2008 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany

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

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Team No. 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

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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

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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

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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
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap

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

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