2001 V8Star Series

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The 2001 V8Star Series season was the inaugural V8Star Series season. It featured nine races at five European racing circuits, in Germany and Austria. Venezuelan ex-Formula One and Grand Prix motorcycle racing driver Johnny Cecotto was crowned champion of the series, taking only the one win but beating Germans Marcel Tiemann and Roland Asch to the title.

Teams and drivers[]

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
	1		All
			–
		Christian Hohenadel	–
	2		All
	3	Kurt Thiim	All
	4		All
	5	Roland Asch	All
	6	Toby Scheckter	All
Irmscher Motorsport	9	Johnny Cecotto	All
	11		All
	14	Timo Rumpfkeil	All
	15		3–9
		Ralf Kelleners	–
			–
	16		1–4
			5–6
			7–9
	18	Oliver Mayer	All
	21	Kris Nissen	5–9
	22		7–9
			–
	27		All
	28	Thomas Mutsch	All
	66	Sascha Bert	All
	88		1–6
		Andrej Studenic	7–9
Zakspeed Motorsport	77	Karl Wendlinger	All
	99	Marcel Tiemann	All

Race calendar and results[]

Round		Circuit	Country	Date	Pole Position	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Germany	April 29	Johnny Cecotto	Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
2	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	May 13		Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
3	R	Nürburgring	Germany	May 26	Roland Asch	Roland Asch
4	R	Salzburgring	Austria	June 10		Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
5	R	Nürburgring	Germany	July 22	Kurt Thiim	Roland Asch
6	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	August 5		Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
7	R	Hockenheimring	Germany	September 16	Roland Asch
8	R	Nürburgring	Germany	September 30
9	R	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Germany	October 14		Marcel Tiemann	Zakspeed Motorsport

Championship standings[]

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Johnny Cecotto	217
2	Roland Asch	203
3	Marcel Tiemann	203
4	Thomas Mutsch	180
5		175
6	Kurt Thiim	172
7	Toby Scheckter	166
8		153
9	Sascha Bert	150
10	Timo Rumpfkeil	143
11	Karl Wendlinger	142
12		135
13		135
14		116
15		115
16	Kris Nissen	114
17		113
18	Oliver Mayer	111
19	Andrej Studenic	83
20		81
21		51
22		22
23	Christian Hohenadel	18
24	Ralf Kelleners	17
25		7
Pos	Driver	Points

Pos	Team	Points
1		330
2	Zakspeed Motorsport	306
3		289
4		278
5		260
6		247
7		235
8	Irmscher Motorsport	191
9		161
10		148
11		114
12		101
13		72
Pos	Team	Points

References[]

External links[]

• driverdb.com V8Star Series 2001
• speedsport-magazine.com V8Star Series 2001
• motorsport-archive.com V8Star Series
• V8Star Series official website