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.
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 500kmSuper 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]
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]
^"Hungary: Happy hour of Motorsports". racecam.de. racecam GmbH. 25 July 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2012. The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup opens his last third of the season with two races in Budapest. As a substitute for the cancelled round in Barcelona an additional race will take place at the Hungarian Grand Prix already on Saturday.