2014 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany

2014 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany season
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Parent series: Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters DTM Support series: Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup FIA European Formula 3

The 2014 Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season was the 29th German Porsche Carrera Cup season. It began on 3 May at Hockenheim and finished on 18 October at the same circuit, after nine race meetings, with two races at each event. It was a support championship for the 2014 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season.

Team Deutsche Post by Project 1 driver Philipp Eng was crowned champion at the final round of the season, with a third-place finish good enough to give him the drivers' championship by two points, ahead of QPOD Walter Lechner Racing's Michael Ammermüller. Eng started the season with a victory at Hockenheim, and won two more races during the campaign, including a race win at the August Red Bull Ring meeting that he had been previously disqualified from, before a successful appeal was heard in October.^[1] He ultimately recorded 17 points-scoring finishes from 18 attempts, including 9 podiums. Ammermüller was the season's most prolific driver, taking six pole positions and six victories during the year, and had the most podium finishes with ten. Third place in the championship went to Christian Engelhart of Konrad Motorsport, another three-time race winner during 2014.

Eng's team-mate Sven Müller finished fourth in the overall championship, with five podium finishes, which saw him finish as the highest placed rookie driver during the season. Nicki Thiim, team-mate to Ammermüller at QPOD Walter Lechner Racing, won both Sachsenring races to finish fifth in the championship. Other drivers to win races during the season were Team 75 Bernhard's Earl Bamber – who was leading the championship at mid-season with victories at Hockenheim and the Red Bull Ring – before electing to focus on his ultimately successful Porsche Supercup campaign, while Konrad Motorsport's Christopher Zöchling and FÖRCH Racing by Lukas Motorsport driver Connor De Phillippi won at Oschersleben and the Hungaroring respectively.

In the B-class championship for amateur drivers, the title was won by Rolf Ineichen, another Konrad Motorsport driver. Ineichen won 12 races, set 14 pole positions and recorded 15 fastest laps from the 18 races to be held during the season. He won the championship by 37 points ahead of Team GT3 Kasko driver Ralf Bohn, who won at Oschersleben. Third place in the championship went to Wolf Nathan of Land Motorsport, who won three races, including a weekend sweep at the Nürburgring. Bohn's team-mate Daniel Allemann was the only other race winner in class, taking victories at the Norisring and Hockenheim. In the teams' championship, the performances of Ammermüller and Thiim – including a 1–2 finish in the season-ending race – allowed QPOD Walter Lechner Racing to take the title by a single point ahead of Team Deutsche Post by Project 1.

Teams and drivers

Team No. Drivers Class Rounds McGregor by Attempto 1 Pieter Schothorst A All 2 Fabien Thuner A All Land Motorsport 3 Wolf Nathan B All 4 Jochen Habets A 1–8 65 Ronald van de Laar B 1–5 Côme Ledogar A 6–9 Aust Motorsport 5 Patrick Eisemann A All 6 Niclas Kentenich A 1, 3–9 Jaap van Lagen A 2 Konrad Motorsport 7 Christopher Zöchling A All 8 Christian Engelhart A All 29 Rolf Ineichen B All FÖRCH Racing by Lukas Motorsport 9 Connor De Phillippi A All 10 Robert Lukas A All 55 Christofer Berckhan A All Team Deutsche Post/PP by Project 1 11 Ola Nilsson A 1–6, 8–9 15 Sean Johnston A 1–7, 9 Team Deutsche Post by Project 1 12 Philipp Eng A All 14 Sven Müller A All ZaWotec Racing 16 Marko Klein A 1–3 Norbert Siedler A 4–7, 9 Jaap van Lagen A 8 17 Lukas Schreier A All TAM-Racing 18 Christopher Gerhard A All 19 "Bill Barazetti" B All Team 75 Bernhard 20 Earl Bamber A 1–5 Tom Dillmann A 6, 8 Klaus Bachler A 7, 9 24 Felix Wimmer A All Team GT3 Kasko 21 Robert Renauer A All 22 Daniel Allemann B All 23 Ralf Bohn B All QPOD Walter Lechner Racing 25 Michael Ammermüller A All 26 Nicki Thiim A 1–3, 5–9 Jeffrey Schmidt A 4 Lechner Racing Academy ME 27 1–3, 5–9 28 Clemens Schmid A All SMS Seyffarth Motorsport 30 Mike Halder A All 31 "Mike Keller" B All TECE MRS-Racing 33 Jim Pla A 1–5, 8 Jaap van Lagen A 6–7, 9 34 Elia Erhart A All Attempto Racing by Häring 77 Michelle Gatting A 1–6 Ronald van de Laar B 7–9 88 Alex Riberas A All 99 Antti Buri A All

