Porsche Carrera Cup Germany 1998

The 1998 championship was won by Dirk Müller (photo from 2006)

The 1998 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany was the 9th season of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany . The first championship run took place on April 19, 1998 at the Hockenheimring and the season finale on October 11 also took place there.

A total of nine races were held in Germany and Belgium this season.

Dirk Müller won the driver's title with 132 points. The team ranking was won by the racing team tolimit Motorsport .

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
3	Patrick Simon	Grohs Motorsport
	Ralf Kelleners
	Michael Funke
	Artur Deutgen
5	Christian Deutschbauer	Victor Reinz Racing Team-GM Sport
7th	Michael Rösner	PZK-Land Motorsport
8th	Jochen Land
9	Steffen Göpel	Dorint Hotels Racing Team
10	Hans Willems
	Rolf Jäger
	Stefan Roitmayer
14th	Frank Schmickler	tolimit motorsport
15th	Frank Stippler
16	Ronny Melkus
21st	Jörg Bergmeister	Kadach tuning
	Marco Werner
	Gerhard Müller	GM Sports Racing Team
	Heinz-Bert Wolters
	Klaus Roth

Race calendar and results

round	Racetrack	date	Pole position	Fastest lap	winner	Second	Third
1	Hockenheimring	April 19th	Dirk Mueller	Ralf Kelleners	Frank Stippler	Hans Willems	Marc Basseng
2	AVUS	May 3rd	Frank Schmickler	Frank Schmickler	Patrick Simon	Marc Basseng	Frank Stippler
3	Zolder	31. May	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	Marc Basseng
4th	Norisring	5th July	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	Dirk Mueller	Marco Werner
5	Lahr	July 19	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	Patrick Simon	Dirk Mueller	Marc Basseng
6th	Siegerlandring	August 9	Frank Stippler	Dirk Mueller	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	Frank Schmickler
7th	Diepholz	August 23	Frank Schmickler	Frank Schmickler	Frank Schmickler	Patrick Simon	Dirk Mueller
8th	Nürburgring	4th of October	Dirk Mueller	Marc Basseng	Dirk Mueller	Frank Schmickler	Patrick Simon
9	Hockenheimring	October 11th	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	Dirk Mueller	Patrick Simon	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

A total of 21 drivers made it into the points classification.

space	driver	HOC1	AVU	ZOL	NOR	LAH	SHE	THE	ONLY	HOC2	Points
1	Dirk Mueller	?		1	2	2	1	3	1	1	132
2	Patrick Simon		1	2	1	1	2	2	3	2	128
3	Marc Basseng	3	2	3	8th	3			?		118
4th	Frank Stippler	1	3		4th		?			3	109
5	Frank Schmickler		?		5		3	1	2		108
6th	Stefan Roitmayer										90
7th	Hans Willems	2			7th						70
8th	Jochen Land				DNF						68
9	Jörg Bergmeister				9						62
10	Ronny Melkus				6th						53
11	Marco Werner				3						49
12	Gerhard Müller										45
13	Christian Deutschbauer				DNF						37
14th	Michael Rösner				DNF						27
15th	Rolf Jäger										16
16	Ralf Kelleners	?									14th
17th	Heinz-Bert Wolters										12
18th	Steffen Göpel				10						11
19th	Klaus Roth										11
20th	Michael Funke										5
21st	Artur Deutgen										4th
space	driver	HOC1	AVU	ZOL	NOR	LAH	SHE	THE	ONLY	HOC2	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 1998. At: www.racecam.de , accessed on October 8, 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 1998 standings. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed October 8, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Youtube - website: Porsche Carrera Cup 1998 Norisring (Germany). From: www.youtube.com , accessed October 8, 2019 .