2012 Porsche Supercup

The 2012 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season was the 20th Porsche Supercup season. It began on 21 April on Bahrain International Circuit and finished on 9 September at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, after ten scheduled races.

Battle for position between Kuba Giermaziak, Norbert Siedler and Nicki Thiim during the 2012 Porsche Supercup race at Silverstone.

2012 Porsche Supercup
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Teams and drivers

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Veltins Lechner Racing	1	Norbert Siedler[1]	All
	2	Michael Ammermüller[1]	All
Förch Racing by Lukas MS[2]	3	Isaac Tutumlu[2]	2–9
	6	Florian Scholze[3]	All
Förch Racing[3]	4	Robert Lukas[3]	All
	5	Štefan Rosina[3]	1–2
		Stefan Biliński[4]	3
		Mateusz Lisowski[5]	4–9
MRS GT-Racing	7	Will Langhorne[6]	2–3
		Philipp Eng[6]	4, 6–7, 9
	8		2
		Richard Hein[4]	3–4
		Bill Barazetti[7]	6
		Mats Karlsson	7
		Roar Lindland[8]	9
VERVA Racing Team	9	Patryk Szczerbiński[9]	All
	10	Kuba Giermaziak[9]	All
Konrad Motorsport	11	Christian Engelhart[10]	All
	12	Sean Edwards[10]	All
	14	Renger van der Zande[10]	1–2
		Michael Christensen[4]	3, 6
		Tomáš Pivoda[11]	8–9
Lechner Racing	15	Saadon Al Kuwari	1
		Andreas Mayerl[12]	2–9
	16	René Rast[12]	All
	46	Jeroen Bleekemolen[13]	3
Team Bleekemolen[14]	17	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen[14]	1, 3–9
	18	Jeroen Mul[14]	All
	19	Alessandro Zampedri[14]	2–7, 9
		Michael Hedlund[11]	8
Porsche AG	20	Nick Heidfeld[7]	6
Hermes Attempto Racing	21	Henry Hassid[15]	3, 8
	22	Nicki Thiim[16]	All
	33	Kévin Estre[16]	All
Antonelli Motorsport	40	Angelo Proietti[2]	2–3, 9
		Philipp Frommenwiler[17]	6
	41	Marco Antonelli[2]	2
		Andrea Belicchi[4]	3
		Gianluca Giraudi[17]	6
		Stefano Comini[8]	9
Porsche Carrera Cup GB	42	Michael Meadows[13]	3, 5
	43	Glynn Geddie[13]	3
	48	Daniel Lloyd[18]	5
	49	Rory Butcher[18]	5
Redline Racing	43	Glynn Geddie[18]	5
	47	Ahmad Al Harthy[18]	5
SWITCH IT Lechner Racing	44	Oskar Slingerland[13]	3
	45	Clemens Schmid[13]	3
Nass Court Team Parker	50	Michael Leonard[18]	5
	51	Sam Tordoff[18]	5
	52	Richard Plant[18]	5
Team Deutsche Post by Tolimit	53	Klaus Bachler[7]	6, 8
	54	Khaled Al Qubaisi[17]	6, 8
Flash Engineering	55	Mats Karlsson[7]	6
	56	Patrik Skoog[7]	6
FE Racing by Land Motorsport	57	Jaap van Lagen[11]	8
	58	Wolf Nathan[11]	8
	59	Biense Dijkstra[11]	8
Haribo Racing Team	88	Hans-Guido Riegel[11]	8