Icon Class A A-class B B-class

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	B-class Winner
1	R1	Hockenheimring	3 May	Philipp Eng	Earl Bamber	Philipp Eng	Team Deutsche Post by Project 1	Rolf Ineichen
	R2		4 May	Connor De Phillippi	Earl Bamber Christian Engelhart	Earl Bamber	Team 75 Bernhard	Rolf Ineichen
2	R3	Oschersleben	17 May	Pieter Schothorst	Christopher Zöchling	Christopher Zöchling	Konrad Motorsport	Ralf Bohn
	R4		18 May	Michael Ammermüller	Jaap van Lagen	Christian Engelhart	Konrad Motorsport	Rolf Ineichen
3	R5	Hungaroring	31 May	Christian Engelhart	Christian Engelhart	Christian Engelhart	Konrad Motorsport	Rolf Ineichen
	R6		1 June	Connor De Phillippi	Christian Engelhart	Connor De Phillippi	FÖRCH Racing by Lukas Motorsport	Rolf Ineichen
4	R7	Norisring	28 June	Michael Ammermüller	Sven Müller	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Rolf Ineichen
	R8		29 June	Sven Müller	Robert Renauer	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Daniel Allemann
5	R9	Red Bull Ring	2 August	Norbert Siedler	Christian Engelhart	Philipp Eng	Team Deutsche Post by Project 1	Rolf Ineichen
	R10		3 August	Alex Riberas	Earl Bamber	Earl Bamber	Team 75 Bernhard	Rolf Ineichen
6	R11	Nürburgring	16 August	Michael Ammermüller	Jaap van Lagen	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Wolf Nathan
	R12		17 August	Nicki Thiim	Sven Müller	Philipp Eng	Team Deutsche Post by Project 1	Wolf Nathan
7	R13	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	13 September	Michael Ammermüller	Michael Ammermüller	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Rolf Ineichen
	R14		14 September	Clemens Schmid	Philipp Eng	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Wolf Nathan
8	R15	Sachsenring	20 September	Michael Ammermüller	Nicki Thiim	Nicki Thiim	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Rolf Ineichen
	R16		21 September	Nicki Thiim	Nicki Thiim	Nicki Thiim	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Rolf Ineichen
9	R17	Hockenheimring	18 October	Christian Engelhart	Christian Engelhart	Christian Engelhart	Konrad Motorsport	Rolf Ineichen
	R18		19 October	Michael Ammermüller	Nicki Thiim	Michael Ammermüller	QPOD Walter Lechner Racing	Daniel Allemann

