FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2009

European Truck Racing Championship 2009
Last season: 2008	Next season: 2010

Podium at the last race of the fourth round of the season in Nogaro : Antonio Albacete (center) ahead of David Vršecký (right in the picture) and Jochen Hahn (left in the picture)

Race start in Le Mans

The FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2009 (also: FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2009 or FIA ETRC 2009 ) was a Europe of the FIA discharged motorsport racing championship in the group F ( racing trucks ). The ten (10) runs comprehensive, each with four (4) races Truck Racing Championship was the 25th ever and the fourth (4th) since they 2006 by the FIA the predicate 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 Antonio Albacete and Jochen Hahn from Germany (both MAN ).

Together with Makus Bösiger , David Vršecký also won the team classification as Team Buggyra Int. Racing system on Freightliner racing trucks (887 points). In second place came Jochen Hahn and Balázs Szobi as the Hahn Oxxo Racing team with their MAN racing trucks (634 points). With 474 points, Markus Altenstrasser and Frankie Vojtíšek took third place on the podium as the Frankie Truck Racing Team on Renault Trucks . Fourth place went to the Bird's Bernau team , consisting of Christopher Levett and Dominique Lachèze, with a total of 291 points.

Racing calendar

Run	date	run	place	route	1st place (on points)	Points	2nd place (on points)	Points	3rd place (on points)	Points
1.	08-10 May 2009	Netherlands	Aces	TT Circuit Assen	Antonio Albacete	58	Markus Bösiger	39	David Vršecký	31
2.	23–24 May 2009	Italy	Misano	Misano World Circuit	David Vršecký	52	Markus Bösiger	49	Antonio Albacete	45
3.	06-07 June 2009	Spain	Albacete	Circuito de Albacete	Antonio Albacete	56	David Vršecký	42	Markus Bösiger	40
4th	20-21 June 2009	France	Nogaro	Circuit Paul Armagnac	David Vršecký	52	Jochen Hahn	47	Antonio Albacete	44
5.	04. – 05. July 2009	Spain	Barcelona	Circuit de Catalunya	Jochen Hahn	52	David Vršecký	50	Antonio Albacete	46
6th	24.-26. July 2009	Germany	Nürburg	Nürburgring	David Vršecký	50	Antonio Albacete	42	Markus Bösiger	42
7th	29-30 August 2009	Czech Republic	Must	Autodrom Most	Antonio Albacete	53	David Vršecký	52	Christopher Levett	33
8th.	12-13 September 2009	Belgium	Zolder	Circuit Zolder	David Vršecký	54	Jochen Hahn	42	Antonio Albacete	39
9.	19. – 20. September 2009	France	Le Mans	Circuit Bugatti	David Vršecký	58	Antonio Albacete	48	Jochen Hahn	40
10.	03. – 04. October 2009	Spain	San Sebastian	Circuito del Jarama	David Vršecký	49	Jochen Hahn	42	Christopher Levett	41

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. David Vršecký Freightliner 490 2. Antonio Albacete MAN 467 3. Jochen Hahn MAN 361 4th Markus Bösiger Freightliner 295 5. Christopher Levett MAN 253 6th Egon Allgäuer MAN 218 7th Markus Altenstrasser Renault 139 8th. Stuart Oliver MAN 119 9. Frankie Vojtíšek Renault 101 10. Balázs Szobi MAN 94

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	David Vršecký , Markus Bösiger	Freightliner	887
2	Team Hahn Oxxo Racing	Jochen Hahn , Balázs Szobi	MAN	634
3	Frankie Truck Racing Team	Markus Altenstrasser , Frankie Vojtíšek	Renault	475
4th	Team Bird's Bernau	Christopher Levett , Dominique Lachèze		291

Web links

Commons : FIA European Truck Racing Championship 2009  - 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 2009. André & Wolfgang Bartscher (truckracing.de), accessed on March 21, 2017 . 
3. ^ Season 2009. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 20, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Overall evaluation 2009. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 21, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Team evaluation 2009. André & Wolfgang Bartscher, accessed on March 21, 2017 .