The 2013 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season was the 21st Porsche Supercup season. It began on 12 May on Circuit de Catalunya and finished on 3 November at Yas Marina Circuit, after nine races, all of which were support events for the 2013 Formula One season. A new car was introduced for the season as the Porsche 991 – the internal designation for the seventh-generation Porsche 911 – replaced the Porsche 997.

Three-time champion René Rast did not return to defend his title, opting to focus on the ADAC GT Masters, the FIA GT Series and the Blancpain Endurance Series, where he would compete for Belgian Audi Club WRT. BTCC champion and former WTCC driver Alain Menu joined the series with his own team, FACH Auto Tech.

Ahead of the final round of the series in Abu Dhabi, Monégasque-based British driver Sean Edwards held a championship lead of eighteen points over Denmark's Nicki Thiim, with Michael Ammermüller of Germany the only other driver to remain within contention for winning the title. Edwards was killed on 15 October 2013 at Queensland Raceway in Willowbank, Australia, while instructing a member of the public at a private test session. Thiim ultimately won the championship, after he won both races in Abu Dhabi; Edwards ended up second overall, finishing three points ahead of Ammermüller.

Changes for 2013 Technical After twenty consecutive seasons, the manual gearbox stick shifters were replaced by newly-mandatory sequential semi-automatic paddle-shifters respectively for all Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup cars to allow drivers shifting gears with only their fingers. The paddle shift reduces shift errors and improves safety since the driver can shift gears without taking a hand off the steering wheel even when cornering, which requires gear shifting.

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

Race calendar and results Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 Circuit de Catalunya 12 May Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Team Allyouneed by Project 1 2 Circuit de Monaco 26 May Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Team Allyouneed by Project 1 3 Silverstone Circuit 30 June Nicki Thiim Michael Christensen Nicki Thiim Attempto Racing 4 Nürburgring 7 July Michael Christensen Michael Ammermüller Michael Christensen DAMS 5 Hungaroring 28 July Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Sean Edwards Team Allyouneed by Project 1 6 Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 25 August Kuba Giermaziak Kuba Giermaziak Klaus Bachler FÖRCH Racing by Lukas MS 7 Autodromo Nazionale Monza 8 September Nicki Thiim Kévin Estre Nicki Thiim Attempto Racing 8 R1 Yas Marina Circuit 2 November Earl Bamber Earl Bamber Nicki Thiim Attempto Racing R2 3 November Nicki Thiim Nicki Thiim Nicki Thiim Attempto RacingSources:

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

Drivers' Championship Pos Driver CAT MON SIL NÜR HUN SPA MNZ YMC Points 1 Nicki Thiim 2 8 1 2 8 8 1 1 1 140 2 Sean Edwards 1 1 4 4 1 2 5 118 3 Michael Ammermüller 3 3 2 5 14 5 2 6 8 115 4 Kévin Estre DNS 6 6 3 4 7 3 5 2 107 5 Kuba Giermaziak 4 2 5 Ret 3 11 6 3 6 105 6 Michael Christensen 5 25 3 1 10 3 8 10 7 95 7 Klaus Bachler 7 10 21 9 5 1 7 7 21† 73 8 Christian Engelhart 5 8 Ret 2 12 4 9 12 69 9 Jeroen Bleekemolen 4 11 9 6 10 8 3 67 10 Ben Barker 10 9 9 6 16 9 12 4 9 66 11 Robert Lukas 6 15 Ret 7 19 4 Ret 14 11 44 12 Richie Stanaway 9 7 13 10 Ret 13 Ret 17 4 43 13 Jean-Karl Vernay 12 11 20 11 11 14 9 Ret DSQ 29 14 Jeroen Mul 8 19 15 Ret 13 10 13 11 Ret 27 15 Markus Pommer 19 17 14 16 7 20 22 12 13 25 16 Patryk Szczerbiński 15 14 10 Ret 6 Ret 19 18 15 24 17 Clemens Schmid 14 12 12 Ret 12 15 15 16 Ret 21 18 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen 18 18 18 8 21 18 18 Ret 10 15 19 Martin Ragginger 7 17 11 14 20 Sean Johnston 17 20 17 19 18 16 Ret 13 14 9 21 Jochen Habets 20† Ret 22 17 Ret 21 17 20 16 4 22 Alessandro Zampedri 16 23 16 17 16 3 23 Roar Lindland Ret 22 18 20 23 20 21 Ret 2 24 Esteban Gini Ret 24 23 20 0 25 Alain Menu Ret 21 0 Guest drivers ineligible for points Earl Bamber 15 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 14 0 Philipp Eng 14 0 Zaid Ashkanani 15 17 0 Dylan Derdaele 15 19 19 Ret 0 Hannes Waimer NC 18 0 Antonio Giancola 22 19 0 Karl Leonard 19 0 Kenji Kobayashi 23 20 0 Nonô Figueiredo 21 0 Andreas Mayerl 22 0 Emanuele Pirro 23† 0 Carlo Lusser Ret 0 Pos Driver CAT MON SIL NÜR HUN SPA MNZ YMC PointsSources:Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

References

External links The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup website Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Online Magazine