2008 European Touring Car Cup

Layout of the Salzburgring

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
	BMW 320si	11	Franz Engstler
		27	César Campaniço
SUNRED Motorsport Development	SEAT León	7	Oscar Nogués
Poulsen Motorsport	BMW 320si	8	Kristian Poulsen
	Honda Accord Euro R	11	Jens Reno Møller
	BMW 320si	14
Kissling Motorsport	Opel Astra GTC	15
	Toyota Auris	16	Philip Geipel
	Toyota Corolla T-Sport	17
	Honda Civic Type R	18
	BMW 320si	19
	Honda Accord Euro R	20
	Ford Focus	21	Sergey Krylov
	BMW 320si	22
Super Production class
	Honda Integra Type-R	52
	Honda Integra Type-R	53
	BMW 320i	54	Fabio Fabiani
		55
	Opel Astra Coupé	56
	Volkswagen Golf IV	57	Nikolay Karamyshev
Super 1600 class
	Ford Fiesta ST	72	Ralf Martin
		75
	Ford Fiesta ST	73
	Citroën C2 VTS	74
	Peugeot 207 Sport	76
	Volkswagen Polo GTi	77

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		Honda Accord Euro R	12	+29.739	8	3
7	14	S2000			BMW 320si	12	+30.363	10	2
8	9	S2000	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering	BMW 320si	12	+30.703	5	1
9	22	S2000			BMW 320si	12	+32.502	13
10	4	S2000	Alexander Lvov	Golden Motors	Honda Accord Euro R	12	+36.204	11
11	17	S2000			Toyota Corolla T-Sport	12	+39.535	12
12	20	S2000	Peter Rikli		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			BMW 320si	12	+1:07.408	27
15	15	S2000		Kissling Motorsport	Opel Astra GTC	12	+1:20.245	15
16	6	S2000		Liqui Moly Team Engstler	BMW 320i	12	+1:20.796	16
17	54	SP	Fabio Fabiani		BMW 320i	11	+ 1 Lap	18	10
18	57	SP	Nikolay Karamyshev		Volkswagen Golf IV	11	+ 1 Lap	20	8
19	72	S1600	Ralf Martin		Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	21	10
20	75	S1600			Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	24	8
21	73	S1600			Ford Fiesta ST	11	+ 1 Lap	28	6
22	77	S1600			Volkswagen Polo GTi	11	+ 1 Lap	26	5
23	52	SP			Honda Integra Type-R	10	+ 2 Laps	25	6
24	76	S1600			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			Honda Civic Type-R	5	+ 7 Laps	19
Ret	74	S1600			Citroën C2 VTS	0		22
DNS	16	S2000	Philip Geipel		Toyota Auris		DNS
DNS	56	SP			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 7 8 3 10 Jan Nilsson 8 Ret 1 11 9 Ret 0 12 15 9 0 13 Alexander Lvov 10 11 0 14 16 10 0 15 11 Ret 0 16 Peter Rikli 12 19 0 17 Andrey Smetsky 13 12 0 18 14 Ret 0 19 Ret DNS 0 20 Philip Geipel DNS Ret 0 Super Production 1 Fabio Fabiani 17 13 20 2 Nikolay Karamyshev 18 17 16 3 23 21 12 - DNS DNS 0 Super 1600 1 Ralf Martin 19 14 20 2 21 15 14 3 20 16 14 4 Sergey Ryabov 22 20 10 5 24 22 8 6 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 practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References[]

External links[]

• Official website of the FIA European Touring Car Cup