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The 2015 Audi Sport TT Cup season was the inaugural season of the Audi Sport TT Cup, a one-make sports car racing series organised by Audi. It began on 2 May at Hockenheim and finished on 18 October at the same venue after six double-header meetings, all of which were support events for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.

Poland's Jan Kisiel won the title by 25 points ahead of Danish driver Nicolaj Møller Madsen, while Dennis Marschall of Germany completed the championship top-3, a further 19.5 points in arrears of Møller Madsen. After trailing Marschall by twenty points after the first event at Hockenheim, Kisiel then achieved a run of eight successive podium finishes, with five victories in six races – including four wins in consecutive races at Oschersleben and the Nürburgring – moving him into the championship lead. A fifth-place in the first race at the Hockenheim finale sealed the championship. Møller Madsen – who started the season with five consecutive podium finishes including a win at the Norisring – and Marschall, who won a race at the season-opening event, were split by half a point going into the final weekend, but two podium finishes for Møller Madsen moved him clear.

Outside the top three drivers, Finnish driver Joonas Lappalainen finished in fourth place after achieving a pair of class wins behind guest drivers René Rast and Marco Bonanomi in the Hockenheim finale. Three other drivers won races during the season; Shaun Thong won at the Norisring, but that was his only podium finish of the 2015 season. Belgium's Alexis van de Poele – son of 1987 DTM champion Eric van de Poele – was declared winner of the rain-shortened race at the Red Bull Ring, while Austria's Marc Coleselli won the opening race of the season, but did not contest any further meetings during the season.

Drivers

No.	Drivers	Rounds
3	Gosia Rdest	All
5	Nikita Misyulya	3–5
7	Christoph Hofbauer	1–5
8	Shaun Thong	All
9	Kaan Önder	All
11	Levin Amweg	1–3, 6
14	Josh Caygill	All
17	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	All
26	Dominik Peitz	All
27	Dennis Marschall	All
33	Emil Lindholm	All
40	Marc Coleselli	1
43	Jan Kisiel	All
45	Joonas Lappalainen	All
49	Sebastian Landy	All
50	Loris Hezemans	All
55	Alexis van de Poele	All
89	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky	All
92	Anton Marklund	1–5
Guest drivers
4	Aaron Mason	6
93	Jordi Gené	2
	Jeffrey Kruger	6
94	Tanner Foust	1
	Pierre Casiraghi	2
	Emiliano Perucca Orfei	3
	Harald Grohs	4
	Matthias Malmedie	5
	Alberto Sabbatini	6
95	Toomas Heikkinen	1
	Albert von Thurn und Taxis	2
	Rahel Frey	3
	Frank Biela	4
	Nikolaus Schelle	5
	Reiner Kuhn	6
96	Sven Hannawald	1
	Marcus Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff	2
	Aksel Lund Svindal	3
	Uwe Alzen	4
	Aditya Patel	5
	Jon Olsson	6
97	Ferdinand Stuck	1
	Sebastian Schmidt	2
	Felix Neureuther	3
	Alex Lloyd	4
	René Rast	6
98	Horst von Saurma	1
	Lutz Gernert	2
	Marcel Hirscher	3
	Tim Schrick	4
	Guido Naumann	5
	Marco Bonanomi	6
99	Christian Gebhardt	1
	Doreen Seidel	2–5
	Patrick Simon	6

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
1	R1	Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg	2 May	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	Marc Coleselli
	R2		3 May	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	Alexis van de Poele	Dennis Marschall
2	R1	Norisring, Nuremberg	27 June	Shaun Thong	Dominik Peitz	Shaun Thong
	R2		28 June	Shaun Thong	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky	Nicolaj Møller Madsen
3	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	1 August	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	Dennis Marschall	Jan Kisiel
	R2		2 August	Alexis van de Poele	Levin Amweg	Alexis van de Poele
4	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt	12 September	Jan Kisiel	Nicolaj Møller Madsen	Jan Kisiel
	R2		13 September	Jan Kisiel	Jan Kisiel	Jan Kisiel
5	R1	Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate	26 September	Emil Lindholm	Dennis Marschall	Jan Kisiel
	R2		27 September	Jan Kisiel	Jan Kisiel	Jan Kisiel
6	R1	Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg	17 October	Joonas Lappalainen	Marco Bonanomi	René Rast
	R2		18 October	René Rast	Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky	Marco Bonanomi

Championship standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top eighteen classified finishers as follows:

Drivers' championship

The second race at the Red Bull Ring was red-flagged after four laps, due to a multi-car incident involving Christoph Hofbauer, Levin Amweg, Loris Hezemans, Kaan Önder, Emil Lindholm and Anton Marklund. The first three laps of the race had been completed behind the safety car, due to a heavy downpour. As less than 50% of the scheduled race distance had been covered, half points were awarded.

