German Rally Championship 2008
The 2008 German Rally Championship was held in six rallies between March 7th and October 18th, 2008. Hermann Gassner senior became the master .
Rallies and results
The season opener in March was the Oberland rally around Peiting in Upper Bavaria . With the Hessen-Rallye Vogelsberg one of the most traditional rallies in Germany followed. Around the Vogelsberg , a distance of around 430 kilometers was covered on two consecutive days, 140 kilometers of which were special stages. The main venues were the cities of Schlitz and Schotten . The Saxony Rally, the Eifel Rally and the Saarland Rally followed later. After the previous events were held almost exclusively on a hard surface, the season finale, the Lausitz Rally, was contested as the only pure rally on gravel.
rally | space | Driver / passenger | vehicle | total time |
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ADAC Rallye Oberland 7th – 8th March 2008 |
1. | Hermann Gassner Sr. / Siegfried Schrankl | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | 1: 28: 20.6 h |
2. | Sandro Wallenwein / Pauli Zeitlhofer | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | + 12.4 s | |
3. | Anton Werner / Ralph Edelmann | Porsche 996 GT3 | + 30 s | |
ADAC Hessen-Rallye Vogelsberg 18. – 19. April 2008 |
1. | Erik Wevers / Jalmar van Weeren | Ford Focus WRC 06 | 1: 22: 29.3 h |
2. | Mark van Eldik / Michel Groenewoud | Subaru Impreza WRC | + 16.3 s | |
3. | Sandro Wallenwein / Pauli Zeitlhofer | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | +1: 45.3 min | |
42nd AvD Saxony Rally 16. – 17. May 2008 |
1. | Peter Corazza / Ronald Bauer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | 1: 21: 19.2 h |
2. | Hermann Gassner sen./Siegfried Schrankl | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | + 27.1 s | |
3. | Olaf Dobberkau / Jenny Gäbler | Porsche 996 GT3 RS | + 44.8 s | |
ADAC Eifel Rally 18-19. July 2008 |
1. | Erik Wevers / Filip Godde | Ford Focus WRC 06 | 1:20:21 h |
2. | Mark van Eldik / Michel Groenewoud | Subaru Impreza WRC | + 38.1 s | |
3. | Peter van Merksteijn jr. / Eddy Chevaillier | Ford Focus WRC 06 | +1: 38.1 min | |
38th ADAC Saarland rally 12th – 13th September 2008 |
1. | Sandro Wallenwein / Pauli Zeitlhofer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII | 1: 39: 11.6 h |
2. | Peter Corazza / Ronald Bauer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | + 1.2 s | |
3. | Hermann Gassner sen./Siegfried Schrankl | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX | + 4.7 s | |
9th ADMV-Lausitz-Rallye 17. – 18. October 2008 |
1. | Dennis Kuipers / Kees Hagman | Ford Focus WRC 06 | 1: 30: 52.5 h |
2. | Peter Corazza / Ronald Bauer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | + 10.1 s | |
3. | Sandro Wallenwein / Pauli Zeitlhofer | Subaru Impreza WRX STi | + 36.7 s |
Championship final result
space | Driver / passenger | Points |
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1. | Hermann Gassner Sr. / Siegfried Schrankl | 139 |
2. | Sandro Wallenwein / Pauli Zeitlhofer | 130 |
3. | Peter Corazza / Ronald Bauer | 104 |
4th | Hermann Gassner jun. / Katharina Wüstenhagen | 72 |
5. | Felix Herbold / Frank Oschmann | 70 |
6th | Mark Wallenwein / Stefan Kopczyk | 65 |
7th | Christian Riedemann / Oliver Bobrink | 63 |
8th. | Matthias Kahle / Thomas Schünemann | 59 |
9. | Peter Zehetmaier / Jürgen Breuer | 55 |
10. | Olaf Dobberkau / Jenny Gäbler | 54 |