2001 V8Star Series

The 2001 V8Star Series season was the inaugural V8Star Series season. It featured nine races at five European racing circuits, in Germany and Austria. Venezuelan ex-Formula One and Grand Prix motorcycle racing driver Johnny Cecotto was crowned champion of the series, taking only the one win but beating Germans Marcel Tiemann and Roland Asch to the title.

2001 V8Star Series
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Teams and drivers
Team No. Drivers Rounds
Grohs Motorsport 1 Patrick Simon All
Artur Deutgen –
Christian Hohenadel –
2 Harald Becker All
SST Engineering 3 Kurt Thiim All
4 Tom Schwister All
PoleVision Racing 5 Roland Asch All
6 Toby Scheckter All
Irmscher Motorsport 9 Johnny Cecotto All
MRS Workshop 11 Ralf Druckenmüller All
Knüpfing Motorsport 14 Timo Rumpfkeil All
15 Patrick Hildenbrandt 3–9
Ralf Kelleners –
Artur Deutgen –
MIS Mönninghoff 16 Artur Deutgen 1–4
Klaus Panchryz 5–6
Robert Lechner 7–9
Oliver Mayer Motorsport 18 Oliver Mayer All
1st Choice Racing 21 Kris Nissen 5–9
Ryll Racing 22 Artur Deutgen 7–9
Siegfried Ryll –
GAG Racing Team 27 Steffen Widmann All
28 Thomas Mutsch All
JAG Racing Team 66 Sascha Bert All
88 Andrzej Dziurka 1–6
Andrej Studenic 7–9
Zakspeed Motorsport 77 Karl Wendlinger All
99 Marcel Tiemann All

Race calendar and results
Round Circuit Country Date Pole Position Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Germany April 29 Johnny Cecotto Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport
2 R EuroSpeedway Lausitz Germany May 13 Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport
3 R Nürburgring Germany May 26 Roland Asch Roland Asch PoleVision Racing
4 R Salzburgring Austria June 10 Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport
5 R Nürburgring Germany July 22 Kurt Thiim Roland Asch PoleVision Racing
6 R EuroSpeedway Lausitz Germany August 5 Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport
7 R Hockenheimring Germany September 16 Roland Asch Robert Lechner MIS Mönninghoff
8 R Nürburgring Germany September 30 Robert Lechner MIS Mönninghoff
9 R Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Germany October 14 Ralf Druckenmüller Marcel Tiemann Zakspeed Motorsport

Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Johnny Cecotto 217
2 Roland Asch 203
3 Marcel Tiemann 203
4 Thomas Mutsch 180
5 Ralf Druckenmüller 175
6 Kurt Thiim 172
7 Toby Scheckter 166
8 Steffen Widmann 153
9 Sascha Bert 150
10 Timo Rumpfkeil 143
11 Karl Wendlinger 142
12 Harald Becker 135
13 Tom Schwister 135
14 Patrick Simon 116
15 Robert Lechner 115
16 Kris Nissen 114
17 Artur Deutgen 113
18 Oliver Mayer 111
19 Andrej Studenic 83
20 Patrick Hildenbrandt 81
21 Andrzej Dziurka 51
22 Siegfried Ryll 22
23 Christian Hohenadel 18
24 Ralf Kelleners 17
25 Klaus Panchryz 7
Pos Driver Points
Pos Team Points
1 PoleVision Racing 330
2 Zakspeed Motorsport 306
3 GAG Racing Team 289
4 SST Engineering 278
5 JAG Racing Team 260
6 Grohs Motorsport 247
7 Knüpfing Motorsport 235
8 Irmscher Motorsport 191
9 MRS Workshop 161
10 MIS Mönninghoff 148
11 1st Choice Racing 114
12 Oliver Mayer Motorsport 101
13 Ryll Racing 72
Pos Team Points
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th11th12th13th14th15th16th17th18th19th20th21st22nd23rd24th
Points2624232221201918171615141312111098765432

References
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