Pos. Driver HOC NOR RBR OSC NÜR HOC Points 1 Jan Kisiel 4 14 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 6 4 231 2 Nicolaj Møller Madsen 2 2 3 1 3 4 7 6 4 12 3 3 206 3 Dennis Marschall 3 1 7 Ret 2 2 5 5 2 2 5 16 186.5 4 Joonas Lappalainen 6 5 6 11 14 13 3 2 19 DNS 2 2 157.5 5 Emil Lindholm 10 13 15 12 18 8 9 10 3 4 9 14 115 6 Shaun Thong Ret 16 1 16 11 10 10 18 8 5 20 12 106 7 Loris Hezemans Ret 9 10 7 5 9 8 13 Ret 3 DSQ 8 105.5 8 Dominik Peitz Ret Ret 9 9 7 11 13 8 20 10 4 6 105.5 9 Christoph Hofbauer 8 7 5 8 6 7 6 9 18 DNS 105.5 10 Josh Caygill 11 19 13 6 13 16 4 7 7 16 15 Ret 103 11 Alexis van de Poele 17 3 11 Ret 17 1 14 14 Ret 7 8 7 100.5 12 Gosia Rdest 15 20 18 13 8 17 17 11 9 9 13 9 90.5 13 Levin Amweg 7 11 14 5 12 12 10 5 84 14 Kaan Önder Ret 12 Ret 10 9 6 11 Ret 12 17 11 13 79 15 Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky 9 Ret 8 3 10 18 Ret 12 6 Ret Ret Ret 75 16 Anton Marklund 14 8 12 Ret 15 14 12 21 14 11 63 17 Marc Coleselli 1 4 41 18 Sebastian Landy Ret Ret 16 15 16 15 Ret 16 10 Ret 14 DNS 39.5 19 Nikita Misyulya 20 20 16 15 11 8 33.5 Guest drivers ineligible for championship points René Rast 1 11 0 Marco Bonanomi 12 1 0 Uwe Alzen 2 3 0 Jordi Gené 4 4 0 Rahel Frey 4 5 0 Alex Lloyd Ret 4 0 Aditya Patel 5 6 0 Tanner Foust 5 6 0 Jeffrey Kruger 7 10 0 Ferdinand Stuck Ret 10 0 Christian Gebhardt 12 17 0 Doreen Seidel 19 17 19 23 15 19 17 13 0 Toomas Heikkinen 13 21 0 Nikolaus Schelle 13 Ret 0 Matthias Malmedie 16 14 0 Marcus Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff 17 14 0 Guido Naumann 15 15 0 Patrick Simon 16 15 0 Horst von Saurma 16 15 0 Jon Olsson 17 18 0 Tim Schrick 18 17 0 Aaron Mason Ret 17 0 Reiner Kuhn 18 20 0 Pierre Casiraghi 20 18 0 Sven Hannawald Ret 18 0 Alberto Sabbatini 19 19 0 Emiliano Perucca Orfei 21 19 0 Sebastian Schmidt 21 19 0 Harald Grohs Ret 20 0 Albert von Thurn und Taxis Ret 20 0 Marcel Hirscher 22 21 0 Felix Neureuther 23 22 0 Aksel Lund Svindal 24 24 0 Frank Biela Ret Ret 0 Lutz Gernert WD WD 0 Pos. Driver HOC NOR RBR OSC NÜR HOC Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References

1. ^ "Challengers Welcome". Audi Motorsport. Audi. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
2. ^ "Audi Sport TT Cup field confirmed". Audi Motorsport. Audi. 23 January 2015. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
3. ^ "World premiere of the Audi Sport TT Cup". Audi Motorsport. Audi. 28 April 2015. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
4. "General Regulations for Series run on Circuits / Automobile Sport – Audi Sport TT Cup" (PDF). Audi Sport TT Cup. Deutscher Motor Sport Bund, Audi AG. 8 April 2015. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015. Less than 50% of the scheduled distance = 50% points

External links

• The official website of the Audi Sport TT Cup

• Audi Sport TT Cup seasons
• 2015 in German motorsport