The 2008 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season was the 16th Porsche Supercup season. The races were all supporting races in the 2008 Formula One season. It travelled to ten circuits across Europe and also a double-header in Bahrain.
Teams and drivers TeamNo.DriversRounds Lechner Racing Bahrain 1 Alessandro Zampedri 1–3, 5–11 2 Štefan Rosina All Tolimit 3 Nicolas Armindo 1–8 Jan Seyffarth 9–11 4 Jocke Mangs 1–9 Robert Cregan 10–11 31 Sam Hancock 5 SPS Automotive 5 Uwe Alzen 1–5 Marc Benz 6–11 6 4 Nemunas Dagilis 1–3, 5–6 Lance David Arnold 7–11 Bleekemolen Race Planet 7 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen All 8 Tim Buijs All Jetstream Motorsport 9 Lucas Guerrero 1–9 Richard Williams 10 Alx Danielsson 11 10 Jeroen Bleekemolen All Racing Team Jetstream 11 Pedro Petiz All 12 Alejandro Núñez 1 Mike Verschuur 2–3 Michael Bleekemolen 4, 8–11 Phil Quaife 5 James Pickford 6 Mikael Forsten 7 Veltins MRS Racing 14 René Rast 1–5, 7–11 James Sutton 6 15 Norbert Siedler All 33 Will Langhorne 7–11 Schnabl Engineering 16 Darryl O'Young 1–4, 6, 8–11 Keita Sawa 5, 7 17 Jiří Janák 1–7 Jörg Hardt 8–11 HSF Porsche Eindhoven 18 Simon Frederiks 1–9, 11 Gosse Stielstra 10 19 Paul van Splunteren 1–7, 9–11 Mike Verschuur 8 SAS Lechner Racing 20 Damien Faulkner All 21 Danny Watts All Konrad Motorsport 22 Sean Edwards All 23 Jan Seyffarth 1–8 Jiří Janák 9–10 Nicolas Armindo 11 DAMAC Kadach Racing 24 Christian Mamerow All 25 Jaap van Lagen All IRWIN Racing 26 David Saelens All 27 Patrick Huisman All UPS Porsche Junior Team 28 Martin Ragginger 2, 6–8, 10–11 29 Marco Holzer 2, 6–8, 10–11 Porsche Cars Great Britain 31 Sam Hancock 6 32 Tim Harvey 6 Centro Porsche Padova 34 Andrea Boldrini 10 35 Stefano Comandini 10 Porsche AG 40 António Coimbra 2 Neel Jani 7 Albert von Thurn and Taxis 11Sources:
Race calendar and results Round Circuit Country Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 R1 Bahrain International Circuit Bahrain 5 April René Rast David Saelens Damien Faulkner Walter Lechner Racing R2 6 April René Rast Christian Mamerow Christian Mamerow DAMAC Kadach Racing 2 R Circuit de Catalunya Spain 27 April Jan Seyffarth Jeroen Bleekemolen Jan Seyffarth Konrad Motorsport 3 R Istanbul Park Turkey 11 May Christian Mamerow Jaap van Lagen Jaap van Lagen DAMAC Kadach Racing 4 R Circuit de Monaco Monaco 25 May Jeroen Bleekemolen Patrick Huisman Jeroen Bleekemolen Jetstream Motorsport 5 R Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours France 22 June Nicolas Armindo René Rast Jeroen Bleekemolen Jetstream Motorsport 6 R Silverstone Circuit United Kingdom 6 July Jeroen Bleekemolen Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Konrad Motorsport 7 R Hockenheimring Germany 20 July Jaap van Lagen Jaap van Lagen Christian Mamerow DAMAC Kadach Racing 8 R Hungaroring Hungary 3 August Damien Faulkner Damien Faulkner Damien Faulkner Walter Lechner Racing 9 R Valencia Street Circuit Spain 24 August Jeroen Bleekemolen Jörg Hardt Jeroen Bleekemolen Jetstream Motorsport 10 R Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Belgium 7 September René Rast Jaap van Lagen Sean Edwards Konrad Motorsport 11 R Autodromo Nazionale Monza Italy 14 September René Rast Jan Seyffarth Nicolas Armindo Konrad MotorsportSources:
