TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge

Television broadcast
Original title	TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge
Country of production	Germany
Year (s)	2005-2015
Production company	Raab TV
Episodes	11
Broadcasting cycle	yearly
genre	Entertainment, sports broadcast
idea	Stefan Raab
Moderation	Ron Ringguth (2005-2015) Oliver Welke (2005–2009) Sonya Kraus (2005–2008, 2010–2011) Charlotte Würdig (2009, 2012-2014) Matthias Opdenhövel (2010) Steven Gätjen (2011-2015) Sophia Thomalla (2015)
First broadcast	June 25, 2005 on ProSieben

The TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge was a stock car racing event that was held annually from 2005 to 2015 .

In a report broadcast on September 30, 2002 for the Raab in danger section of his TV total program , the presenter Stefan Raab got to know the stock car race and created his own competition from it. The competition has always been held in the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen since 2005 . Only in 2008 was it switched to the LTU Arena in Düsseldorf . The program was moderated by Oliver Welke (2005–2009), Matthias Opdenhövel (2010, previously a regular participant) and from 2011 to 2015 by Steven Gätjen (was also a participant). Sonya Kraus (2005–2008, 2010–2011), Charlotte Würdig (2009, 2012 to 2014) and Sophia Thomalla (2015) were co-moderators . Ron Ringguth has been a commentator on the event since the first edition. In the Stock Car Crash Challenge there were three competitions in the 1500, 1900 and 3000 cm³ classes. In addition, a rodeo race took place at the end of the event, which lasted until only cars from the same team were roadworthy. The Caravan Crash Cup has also been held since 2011, in which the drivers started with a caravan trailer and had to drive most of the laps in a given time without losing the caravan.

During the show on October 10, 2015, ProSieben announced on Twitter that there would be no further broadcasts due to Raab's resignation from the TV business.

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Teams

A total of ten teams competed against each other. These included one team each from TV total and one from the ProSieben Group (except for 2006), the other teams were sponsored by different companies. There were three prominent drivers for each team, one in each engine class. The engine classes were 1500 cm³, 1900 cm³ and 3000 cm³.

Qualifying

Qualifying took place on the evening before the Stock Car Crash Challenge between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. One driver from each team competed. After an introductory lap with a flying start, the drivers drove five laps (from 2005 to 2007 only 3 laps) over the track, the fastest lap time counted. The starting positions were assigned in ascending order according to lap time (i.e. the team of the driver with the fastest lap time received the first starting position). For technical production reasons, there was no qualifying in 2014 and 2015.

First run

First, the first run was carried out in each engine class. This was about speed and the greatest number of laps. The driver with the fastest lap time from qualifying started from first place on the grid. For every lap driven, the driver received ten points on his personal account and, since 2011, for the team classification. If a driver had completed ten laps (up to 2010 twenty laps), no more points could be scored. The other participants drove their current lap to the end as quickly as possible in order to offer a criterion for the placement in the event of a tie over time.

The placement of the first run was based on the number of points, in the event of a tie (same number of laps) the time (crossing the start / finish line) decided.

Second run

The second run also took place separately according to engine class. The main thing here was to turn other vehicles or get them to rollover. The driver with the highest number of points from the first run started last to have the other vehicles right in front of him.

The second run lasted ten minutes, whereby the time was stopped in the event of obstacles on the track. The driver received five points for each lap he drove. If a driver turned an opponent's car by at least 90 °, he received 25 points. If a driver managed to turn an opponent onto the roof, he received 50 points. The winner in the individual engine classes was determined based on the number of points, with the points from the first run also counting. The winner won a gold exhaust.

Caravan Crash Cup

The Caravan Crash Cup took place for the first time in 2011. The drivers drove with attached caravans . Stefan Raab competed for the TV total team as well as one driver each from the top three of the other teams in the team classification.

The cars from the other races were not used as towing vehicles, as they could already be damaged at this point. The four participants were evenly spaced along the route. For every full lap that a driver drove in a caravan, he received one point. It was driven for ten minutes, and here too the clock was stopped in the event of disabilities. In order to collect points, at least the underbody with the drawbar still had to be attached to the vehicle, regardless of whether it was on the trailer coupling or on the safety rope . A driver who no longer had a trailer could only try to prevent the opponent from completing laps. The winner received a Dutch license plate as a reward.

rodeo

The rodeo was the team race in the TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge. At the rodeo, all vehicles from the other races that were still roadworthy competed. This was just about damaging other vehicles. If a vehicle stood for more than 30 seconds or could no longer drive on its own (e.g. engine defect, drive wheels hanging in the air or turned on its side / roof), it and its driver were eliminated. Drivers who drove too passively were disqualified by the race management. From time to time, or when the track was blocked too much, the race would be paused to remove eliminated cars from the track.

