2002 V8Star Series

The 2002 V8Star Series season was the second V8Star Series season. It featured ten races at six European racing circuits, in Germany, Belgium and Austria. Venezuelan ex-Formula One and Grand Prix motorcycle racing driver Johnny Cecotto was crowned champion of the series for a second time, taking three wins in all and beating Austrian to the title.

Teams and drivers[]

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Irmscher Motorsport	1	Johnny Cecotto	All
	3	Kurt Thiim	All
	4		All
	5	Ellen Lohr	1–7
		Toby Scheckter	8
		Benjamin Leuenberger	9–10
	6	Roland Asch	All
	11		All
Motopark Oschersleben	14		All
	16	Thomas Mutsch	All
	18		All
	20		All
	21	Kris Nissen	All
	22		All
	23		1
		Gianni Giudici	2–4, 6–10
		Oliver Mayer	5
	27		1–7
		Franz Engstler	8, 10
		Jeroen Bleekemolen	9
	28	Dirk Adorf	All
	44	Christian Hohenadel	1–5, 8–9
	44	Marc Duez	6–7
	55	Markus Oestreich	All
	66	Sascha Bert	All
	77		1–6
		Christian Danner	7
		Ellen Lohr	8–10
Zakspeed Motorsport	88	Pedro Lamy	All
Zakspeed Motorsport	99		All

Race calendar and results[]

Round		Circuit	Country	Date	Pole Position	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Germany	April 27		Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
2	R	Hockenheimring	Germany	May 11	Pedro Lamy	Thomas Mutsch
3	R	Nürburgring	Germany	June 1		Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Motorsport
4	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	June 15	Pedro Lamy	Thomas Mutsch
5	R	Zolder	Belgium	July 6	Thomas Mutsch	Thomas Mutsch
6	R	Nürburgring	Germany	July 20	Johnny Cecotto	Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
7	R	Salzburgring	Austria	August 10	Markus Oestreich	Thomas Mutsch
8	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	August 31	Thomas Mutsch	Johnny Cecotto	Irmscher Motorsport
9	R	Nürburgring	Germany	September 21			Zakspeed Motorsport
10	R	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Germany	October 12	Pedro Lamy		Zakspeed Motorsport

Championship standings[]

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Johnny Cecotto	290
2		259
3	Thomas Mutsch	257
4		249
5	Roland Asch	238
6	Kris Nissen	229
7	Pedro Lamy	202
8	Dirk Adorf	201
9	Kurt Thiim	190
10	Sascha Bert	180
11		171
12	Ellen Lohr	157
13		151
14	Markus Oestreich	147
15		141
16		141
17		139
18	Gianni Giudici	123
19	Christian Hohenadel	86
20		80
21		65
22	Franz Engstler	47
23	Marc Duez	43
24	Benjamin Leuenberger	42
25	Christian Danner	27
26	Toby Scheckter	23
27	Jeroen Bleekemolen	21
28	Oliver Mayer	14
29		0
Pos	Driver	Points

Pos	Team	Points
1	Zakspeed Motorsport	461
2		439
3		417
4		400
5		349
6		315
7	Irmscher Motorsport	290
8		278
9		276
10		257
11		151
12	Motopark Oschersleben	141
13		139
Pos	Team	Points

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th
Points	32	30	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2

2002 V8Star Series

Contents

Teams and drivers[]

Race calendar and results[]

Championship standings[]

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