2008 European Touring Car Cup

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
		9	Jan Nilsson
Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	4	Alexander Lvov
		5	Andrey Smetsky
Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320i	6	Oleg Petrishin
	BMW 320si	11	Franz Engstler
		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
	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
		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
		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

Pos Driver Race 1 Race 2 Pts Super 2000 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 Pos Driver Race 1 Race 2 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd 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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References

External links

• Official website of the FIA European Touring Car Cup