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2012 Supersport World Championship

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Superbike World Championship FIM Superstock 1000 Cup European Superstock 600 Championship European Junior Cup The 2012 Supersport World Championship was the fourteenth season of the Supersport World Championship—the sixteenth taking into account the two held under the name of Supersport World Series. It began on 26 February at Phillip Island and ended on 7 October in Magny-Cours after 13 rounds.

Kenan Sofuoğlu won his third championship after having returned from Moto2.

Race calendar and results

The provisional race schedule was publicly announced by the FIM on 24 September 2011 with thirteen confirmed rounds and two other rounds pending confirmation. Russia appeared for the first time in the calendar with a round at the brand-new Moscow Raceway. The calendar was updated in October 2011 with the confirmation of the Imola round, for a total of thirteen rounds, supporting the Superbike World Championship at every meeting except Miller Motorsports Park.

Round	Country	Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning rider	Winning team
AUS Australia	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	26 February	AUS Broc Parkes	FRA Fabien Foret	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini	Report
ITA Italy	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	1 April	GBR Sam Lowes	AUS Broc Parkes	FRA Fabien Foret	Kawasaki Intermoto Step	Report
NED Netherlands	TT Circuit Assen	22 April	GBR Sam Lowes	ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	PRORACE	Report
ITA Italy	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	6 May	GBR Sam Lowes	GBR Sam Lowes	FRA Jules Cluzel	PTR Honda	Report
GBR United Kingdom	Donington Park	13 May	FRA Jules Cluzel	GBR Sam Lowes	GBR Sam Lowes	Bogdanka PTR Honda	Report
SMR San Marino	Misano World Circuit	10 June	GBR Sam Lowes	FRA Fabien Foret	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini	Report
ESP Spain	Motorland Aragón	1 July	FRA Jules Cluzel	RSA Sheridan Morais	GBR Sam Lowes	Bogdanka PTR Honda	Report
CZE Czech Republic	Masaryk Circuit	22 July	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	AUS Broc Parkes	FRA Fabien Foret	Kawasaki Intermoto Step	Report
GBR United Kingdom	Silverstone Circuit	5 August	FRA Jules Cluzel	FRA Jules Cluzel	FRA Jules Cluzel	PTR Honda	Report
RUS Russia	Moscow Raceway	26 August	FRA Jules Cluzel	FRA Jules Cluzel	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki Lorenzini	Report
GER Germany	Nürburgring	9 September	FRA Jules Cluzel	GBR Sam Lowes	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki Lorenzini	Report
POR Portugal	Autódromo Internacional do Algarve	23 September	AUS Broc Parkes	FRA Jules Cluzel	FRA Jules Cluzel	PTR Honda	Report
FRA France	Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	7 October	AUS Broc Parkes	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	FRA Jules Cluzel	PTR Honda	Report

