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 four wins, and beating Germans Marcel Tiemann and Roland Asch to the title.
Teams and drivers 2001 Entry List https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2001-entrylist.htmlTeamNo.DriversRounds 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 2001 Calendar and Results https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2001-calendar.html 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
2001 Driver Standings https://www.speedsport-magazine.com/motorsport/touringcars/german-v8-star/2001-points.html 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
2001 Team Standings 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
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 Points 26 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 2001 speedsport-magazine.com V8Star Series 2001 motorsport-archive.com V8Star Series V8Star Series official website