FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2008

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2008 European Truck Racing Championship
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The FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2008 (also: FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2008 or FIA ETRC 2008 ) was a Europe of the FIA discharged motorsport racing championship in the group F ( racing trucks ). The nine (9) runs comprehensive, each with four (4) races Truck Racing Championship was the 24th ever and the fourth (third) since they 2006 by the FIA, the predicate of a championship ( "Championship" was awarded). Before that it only had the status of a "Cup" .

The Czech racer David Vršecký won the championship on his Freightliner -Renntruck before his Swiss teammate Markus Bösiger (Freightliner also) and Antonio Albacete from Spain to MAN . Jochen Hahn from Germany (also MAN) finished in 4th place.

Together with Makus Bösiger , David Vršecký also won the team classification as Team Buggyra Int. Racing system on Freightliner racing trucks (878 points). Jochen Hahn and Jean-Philippe Belloc secured second place as a Koller and Schwemmer team with their MAN racing trucks (644 points). With 459 points, Markus Altenstrasser and Frankie Vojtíšek took third place on the podium as the Frankie Truck Racing Team in Renault Trucks . Fourth place went to the Bermejo / Horne team with a total of 244 points on Mercedes-Benz racing trucks.

Racing calendar

Run date run place route 1st place (on points) Points 2nd place (on points) Points 3rd place (on points) Points
1. 10-11 May 2008 SpainSpain Spain Barcelona Circuit de Catalunya Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 49 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 40 FranceFrance Jean-Philippe Belloc 32
2. 24.-25. May 2008 ItalyItaly Italy Misano Misano World Circuit SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 50 SpainSpain Antonio Albacete 49 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 47
3. 07-08 June 2008 SpainSpain Spain Albacete Circuito de Albacete SpainSpain Antonio Albacete 53 GermanyGermany Jochen Hahn 39 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 38
4th 28-29 June 2008 FranceFrance France Nogaro Circuit Paul Armagnac SpainSpain Antonio Albacete 49 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 48 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 39
5. 11-13 July 2008 GermanyGermany Germany Nürburg Nürburgring Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 50 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 48 GermanyGermany Jochen Hahn 42
6th 30.-31. August 2008 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic Must Autodrom Most Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 54 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 54 AustriaAustria Markus Altenstrasser 32
7th 13-14 September 2008 BelgiumBelgium Belgium Zolder Circuit Zolder SpainSpain Antonio Albacete 53 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 49 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 40
8th. 20-21 September 2008 FranceFrance France Le Mans Circuit Bugatti GermanyGermany Jochen Hahn 51 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 50 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 37
9. 04. – 05. October 2008 SpainSpain Spain San Sebastian Circuito del Jarama SpainSpain Antonio Albacete 60 Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký 42 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger 39

Rating

Four (4) races were run on each race weekend, two (2) on Saturday and two (2) on Sunday.

In the second (2nd) day race (i.e. races 2 and 4 per race weekend), the starting grid of the previous race was partially reversed due to the reverse rule; this concerns the top 8 at the finish line.

  • The winner of races 1 and 3 of a weekend (first race of the day) started the next race (2 and 4) from position 8.
  • The eighth place (8th) in races 1 and 3 of a weekend (second race of the day) started the following race (2 and 4) from pole position .
  • The places in between have been reversed accordingly.

In the evaluation, a distinction was made between the races with and without reversal rule (places 1 - 10):

  • Races 1 and 3 (without reversal rule): 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 point (s)
  • Races 2 and 4 (with reversal rule): 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 point (s)

Driver rating

Final table (places 1–10) after the season finale in San Sebastián , Spain ( Circuito del Jarama ):

Pl. driver brand Points
1. Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký Freightliner 414
2. SwitzerlandSwitzerland Markus Bösiger Freightliner 393
3. SpainSpain Antonio Albacete MAN 372
4th GermanyGermany Jochen Hahn MAN 305
5. FranceFrance Jean-Philippe Belloc MAN 239
6th AustriaAustria Markus Altenstrasser Renault 148
7th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Stuart Oliver MAN 116
8th. Czech RepublicCzech Republic Frankie Vojtíšek Renault 101
9. United KingdomUnited Kingdom Christopher Levett MAN 98
10. AustriaAustria Egon Allgäuer MAN 97

Team rating

Final table after the season finale in San Sebastián , Spain ( Circuito del Jarama ):

rank team driver Trucks Points
1 Buggyra Int. Racing system Czech RepublicCzech Republic David Vršecký , Markus BösigerSwitzerlandSwitzerland Freightliner 878
2 Koller and Schwemmer team GermanyGermany Jochen Hahn , Jean-Philippe BellocFranceFrance MAN 644
3 Frankie Truck Racing Team AustriaAustria Markus Altenstrasser , Frankie VojtíšekCzech RepublicCzech Republic Renault 459
4th Team Bermejo / Horne SpainSpain Jose Bermejo , Steve HorneUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom Mercedes Benz 244

Web links

Commons : FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2008  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references and sources

  1. ↑ http://www.truckracing.de/truckrace/de/news-artikel/4385_fia-bestaetigt-termine/index.html
  2. ↑ Overall ranking 2008. André & Wolfgang Bartscher (truckracing.de), accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Team ranking 2008. André & Wolfgang Bartscher (truckracing.de), accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  4. ^ FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2008. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Overall evaluation 2008. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Team evaluation 2008. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 23, 2017 .