Championship standings

Riders' standings

Pos.	Rider	Bike	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts	1	231	2	210	3	172	4	171	5	135	6	96	7	96	8	84	9	60	10	60	11	52	12	50	13	44	14	40	15	30	16	28	17	25	18	25	19	25	20	19	21	19	22	17	23	16	24	15	25	14	26	14	27	11	28	10	29	8	30	8	31	7	32	6	33	6	34	4	35	3	36	3	37	2	38	2	39	1	40	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Pos.	Rider	Bike	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts
TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	Kawasaki	1	DSQ	2	3	2	1	5	2	5	1	1	2	4
FRA Jules Cluzel	Honda	4	Ret	6	1	3	2	Ret	5	1	2	2	1	1
GBR Sam Lowes	Honda	5	2	Ret	2	1	18	1	4	2	12	13	5	2
FRA Fabien Foret	Kawasaki	2	1	Ret	12	10	8	2	1	6	6	3	3	5
AUS Broc Parkes	Honda	3	20	4	Ret	4	5	4	3	3	5	4	4	27
RSA Sheridan Morais	Kawasaki	6	10	15	Ret	6	6	3	7	7	4	Ret	6	14
ITA Alex Baldolini	Triumph	8	11	5	6	12	3	Ret	Ret	8	11	5	8	6
RSA Ronan Quarmby	Honda	7	3	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	6	6	4	13	9	9	26
ITA Vittorio Iannuzzo	Triumph	9	5	Ret	9	Ret	9	7	9	13	Ret	7	Ret	19
ITA Andrea Antonelli	Honda	16	8	7	8	22
Yamaha						10	Ret	Ret	9	7	14	13	8
RUS Vladimir Leonov	Yamaha	Ret	6	3	Ret	DNS		Ret	10	18	3	DSQ	12	17
ITA Roberto Tamburini	Honda	Ret	4	9	16	11	4	15	Ret	12	9	Ret	Ret	25
HUN Gábor Talmácsi	Honda						15	9	12	10	8	6	15	9
AUS Jed Metcher	Yamaha	11	15	Ret	11	13	7	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	15	14	10
ITA Massimo Roccoli	Yamaha	Ret	9	Ret	7	14	Ret					10	11	15
Honda								Ret
RSA Mathew Scholtz	Honda	14	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	10	Ret	10	7
ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	Honda			1
GBR Dan Linfoot	Kawasaki									Ret	16	Ret	7	3
FRA Romain Lanusse	Kawasaki	19	13	11	Ret	19	Ret	11	11	14	Ret	11	19	28
HUN Imre Tóth	Honda	18	Ret	16	4	Ret	13	Ret	19	17	24	20	20	13
ITA Stefano Cruciani	Kawasaki				5		Ret		8
HUN Balázs Németh	Honda	21	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	17	Ret	20	17	21	12
ITA Luca Marconi	Yamaha	13	14	14	13	20	16	12	15	Ret	15	Ret	Ret
ITA Raffaele De Rosa	Honda				10	Ret	11	13	16	15
USA Josh Day	Kawasaki	12	12	Ret	18	Ret	17	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS
FRA Florian Marino	Kawasaki								13	19	14	12	16	11
AUS Glen Richards	Triumph					5
FRA Valentin Debise	Honda			Ret	23	8	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	18		18	Ret
AUT David Linortner	Yamaha					21						8
NED Twan van Poppel	Yamaha			8
AUS Billy McConnell	Triumph					9
NED Stuart Voskamp	Suzuki			10
CZE Lukáš Pešek	Honda	10	18
SUI Thomas Caiani	Honda	23	DNQ	12	24	25
USA P. J. Jacobsen	Honda			13
ITA Fabio Menghi	Yamaha	15	Ret	Ret	21	24	Ret	14	21	22	17	Ret	Ret	21
ITA Dino Lombardi	Yamaha	20	Ret	Ret	22	23	14	17	18	20	23
Honda											18	Ret	DNS
GBR Kieran Clarke	Honda				14	17
GBR Luke Mossey	Triumph					15
GBR Martin Jessopp	Honda	17	17	Ret	15	16	19	DNS	23	21	19	19	22	18
ITA Cristiano Erbacci	Yamaha		16		Ret									16
POR Miguel Praia	Honda											16	17	22
SWE Alexander Lundh	Honda									16
ITA Roberto Anastasia	Honda				20	Ret	Ret	16
ITA Mirko Giansanti	Kawasaki				17
RUS Oleg Pozdneev	Yamaha		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	22	18	25	DNQ
ITA Ilario Dionisi	Honda				Ret	18
RUS Eduard Blokhin	Yamaha		21	DNQ	26	26	Ret	19	24	23	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
ITA Giovanni Altomonte	Honda				19
AUT Yves Polzer	Yamaha	22	19	Ret	25	Ret	21	Ret	Ret		28	24	Ret	29
SUI Roman Stamm	Suzuki													20
AUT Stefan Kerschbaumer	Yamaha								20
ITA Alessandro Andreozzi	Honda						20
NED Leon Bovee	Yamaha											21
RUS Maxime Averkin	Kawasaki										21
ITA Danilo Marrancone	Honda									Ret	25	22	24	Ret
ITA Federico D'Annunzio	Honda										22
ITA Andrea Agnelli	Kawasaki								22
FRA Axel Maurin	Kawasaki												25	23
RUS Sergey Vlasov	Yamaha												23
GER Luca Hansen	Honda											23
AUS Mitchell Carr	Honda													24
SUI Robin Mulhauser	Yamaha										26
RUS Sergei Krapukhin	Yamaha										27
POL Paweł Szkopek	Honda	Ret	DNS					Ret	Ret
POL Adrian Pasek	Honda												Ret
POL Andrzej Chmielewski	Honda										Ret
USA Kenny Noyes	Suzuki									Ret
POL Marek Szkopek	Honda						Ret
ITA Alessandro Torcolacci	Honda						Ret
CZE David Látr	Honda		Ret
CZE Ondřej Ježek	Honda	Ret
NED Michael van der Mark	Honda										DNS

