The 2003 V8Star Series season was the third and final V8Star Series season. It featured ten races at four European racing circuits, in Germany and the Netherlands. Portuguese ex-Formula One driver Pedro Lamy was crowned champion of the series, taking five wins in all and beating Germans Thomas Mutsch and Michael Bartels to the title.
Team | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Irmscher Motorsport | 2 | Yves Olivier | 1–2 |
Roland Asch | 3–4, 6–7 | ||
MB Performance | 5 | Marco du Pau | 5 |
Michael Vergers | 9 | ||
33 | Michael Bartels | All | |
V8STAR | 8 | Altfried Heger * | 5, 9 |
Jan Lammers * | 7 | ||
Jetstream Motorsport | 9 | Marcel Kesseler | All |
10 | Simon Frederiks | All | |
MRS Workshop | 11 | Kurt Thiim | 1, 4–5, 9 |
Jaap Kielman | 7 | ||
Grohs Motorsport | 14 | Dennis Rostek | 1–3, 6–8 |
MIS Mönninghoff | 16 | Thomas Mutsch | All |
17 | Klaus Panchryz | 1 | |
Roland Rehfeld | 5 | ||
Ryll Racing ASL | 22 | Siegfried Ryll | All |
23 | Sascha Bert | 2–7 | |
Ronny Melkus | 8 | ||
Kevin Clarke | 9 | ||
Ryll Racing | 24 | Steffen Widmann | 1–8 |
Marco du Pau | 9 | ||
25 | Ronny Melkus | 1–7, 9 | |
Cor Euser | 8 | ||
GAG Racing Team | 27 | Patrick Michels | 1–6 |
Donny Crevels | 7–9 | ||
28 | Harald Becker | All | |
Sagarage | 36 | Dirk Adorf | 1, 3 |
Zakspeed Racing | 88 | Pedro Lamy | All |
99 | Robert Lechner | All |
* Guest driver, no points awarded.
Round | Circuit | Country | Date | Pole Position | Winning Driver | Winning Team | |
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1 | R | Nürburgring | Germany | April 20 | Robert Lechner | Robert Lechner | Zakspeed Racing |
2 | R | EuroSpeedway Lausitz | Germany | May 11 | Pedro Lamy | Pedro Lamy | Zakspeed Racing |
3 | R | Nürburgring | Germany | May 31 | Pedro Lamy | Pedro Lamy | Zakspeed Racing |
4 | R | Sachsenring | Germany | June 15 | Pedro Lamy | Pedro Lamy | Zakspeed Racing |
5 | R | EuroSpeedway Lausitz | Germany | July 6 | Thomas Mutsch | Pedro Lamy | Zakspeed Racing |
6 | R | Nürburgring | Germany | July 20 | Michael Bartels | Roland Asch | Irmscher Motorsport |
7 | R | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Netherlands | August 10 | Donny Crevels | Donny Crevels | GAG Racing Team |
8 | R | Circuit Park Zandvoort | Netherlands | September 7 | Robert Lechner | Robert Lechner | Zakspeed Racing |
9 | R1 | EuroSpeedway Lausitz | Germany | September 13 | Donny Crevels | Robert Lechner | Zakspeed Racing |
R2 | September 14 | Robert Lechner | Pedro Lamy | Zakspeed Racing |
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Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th | 27th | 28th | 29th | 30th |
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Points | 32 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
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