Championship standings Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th Pole Ref Points 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2
Pos Driver BHR CAT IST MON MAG SIL HOC HUN VAL SPA MZA Points 1 Jeroen Bleekemolen 2 2 2 Ret 1 1 14 3 2 1 3 3 192 2 Damien Faulkner 1 10 9 5 2 Ret Ret 4 1 3 25† 12 121 3 Christian Mamerow 4 1 Ret 3 9 7 Ret 1 10 5 Ret 30† 100 4 Patrick Huisman 7 13 8 9 6 4 Ret 9 3 7 5 17 98 5 Sean Edwards 13 11 12 Ret 3 13 1 10 Ret 12 1 6 96 6 René Rast Ret 3 5 Ret 7 Ret 5 8 6 7 9 95 7 Jaap van Lagen 10 Ret 11 1 12 2 Ret 2 Ret Ret 2 19 94 8 Jan Seyffarth 3 5 1 2 8 8 Ret 16 17 16 10 29† 93 9 Danny Watts 6 7 6 7 19 5 2 27 4 21† 26† 10 91 10 Štefan Rosina 23† 12 7 17 10 3 3 15 Ret 4 9 4 89 11 Nicolas Armindo 18 6 4 Ret 18 9 15 6 16 1 73 12 David Saelens 5 9 26 6 5 Ret Ret 8 5 Ret 6 20 73 13 Uwe Alzen 8 4 10 4 4 6 67 14 Jörg Hardt 9 2 11 2 49 15 Alessandro Zampedri 11 15 Ret 11 DNS 12 9 Ret 12 20† 13 8 48 16 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen 12 8 13 10 17 20 5 18 14 Ret 17 25 44 17 Norbert Siedler 17 Ret DNS Ret 16 10 8 26 24 10 4 11 39 18 Jiří Janák 9 DNS 14 12 13 Ret Ret 11 13 8 36 19 Pedro Petiz 24† 14 20 Ret Ret Ret Ret 12 13 8 24 5 32 20 Jocke Mangs 19 Ret 16 Ret 21 Ret 11 14 15 11 22 21 Lucas Guerrero 16 Ret 19 13 14 15 18 20 19 9 21 22 Lance David Arnold 13 7 14 Ret 7 16 23 Tim Buijs 21 19 21 Ret DNQ 17 13 19 22 Ret Ret 14 15 24 Marc Benz 11 12 17 Ret 15 14 23 12 25 Paul van Splunteren 14 17 22 14 22 18 Ret 23 Ret 21 26 8 26 Simon Frederiks 20 18 23 16 23 19 16 24 21 19 28 7 27 Nemunas Dagilis 22 20 25 15 21 17 5 28 Darryl O'Young Ret 16 18 18 15 Ret 23 17 20 27 4 29 Michael Bleekemolen 20 20 18 20 15 3 30 Alejandro Núñez 15 DNS 1 guest drivers ineligible for championship points – Martin Ragginger 3 Ret 7 Ret Ret 22 0 – James Sutton 4 0 – Marco Holzer 15 6 Ret 6 12 21 0 – Sam Hancock 16 7 0 – Tim Harvey 10 0 – Phil Quaife 11 0 – Mike Verschuur 17 11 0 – Keita Sawa 14 22 0 – Richard Williams 15 0 – Will Langhorne 21 18 Ret 16 13 0 – Robert Cregan 18 16 0 – Albert von Thurn and Taxis 18 0 – Stefano Comandini 19 0 – Gosse Stielstra 23 0 – António Coimbra 24 0 – Alx Danielsson 24 0 – Mikael Forsten 25 0 – James Pickford Ret 0 – Neel Jani Ret 0 – Andrea Boldrini Ret 0 Pos Driver BHR CAT IST MON MAG SIL HOC HUN VAL SPA MZA PointsSources: † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.
– David Saelens scored a point despite not finishing the race.
References
External links The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup website Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Online Magazine