2008 Donington Park Superleague Formula round
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Date | 31 August, 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course | Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi (4.023 km) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Laps | 28 & 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2008 Donington Park Superleague Formula round was the inaugural round of the Superleague Formula championship, with the races taking place on 31 August 2008. Seventeen football teams were represented on the grid, with a win each for Beijing Guoan and Sevilla FC.
Report
Qualifying
The first ever qualifying session for Superleague saw the introduction of a new qualifying system. Following a random draw which split the seventeen-car field into two groups, the fastest four qualifiers from each progressed into the knockout stages to decide places 1 to 8 on the grid. This meant that in Group B, fifth placed Al Ain (Andreas Zuber) and sixth placed Borussia Dortmund (Nelson Philippe) would both miss out on qualifying for the knockout stages, despite recording a time some four tenths of a second faster than fourth-placed Group A qualifier Galatasaray S.K. (Alessandro Pier Guidi). After negotiating their way through the knockout stages, Sevilla FC (Borja García) and Beijing Guoan (Davide Rigon) would meet in the final. In the one-lap shootout, Rigon came out on top by 0.822 seconds and would become Superleague's inaugural pole-sitter.
Race 1
The race began with a rolling start, to eradicate a potential chink in the 750 bhp car's armour, and would also delay the introduction of pitstops until the next round. From the start, the
) and the troubled García. Of the seven retirees, six were down to technical problems.Race 2
A storm engulfed the track, before the start of race two. With the reverse grid system in use,
Results
Qualifying
- In each group, the top four qualify for the quarter-finals.
Group A
Pos. | Team | Driver | Time |
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1 | ![]() |
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1:19.822 |
2 | ![]() |
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1:19.872 |
3 | ![]() |
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1:20.035 |
4 | ![]() |
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1:20.087 |
5 | ![]() |
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1:20.685 |
6 | ![]() |
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1:24.359 |
7 | ![]() |
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no time |
8 | ![]() |
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no time |
Group B
Pos. | Team | Driver | Time |
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1 | ![]() |
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1:18.746 |
2 | A.C. Milan
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1:19.155 |
3 | A.S. Roma
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1:19.562 |
4 | ![]() |
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1:19.580 |
5 | ![]() |
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1:19.640 |
6 | ![]() |
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1:19.671 |
7 | F.C. Porto
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1:20.440 |
8 | ![]() |
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1:20.511 |
9 | ![]() |
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1:20.584 |
Knockout stages
Quarter-Finals | Semi-Finals | Pole Shoot Out | ||||||||||||
A1 | Sevilla FC | 1:19.463 | ||||||||||||
B4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 1:19.690 | A1 | Sevilla FC | 1:19.655 | |||||||||
A3 | Olympiacos CFP | 1:20.022 | A3 | Olympiacos CFP | 1:20.244 | |||||||||
B2 | A.C. Milan
| 1:20.173 | A1 | Sevilla FC | 1:19.351 | |||||||||
A2 | PSV Eindhoven | 1:19.411 | B1 | Beijing Guoan | 1:18.529 | |||||||||
B3 | A.S. Roma
| 1:19.977 | A2 | PSV Eindhoven | 1:19.565 | |||||||||
A4 | Galatasaray S.K. | 1:20.683 | B1 | Beijing Guoan | 1:19.071 | |||||||||
B1 | Beijing Guoan | 1:18.566 |
Grid
Pos. | Team | Driver | Time |
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1 | ![]() |
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1:18.529 |
2 | ![]() |
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1:19.351 |
3 | ![]() |
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1:19.565 |
4 | ![]() |
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1:20.244 |
5 | A.C. Milan
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1:20.173 |
6 | A.S. Roma
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1:19.977 |
7 | ![]() |
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1:20.683 |
8 | ![]() |
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1:19.690 |
9 | ![]() |
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1:19.640 |
10 | ![]() |
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1:19.671 |
