LAU NOR ZAN NÜR CAT HOC Pts 1 René Rast 1 6 2 2 2 3 7 3 4 139 2 Jan Seyffarth 4 4 17 4 4 1 1 1 9 123 3 Christian Mamerow 2 2 5 6 3 2 11 8 7 114 4 Jörg Hardt Ret 1 Ret 1 6 5 Ret 5 2 92 5 Marco Holzer 20 12 7 10 8 6 3 2 1 91 6 Nicolas Armindo 3 3 3 14 1 24† Ret 6 DSQ 90 7 Martin Ragginger 9 9 DNS 9 7 7 2 4 8 90 8 Patrick Huisman 5 5 8 5 Ret 9 6 10 DSQ 67 9 Uwe Alzen Ret 1 Ret 5 4 Ret Ret 3 62 10 Thomas Jäger 11 Ret 6 3 Ret 20 8 7 6 59 11 Jiří Janák 8 8 4 8 9 Ret 9 25† 53 12 Robert Renauer 23† 22 9 DNS 15 16 4 9 5 41 13 Mario Josten 21 Ret 10 21 12 10 10 12 15 28 14 Christian Abt 10 Ret Ret 12 Ret 8 19† 15 13 24 15 Lance David Arnold 5 24 11 18 16 Niclas Kentenich 12 Ret 14 20 10 12 16 21 22 17 17 Philipp Wlazik DSQ 7 19 15 11 Ret 18† 16 18 15 18 Jeroen Bleekemolen 11 7 Ret 14 19 Christian Engelhart 18 Ret 15 11 20 11 Ret Ret 14 14 20 Pascal Kochem 6 13 25† 18 13 21 Patrick Hirsch 13 17 DSQ 13 17 15 Ret 11 DNS 13 22 Carl-Olov Carlsson DSQ 10 22 Ret 23 27† 20† 22 12 11 23 Ivan Jacoma DSQ 21 11 18 19 21 13 17 16 9 24 Tim Buijs 22 16 Ret 13 14 15 13 29 9 25 Robert Lukas 15 14 18 Ret Ret 17 12 Ret 17 8 26 Florian Stoll 14 20 24 17 14 13 Ret Ret 20 8 27 Mike Verschuur 19 15 12 Ret 22 Ret Ret 14 21 7 28 Andzej Dzikevic Ret 18 13 23 18 22 21† 18 19 3 29 Hannes Plesse Ret 16 Ret 19 16 19 14 19 24 2 30 Florian Scholze 16 19 22 Ret 26 Ret 20 23 1 Jiří Mičának 17 23 20 16 Ret 23 Ret Ret 25 0 Oleg Kesselman DSQ 24† 21 24 21 25 17 23 27 0 guest drivers ineligible for championship points Alex Davison 7 0 David Saelens 10 0 Christoph Schrezenmeier 23 0 Swen Dolenc 26 0 Norbert Schratter 28 0 Pos Driver HOC OSC MUG LAU NOR ZAN NÜR CAT HOC Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

External links

• The Porsche Carrera Cup Germany website
• Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Online Magazine