The 5th round of the Porsche Carrera Cup was held at Norisring. The track situated in the center of Nürnberg attracted more than 140.000 spectators. Schnabl Engineering EMC PZ Koblenz started with three Porsches.

The guest appearance of ex DTM driver Marcel Fässler had to be canceled, due to high water in Switzerland. "Fässler's living room was flooded to 1,30 metres", explained teamchef Sven Schnabl. So one quickly changed the driver combination and asked the former DTM- and STW-manufacturere driver Jörg van Ommen to take a seat in the Porsche. He already started at Oschersleben, where he convinced with rank 16.

Besides van Ommen Pierre Kaffer and Jiri Janak took the challenge on the 2,3 kilometres long track. In free practice Kaffer and Janak proved their qualities immediately. "Positions in practice are not much important", knew Sven Schnabl on friday evening, "but it shows that we are on the right way."

This was proved in qualifying on saturday. Janak reached top ten by placing nineth, Kaffer classified twelfth and van Ommen 13th. "A great team result", was the common view. So all three pilots would have been able to take part in the so called shoot out mode. But due to an accident of frenchman Armindo the regulation-change of a 30 minute session became effective.

Schnabl Engineering EMC PZ Koblenz was optimistic for the race on sunday morning. Full grandstands, sunny weather were perfect surroundings for the race, but unfortunately there was no happy end for Kaffer and van Ommen. It was Kaffer of all people who was involved in a collision in lap 2. He was spun around and hit by mischance in the Porsche of van Ommen.

Besides both could rejoin the race but a proper result was not possible any more. Van Ommen partly was classified 16th, until a slowing punture forced him into pits, which meant a non classified 34th rank in the very end. Kaffer was not classified either on rank 30.

The more pleasant was Janak's performance. The czech, who starts for Schnabl Engineering LKM Team Jebsen in the Porsche Supercup too, did a great job, which made teamchef Schnabl congratulate effusively: "This was brilliant. Jiri drove an ingenious race. Hats off!" Placing fourth he missed podium closely, but managed to keep championshipleader Richrad Westbrook at bay. In doing so Janak reached best season result for the team from Butzbach.

Sven Schnabl after the race: "Congratulations again to Jiri Janak. But unfortunately his teammates were not that lucky. It does not happen often that just two cars of a team are involved in one and the same crash. None of them is to blame. That's simply bad luck! We were well-prepared and I guess that all drivers could have had chances for the top ten. Niclas Armido, who was behind Jörg, finally placed tenth. But maybe there will be an improvement next time.*

The next round of the Porsche Carrera Cup will be held in the Netherlands. Zandvoort will be venue of the 6th race on 27th to 29th July. Before the team will race in the Porsche Supercup on 1st July at Magny Cours (F). Here Darryl O'Young and Jiri Janak are heading for victory.