Championship standings

Points system
1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

A-class

Pos Driver HOC OSC HUN NOR RBR NÜR[N 1] LAU SAC HOC Pts 1 Philipp Eng 1 3 10 14 Ret 3 4 4 1 3 5 1 2 3 6 4 7 3 233 2 Michael Ammermüller 13 25 22 3 2 15 1 1 7 4 1 6 1 1 2 2 4 1 231 3 Christian Engelhart 6 11 3 1 1 34 20 5 5 5 8 4 3 9 3 5 1 5 208 4 Sven Müller 9 5 8 24 19 4 2 3 4 10 Ret 2 4 12 7 3 3 4 186 5 Nicki Thiim 2 18 4 Ret 4 2 2 8 Ret DNS 13 5 1 1 2 2 181 6 Christopher Zöchling 4 8 1 7 9 8 3 6 9 Ret 9 5 7 11 4 9 6 8 167.5 7 Earl Bamber 3 1 Ret 5 5 17 5 2 3 1 126 8 Connor De Phillippi 5 2 7 4 3 1 Ret 16 12 9 10 18 9 10 18 31† 22 11 121 9 Alex Riberas 7 7 2 6 8 7 16 7 10 2 Ret DNS 8 13 15 10 18 21 114 10 Robert Renauer Ret 6 6 12 10 10 8 19 6 6 11 19 19 33† 5 7 13 9 97.5 11 Clemens Schmid 10 19 13 19 12 6 11 15 8 Ret 18 7 5 2 8 11 20 12 93 12 Jeffrey Schmidt 11 10 26 10 11 26 6 18 11 11 3 3 6 20 17 8 8 16 92 13 Robert Lukas 12 4 5 8 6 Ret 24 9 15 13 Ret DNS Ret 8 9 6 28† Ret 84 14 Norbert Siedler 9 13 27 7 4 Ret 11 4 10 6 61 15 Jaap van Lagen 9 2 2 8 20 14 10 33† Ret Ret 50 16 Lukas Schreier Ret 17 20 13 24 24 14 14 30 14 6 9 15 7 Ret 14 9 10 46 17 Sean Johnston 8 14 14 23 7 5 13 22 25 16 Ret DNS 12 21 Ret DNS 41 18 Pieter Schothorst Ret 16 17 9 Ret 12 15 11 16 28 15 24 10 6 20 15 11 Ret 40.5 19 Ola Nilsson 23 20 12 11 14 21 7 17 14 15 Ret 13 12 16 12 Ret 34 20 Fabien Thuner 14 9 27 Ret 16 9 12 Ret 23 17 12 11 14 18 16 12 19 15 34 21 Jim Pla 16 12 11 Ret 13 11 10 10 13 30† 22 19 32 22 Klaus Bachler 22 Ret 5 7 21 23 Mike Halder 24 23 Ret Ret 25 20 21 8 29 21 14 10 33 15 14 18 16 Ret 19 24 Niclas Kentenich 25 22 18 22 17 12 22 18 7 12 Ret DNS 13 17 17 18 15.5 25 Côme Ledogar Ret 21 24 16 11 13 31† 13 11 26 Christofer Berckhan 20 21 33† 17 15 14 22 20 17 Ret Ret 15 18 22 23 DNS 15 14 8 27 Antti Buri Ret 24 16 15 17 16 18 32 18 12 13 16 23 19 19 Ret Ret 17 6.5 28 Marko Klein 15 15 21 16 20 13 6 29 Jochen Habets 17 30 29 18 35 25 31 27 28 23 Ret 14 29 24 24 26 2 30 Michelle Gatting 27 Ret 15 22 32 28 27 25 31 20 17 Ret 1 31 Elia Erhart Ret 31 19 26 22 18 25 26 24 19 16 23 25 28 31 28 23 19 0 32 Felix Wimmer Ret 27 28 28 26 27 28 28 32 Ret 20 17 21 17 34 22 21 22 0 33 Christopher Gerhard 19 29 18 20 23 23 26 23 20 Ret 19 Ret 17 25 26 20 Ret Ret 0 34 Tom Dillmann Ret DNS 21 30† 0 35 Patrick Eisemann 26 33 31 29 29 30 35 24 Ret 25 23 28 31 23 29 Ret 27 25 0 Pos Driver HOC OSC HUN NOR RBR NÜR[N 1] LAU SAC HOC Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

B-class

Pos Driver HOC OSC HUN NOR RBR NÜR[N 1] LAU SAC HOC Pts 1 Rolf Ineichen 18 13 32 21 21 19 19 Ret 19 22 Ret 25 16 29 25 21 14 DNS 284 2 Ralf Bohn 28 28 23 27 27 31 29 33 26 Ret 22 27 28 32 28 24 30† 24 247 3 Wolf Nathan 29 32 24 25 31 35 32 29 Ret 27 21 20 27 26 32 25 29† Ret 232 4 "Bill Barazetti" 22 34 Ret DNS 28 29 30 30 33 24 Ret 22 32 Ret 30 27 24 23 214 5 "Mike Keller" 31 35 30 31 34 32 34 31 35 26 24 26 30 31 35 29 25 26 212 6 Daniel Allemann 21 26 Ret Ret 30 Ret 23 21 21 Ret Ret 29† 26 27 27 23 Ret 20 208 7 Ronald van de Laar 30 Ret 25 30 33 33 33 Ret 34 29 Ret 30 33 32 26 27 155 Pos Driver HOC OSC HUN NOR RBR NÜR[N 1] LAU SAC HOC Pts

Notes

1. Half points were awarded for the first race as less than 75% of the race distance had been completed.

References

1. "Winner portrait: Philipp Eng". Porsche Newsroom (Porsche AG). 20 October 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

External links

• Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland website
• Porsche Carrera Cup Germany Online Magazine (German)