Race calendar and results

On 20 October 2011 the series schedule was announced, consisting of ten races at nine circuits. Sakhir will return and replaces the round at the Yas Marina Circuit.[19] Following the 4 May incident at Fuji International Speedway during the 500km Super GT event that severely injured Porsche driver Tim Bergmeister, an investigation of the crash and numerous wheel failures found during the Barcelona round led to officials moving the round to the Hungaroring, making that round a two-race weekend, with the replacement race on Saturday and the regular round on Sunday.[20]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Bahrain International Circuit	21 April	Norbert Siedler	René Rast	René Rast	Lechner Racing
	R2		22 April	Norbert Siedler	Norbert Siedler	Norbert Siedler	Veltins Lechner Racing
2		Circuit de Catalunya	13 May	Christian Engelhart	Race moved to Hungary after wheel failures were detected on many cars during the race weekend; Porsche made decision after these incidents and Super GT crash in Japan.[21]
3		Circuit de Monaco	27 May	Sean Edwards	René Rast	Sean Edwards	Konrad Motorsport
4		Valencia Street Circuit	24 June	René Rast	René Rast	René Rast	Lechner Racing
5		Silverstone Circuit	8 July	Kuba Giermaziak	Norbert Siedler	René Rast	Lechner Racing
6		Hockenheimring	22 July	René Rast	René Rast	René Rast	Lechner Racing
7	R1	Hungaroring	28 July	René Rast	Michael Ammermüller	Kévin Estre	Hermes Attempto Racing
	R2		29 July	René Rast	Christian Engelhart	Christian Engelhart	Konrad Motorsport
8		Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	2 September	Nicki Thiim	Jaap van Lagen	Nicki Thiim	Hermes Attempto Racing
9		Autodromo Nazionale Monza	9 September	Norbert Siedler	Norbert Siedler	René Rast	Lechner Racing

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver BHR MON VAL SIL HOC HUN SPA MNZ Points 1 René Rast 1 3 Ret 1 1 1 DNS DNS 2 1 142 2 Kévin Estre 9 4 2 8 6 3 1 5 4 2 139 3 Nicki Thiim 7 6 Ret 4 8 5 4 2 1 3 123 4 Norbert Siedler 3 1 4 11 2 Ret 5 6 6 8 121 5 Sean Edwards 2 14 1 2 3 Ret 3 DSQ 5 DSQ 107 6 Michael Ammermüller 4 15 6 Ret 7 2 2 4 8 9 103 7 Kuba Giermaziak 8 5 7 10 4 Ret 9 3 7 4 99 8 Christian Engelhart 5 2 3 15 Ret Ret 7 1 Ret 7 87 9 Robert Lukas 13 13 9 3 11 4 8 7 12 Ret 74 10 Patryk Szczerbiński 10 9 14 13 5 6 12 13 9 10 66 11 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen 6 8 Ret 6 9 Ret 11 9 11 17 54 12 Jeroen Mul 12 Ret 11 17 10 19 Ret 8 Ret 5 42 13 Philipp Eng 5 7 6 Ret 6 41 14 Andreas Mayerl 15 7 Ret 14 14 10 18 14 31 15 Alessandro Zampedri 10 14 14 11 Ret Ret 12 26 16 Florian Scholze 15 12 19 12 Ret Ret 13 11 14 18 24 17 Isaac Tutumlu 21 9 18 13 Ret Ret 17 15 21 18 Mateusz Lisowski 18 15 20 10 Ret 15 Ret 18 19 Renger van der Zande 11 7 14 20 Štefan Rosina Ret 10 6 21 Will Langhorne 13 6 22 Richard Hein 18 16 3 Guest drivers ineligible for points Jaap van Lagen 3 0 Jeroen Bleekemolen 5 0 Michael Christensen 20 8 0 Andrea Belicchi 8 0 Philipp Frommenwiler 9 0 Klaus Bachler 12 10 0 Nick Heidfeld 10 0 Saadon Al Kuwari 14 11 0 Stefano Comini 11 0 Mats Karlsson 18 15 12 0 Angelo Proietti 12 16 0 Sam Tordoff 12 0 Tomáš Pivoda 16 13 0 Michael Meadows 23† 13 0 Henry Hassid Ret 15 0 Gianluca Giraudi 15 0 Clemens Schmid 16 0 Rory Butcher 16 0 Khaled Al Qubaisi 16 19 0 Stefan Biliński 17 0 Richard Plant 17 0 Patrik Skoog 17 0 Michael Leonard 19 0 Roar Lindland 19 0 Wolf Nathan 20 0 Hans-Guido Riegel 21 0 Glynn Geddie 22 Ret 0 Michael Hedlund 22 0 Biense Dijkstra 23 0 Ahmad Al Harthy Ret 0 Daniel Lloyd Ret 0 Bill Barazetti Ret 0 Oskar Slingerland DNS 0 Marco Antonelli 0 Pos Driver BHR MON VAL SIL HOC HUN SPA MNZ Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd 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 participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	Pole
Points	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	2

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External links

• The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup website
• Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Online Magazine