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Teams' standings

Pos.	Teams	Bike	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts.	1	327	2	294	3	205	4	196	5	156	6	135	7	84	8	75	9	53	10	52	11	40	12	36	13	19	14	14	15	14	16	10	17	4	18	1	0	Pos.	Teams	Bike	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts.
ITA Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini
ITA Kawasaki Lorenzini	54	1	DSQ	2	3	2	1	5	2	5	1	1	2	4
32	6	10	15	Ret	6	6	3	7	7	4	Ret	6	14
GBR PTR Honda	16	4	Ret	6	1	3	2	Ret	5	1	2	2	1	1
34	7	3	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	6	6	4	13	9	9	26
GBR Bodnaka PTR Honda	11	5	2	Ret	2	1	18	1	4	2	12	13	5	2
20	14	DSQ	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	11	10	Ret	10	7
9			13
74				14	17
5									16
117											16		22
19	Ret	DNS					Ret	Ret
91						Ret
137										Ret
7												Ret
ITA Kawasaki Intermoto Step	99	2	1	Ret	12	10	8	2	1	6	6	3	3	5
98	19	13	11	Ret	19	Ret	11	11	14	Ret	11	19	28
ITA Power Team by Suriano	25	8	11	5	6	12	3	Ret	Ret	8	11	5	8	6
31	9	5	Ret	9	Ret	9	7	9	13	Ret	7	Ret	19
NED Ten Kate Racing Products	23	3	20	4	Ret	4	5	4	3	3	5	4	4	27
ITA Team Lorini	22	Ret	4	9	16	11	4	15	Ret	12	9	Ret	Ret	25
8	16	8	7	8	22
35						11	13	16	15
13											18	Ret	DNS
41										22
CZE PRORACE	14						15	9	12	10	8	6	15	9
57			1
52	10	18
157				Ret	18
SMR Bike Service – WTR Ten 10
SMR Bike Service R.T	8						10	Ret	Ret	9	7	14	13	8
55	Ret	9	Ret	7	14
RUS Yakhnich Motorsport	65	Ret	6	3	Ret	DNS		Ret	10	18	3	DSQ	12	17
55						Ret
RUS RivaMoto Junior Team
RUS RivaMoto	3	11	15	Ret	11	13	7	8	Ret	Ret	Ret	15	14	10
73		DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	22	18	25	DNQ
24		21	DNQ	26	26	Ret	19	24	23	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret
70										26
HUN Racing Team Tóth	10	18	Ret	16	4	Ret	13	Ret	19	17	24	20	20	13
38	21	7	Ret	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	17	Ret	20	17	21	12
ITA VFT Racing	87	13	14	14	13	20	16	12	15	Ret	15	Ret	Ret
61	15	Ret	Ret	21	24	Ret	14	21	22	17	Ret	Ret	21
81													16
ITA Team Go Eleven Kawasaki	64	12	12	Ret	18	Ret	17	10	Ret	Ret	Ret	DNS
94												25	23
ITA Team Pata by Martini	55											10	11	15
13	20	Ret	Ret	22	23	14	17	18	20	23
CZE SMS Racing	53			Ret	23	8	Ret	Ret	14	Ret	18		18	Ret
15											23
69	Ret
18		Ret
ITA Kuja Racing	27	23	DNQ	12	24	25
17						Ret	16
125									Ret	25	22	24	Ret
55								Ret
GBR Riders PTR Honda	40	17	17	Ret	15	16	19	DNS	23	21	19	19	22	18
AUT Team MRC Austria	33	22	19	Ret	25	Ret	21	Ret	Ret		28	24	Ret	29

Manufacturers' standings

Pos.	Manufacturer	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts	1	287	2	273	3	125	4	110	5	6	Pos.	Manufacturer	AUS
AUS	ITA
ITA	NED
NED	ITA
ITA	EUR
GBR	SMR
SMR	SPA
ESP	CZE
CZE	GBR
GBR	RUS
RUS	GER
DEU	POR
POR	FRA
FRA	Pts
JPN Honda	3	2	1	1	1	2	1	3	1	2	2	1	1
JPN Kawasaki	1	1	2	3	2	1	2	1	5	1	1	2	3
GBR Triumph	8	5	5	6	5	3	7	9	8	11	5	8	6
JPN Yamaha	11	6	3	7	13	7	8	10	9	3	8	11	8
JPN Suzuki			10						Ret				20

Entry list

A provisional entry list was released by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme on 18 January 2012.

