2003 V8Star Series

The 2003 V8Star Series season was the third and final V8Star Series season. It featured ten races at four European racing circuits, in Germany and the Netherlands. Portuguese ex-Formula One driver Pedro Lamy was crowned champion of the series, taking five wins in all and beating Germans Thomas Mutsch and Michael Bartels to the title.

Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Irmscher Motorsport	2	Yves Olivier	1–2
		Roland Asch	3–4, 6–7
MB Performance	5	Marco du Pau	5
		Michael Vergers	9
	33	Michael Bartels	All
V8STAR	8	Altfried Heger *	5, 9
		Jan Lammers *	7
Jetstream Motorsport	9	Marcel Kesseler	All
	10	Simon Frederiks	All
MRS Workshop	11	Kurt Thiim	1, 4–5, 9
		Jaap Kielman	7
Grohs Motorsport	14	Dennis Rostek	1–3, 6–8
MIS Mönninghoff	16	Thomas Mutsch	All
	17	Klaus Panchryz	1
		Roland Rehfeld	5
Ryll Racing ASL	22	Siegfried Ryll	All
	23	Sascha Bert	2–7
		Ronny Melkus	8
		Kevin Clarke	9
Ryll Racing	24	Steffen Widmann	1–8
		Marco du Pau	9
	25	Ronny Melkus	1–7, 9
		Cor Euser	8
GAG Racing Team	27	Patrick Michels	1–6
		Donny Crevels	7–9
	28	Harald Becker	All
Sagarage	36	Dirk Adorf	1, 3
Zakspeed Racing	88	Pedro Lamy	All
	99	Robert Lechner	All

* Guest driver, no points awarded.

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Country	Date	Pole Position	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R	Nürburgring	Germany	April 20	Robert Lechner	Robert Lechner	Zakspeed Racing
2	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	May 11	Pedro Lamy	Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Racing
3	R	Nürburgring	Germany	May 31	Pedro Lamy	Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Racing
4	R	Sachsenring	Germany	June 15	Pedro Lamy	Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Racing
5	R	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	July 6	Thomas Mutsch	Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Racing
6	R	Nürburgring	Germany	July 20	Michael Bartels	Roland Asch	Irmscher Motorsport
7	R	Circuit Park Zandvoort	Netherlands	August 10	Donny Crevels	Donny Crevels	GAG Racing Team
8	R	Circuit Park Zandvoort	Netherlands	September 7	Robert Lechner	Robert Lechner	Zakspeed Racing
9	R1	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Germany	September 13	Donny Crevels	Robert Lechner	Zakspeed Racing
	R2			September 14	Robert Lechner	Pedro Lamy	Zakspeed Racing

Championship standings

Pos Driver Points 1 Pedro Lamy 271 2 Thomas Mutsch 249 3 Michael Bartels 249 4 Robert Lechner 235 5 Marcel Kesseler 179 6 Harald Becker 172 7 Simon Frederiks 172 8 Steffen Widmann 170 9 Ronny Melkus 165 10 Siegfried Ryll 161 11 Roland Asch 117 12 Patrick Michels 107 13 Dennis Rostek 105 14 Kurt Thiim 98 15 Donny Crevels 84 16 Sascha Bert 80 17 Dirk Adorf 53 18 Michael Vergers 47 19 Yves Olivier 40 20 Cor Euser 26 21 Marco du Pau 24 22 Klaus Panchryz 23 23 Kevin Clarke 0 24 Jaap Kielman 0 25 Roland Rehfeld 0 guest drivers ineligible for points Altfried Heger 0 Jan Lammers 0 Pos Driver Points

Pos Team Points 1 Zakspeed Racing 506 2 GAG Racing Team 363 3 Ryll Racing 361 4 Jetstream Motorsport 351 5 MB Performance 296 6 MIS Mönninghoff 272 7 Ryll Racing ASL 265 8 Irmscher Motorsport 157 9 Grohs Motorsport 105 10 MRS Workshop 98 11 Sagarage 53 guest teams ineligible for points V8STAR 0 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 2003
• speedsport-magazine.com V8Star Series 2003
• motorsport-archive.com V8Star Series
• V8Star Series official website