The team that was the last to have one or more moving cars on the track won. Some of the vehicles even drove on with extreme damage. In 2011 there were three participants in the race: Manfred Ludolf drove with a heavily steaming engine, Joey Kelly only had a tire on one rim and Martin Tomczyk drove without a right front wheel.

If only two teams were represented with one car each at the end of the rodeo, the race management was able to arrange a sudden death for decision-making. The two remaining cars drove head-on towards each other until one car was unfit to drive and was eliminated. If both cars failed at the same time, there was a draw and thus two winners, for the first time in 2012 between Adrian Sutil and Timo Scheider .

Events

Event	date	Venue	Moderation	Co-moderation	commentator
01	June 25, 2005	Veltins-Arena , Gelsenkirchen	Oliver Welke	Sonya Kraus	Ron Ringguth
02	0Oct 7, 2006
03	Oct 20, 2007
04th	Nov 29, 2008	LTU arena , Düsseldorf
05	Oct 10, 2009	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen		Charlotte Worthy
06th	0Oct 9, 2010		Matthias Opdenhövel	Sonya Kraus
07th	0Oct 8, 2011		Steven Gätjen
08th	Oct 13, 2012			Charlotte Worthy
09	Oct 12, 2013
10	0Nov 8, 2014
11	Oct 10, 2015			Sophia Thomalla

Competitions

1500 cc class

year	gold	silver	bronze
2005	Jan connector	Uwe Scherr	Rötger Feldmann
2006	Axel Stein	Uwe Scherr	Kai Böcking
2007	Rötger Feldmann	Axel Stein	Alexander Hold
2008	Axel Stein	Max Mutzke	Daniel Aminati
2009	Axel Stein	Oliver Petszokat	Manfred Ludolf
2010	Lucy Diakovska	Rötger Feldmann	Axel Stein
2011	Axel Stein	Max Mutzke	Manfred Ludolf
2012	Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht	Charlotte Roche	Lucy Diakovska
2013	Axel Stein	Charlotte Roche	Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht
2014	Manfred Ludolf	Axel Stein	Charlotte Roche
2015	Charlotte Roche	Axel Stein	Lucy Diakovska

1900 cc class

year	gold	silver	bronze
2005	Ben	Matthias Opdenhövel	Norbert Dickel
2006	Christian Clerici	Norbert Dobeleit	Smudo
2007	Matthias Opdenhövel	Kai Böcking	Daniel Aminati
2008	Timo Scheider	Matthias Opdenhövel	Ben
2009	Adrian Sutil	Uwe Ludolf	Pierre Geisensetter
2010	Timo Scheider	Simon Gosejohann	Steffen Henssler
2011	Steffen Henssler	Alexander Klaws	Peter Lohmeyer
2012	Adrian Sutil	Peter Lohmeyer	Steffen Henssler
2013	Steffen Henssler	Timo Glock	Harro filling ditch
2014	Harro filling ditch	Giovanni Zarrella	Jean Pierre Kraemer
2015	Manfred Ludolf	Harro Füllgrabe Steffen Henssler

3000 cm³ class

year	gold	silver	bronze
2005	Stefan Raab	Ralf Möller	Oliver Pocher
2006	Stefan Raab	Christina Surer	Tobias Regner
2007	Christian Clerici	Andreas Mueller	Jürgen Milski
2008	Christian Clerici	Jürgen Milski	Stefan Raab
2009	Christian Clerici	Joey Kelly	Elton
2010	Jürgen Milski	Stefan Raab	Joey Kelly
2011	Joey Kelly	Jürgen Milski	Giovanni Zarrella
2012	Joey Kelly	Timo Scheider	Thore Schölermann
2013	Joey Kelly	Christian Clerici	Timo Scheider
2014	Stefan Raab	Christian Clerici	Jürgen Milski
2015	Christian Clerici	Timo Scheider	Joey Kelly

