2015 ADAC Opel Rallye Cup explained

The 2015 ADAC Opel Rallye Cup season was the third season of the one-make series for Opel Adam rally cars.

This season was notable for the participation of Yannick Neuville, younger brother of World Rally Championship winning driver Thierry Neuville. The title was won by German Julius Tannert and Luxembourger co-driver Jennifer Thielen. Tannert won 6 of the 8 rallies to be held in 2015, finishing 113 points clear of their next best competitors. Samuli Vuorisalo finished as runner-up, while Yannick Neuville finished third with a win at Rallye Vogelsberg. Jacob Madsen was the only other winner, winning the Ostsee Rallye.

Calendar

No.	Date	Rally	Winner
1	ADAC Saarland-Pfalz Rallye	6–7 March	Julius Tannert
2	ADAC Hessen Rallye Vogelsberg	17–18 April	Yannick Neuville
3	S–DMV Thüringen Rallye	15–16 May	Julius Tannert
4	ADAC Cosmo Rallye Wartburg	7–9 August	Julius Tannert
5	Rallye Deutschland	22 August	Julius Tannert
6		23 August	Julius Tannert
7	ADAC Ostsee Rallye	4–5 September	Jacob Madsen
8	3-Städte-Rallye	23–24 October	Julius Tannert

Drivers

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Team	No.	Driver
n/a	30	Tim Wacker
	31	Jerzy Tomaszczyk
	35	Michael Knapp
	40	Jacob Madsen
	42	Philipp Leger
	49	Anze Lemež
ADAC Niedersachsen/S. Anhalt	32	Emil Lindholm
RSG Mosbach e.V. im ADAC	33	Andre Wawrzyniak
ADAC Sachsen e.V.	34	Julius Tannert
ADAC Team Hansa	36	Timo Broda
ADAC Mittelrhein e.V.	37	Patrick Orth
	38	Kevin Müller
ADAC Team Südbayern	39	Yannick Neuville
ADAC Ostwestfalen-Lippe e.V.	41	Niklas Stötefalke
	44	Laura Suvanto
	46	Samuli Vuorisalo
AC Helfenstein e.V. im ADAC	43	Melanie Schulz
Pontus Åhman	45	Pontus Åhman
ADAC Hessen-Thüringen	47	Sebastian von Gartzen
Team ADAC Weser-Ems	48	Moritz Neumann

Championship standings

Points were awarded to the top 20 finishers on the basis below:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	35	27	21	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

• Additional points were awarded to the top three finishers on each event's Power Stage, on a 3–2–1 basis. Five points were also awarded to the driver with most stage wins at an event.

Pos Driver SAA HES THÜ COS DEU OST 3ST Pts 1 Julius Tannert 1^7 2^3 1 1^8 1^8 1^1 3^2 1^2 296 2 Samuli Vuorisalo 3 12^2 3 3^2 2^2 3 2^1 2^1 183 3 Yannick Neuville 7^3 1 Ret 2 Ret 2^2 4 Ret^5 130 4 Jacob Madsen 2^1 Ret^5 10 Ret 8 12^8 1^8 Ret 122 5 Emil Lindholm 6 11 8 Ret 3 6 9 4^3 110 6 Sebastian von Gartzen 13 Ret 5 6^1 7 7 8 10 95 7 Kevin Müller Ret 4 7 15 6^1 Ret 6 7 85 8 Pontus Åhman 15 Ret 6 5 10 4 14 12 84 9 Jerzy Tomaszczyk 5 10 2 Ret 9 8 Ret Ret 82 10 Patrick Orth 8 Ret 9 4 5 9 10 Ret 81 11 Moritz Neumann 14 7 11 8 12 5 15 Ret 76 12 Niklas Stötefalke Ret 3^1 Ret Ret 4 10 13 5 75 13 Tim Wacker 10 6 13 14 Ret 13 11 63 14 Melanie Schulz Ret 13 15 9 Ret 11 11 9 62 15 Timo Broda 4 Ret 4 13 5 59 16 Michael Knapp 9 8 12 11 DNS 7 Ret 59 17 Philipp Leger 11 9 14 10 Ret DNS 41 18 Andre Wawrzyniak Ret 5 Ret 11 12 Ret 36 19 Laura Suvanto 12 14 12 Ret 25 Guest drivers ineligible for points Johannes Fürst 3 0 Josef Peták 6 0 René Mandel 7 Ret 0 Robert Hordossy 8 0 Jürgen von Gartzen Ret 0 Petr Vraj, Jr. Ret 0 Matěj Kamenec Ret 0 Martin Mottl Ret 0 Pos Driver SAA HES THÜ COS DEU OST 3ST Pts

References

1. Web site: Vorläufige Teilnehmerliste ADAC OPEL Rallye Cup 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151001043426/http://www.adac-motorsport.de/adac-opel-rallye-cup/de/teilnehmerliste/static/. 2015-10-01. 2015-08-16.

External links

• ADAC Motorsport website