2015 Stock Car Brasil season

The 2015 Circuito Nova Schin Stock Car Brasil season is the thirty-seventh season of the Stock Car Brasil. The season began at the Goiânia in March and will end at the Interlagos in December. The 2015 Stock Car Brasil consists of four main support championships which support the championship at almost every round, along with several smaller championships supporting one or two events.

Teams and drivers

Season entries
Manufacturer	Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Sonic	Red Bull Racing	0	Cacá Bueno	1–3
		29	Daniel Serra	1–3
	Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	1–3
		70	Diego Nunes	1–3
	RZ Motorsport	8	Rafael Suzuki	1–3
		14	Luciano Burti	1–3
	Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	1–3
		77	Valdeno Brito	1–3
	AMG Motorsport	12	Lucas Foresti	1–3
		51	Átila Abreu	1–3
	Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	1–3
		111	Rubens Barrichello	1–3
	Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	1–3
		28	Galid Osman	1–3
	Hot Car Competições	26	Raphael Abbate	1–3
		72	Fábio Fogaça	1–3
	ProGP	33	Felipe Maluhy	1
	Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	1–3
		90	Ricardo Maurício	1–3
	C2 Team	73	Sérgio Jimenez	1–3
		83	Gabriel Casagrande	1–3
Peugeot 408	Prati-Donaduzzi	1	Antônio Pizzonia	1–3
		4	Júlio Campos	1–3
	Schin Racing Team	2	Raphael Matos	1–3
		110	Felipe Lapenna	1–3
	União Química Racing	3	Bia Figueiredo	1–3
		25	Tuka Rocha	1–3
	Cavaleiro Racing Sports	11	César Ramos	1–3
		74	Popó Bueno	1–3
	Boettger Competições	46	Vítor Genz	1–3
		82	Alceu Feldmann	1
	Voxx Racing	80	Marcos Gomes	1–3
		88	Felipe Fraga	1–3

First round entries
Team	No	Season driver	Wildcard driver
Red Bull Racing	0	Cacá Bueno	José María López
	29	Daniel Serra	Chico Serra
Prati-Donaduzzi	1	Antônio Pizzonia	Bruno Senna
	4	Júlio Campos	Nicolas Prost
Schin Racing Team	2	Raphael Matos	David Muffato
	110	Felipe Lapenna	Vitantonio Liuzzi
União Química Racing	3	Bia Figueiredo	Matias Milla
	25	Tuka Rocha	Chris van der Drift
Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	Felipe Giaffone
	70	Diego Nunes	Ricardo Rosset
RZ Motorsport	8	Rafael Suzuki	Antonio Pérez
	14	Luciano Burti	Jaime Alguersuari
Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	Jacques Villeneuve
	77	Valdeno Brito	Laurens Vanthoor
Cavaleiro Racing Sports	11	César Ramos	Frédéric Vervisch
	74	Popó Bueno	Guilherme Salas
AMG Motorsport	12	Lucas Foresti	Luiz Razia
	51	Átila Abreu	Nelson Piquet Jr.
Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	António Félix da Costa
	111	Rubens Barrichello	Ingo Hoffmann
Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	Lucas di Grassi
	28	Galid Osman	Beto Monteiro
Hot Car Competições	26	Raphael Abbate	Nicolas Costa
	72	Fábio Fogaça	Leandro Totti
ProGP	33	Felipe Maluhy	Xandinho Negrão
Boettger Competições	46	Vítor Genz	Matheus Stumpf
	82	Alceu Feldmann	Ezequiel Bosio
Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	Vítor Meira
	90	Ricardo Maurício	Néstor Girolami
C2 Team	73	Sérgio Jimenez	Fábio Carbone
	83	Gabriel Casagrande	Enrique Bernoldi
Voxx Racing	80	Marcos Gomes	Mark Winterbottom
	88	Felipe Fraga	Álvaro Parente

Driver changes

Changed teams

• Popó Bueno left Shell Racing and joined Cavaleiro Racing Sports.
• Luciano Burti changed teams from Vogel Motorsport to RZ Motorsport.
• Fábio Fogaça left the Schin Racing Team and moved to Hot Car Competições.
• Alceu Feldmann returned to Boettger Competições, having competed for the team from 2005 to 2009.
• Bia Figueiredo and Rafael Suzuki, who raced for ProGP in 2014, will join Bassani Racing and RZ Motorsport respectively.
• Lucas Foresti switched from RC3 Bassani to Mobil Super Racing.
• Felipe Fraga and Marcos Gomes joined Voxx Racing, leaving Vogel Motorsport and the Schin Racing Team respectively.
• Sérgio Jimenez left Voxx Racing to race for the C2 Team.
• Felipe Lapenna and Raphael Matos left Hot Car Competições to join the Schin Racing Team.
• Denis Navarro and Diego Nunes joined Vogel Motorsport, leaving Voxx Racing and the C2 Team respectively.
• Tuka Rocha left RZ Motorsport and moved to RC3 Bassani.
• After seven seasons racing for his own team, Ricardo Zonta switched to Shell Racing.

