A difficult start into the Weekend at 8th round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup at the home race in Hockenheim took a conciliatory end with the race on Sunday. After a fault-free performance Jiri Janak finished 11th and only just missed the Top 10. With that, the Czech could claim some further points in the Championship. Keita Sawa was involved in an incident that let him drop back early in the race. The Japanese finally finished the Hockenheim round on 22nd rank.

"After an unlucky start into the weekend I am really satisfied with the result of the race on Sunday", Jiri Janak was happy, finishing 11th after the 14 laps on the 4,574 kilometres long Grand Prix Circuit in Hockenheim. With an excursion into the tyre stacks at the free practice session on Friday the Czech and Schnabl Engineering caught a rather bad start into the home race in Germany. "It was a pity, because I could do only six laps, what was not enough to find a suitable setup for the qualifying", Jiri Janak, who only managed to qualify for 15th position in the starting grid, explains. On Sunday it than went a lot better for the 24-years-old. "It was a really tough race. If you have to start from the midfield into a Supercup race, you always have the risk to be involved in accidents. Fortunately it was not the case today. I had a good start and later on I had some good fights with the other competitors, which in the end brought me up to 11th position. It's at least a good result."

Darryl O'Young was not at the start in Hockenheim. The Schnabl Engineering pilot preferred to compete in the Asian Porsche Carrera Cup, where he had to defend his lead in the driver standings of the championship. The 28-year-old experienced an extremely successful weekend at the Sentul International Circuit in Indonesia. After a victory in the first round, the quick man from Hong Kong finished second in the second race and could further consolidate his lead in the championship.

In Hockenheim O'Young was represented once more by Keita Sawa, who despite a lacking knowledge of the track provided a big surprise on Saturday, when he qualified for 13th position in the starting grid for the race. However, in the race on Sunday the Japanese lost all his hopes for a good result really soon. "Just after the start I was a kind of sandwiched by two other competitors and with that I dropped back some positions. After this incident my car was very difficult to drive. I think the set-up on the front axle didn't fit any longer, because I had a massive understeering. Nevertheless, the two races for Schnabl Engineering in the Supercup were a valuable experience for me. I have been able to learn a lot and plan to compete for a complete season in the Supercup next year."

"It was a very eventful home race in the Porsche Supercup for Schnabl Engineering", team manager Sven Schnabl says. "Primarily we could not complain about a lack of work. On Friday Jiri Janak had an unpleasant incident, on Saturday Keita Sawa slipped off the track. Finishing on 11th rank, Jiri Janak nevertheless helped us to have a conciliatory end", said the team manager, who particularly praises the good performance of Keita Sawa. "It is really strong for a newcomer to claim 13th rank in the qualifying for the Supercup. I am really sorry that it went so bad for him in the race, when just after the start someone crashed into his car. Without that incident his guest start probably would have ended in the position for points."

Race Porsche Supercup (Hockenheim, 20.07.08)
1.	Chris Mamerow	DAMAC Kadach Racing	24:38.170
2.	Jaap van Lagen	DAMAC Kadach Racing	1.704
3.	Jeroen Bleekemolen	Jetstream Motorsport	4.768
4.	Damien Faulkner	SAS-Lechner Racing	5.705
5.	René Rast	Veltins MRS Racing	8.515
6.	Nicolas Armindo	tolimit	10.151
7.	Martin Ragginger	UPS Porsche Junior Team	10.278
8.	David Saelens	IRWIN Racing	11.638
9.	Patrick Huisman	IRWIN Racing	14.223
10.	Sean Edwards	Konrad Motorsport	15.485
11.	Jiri Janak	Schnabl Engineering	17.294
12.	Pedro Petiz	Racing Team Jetstream	21.188
13.	Lance Arnold David	SPS automotive-performance	22.195
14.	Stefan Rosina	Lechner Racing Bahrain	23.472
15.	Jocke Mangs	tolimit	28.919
16.	Jan Seyffarth	Konrad Motorsport	29.619
17.	Marc Benz	SPS automotive-performance	29.711
18.	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen	Bleekemolen Race Planet	30.684
19.	Tim Buijs	Bleekemolen Race Planet	30.898
20.	Lucas Guerrero	Jetstream Motorsport	32.474
21.	William Langhorne	Veltins MRS Racing	33.371
22.	Keita Sawa	Schnabl Engineering	34.008
23.	Paul van Splunteren	HSF Porsche Eindhoven	37.299
24.	Simon Frederiks	HSF Porsche Eindhoven	39.318
25.	Mikael Forsten	Racing Team Jetstream	43.994
26.	Norbert Siedler	Veltins MRS Racing	47.198
27.	Danny Watts	SAS-Lechner Racing	+ 1:35.422
28.	Alessandro Zampedri	Lechner Racing Bahrain	+ 8 Laps
29.	Neel Jani	Porsche AG	+ 11 Laps
30.	Marco Holzer	UPS Porsche Junior Team	+ 13 Laps