2012 entry list	Team	Constructor	Motorcycle	No.
Benjan Racing	Honda CBR600RR	36	AUS Mitchell Carr	13
Bogdanka Honda PTR	5	SWE Alexander Lundh	9
7	POL Adrian Pasek	12
9	USA P. J. Jacobsen	3
19	POL Paweł Szkopek	1–2, 7–8
74	GBR Kieran Clarke	4–5
91	POL Marek Szkopek	6
117	POR Miguel Praia	11, 13
137	POL Andrzej Chmielewski	10
Bogdanka PTR Honda	11	GBR Sam Lowes	All
20	RSA Mathew Scholtz	All
Kuja Racing	17	ITA Roberto Anastasia	4–5
17	ITA Roberto Anastasia	6–7
27	SUI Thomas Caiani	1–5
44	ITA Alessandro Torcolacci	6
55	ITA Massimo Roccoli	8
88	ITA Giovanni Altomonte	4
125	ITA Danilo Marrancone	9–13
PRORACE	14	HUN Gábor Talmácsi	6–13
52	CZE Lukáš Pešek	1–2
57	ITA Lorenzo Lanzi	3
157	ITA Ilario Dionisi	4–5
PTR Honda	16	FRA Jules Cluzel	All
34	RSA Ronan Quarmby	All
Racing Team Tóth	10	HUN Imre Tóth	All
38	HUN Balázs Németh	All
Riders PTR Honda	40	GBR Martin Jessopp	All
SMS Racing	15	GER Luca Hansen	11
18	CZE David Látr	2
53	FRA Valentin Debise	3–10, 12–13
69	CZE Ondřej Ježek	1
Team Lorini	8	ITA Andrea Antonelli	1–5
13	ITA Dino Lombardi	11–13
22	ITA Roberto Tamburini	All
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	4–5
35	ITA Raffaele De Rosa	6–9
41	ITA Federico D'Annunzio	10
Ten Kate Racing Products	23	AUS Broc Parkes	All
60	NLD Michael van der Mark	10
117	POR Miguel Praia	12
HELL Racing Team	Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R	79	RUS Maxim Averkin	10
Kawasaki DeltaFin Lorenzini
Kawasaki Lorenzini	32	RSA Sheridan Morais	All
54	TUR Kenan Sofuoğlu	All
Kawasaki Intermoto Step	98	FRA Romain Lanusse	All
99	FRA Fabien Foret	All
MSD R-N Racing Team India	4	GBR Dan Linfoot	9–13
93	FRA Florian Marino	8–13
Puccetti Racing Kawasaki Italia	6	ITA Mirko Giansanti	4
12	ITA Stefano Cruciani	4, 6, 8
66	ITA Andrea Agnelli	8
Team Go Eleven Kawasaki	64	USA Josh Day	1–11
94	FRA Axel Maurin	12–13
Konvi Racing Team	Suzuki GSX-R600	77	NLD Stuart Voskamp	3
Team Suzuki Mayer	76	SUI Roman Stamm	13
WKbikes Hampshire Motorcycles	49	USA Kenny Noyes	9
Power Team by Suriano	Triumph Daytona 675	25	ITA Alex Baldolini	All
31	ITA Vittorio Iannuzzo	All
Smiths Gloucester	30	AUS Billy McConnell	5
45	AUS Glen Richards	5
112	GBR Luke Mossey	5
Bike Service – WTR TEN 10
Bike Service R.T.	Yamaha YZF-R6	8	ITA Andrea Antonelli	6–13
21	ITA Alessandro Andreozzi	6
55	ITA Massimo Roccoli	1–5
81	ITA Cristiano Erbacci	2, 4
DMC Racing	50	RUS Sergei Krapukhin	10
DTC Racing Team	2	NLD Leon Bovee	11
Gerin-Skm Racing Team	37	AUT David Linortner	5, 11
Kerschbaumer Team	89	AUT Stefan Kerschbaumer	8
RivaMoto Junior Team
RivaMoto	3	AUS Jed Metcher	All
24	RUS Eduard Blokhin	2–13
70	SUI Robin Mulhauser	10
73	RUS Oleg Pozdneev	2–9
Team MRC Austria	33	AUT Yves Polzer	1–8, 10–13
Team PATA by Martini	13	ITA Dino Lombardi	1–10
55	ITA Massimo Roccoli	11–13
TRG Motorsport	26	NLD Twan van Poppel	3
VFT Racing	61	ITA Fabio Menghi	All
81	ITA Cristiano Erbacci	13
87	ITA Luca Marconi	1–12
Yakhnich Motorsport	55	ITA Massimo Roccoli	6
65	RUS Vladimir Leonov	1–5, 7–13
78	RUS Sergey Vlasov	12

Key
Regular rider
Wildcard rider
Replacement rider

All entries used Pirelli tyres.

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