It was a good final for Team Schnabl Engineering -EMC- PZ Koblenz on 14th October 2007 during the Porsche Carrera Cup at Hockenheim. One ended the season with ranks 10, 12 and 27. Sunny weather and temperatures of 18°C provided perfect surroundings for the 36 pilotes during the final round of the season, in which Uwe Alzen took championship in the end. In lap two it was frenchman Olivier Pla, who had an engine failure and left oil on track. Marcel Fässler from Schnabl Engineering - EMC - PZ Koblenz was the unlucky fellow driving right behind Pla and getting the oil on his front window. This forced him into pits in order to clean it. Classified last he rejoined the race and caught up to rank 27 finally. "After the pitstop, strategy had no use any longer for Marcel. I think he could have reached positions 12 to 15 and this during his first Cup start at all", stated teamhead Sven Schnabl.

A lot better ex DTM driver Pierre Kaffer came along. In free practice he convinced with rank 10 and 8. In qualifying he managed place 13. Infront of 152.000 spectaors he had a good start for the race and was able to keep the pace of the top. Due to the shortened race distance after a safety car period more than rank ten was not possible in the end.

Jiria Janak had a similar race. He even was slightly quicker than Kaffer, but did not want to risk too much as he was right behind his teammate. Behind Kaffer there was a tricky moment in the race, but Janak drew back because he did not want to endanger a good team result. This incident seized Lance-David Arnold putting himself between Kaffer and Janak. And so Janak finally saw chequered flag on position 12 and took rank 8 in championship.

Sven Schnabl talking about the race eand the season: "The last round was representative for the whole season. We were fast, but not that fast as we imagined. Rank 8 and 12 in championship are too little and have to be improved next year.

Season is not completely over for Sven Schnabl. Together with Darryl O'Young he will compete the last two races of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia on 03./04. November at Zhuhai and 17./18. November at Macau!

Race Results Hockenheim 14th October