2016 Stock Car Brasil Championship

2016 Stock Car Brasil season
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The 2016 Stock Car Brasil season is the thirty-eighth season of the Stock Car Brasil. The season began at Curitiba on March 6 and will end at Interlagos on December 11.

From this season, the league won the seal of Codasur (Automobile Confederation of South America) and will be called the Brazilian Championship and South American Stock Car.^[1]

General Motors Brazil and Chevrolet in Brazil, announced the replacement of the Chevrolet Sonic for the New Chevrolet Cruze second generation as the official car of the category teams for the season of 2016 Brasilero and South American Stock Car.The car debut in second round at Velopark^[2]

Teams and drivers

Season entries
Manufacturer	Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Sonic Chevrolet Cruze	Red Bull Racing	0	Cacá Bueno	1–2
		29	Daniel Serra	1–2
	RZ Motorsport	1	Thiago Marques	1
		11	César Ramos	2
		14	Luciano Burti	1–2
	C2 Team	4	Júlio Campos	1–2
		83	Gabriel Casagrande	1–2
	Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	1–2
		8	Rafael Suzuki	1–2
	TMG Motorsport	9	Gustavo Lima	1–2
		77	Valdeno Brito	1–2
	Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	1–2
		51	Átila Abreu	1–2
	Full Time-ProGP	12	Lucas Foresti	1–2
		66	Felipe Guimarães	1–2
	Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	1–2
		111	Rubens Barrichello	1–2
	Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	1–2
		28	Galid Osman	1–2
	Hot Car Competições	26	Raphael Abbate	1–2
		110	Felipe Lapenna	1–2
	Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	1–2
		90	Ricardo Maurício	1–2
Peugeot 408	União Química Racing	3	Bia Figueiredo	1–2
		70	Diego Nunes	1–2
	Mico's Racing	6	Alceu Feldmann	1
		45	Fábio Carbone	1–2
	Cavaleiro Racing	13	Beto Cavaleiro	1
		73	Sérgio Jimenez	2
		74	Popó Bueno	1–2
	Eisenbahn Racing Team	46	Vitor Genz	1–2
		63	Néstor Girolami	1–2
	Cimed Racing Team	80	Marcos Gomes	1–2
		88	Felipe Fraga	1–2

First round entries
Team	No	Season driver	Wildcard driver
Red Bull Racing	0	Cacá Bueno	Ricardo Sperafico
	29	Daniel Serra	Danilo Dirani
RZ Motorsport	1	Thiago Marques	César Ramos
	14	Luciano Burti	Felipe Giaffone
União Química Racing	3	Bia Figueiredo	Beto Monteiro
	70	Diego Nunes	Dennis Dirani
C2 Team	4	Júlio Campos	Alan Hellmeister
	83	Gabriel Casagrande	Márcio Campos
Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	Felipe Maluhy
	8	Rafael Suzuki	Franco Vivian
Mico's Racing	6	Alceu Feldmann	Tarso Marques
	45	Fábio Carbone	Vicente Orige
Cavaleiro Racing	7	Sérgio Jimenez	Beto Cavaleiro
	74	Popó Bueno	Noberto Gresse
TMG Motorsport	9	Gustavo Lima	Tuka Rocha
	77	Valdeno Brito	Maxime Martin
Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	Laurens Vanthoor
	51	Atila Abreu	Nelson Piquet Jr.
Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	António Félix da Costa
	111	Rubens Barrichello	Augusto Farfus
Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	Lucas Di Grassi
	28	Galid Osman	Damián Fineschi
Hot Car Competições	26	Raphael Abbate	Nicolas Costa
	110	Felipe Lapenna	Marco Cozzi
Eisenbahn Racing Team	46	Vítor Genz	David Muffato
	63	Néstor Girolami	Franco Girolami
Full Time-ProGP	12	Lucas Foresti	Luiz Razia
	66	Felipe Guimarães	Duda Pamplona
Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	Vitor Meira
	90	Ricardo Maurício	Guilherme Salas
Voxx Racing	80	Marcos Gomes	Antônio Pizzonia
	88	Felipe Fraga	Rodrigo Sperafico

Team changes

• After a difficult year in 2015, ProGP entered in 2016 as customer team of Full Time Sports, renamed to Full Time-ProGP, and returned to operate two cars.
• After four years of partnership Mico's Racing loses the sponsorship of Prati-Donaduzzi.
• Since 2012 Mobil Super sponsors AMG Motorsport, now in 2016 it sponsors Full Time Sports. The team is now called TMG Motorsport with the acquisition of 100% of corporate shares by Thiago Meneghel.
• Carlos Alves keeps sponsorship with Brazil Kirin but Schin exchange for Eisenbahn in the car and team name in 2016.
• 2003 champion with David Muffato Boettger Competições left the championship after sponsor problems.

