Porsche Carrera Cup Germany 1997

The 1997 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany was the 8th season of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany . The first championship run took place on May 18, 1997 in Zolder , Belgium . The season finale was held on October 12th at the Hockenheimring .

A total of eight races were held this season in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Wolfgang Land won the driver's title with 105 points. This enabled him to secure his second championship title after 1993. The Farnbacher Motorsport racing team won the team championship introduced for the first time this season.

Starting field

The following drivers and guest drivers started the season:

No.	driver	team	Race weekend
1	Dirk Mueller	UPS Porsche Junior Team
2	Marc Basseng
5	Horst Farnbacher	Farnbacher Motorsport
6th	Gerhard Müller	GM Sports Racing Team
7th	Hans Willems
8th	Wolfgang Land	PZ Freiburg / Eichin Racing
10	Frank Stippler
11	Frank Schmickler	tolimit motorsport
12	Stefan Roitmayer
14th	Klaus Graf	tolimit motorsport
15th	Stefan L. Hackl
17th	Patrick Huisman		1
18th	Oliver Mathai
25th	Harald Grohs
	Horst Stäbler

     Guest starters

Race calendar and results

round	Racetrack	date	Pole position	Fastest lap	winner	Second	Third
1	Zolder	May 18	Patrick Huisman	Wolfgang Land	Wolfgang Land	Klaus Graf	Harald Grohs
2	Zweibrücken	June 1st	Klaus Graf	Klaus Graf	Horst Farnbacher	Wolfgang Land	Frank Schmickler
3	Diepholz	July 6th	Klaus Graf	Frank Schmickler	Harald Grohs	Klaus Graf	Hans Willems
4th	Siegerlandring	3rd August	Frank Schmickler	Klaus Graf	Frank Schmickler	Wolfgang Land	Gerhard Müller
5	Oschersleben	17th August	Marc Basseng	Hans Willems	Wolfgang Land	Marc Basseng	Gerhard Müller
6th	Nürburgring	August 31	Dirk Mueller	Frank Schmickler	Horst Farnbacher	Dirk Mueller	Klaus Graf
7th	Aces	September 14th	Horst Farnbacher	Wolfgang Land	Wolfgang Land	Harald Grohs	Frank Schmickler
8th	Hockenheimring	October 12th	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Hans Willems	Frank Stippler

Championship results

Point system

The following number of points was awarded to the first 15 classified drivers. The points from the guest starters were deleted at the end of the season, so the same positions can have different point evaluations:

space	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th
Points	20th	18th	16	14th	12	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Driver ranking

The following drivers came in the first ten places in the points classification.

space	driver	ZOL	TWO	THE	SHE	OSC	ONLY	ASS	HOC	Points
1	Wolfgang Land	1	2		2	1		1		105
2	Horst Farnbacher	8th	1		?	?	1	?		103
3	Klaus Graf	2	?	2	?	?	3			100
4th	Harald Grohs	3	?	1	?	?		2		92
5	Dirk Mueller	10			?	?	2		1	84
6th	Frank Schmickler	?	3	?	1	?	?	3		79
7th	Gerhard Müller	5			3	3				76
8th	Frank Stippler	?	?		?	DNF			3	74
9	Hans Willems	4th	?	3	?	?			2	73
10	Marc Basseng	?	?		?	2				58
?	Oliver Mathai	7th								?
?	Stefan L. Hackl	9			?					?
?	Stefan Roitmayer		?		?	DNF				?
?	Horst Stäbler				?					?
?	Patrick Huisman	6th								0
space	driver	ZOL	TWO	THE	SHE	OSC	ONLY	ASS	HOC	Points

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Racecam - Internet site: PCC Meister 1997. On: www.racecam.de , accessed on October 10, 2019 . 
2. ^ Project-1 - Website: Former drivers Project 1 Motorsport. From: project-1.de , accessed October 12, 2019 . 
3. ↑ DriverDB - website: Porsche Carrera Cup Germany 1997 standings. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed October 10, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Youtube - website: Porsche Carrera Cup 1997 * Zolder. From: www.youtube.com , accessed October 10, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Youtube - website: Porsche Carrera Cup 1997 * Zweibrücken. From: www.youtube.com , accessed October 10, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Youtube - Internet site: Porsche Carrera Cup 1997 * Siegerland. From: www.youtube.com , accessed October 10, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Youtube - website: Porsche Carrera Cup 1997 * Oschersleben. From: www.youtube.com , accessed October 10, 2019 .