11 | F.C. Porto
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1:20.440 |
12 | ![]() |
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1:20.511 |
13 | ![]() |
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1:20.584 |
14 | ![]() |
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1:20.685 |
15 | ![]() |
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1:24.359 |
16 | ![]() |
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no time |
17 | ![]() |
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no time |
Race 1
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Pos | No | Team | Driver | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Pts. |
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1 | 12 | ![]() |
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28 | 41:29.425 | 1 | 50 |
2 | 22 | A.S. Roma
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28 | +2.577 | 6 | 45 |
3 | 19 | ![]() |
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28 | +14.909 | 8 | 40 |
4 | 5 | ![]() |
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28 | +15.305 | 3 | 36 |
5 | 21 | ![]() |
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28 | +20.184 | 17 | 32 |
6 | 6 | ![]() |
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28 | +22.996 | 9 | 29 |
7 | 16 | F.C. Porto
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28 | +23.675 | 11 | 26 |
8 | 17 | ![]() |
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28 | +24.571 | 13 | 23 |
9 | 10 | ![]() |
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28 | +25.449 | 16 | 20 |
10 | 18 | ![]() |
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28 | +29.431 | 2 | 18 |
11 | 14 | ![]() |
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14 | Alternator | 12 | 16 |
12 | 9 | ![]() |
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10 | Water Temp. | 4 | 14 |
13 | 4 | ![]() |
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9 | Engine | 7 | 12 |
14 | 8 | ![]() |
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7 | Engine | 14 | 10 |
15 | 11 | ![]() |
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6 | Acc. Damage | 10 | 8 |
16 | 7 | ![]() |
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2 | Engine | 15 | 7 |
17 | 3 | A.C. Milan
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0 | Engine | 5 | 6 |
Fastest lap: Davide Rigon (Beijing Guoan) 1:20.183 (112.243 mph) |
Race 2
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Pos | No | Team | Driver | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Pts. |
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1 | 18 | ![]() |
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22 | 41:56.268 | 7 | 50 |
2 | 7 | ![]() |
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22 | +10.074 | 1 | 45 |
3 | 21 | ![]() |
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22 | +12.224 | 12 | 40 |
4 | 11 | ![]() |
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22 | +14.962 | 2 | 36 |
5 | 19 | ![]() |
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22 | +23.666 | 14 | 32 |
6 | 12 | ![]() |
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22 | +24.681 | 16 | 29 |
7 | 10 | ![]() |
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22 | +27.225 | 8 | 26 |
8 | 5 | ![]() |
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22 | +42.915 | 13 | 23 |
9 | 16 | F.C. Porto
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22 | +54.513 | 10 | 20 |
10 | 22 | A.S. Roma
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22 | +57.398 | 15 | 18 |
11 | 9 | ![]() |
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22 | +59.946 | 5 | 16 |
12 | 14 | ![]() |
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19 | Accident | 6 | 14 |
13 | 4 | ![]() |
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8 | Accident | 4 | 12 |
14 | 17 | ![]() |
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6 | Accident | 9 | 10 |
15 | 6 | ![]() |
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0 | Accident | 11 | 8 |
16 | 8 | ![]() |
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0 | Engine | 3 | 7 |
DNS | 3 | A.C. Milan
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Engine | 0 | ||
Fastest lap: Yelmer Buurman (PSV Eindhoven) 1:40.926 (89.174 mph) |
- Olympiacos CFP started from the pitlane.
Notes
- First race: All teams and drivers
- First pole (Driver): Davide Rigon
- First pole (Team): Beijing Guoan
- First win (Driver): Davide Rigon & Borja García
- Last win (Driver): Borja García
- First win (Team): Beijing Guoan & Sevilla FC
- First podium (Driver): Adrian Valles
- First podium (Team):
- Last podium (Driver): Enrico Toccacelo, Borja García, Tuka Rocha
- First fastest lap (Driver): Davide Rigon & Yelmer Buurman
- First fastest lap (Team): Beijing Guoan & PSV Eindhoven
- World Feed Commentators: Jonathan Green & Bruce Jouanny