Rodeo race

year	winner	other team members
2005	Mathias Lauda	Martin Schmitt , Oliver Pocher
2006	Joey Kelly	Kai Böcking , René Hiepen
2007	Christian Clerici	Alexander Hold , Alexander Mazza
2008	Martin Tomczyk	Simon Gosejohann , Pierre Geisensetter
2009	Bjorn Dunkerbeck	Klaas Heufer-Umlauf , Tim Mälzer
2010	Stefan Raab , Timo Scheider	Axel Stein
2011	Joey Kelly , Manfred Ludolf	Peter Lohmeyer
12012 1	Adrian Sutil	Charlotte Roche , Stefan Raab
	Timo Scheider	Lina van de Mars , Simon Gosejohann
2013	Charlotte Roche	Stefan Raab , Timo Glock
2014	Thore Schölermann , Dner	Funda Vanroy
2015	Timo Scheider	Jeannine Michaelsen , Paul Janke

¹ After both Sutil and Scheider vehicles were destroyed at the same time in sudden death mode, the race management declared both teams the winners.

Caravan Crash Cup

year	gold	silver	bronze	4. Participant
2011	Jürgen Milski	Christian Dept.	Stefan Raab	Joey Kelly
2012	Stefan Raab	Uwe Ludolf	Giovanni Zarrella	Jürgen Milski
2013	Joey Kelly	Stefan Raab	Christian Clerici	Thore Schölermann
2014	Joey Kelly	Christian Clerici	Stefan Raab	Jürgen Milski
2015	Joey Kelly	Christian Clerici	Stefan Raab	Thinner

Medalist

space	Surname	country	first medal	last medal	Gold 2	Silver 2	Bronze 2	1Rodeo gold 3	total
01.	Joey Kelly	Ireland	2006	2015	6th	1	2	2	11
02.	Christian Clerici	Austria	2006	2015	5	4th	1	1	11
03.	Axel Stein	Germany	2006	2015	5	3	1	1	10
04th	Stefan Raab	Germany	2005	2015	4th	2	4th	3	13
05.	Timo Scheider	Germany	2008	2015	2	2	1	3	8th
06th	Jürgen Milski	Germany	2007	2014	2	2	1	0	5
07th	Steffen Henssler	Germany	2010	2015	2	1	2	0	5
08th.	Manfred Ludolf	Germany	2009	2015	2	0	2	1	5
09.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	2009	2012	2	0	0	1	3
10.	Charlotte Roche	England	2012	2015	1	2	1	2	6th
11.	Matthias Opdenhövel	Germany	2005	2008	1	2	0	0	3
12.	Harro filling ditch	Germany	2013	2015	1	1	1	0	3
13.	Rötger Feldmann	Germany	2007	2010	1	1	0	0	2
14th	Lucy Diakovska	Bulgaria	2010	2015	1	0	2	0	3
15th	Ben	Germany	2005	2008	1	0	1	0	2
15th	Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht	Germany	2012	2013	1	0	1	0	2
17th	Jan connector	Germany	2005	2005	1	0	0	0	1
18th	Uwe Scherr	Germany	2005	2006	0	2	0	0	2
18th	Max Mutzke	Germany	2008	2011	0	2	0	0	2
18th	Uwe Ludolf	Germany	2009	2012	0	2	0	0	2
21st	Giovanni Zarrella	Italy	2011	2014	0	1	2	0	3
22nd	Kai Böcking	Germany	2006	2007	0	1	1	1	3
22nd	Peter Lohmeyer	Germany	2011	2012	0	1	1	1	3
24.	Simon Gosejohann	Germany	2008	2010	0	1	0	1	2
24.	Timo Glock	Germany	2013	2013	0	1	0	1	2
26th	Ralf Möller	Germany	2005	2005	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Norbert Dobeleit	Germany	2006	2006	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Christina Surer	Switzerland	2006	2006	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Andreas Mueller	Germany	2007	2007	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Oliver Petszokat	Germany	2009	2009	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Alexander Klaws	Germany	2011	2011	0	1	0	0	1
26th	Christian Dept.	Germany	2011	2011	0	1	0	0	1
33.	Daniel Aminati	Germany	2005	2008	0	0	3	0	3
34.	Oliver Pocher	Germany	2005	2005	0	0	1	1	2
34.	Alexander Hold	Germany	2007	2007	0	0	1	1	2
34.	Pierre Geisensetter	Germany	2008	2009	0	0	1	1	2
34.	Thore Schölermann	Germany	2012	2014	0	0	1	1	2
38.	Norbert Dickel	Germany	2005	2005	0	0	1	0	1
38.	Tobias Regner	Germany	2006	2006	0	0	1	0	1
38.	Smudo	Germany	2006	2006	0	0	1	0	1
38.	Elton	Germany	2009	2009	0	0	1	0	1
38.	Jean Pierre Kraemer	Germany	2014	2014	0	0	1	0	1
43.	Mathias Lauda	Austria	2005	2005	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Martin Schmitt	Germany	2005	2005	0	0	0	1	1
43.	René Hiepen	Germany	2006	2006	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Alexander Mazza	Germany	2007	2007	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Martin Tomczyk	Germany	2008	2008	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Bjorn Dunkerbeck	Denmark	2009	2009	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Klaas Heufer-Umlauf	Germany	2009	2009	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Tim Mälzer	Germany	2009	2009	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Lina van de Mars	Germany	2012	2012	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Funda Vanroy	Germany	2014	2014	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Thinner	Germany	2014	2014	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Jeannine Michaelsen	Germany	2015	2015	0	0	0	1	1
43.	Paul Janke	Germany	2015	2015	0	0	0	1	1

