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

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
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

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

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

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

References

External links

• driverdb.com V8Star Series 2001
• speedsport-magazine.com V8Star Series 2001
• motorsport-archive.com V8Star Series
• V8Star Series official website