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cars from nine different manufacturers and brands.
After three victories and a total of seven podium
positions in 14 races, Tim Bergmeister won the
championship with a 911 GT3 Cup S of the Mühlner
Motorsport Team.
Racing series gets drivers off to a flying start
In the year under review, Porsche expanded its
unique system of racing series. 2008 saw the
420 hp, series-derived 911 GT3 Cup racing cars
compete in 22 countries and four continents in the
Porsche Mobil1-Supercup, as well as eight Carrera
Cups and four GT3 Cup Challenges.
The Company provides the vehicles for all Porsche
Cups, organizes the races and schedules them to
take into account other top-level championships. In
2008, for example, a Porsche race was hosted at
every Formula 1 World Championship race for the
first time. The brand races not only serve as excep-
tional marketing tools or business platforms for par-
ticipating customer teams. They also provide an ope-
ning and first challenge for up-and-coming professio-
nal racing drivers. This is shown by the fact that five
of the eleven current Porsche works drivers made
their way into the professional sport with a cham-
pionship title in the Mobil1-Supercup or Carrera Cup.
Cayenne ahead in the Transsyberia Rally
Porsche has won the Transsyberia Rally for the third
time in a row. On 27 July 2008, after 14 days of
competition, six Cayenne S Transsyberias were the
first to cross the finish line of the toughest mara-
thon rally for series-derived offroad vehicles. Nine
Porsches were among the best ten vehicles.
The 7,000 kilometer route from Moscow through
Siberia to Ulan Bator in Mongolia incorporated a
range of special time trials alongside the traditional
racing stages. These trials tested the mettle of
both the drivers and the vehicles. The trials on a
single day could sometimes be longer than the
entire special trial distance of a race in the current
rally world championship.
Victory on all tracks:
The Porsche GT3 Cup lined
up at the starting grid
of Brand Cup Races in
22 countries.
The Cayenne S Transsyberia
was the first to cross the
finishing line in the rally
from Moscow to Ulan Bator.