Webster Takes Carrera Cup 2014 Title

[spyderman8]

20-year-old Josh Webster has clinched the Porsche Carrera Cup title for 2014 with two 2nd places in the final races of the season at Brands Hatch. Michael Meadows was the only other driver capable of beating him and although Meadows beat Webster into 2nd in the final race, he still accrued enough points from both races, together with a fastest lap, to take the crown.



Two Spaniards were competing in the Pro category - regular Victor Jiminez, who landed a 3rd in Race 1 battled Pepe Massot who joined the series part-way through the year. Jordan Witt took the ProAm1 win in the first race but was the only non-finisher in the rain-drenched final race where George Webster took the honours. Will Goff and Steve Liquorish shared the ProAm 2 wins.



Dan Cammish was the guest driver in the number zeo car, once again run by Team Parker Racing, and took the Race 1 win in emphatic style 3.5 seconds ahead of Webster. Having taken the Formula Ford Championship title last season, Cammish has plenty of race experience - but none in the 991, the latest variant of Porsche's most successful race car, so his double pole plus a debut win was all the more impressive.



Meanwhile race regular Paul Rees has been granted a seat in Porsche Supercup, one of the support races in the FIA Formula 1 calendar, at the US Grand Prix at Austin, Texas on 1st/2nd November. Rees hopes to do another season of Carrera Cup next year with a few Supercup rounds thrown in for good measure.

[spikey78]

Oh

[wildman0609]

superb driving displayed in the changing conditions, shows how good the 991 is in the wet and how good those drivers are in slicks in the wet.

Dan Cammish looked like he was in a different league though, which I think shows the lack of depth in the carrera cup. Its not what it once was, where a carerra cup win would almost certainly push you into a GT racing career, I don't therefore think Webster is another Westbrook, Faulkner, Mowlem,

[greeny12]

I like the Porsches. There, I've said it

For me, the problem last season and for most of this has been the tiny grids. You can see the improvement in the racing now it has gone up to 14 cars: yesterday we had great battles in Pro and especially in Pro-Am 2 (the latter would have been mostly missed by TV I'm sure). Even the rain in Race 2 (though it split a lot of the cars up) added immeasurably to the tension if you were there, I can tell you.

Get 20+ cars out there again and it would be cracking. I mean, what's not to like about watching 911s anywhere???

[woof]

wildman0609 said:

superb driving displayed in the changing conditions, shows how good the 991 is in the wet and how good those drivers are in slicks in the wet.

Dan Cammish looked like he was in a different league though, which I think shows the lack of depth in the carrera cup. Its not what it once was, where a carerra cup win would almost certainly push you into a GT racing career, I don't therefore think Webster is another Westbrook, Faulkner, Mowlem,

Dan Cammish was totally in a different league - a great racer for sure but with little experience in the 991 really does show the lack of talent (sorry to say) on the UK grid. It will be interesting to see what Rees can do in Austin - Dempsey (who is pretty respected) was made to look like an novice in Austria.

I do wonder why Porsche continues with the UK Carrera cup - surely better to get behind the British GT series.

Anyway - sorry not to see you there yesterday Chris

[spyderman8]

They're making changes next year to try to encourage new drivers, including more scholarships and bigger prizes. At the end of the day, because of Porsche's insistence on only running the very latest cars, its always going to be a massively expensive series to run in. Oddly the UK is one of the few countries in the world where it has small grids - everywhere else they seem to field at least twice the number of cars.

[woof]

spyderman8 said:

They're making changes next year to try to encourage new drivers, including more scholarships and bigger prizes. At the end of the day, because of Porsche's insistence on only running the very latest cars, its always going to be a massively expensive series to run in. Oddly the UK is one of the few countries in the world where it has small grids - everywhere else they seem to field at least twice the number of cars.

Next year their limiting the number of tyres you can use to keep the costs down a bit.

[TIGA84]

Cammish made the supposed experienced drivers look very very average until his call to switch to wets, although it was pretty 50/50 - half an hour later and he'd have been bang on.

[woof]

TIGA84 said:

Cammish made the supposed experienced drivers look very very average until his call to switch to wets, although it was pretty 50/50 - half an hour later and he'd have been bang on.

I wonder if he decided to be cautious and take the safe option. Smacking a 991 into the wall wouldn't do you any favours with Porsche management.

[greeny12]

woof said:

I wonder if he decided to be cautious and take the safe option. Smacking a 991 into the wall wouldn't do you any favours with Porsche management.

Not sure about that; with the wets on he was giving it full beans, more like a drift show at times and he came very close to binning it a couple of times... audible gasp close!

Meadows and Webster, by contrast, were taking it so steady it looked like they were the ones on full wets.

[designndrive62]

Cammish did indeed do very well indeed. He has been driving a porker in Brit gt though for quite a lot of the past year. Granted gt4 not anywhere near the Carreras cup spec, but still would have given him a pretty good grounding of what a Porsche was like to drive

[anonymous-user]

I know it's track dependant, but what top speeds do theses cars typically achieve during races?