Porsche Supercup 2013

Racing scene from the racing weekend in Belgium

The 2013 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup was the 21st season of the Porsche Supercup . It comprised nine races. The season started on May 12th in Barcelona and ended on November 3rd in Abu Dhabi . The leader of the overall standings by then, Sean Edwards , died two and a half weeks before the season finale, on October 15th, during private test drives as a driver coach on the Queensland Raceway . Nicki Thiim became a master in this series for the first time.

Teams and drivers

team	Start number	driver	run
Attempto Racing	1	Kévin Estre	Alles
	2	Nicki Thiim	Alles
Walter Lechner Racing	3	Michael Ammermüller	Alles
	4th	Štefan Rosina	1
		Jeroen Bleekemolen	2-3, 5-8
		Jaap van Lagen	4th
FÖRCH Racing by Lukas MS	5	Robert Lukas	Alles
	6th	Klaus Bachler	Alles
MRS GT Racing	7th	Esteban Gini	1-4
		Philipp Eng	7th
		Kenji Kobayashi	8th
	8th	Roar Lindland	1-2, 4-8
		Karl Leonard	3
	9	Jean-Karl Vernay	Alles
Team Bleekemolen	10	Ben Barker	Alles
	17th	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen	Alles
	18th	Jeroen Mul	Alles
VERVA Racing Team	11	Patryk Szczerbiński	Alles
	12	Cuba Giermaziak	Alles
Team Allyouneed by Project 1	14th	Sean Edwards	1-7
	15th	Sean Johnston	Alles
	16	Sébastien Ogier	2
		Jeffrey Schmidt	3-4
		Andreas Mayerl	6th
		Nonô Figueiredo	7th
Lechner Racing Academy	19th	Clemens Schmid	Alles
	20th	Markus Pommer	Alles
DAMS	21st	Michael Christensen	Alles
	22nd	Richie Stanaway	Alles
Momo-Megatron	23	Alessandro Zampedri	1-3, 5, 7
		Dylan Derdaele	4, 6, 8
	24	Jochen Habets	Alles
SPECIALIST Auto Tech	25th	Carlo Lusser	1
		Christian Engelhart	2-8
	26th	Alain Menu	1-2
		Martin Ragginger	3, 6-7
		Florian Spengler	4th
		Earl Bamber	5, 8
Porsche GT3 Middle East Championship	30th	Zaid Ashkanani	8th
	31	Antonio Giancola	8th
	32	Hannes Waimer	8th
Porsche AG	88	Sébastien Loeb	1-2
		Emanuele Pirro	7th

Racing calendar

No.	date	Racetrack	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest lap
01.	12th of May	Barcelona	Sean Edwards	Nicki Thiim	Michael Ammermüller	Sean Edwards	Sean Edwards
02.	May 26	Monte Carlo	Sean Edwards	Cuba Giermaziak	Michael Ammermüller	Sean Edwards	Sean Edwards
03.	June 30th	Silverstone	Nicki Thiim	Michael Ammermüller	Michael Christensen	Nicki Thiim	Michael Christensen
04th	07th of July	Nürburg	Michael Christensen	Nicki Thiim	Kévin Estre	Michael Christensen	Michael Ammermüller
05.	July 28th	Mogyoród	Sean Edwards	Christian Engelhart	Cuba Giermaziak	Sean Edwards	Michael Christensen
06th	August 25	Spa Francorchamps	Klaus Bachler (racing driver)	Sean Edwards	Michael Christensen	Cuba Giermaziak	Cuba Giermaziak
07th	0September 8th	Monza	Nicki Thiim	Michael Ammermüller	Kévin Estre	Nicki Thiim	Kévin Estre
08th.	0November 2	Yas Island	Nicki Thiim	Cuba Giermaziak	Ben Barker	Earl Bamber	Kévin Estre
	0November 3rd		Nicki Thiim	Kévin Estre	Jeroen Bleekemolen	Nicki Thiim	Earl Bamber

1. ↑ ^{a b} Earl Bamber finished in second place. However, since he was a guest starter, Kuba Giermaziak was ranked second and Ben Barker third.