Driver changes

Changed teams

• In 2016 Néstor Girolami drives for the Eisenbahn Racing Team and is be the first Argentine to compete in the Stock Car the full season and second foreigner to compete in container, the first was the Portuguese Pedro Queiroz Pereira in the seasons 1981 and 1982.^[3]
• After seven seasons Atila Abreu left AMG Motorsport and joined Shell Racing.^[4]
• Felipe Lapenna returned for Hot Car Competições after one year in Schin Racing Team.
• With the withdrawal of sponsorship of Prati-Donaduzzi of Mico's Racing, Júlio Campos left the team and will compete for your own team C2..
• Vítor Genz left the Boettger Competições and joined Eisenbahn Racing Team.
• Diego Nunes left Vogel Motorsport and returns the União Química Bassani Racing in 2016 for which he raced in 2010, 2011 and 2013.
• Sergio Jimenez left the C2 Team and joined Cavaleirop Racing.
• Rafael Suzuki switched from RZ Motorsport to Vogel Motorsport.
• Gustavo Lima who raced for ProGP part-time in 2015 switched to TMG Motorsport.
• Lucas Foresti and Felipe Guimarães who raced for AMG Motorsport and Boettger Competições in 2015 are driving for Full Time-ProGP in 2016.

Entering/re-entering the series

• After five seasons, Thiago Marques returned for the series with RZ Motorsport.
• Alceu Feldmann and Fábio Carbone competed only on first round in 2015, who raced for Mico's Racing in 2016.

Race calendar and results

The 2016 schedule was announced on 3 December 2015.^[5] The eighth edition of the Million Reais Race will be held on September 11 at Interlagos. Like last year, the season is contested over twenty-one races at twelve rounds, with the first round being contested by two-driver entries with wildcard drivers. The race with wildcard drivers – the so-called "All Star Race" – was held at Curitiba. The series will not return to the Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit and Campo Grande, but will return to Brasília and Londrina. Also the series will debut at a new track in Curvelo, called the Circuito dos Cristais. All races will be held in Brazil.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1		Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	March 6	Ricardo Maurício Guilherme Salas	Thiago Camilo Lucas Di Grassi	Marcos Gomes Antônio Pizzonia	Voxx Racing
2	R1	Velopark, Nova Santa Rita	April 10	Cacá Bueno	Cacá Bueno	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing
	R2			Diego Nunes	Thiago Camilo	Diego Nunes	União Química Racing
3	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia)	May 22
	R2
4	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul	June 5
	R2
5	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	June 26
	R2
6	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel	July 17
	R2
7		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	September 11
8	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Londrina)	September 25
	R2
9	R1	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet	October 16
	R2
10	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia)	November 6
	R2
11	R1	Circuito dos Cristais	November 20
	R2
12		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	December 11

Championship standings

Points system

Points are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race, up to a maximum of 60 points per event.

Points format	Position
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Dual race	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Feature races	30	25	22	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	5	3	1
Sprint races	15	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Final race	60	50	44	40	38	36	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	10	6	2

• Dual Race: Used for the first round with Wildcard drivers.
• Feature races: Used for the first race of each event and the Stock Car Million race.
• Sprint races: Used for the second race of each event, with partially reversed (top ten) grid.
• Final race: Used for the last round of the season with double points.

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver CUR VEL GOI SCZ TAR CAS INT LON BRA GOI CRI INT Pts 1 Daniel Serra 4 2 6 37 2 Cacá Bueno Ret 1 11 34 3 Felipe Fraga 16 4 4 31 4 Marcos Gomes 1 3 14 29 5 Diego Nunes 9 10 1 29 6 Átila Abreu 6 8 3 29 7 Valdeno Brito Ret 9 2 28 8 Rubens Barrichello Ret 6 5 28 9 Denis Navarro 12 7 7 25 10 Max Wilson 18 5 Ret 19 11 Rafael Suzuki 10 15 10 14 12 Vitor Genz 7 11 23 13 13 Ricardo Zonta 5 14 DNS 12 14 Felipe Guimarães Ret 12 25 12 15 Allam Khodair 2 Ret 9 11 16 Luciano Burti Ret 13 20 11 17 Gabriel Casagrande Ret 16 18 8 18 Thiago Camilo 14 Ret 8 7 19 Bia Figueiredo Ret 17 24 7 20 Sérgio Jimenez 18 Ret 5 21 Ricardo Maurício 3 Ret DNS 4 22 Lucas Foresti 8 19 19 3 23 Felipe Lapenna 13 Ret 12 3 24 Fábio Carbone 15 Ret 13 2 25 Popó Bueno 17 20 17 1 Galid Osman 11 Ret DNS 0 Néstor Girolami Ret 21 15 0 Júlio Campos Ret Ret 16 0 Alceu Feldmann 19 0 Raphael Abbate Ret Ret 21 0 Gustavo Lima Ret Ret 22 0 César Ramos Ret DNS 0 Beto Cavaleiro Ret 0 Thiago Marques Ret 0 Pos Driver CUR VEL GOI SCZ TAR CAS INT LON BRA GOI CRI INT Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap † – Retired, but classified

References

1. "STOCK CAR PASSA A SER TAMBÉM SUL-AMERICANA" (in Portuguese). Grupo Globo. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
2. "O NOVO CHEVROLET DA STOCK CAR" (in Portuguese). Grupo Globo. 2016-04-16. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
3. "Schin Racing Team anuncia Genz e Girolami" (in Portuguese). Grupo Globo. 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
4. "Átila Abreu será piloto da equipe Shell Racing em 2016" (in Portuguese). Grupo Globo. 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2015-12-23.
5. "Brazilian V8 Stock Cars: 2016 calendar announced". Motorsport.com. December 3, 2015. Retrieved December 5, 2015.

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)