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PSC: Both Cars in the Points at Barcelona
27-04-2008
Already in the qualifying on Saturday, the man from Hong Kong complained about a difficult session. "With my first set of tyres I had some trouble with the traffic, so I wasn't able to put the sectors together. I think I lost at least 3/10 of a second. The competition in the Porsche Supercup is really high and in the end this 3/10 cost me about 8 positions. I think it will be a really tough race tomorrow with a close fight and I hope to find an opportunity to move forward in the field." However, the hopes of the 28-year old didn't come true one day later.
After a good start he soon realized that he has to go trough a tough race. "I thought I could make it into the points today, but I couldn't keep the pace because I struggled with the grip of my Porsche. Instead of fighting with the competitors in front of me, I had to defend my position against the drivers behind", Darryl O'Young characterized his race. "At least it was a disappointing weekend for me and the team, I hope we can do a better Job in the next round of the Supercup", so the Schnabl Engineering pilot. The second driver of the team Schnabl Engineering, Jiri Janak, went through a similar problematic weekend "Like Darryl I didn't manage to put all sectors in a row, because I made a little mistake in my fastest lap. I am a little bit disappointed, because I could have been within the Top-10", the Czech reported after being 15th in the qualifying session. In the race on Sunday he fought with the setup of his car. "I could not really go the pace with the cars in front of me.
However, somehow I managed to fetch some point here in Spain. After the disappointing weekend I hope we have some better results in the next round of the Supercup." "The outcome of the weekend is not what we expected from the third round of the Supercup. Both cars haven't been quick enough to claim a reasonable result", team manager Sven Schnabl felt unsatisfied after the Sundays race. "Jiri Janak finally made it into the points, but we expected a much better position for him. Also Darryl O'Young had difficulties to keep the pace. We really don't know, what kind of problem made us struggling. What we have to do now, is to work even harder in the future, because that are not the kind of results, we are after."
| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time |
| 1 | Jan Seyffarth | Konrad Motorsport | 26:16.910 |
| 2 | Jeroen Bleekemolen | Jetstream Motorsport | + 0:02.723 |
| 3 | Martin Ragginger | UPS Porsche Junior Team | + 0:07.923 |
| 4 | Nicolas Armindo | tolimit | + 0:09.478 |
| 5 | René Rast | VELTINS MRS Racing | + 0:12.582 |
| 6 | Danny Watts | SAS-Lechner Racing | + 0:12.962 |
| 7 | Stefan Rosina | Lechner Racing Bahrain | + 0:14.339 |
| 8 | Patrick Huisman | IRWIN Racing | + 0:15.611 |
| 9 | Damien Faulkner | SAS-Lechner Racing | + 0:16.213 |
| 10 | Uwe Alzen | SPS automotive-performance | + 0:17.339 |
| 11 | Jaap van Lagen | DAMAC Kadach Racing | + 0:17.602 |
| 12 | Sean Edwards | Konrad Motorsport | + 0:18.594 |
| 13 | Sebastiaan Bleekemolen | Bleekemolen Race Planet | + 0:24.938 |
| 14 | Jiri Janak | Schnabl Engineering | + 0:25.249 |
| 15 | Marco Holzer | UPS Porsche Junior Team | + 0:25.401 |
| 16 | Jocke Mangs | tolimit | + 0:26.921 |
| 17 | Mike Verschuur | Racing Team Jetstream | + 0:27.309 |
| 18 | Darryl O'Young | Schnabl Engineering | + 0:27.993 |
| 19 | Lucas Guerrero | Jetstream Motorsport | + 0:28.567 |
| 20 | Pedro Petiz | Racing Team Jetstream | + 0:29.161 |
| 21 | Tim Buijs | Bleekemolen Race Planet | + 0:30.163 |
| 22 | Paul van Splunteren | HSF Porsche Eindhoven | + 0:34.709 |
| 23 | Simon Frederiks | HSF Porsche Eindhoven | + 0:37.997 |
| 24 | António Coimbra | Porsche AG | + 1:43.169 |
| 25 | Nemunas Dagilis | SPS automotive-performance | + 1:44.106 |
| 26 | David Saelens | IRWIN Racing | + 1:44.961 |
| - | Alessandro Zampedri | Lechner Racing Bahrain | - |
| - | Chris Mamerow | DAMAC Kadach Racing | - |
| - | Norbert Siedler | VELTINS MRS Racing | - |