Jan Seyffarth takes his first Porsche Supercup win

Stuttgart. Jan Seyffarth (Germany) won the third round of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup at the Spanish Grand Prix. Driving for Konrad Motorsport, the 21-year-old former UPS-Porsche junior took up the 14-lap race from pole position and after a faultless race saw the chequered flag first after 26:16.910 minutes. For Seyffarth, this success on the 4.63 kilometre Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona (Spain) marks the first in a Porsche brand trophy.

By Sam Tickell

The battle in Australian sportscar racing is now in the courts

GT Racing in Australia is at crisis point. Over the last week the Australian GT Championship has gone into a tail spin which threatens its existence and the integrity of GT racing in Australia.

The Australian GT Championship are confident of their continual existence and claim to have “some very exciting prospects for 2009”.

But the rest of the tale does not look so rosy.

Bag full of points for Jota Sport at Rockingham

Jota Sport took some valuable championship points from a challenging weekend at rounds 3 and 4 of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB at Rockingham.

After topping the timesheets with both Sam Hancock and Phil Quaife in Friday’s test sessions, the team couldn’t carry that pace into qualifying and the race, with Hancock taking a fifth and a fourth in Sunday’s double-header and Quaife bouncing back with a race 2 fifth having suffered a race 1 DNS.

Jota Sport’s Sam Hancock secured fifth and fourth place finishes from a difficult weekend at Rockingham in rounds 3 and 4 of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB.

Quaife stays third in championship despite testing Rockingham weekend

Phil Quaife held onto his third place in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB drivers’ championship, despite a frustrating weekend in rounds 3 and 4 of the 2008 season at Rockingham.

West Australian Aaron Caratti (Parklands on Bertram) has produced the perfect race weekend on his way to claiming his first ever Carrera Cup round win.

Round Three of Carrera Cup Australia, held at Goulburn’s Wakefield Park this weekend, belonged to the affable Sandgroper, who dominated the round from Friday’s practice session to the final race today.

Jono Lester would be the first to admit that the past month hasn’t brought much success, be it on track or nursing a broken leg on the sidelines. He had ‘fallen off the horse’ as it were, and with a confidence boost very much needed, it was time to climb back onto the saddle.

Mamerow crosses the line to take the win in Bahrain

Stuttgart. At the second championship round of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup,
Chris Mamerow from Germany claimed his first win of the season. The
23-year-old new-comer to the world’s fastest international one-make cup
took up the race from third on the grid. In lap three he grabbed the front
position from the leading Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands) and René Rast
(Germany), and never let it go for the remainder of the 12-lap sprint.
Following the first two championship races, Mamerow ranks second in the
drivers’ standings.

Vice champion Faulkner repeats season-opener win

Stuttgart. Damien Faulkner won the first round of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup on the Bahrain International Circuit. The 30-year-old reigning vice champion repeated his success from last year and crossed the finish line first at the season-opening round. Faulkner, who took up the race from second on the grid, won in a time of 25:22.952 minutes, eight seconds ahead of his closest rival.

Alzen will line up 8th in Bahrain

Stuttgart. To open the season, René Rast (Germany) secured pole position for the first round of this year’s Porsche Mobil1 Supercup in Bahrain. At the second qualifying session, which determines the grid line up for the second round of the series on Sunday, the 20-year-old again set the quickest time. At his debut in the world’s fastest international one-make cup, the new-comer takes up both championship rounds from the front of the 26-strong field.

Aaron Caratti’s (Parklands on Bertram) sensational run of form continues after the West Australian driver claimed pole position for the first race of Carrera Cup Australia’s third round at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, this afternoon.

There will be stiff competition for the major prize in this competition

Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, is searching for the best photo of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup. In cooperation with the world-leading independent lens manufacturer, Sigma, the company awards a prize for the most unusual photo of the world’s fastest international one-make series every race weekend.

The gauntlet has been thrown down to Carrera Cup Australia championship leader Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) as the category heads into Round Three at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, this weekend.

Stuttgart. The Porsche Mobil1 Supercup has never been as powerful as this:
At the season-opener in Bahrain, pilots contesting the world’s fastest
one-make cup compete for the first time with the latest Porsche 911 GT3
Cup. Delivering 420 hp, this sports car is the most powerful Cup-911 in the
16-year history of the championship.

Phil Quaife marked his return to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB with a pair of podium finishes at the season-opening double header at his home circuit Brands Hatch, to leave him third in the drivers’ championship.

Race 1 was incident packed for Hancock

A sizeable slice of bad luck took the shine off an otherwise solid weekend for Sam Hancock at the opening round of the 2008 Porsche Carrera Cup GB season.

Carrera Cup Australia will welcome another Kiwi into the fold at its next round at Wakefield Park, with Daniel Gaunt joining the Championship.

Gaunt, 23, will step into the Sherrin Equipment Porsche driven by Iain Sherrin at the first two rounds of year, in what will be his Australian Porsche debut.