2008 European Touring Car Cup
# 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 :

| 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 |
| Flash Engineering | BMW 320si | 9 | Jan Nilsson |
| Golden Motors | Honda Accord Euro R | 4 | Alexander Lvov |
| Golden Motors | Honda Accord Euro R | 5 | Andrey Smetsky |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320i | 6 | Oleg Petrishin |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si | 11 | Franz Engstler |
| Liqui Moly Team Engstler | BMW 320si | 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 |
| Yaco Racing | 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 |
| F. Motorsport | BMW 320i | 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 |
| TLM Team Lauderbach Motorsport | Ford Fiesta ST | 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 | Second place |
| Bronze | Third place |
| Green | Points finish |
| Blue | Non-points finish |
| Blue | Non-classified finish (NC) |
| Purple | Retired (Ret) |
| Red | Did not qualify (DNQ) |
| Red | Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) |
| Black | Disqualified (DSQ) |
| White | Did not start (DNS) |
| White | Withdrew (WD) |
| White | Race cancelled (C) |
| Blank | Did not practice (DNP) |
| Blank | Did not arrive (DNA) |
| Blank | Excluded (EX) |