Race reports

1st run: Barcelona (Spain)

The 21st season of the Porsche Supercup began in Barcelona. A tight performance density was already apparent in the qualification. Out of 25 drivers, 21 were within one and a half seconds. Sean Edwards took the lead right from the start and won the first run in 2013. Behind them, a group of pursuers with Kuba Giermaziak , Michael Christensen and Michael Ammermüller fought for the podium. Giermaziak went off the racing line on the last lap while trying to overtake Ammermüller. Nicki Thiim and Ammermüller took second and third place. Guest starter Sébastien Loeb finished eleventh.

2nd run: Monte Carlo (Monaco)

Sean Edwards also started from pole position in Monte Carlo and won the race on the demanding street circuit. Towards the end of the race, the places behind closed up again and Giermaziak and Ammermüller fought for second place. The duel went out in favor of Ammermüller. Guest drivers from the rally scene, Sébastien Ogier and Sébastien Loeb, took 16th and 13th place.

3rd run: Silverstone (Great Britain)

Nicki Team won his first win of the season at Silverstone, starting from pole position. After just a few laps, he had built a lead. At the start, Michael Ammermüller was able to make up three places. On the seventh lap he passed Christensen and finished second. After finishing third in Barcelona and Monaco, Ammermüller is the only driver to have finished on the podium in all races. In the championship he was only four points behind front runner Sean Edwards , who finished fourth.

4th round: Nürburgring (Germany)

Nicki Thiim and Kévin Estre took second and third place in the home race for the Attempto Racing Team . At the start, Estre defended second place on the grid and Thiim went from fourth on the grid to third. Michael Christensen won the race from first place on the grid and Sean Edwards finished fourth. Nicki Thiim was at this point four points behind Edwards in 2nd place in the championship.

5th run: Mogyoród (Hungary)

With the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and 460 hp, Sean Edwards sat on top of the podium for the third time. Edwards extended his lead in the championship by 16 points as the closest rivals Nicki Thiim finished in eighth place and Michael Ammermüller in 14th place.

Round 6: Spa-Francorchamps (Belgium)

Kuba Giermaziak was the fastest in qualifying and started from the front of the grid, just 0.203 seconds behind title contender Sean Edwards. The race on the demanding course in the Ardennes was not decided until the 11th and final lap. At first everything looked like a sure win for Giermaziak, who had to bow to Edwards due to a technical defect. Edwards took second place ahead of Michael Christensen. Klaus Bachler won the race, his first ever victory in the Porsche Supercup.

7th round: Monza (Italy)

Nicki Thiim remained Sean Edwards' toughest opponent in the fight for the championship title even after Monza. With the victory from pole position and fifth place for Edwards, it was clear that the title decision would be made in the last two races in Abu Dhabi. Michael Ammermüller took second place and Kévin Estre, after a good race, came in third from eighth on the grid.

8th round: Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Before the last races in 2013, championship leader Sean Edwards had a fatal accident during private test drives at Queensland Raceway . Earl Bamber (champion in the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia 2013) led until the last lap, but Nicki Thiim was able to overtake him due to a driving error and win the first final run. Thiim took over the championship lead, in the second final run a tenth place would be enough for him for the championship title.

9th round: Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

In the final run, Nicki Thiim was in top form and won from pole position in front of his teammate Kévin Estre. Thiim dedicated his title to the late Sean Edwards.

