2008 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup

Starting its second season, the 2008 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup season continued the search for future World Champions. The 2008 season begins with two races during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at Jerez on March 29 and March 30 and ends with another double header at the Czech Republic Grand Prix in Brno on August 16 and August 17. Another six European GPs see single Rookies races on each Saturday, making it a ten-race championship, which is two more races than the last season.

The end of the season ended with two international team events that matched ten of the best riders from the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup with ten of the best from the first and only year of the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup. So twenty of the world's best teenagers will compete to see which side of the Atlantic can claim the Red Bull Riders Cup over two races, the first being held on September 13 at Indianapolis alongside the Grand Prix. The rematch will be on October 25 at the final Grand Prix of the season in Valencia.

The commercial rights of the championship are held by the rights-holders for the MotoGP World Championships, Dorna Sports.^[1]

The American dirt tracker J.D. Beach was proclaimed champion in the last race, in only his second season of road racing.^[2]

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Race Winner
1	March 29	Spanish Grand Prix	Jerez	Luis Salom	Daijiro Hiura	Luis Salom
	March 30				Nelson Major	Luis Salom
2	April 12	Portuguese Grand Prix	Estoril	Daijiro Hiura	Daijiro Hiura	Daijiro Hiura
3	May 17	French Grand Prix	Le Mans Bugatti Circuit	Luis Salom	J. D. Beach	Luis Salom
4	May 31	Italian Grand Prix	Mugello Circuit	Péter Sebestyén	Luis Salom	Luis Salom
5	June 21	British Grand Prix	Donington Park	Daijiro Hiura	Sturla Fagerhaug	Miguel Oliveira
6	June 28	Dutch TT	TT Circuit Assen	Sturla Fagerhaug	Miguel Oliveira	Miguel Oliveira
7	July 12	German Grand Prix	Sachsenring	Luis Salom	Daniel Kartheininger	J. D. Beach
8	August 16	Czech Republic Grand Prix	Brno	Mathew Scholtz	Nico Thöni	Mathew Scholtz
	August 17				Matthew Hoyle	Sturla Fagerhaug

Notes

• All Entrants were riding a KTM
• Tyres were supplied by Dunlop

No	Rider
3	Daniel Kartheininger
6	Péter Sebestyén
7	Deane Brown
11	Niklas Ajo
20	Mathew Scholtz
21	Florian Marino
22	Daniel Ruiz
24	Harry Stafford
27	Alessio Cappella
28	Markus Reiterberger
30	Dylan Mavin
32	Matthew Hoyle
33	Sturla Fagerhaug
36	Nico Thöni
39	Luis Salom
44	Miguel Oliveira*
46	Daijiro Hiura
49	Ben McConnachie
52	Adam Blacklock
59	J. D. Beach
68	Sasuke Shinozaki
69	Nelson Major
74	Kevin Calia
77	Quentin Jacquet*
84	Jakub Kornfeil
92	Cristian Trabalón
99	Joshua Elliott

• Guest Riders

Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. Rider has to finish the race to earn points.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

• Each rider's lowest score discounted.

Pos Rider ESP POR FRA ITA GBR NED GER CZE Pts 1 J. D. Beach 2 2 2 2 2 5 8 1 11 Ret 149 2 Luis Salom 1 1 4 1 1 9 7 Ret Ret 3 145 3 Sturla Fagerhaug 7 4 3 6 7 2 2 Ret 2 1 142 4 Daijiro Hiura 5 5 1 3 Ret 4 2 12 8 108 5 Nelson Major 4 6 5 3 11 4 Ret 5 18 4 92 6 Mathew Scholtz Ret 10 11 8 9 3 Ret 6 1 7 86 7 Matthew Hoyle Ret 14 DNS 15 10 3 3 3 2 77 8 Daniel Ruiz 6 7 10 7 4 13 6 Ret 21 13 63 9 Jakub Kornfeil 8 9 19 9 6 7 10 Ret 10 6 63 10 Florian Marino 11 11 13 5 19 Ret 5 7 7 5 62 11 Markus Reiterberger 9 8 9 Ret 8 12 12 10 6 9 61 12 Miguel Oliveira 8 1 1 58 13 Daniel Kartheininger 14 17 7 4 5 Ret Ret 4 8 Ret 56 14 Deane Brown 3 3 6 4 Ret 55 15 Péter Sebestyén 15 15 17 11 Ret 6 16 8 13 NC 28 16 Cristian Trabalón Ret 11 15 10 16 9 9 26 17 Sasuke Shinozaki Ret 18 14 14 13 8 14 Ret 9 19 24 18 Kevin Calia 13 19 12 Ret 10 17 11 Ret 10 24 19 Adam Blacklock 12 12 16 12 15 Ret 19 14 14 12 21 20 Nico Thöni 15 12 5 14 17 21 Alessio Cappella 18 11 13 Ret 19 11 13 22 Joshua Elliott 10 16 Ret Ret 12 Ret 18 Ret 17 15 11 23 Dylan Mavin Ret DNS Ret 14 Ret 11 16 20 16 7 24 Harry Stafford 16 20 18 16 17 Ret 20 13 15 17 4 25 Quentin Jacquet 13 3 26 Niklas Ajo DNS DNS 20 Ret DNS 15 16 18 1 Ben McConnachie 17 21 Ret 0 Pos Rider ESP POR FRA ITA GBR NED GER CZE Pts

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

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• Season at FIM-Website