The 2002 V8Star Series season was the second V8Star Series season. It featured ten races at six European racing circuits, in Germany, Belgium and Austria. Venezuelan ex-Formula One and Grand Prix motorcycle racing driver Johnny Cecotto was crowned champion of the series for a second time, taking three wins in all and beating Austrian Robert Lechner to the title.
Teams and drivers 2002 Entry List https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2002-entrylist.htmlTeamNo.DriversRounds Irmscher Motorsport 1 Johnny Cecotto All SST Engineering 3 Kurt Thiim All 4 Steffen Widmann All PoleVision Racing 5 Ellen Lohr 1–7 Toby Scheckter 8 Benjamin Leuenberger 9–10 6 Roland Asch All MRS Workshop 11 Ralf Druckenmüller All Motopark Oschersleben 14 Dennis Rostek All MIS Mönninghoff 16 Thomas Mutsch All Becker Motorsport 18 Harald Becker All 1st Choice Racing 20 Patrick Michels All 21 Kris Nissen All Ryll Racing 22 Siegfried Ryll All 23 Tom Schwister 1 Gianni Giudici 2–4, 6–10 Oliver Mayer 5 GAG Racing Team 27 Hubert Haupt 1–7 Franz Engstler 8, 10 Jeroen Bleekemolen 9 28 Dirk Adorf All Grohs Motorsport 44 Christian Hohenadel 1–5, 8–9 Marc Duez 6–7 55 Markus Oestreich All JAG Racing Team 66 Sascha Bert All 77 Patrick Simon 1–6 Christian Danner 7 Ellen Lohr 8–10 Zakspeed Motorsport 88 Pedro Lamy All 99 Robert Lechner All
Race calendar and results 2002 Calendar and Results https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2002-calendar.html Round Circuit Country Date Pole position Winning driver Winning team 1 R Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Germany April 27 Ralf Druckenmüller Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport 2 R Hockenheimring Germany May 11 Pedro Lamy Thomas Mutsch MIS Mönninghoff 3 R Nürburgring Germany June 1 Robert Lechner Pedro Lamy Zakspeed Motorsport 4 R EuroSpeedway Lausitz Germany June 15 Pedro Lamy Thomas Mutsch MIS Mönninghoff 5 R Zolder Belgium July 6 Thomas Mutsch Thomas Mutsch MIS Mönninghoff 6 R Nürburgring Germany July 20 Johnny Cecotto Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport 7 R Salzburgring Austria August 10 Markus Oestreich Thomas Mutsch MIS Mönninghoff 8 R EuroSpeedway Lausitz Germany August 31 Thomas Mutsch Johnny Cecotto Irmscher Motorsport 9 R Nürburgring Germany September 21 Robert Lechner Robert Lechner Zakspeed Motorsport 10 R Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Germany October 12 Pedro Lamy Robert Lechner Zakspeed Motorsport
Championship standings
2002 Driver Standings https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2002-points.html Pos Driver Points 1 Johnny Cecotto 290 2 Robert Lechner 259 3 Thomas Mutsch 257 4 Steffen Widmann 249 5 Roland Asch 238 6 Kris Nissen 229 7 Pedro Lamy 202 8 Dirk Adorf 201 9 Kurt Thiim 190 10 Sascha Bert 180 11 Patrick Michels 171 12 Ellen Lohr 157 13 Ralf Druckenmüller 151 14 Markus Oestreich 147 15 Siegfried Ryll 141 16 Dennis Rostek 141 17 Harald Becker 139 18 Gianni Giudici 123 19 Christian Hohenadel 86 20 Hubert Haupt 80 21 Patrick Simon 65 22 Franz Engstler 47 23 Marc Duez 43 24 Benjamin Leuenberger 42 25 Christian Danner 27 26 Toby Scheckter 23 27 Jeroen Bleekemolen 21 28 Oliver Mayer 14 29 Tom Schwister 0 Pos Driver Points
2002 Team Standings Pos Team Points 1 Zakspeed Motorsport 461 2 SST Engineering 439 3 PoleVision Racing 417 4 1st Choice Racing 400 5 GAG Racing Team 349 6 JAG Racing Team 315 7 Irmscher Motorsport 290 8 Ryll Racing 278 9 Grohs Motorsport 276 10 MIS Mönninghoff 257 11 MRS Workshop 151 12 Motopark Oschersleben 141 13 Becker Motorsport 139 Pos Team Points
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th Points 32 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
References
External links driverdb.com V8Star Series 2002 speedsport-magazine.com V8Star Series 2002 motorsport-archive.com V8Star Series V8Star Series official website