Overall rating

Distribution of points

Distribution of points
space	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
Points	20th	18th	16	14th	12	10	9	8th	7th	6th	5	4th	3	2	1

Drivers championship

rank driver CAT MON SIL ONLY HUN SPA MNZ YMC Points 1 Nicki Thiim 2 8th 1 2 8th 8th 1 1 1 140 2 Sean Edwards 1 1 4th 4th 1 2 5 118 3 Michael Ammermüller 3 3 2 5 14th 5 2 6th 8th 115 4th Kévin Estre DNS 6th 6th 3 4th 7th 3 5 2 107 5 Cuba Giermaziak 4th 2 5 DNF 3 11 6th 3 6th 105 6th Michael Christensen 5 25th 3 1 10 3 8th 10 7th 95 7th Klaus Bachler 7th 10 21st 9 5 1 7th 7th 21st 73 8th Christian Engelhart 5 8th DNF 2 12 4th 9 12 69 9 Jeroen Bleekemolen 4th 11 9 6th 10 8th 3 67 10  Ben Barker 10 9 9 6th 16 9 12 4th 9 66 11 Robert Lukas 6th 15th DNF 7th 19th 4th DNF 14th 11 44 12 Richie Stanaway 9 7th 13 10 DNF 13 DNF 17th 4th 43 13 Jean-Karl Vernay 12 11 20th 11 11 14th 9 DNF DSQ 29 14th Jeroen Mul 8th 19th 15th DNF 13 10 13 11 DNF 27 15th Markus Pommer 19th 17th 14th 16 7th 20th 22nd 12 13 25th 16 Patryk Szczerbiński 15th 14th 10 DNF 6th DNF 19th 18th 15th 24 17th Clemens Schmid 14th 12 12 DNF 12 15th 15th 16 DNF 21st 18th Sebastiaan Bleekemolen 18th 18th 18th 8th 21st 18th 18th DNF 10 15th 19th Martin Ragginger 7th 17th 11 14th 20th Sean Johnston 17th 20th 17th 19th 18th 16 DNF 13 14th 9 21st Jochen Habets 20th DNF 22nd 17th DNF 21st 17th 20th 16 4th 22nd Alessandro Zampedri 16 23 16 17th 16 3 23 Roar Lindland DNF 22nd 18th 20th 23 20th 21st DNF 2 24 Esteban Gini DNF 24 23 20th 0 25th Alain Menu DNF 21st 0 Guest starters who were not eligible for points Earl Bamber 15th 2 5 0 Sébastien Loeb 11 16 0 Jaap van Lagen 12 0 Jeffrey Schmidt 24 13 0 Štefan Rosina 13 0 Sébastien Ogier 13 0 Florian Spengler 14th 0 Philipp Eng 14th 0 Zaid Ashkanani 15th 17th 0 Dylan Derdaele 15th 19th 19th DNF 0 Hannes Waimer 24 18th 0 Antonio Giancola 22nd 19th 0 Karl Leonard 19th 0 Kenji Kobayashi 23 20th 0 Nonô Figueiredo 21st 0 Andreas Mayerl 22nd 0 Emanuele Pirro 23 0 Carlo Lusser DNF 0 rank driver CAT MON SIL ONLY HUN SPA MNZ YMC Points

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Team evaluation

rank	team	Points
1.	Attempto Racing	245
2.	Walter Lechner Racing	188
3.	DAMS	137
4th	Allyouneed by Project 1	125
5.	VERVA Racing Team	125
6th	FÖRCH Racing by Lukas MS	118
7th	Autotech specialist	116
8th.	Team Bleekemolen	76
9.	Lechner Racing Academy	44
10.	MRS GT Racing	34
11.	MOMO Megatron	7th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} motorsport-total.com - website: Supercup News: motorsport-magazin.com/porsche-supercup/news.html . Retrieved November 7, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Earl Bamber trumps. Motorsport-Magazin.com, November 7, 2013, accessed November 7, 2013 . 
3. ↑ racecam.de –Internet page drivers' ranking Porsche Supercup 2013: racecam.de/index.php?lang=de&site=fahrerwertung_stat&rid=212&sid=31/ . Retrieved November 5, 2013 . 
4. ↑ racecam.de - Internet site : Team scoring Porsche Supercup 2013: racecam.de/index.php?lang=de&site=teamwertung_stat&rid=214&sid=31 . Retrieved November 8, 2013 . 

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