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

Calendar

Season standings

Scoring system

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
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Entry List

Notes
NoRider
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