² Only the medals from the 1500 cm³ class, 1900 cm³ class and from the 3000 cm³ class as well as from the Caravan Crash Cup are counted.

³ A rodeo victory also counts if the participant is eliminated but his team wins.

Audience ratings

The second edition was the edition that was watched by the most viewers aged three and over, namely 2.87 million viewers and most viewers between 14 and 49 years of age (2.19 million). The show had the largest overall market share in the 1st edition, where 13.4 percent was achieved. As a result, the highest market share to date was also achieved in the relevant target group with 24.6 percent. In the 11th edition, the clearly worst value was achieved in all four categories.

output	date	spectator		Market share
		total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
[01]Issue 1	June 25, 2005	2.82 million	2.19 million	13.4%	24.6%
[02]Edition 2	October 7, 2006	2.87 million	2.19 million	11.6%	21.1%
[03]Edition 3	October 20, 2007	2.14 million	1.67 million	9.2%	17.6%
[04]Issue 4	November 29, 2008	2.04 million	1.53 million	9.2%	15.3%
[05]Issue 5	October 10, 2009	2.59 million	2.01 million	11.0%	20.2%
[06]Edition 6	October 9, 2010	2.14 million	1.63 million	9.2%	17.0%
[07]Issue 7	October 8, 2011	2.08 million	1.59 million	8.5%	15.3%
[08]Issue 8	October 13, 2012	2.15 million	1.63 million	9.5%	17.8%
[09]Issue 9	October 12, 2013	1.66 million	1.12 million	7.3%	12.9%
[10]Issue 10	November 8, 2014	1.68 million	1.21 million	7.5%	13.7%
[11]Issue 11	October 10, 2015	1.51 million	1.03 million	6.7%	12.3%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ever - ProSieben on Twitter . In: Twitter .
2. ↑ The big TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge 2013. FC Schalke 04 Arena Management GmbH, accessed on September 30, 2013 . 
3. ↑ TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge 2014. FC Schalke 04 Arena Management GmbH, accessed on April 29, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} DWDL.de: Football international match beats Raab's Stock Car Crash Challenge
5. ↑ ^{a b} DWDL.de: Raab shows it all: Good ratings for "Stock Car Crash Challenge"
6. ↑ DWDL.de: RTL casting "Das Supertalent" clearly beats Raab
7. ↑ DWDL.de: "Supertalent" missed the record against Raab
8. ↑ DWDL.de: "Crash Challenge": Raab breaks the downward trend
9. ↑ DWDL.de: Raab's "Stock Car" show with audience losses
10. ↑ DWDL.de: Gottschalk & Raab push Bohlen to 3-year low
11. ↑ DWDL.de: Gottschalk and Bohlen do not make up for losses
12. ↑ DWDL.de: "Supertalent" top, Raab's "Crash Challenge" crashes
13. ↑ quotenmeter.de: “Stock Car” suffers a quota crash
14. ↑ "Bet that ..?" and "TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge" just above the record level
15. ↑ "Primetime check: Saturday, October 10, 2015"