Entering/Re-entering the series

• Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo runner-up Raphael Abbate will début in the series, with Hot Car Competições.
• César Ramos, who competed for Belgian Audi Club Team WRT in the Blancpain Endurance and Sprint championships in 2014, joined Cavaleiro Racing Sports in 2015. Ramos competed as a wildcard at the first round in 2014, with Ipiranga-RCM.

Leaving the series

• Beto Cavaleiro will not return to the series in 2015, and will focus on running the Cavaleiro Racing Sports team.
• Nonô Figueiredo announced his retirement after three wins and fifteen seasons in Stock Car.
• After debuting in the series in 2014, Felipe Tozzo will not return.
• Lico Kaesemodel, Mauri Zacarelli, Wellington Justino, Felipe Gama and Vicente Orige competed part-time in 2014 and will not return in 2015.

Team changes

• Cavaleiro Racing Sports, who raced as Hanier Racing in 2013 and 2014, will race under their official name in 2015. The team will also enter a technical partnership with the C2 Team.
• With the retirement of Nonô Figueiredo, Mobil reduced their sponsorship for the AMG Motorsport team in the series.
• RC3 Bassani returned to operating as a two-car team and the team changed name to União Química Racing for sponsorship reasons.
• ProGP scaled back to a single car operation for the first time in its history.

In-season changes

• Due to personal problems, Alceu Feldmann did not compete in the second round at Ribeirão Preto.
• Felipe Maluhy did not compete in the second round at Ribeirão Preto, due to sponsorship issues.

Race calendar and results

The provisional 2014 schedule was announced on 18 November 2014. The seventh edition of the Stock Car Corrida do Milhão will be held on August 16, at will be held in Goiânia; the season will be contested over twenty-one races at twelve rounds, with the first round – also to be held in Goiânia – being contested by two-driver entries with wildcard drivers. The Ribeirão Preto street circuit will return to the series after one year off the schedule, and will be held in April.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	March 22	Átila Abreu Nelson Piquet Jr.	Ricardo Maurício Néstor Girolami	Ricardo Maurício Néstor Girolami	Eurofarma RC
2	Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit	April 5	Max Wilson	Raphael Matos	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing
3				Rubens Barrichello	Tuka Rocha	União Química Racing
4	Velopark, Nova Santa Rita	April 26	Marcos Gomes	Rubens Barrichello	Daniel Serra	Red Bull Racing
5				Ricardo Maurício	Max Wilson	Eurofarma RC
6	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	May 31
7
8	Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul	June 28
9
10	Salvador Street Circuit	August 2
11
12	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	August 16
13	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel	August 30
14
15	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet	September 13
16
17	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	October 18
18
19	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	November 8
20
21	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	December 13

Championship standings

Points system

Points were 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 48 points per event.

• 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 GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ SAL GOI CAS BRA CUR TAR INT Pts 1 Cacá Bueno 4 1 Ret 5 2 62 2 Júlio Campos 9 3 8 3 3 59 3 Marcos Gomes 2 2 DSQ 2 18 51 Rubens Barrichello 14 6 6 4 5 51 5 Allam Khodair 3 7 12 7 14 42 6 Thiago Camilo 5 4 15 12 10 39 7 Sérgio Jimenez 10 11 2 9 16 38 8 Daniel Serra 12 Ret DNS 1 4 36 9 Max Wilson 6 DSQ Ret 10 1 33 10 Ricardo Maurício 1 DSQ Ret 6 20 27 Vitor Genz 17 8 7 22† 9 27 12 Diego Nunes Ret 9 14 8 DNS 26 13 Tuka Rocha 26 13 1 Ret Ret 23 14 Felipe Fraga 7 12 DNS 14 DNS 22 15 Átila Abreu 28† 17 3 16 22 21 16 Galid Osman 11 5 13 NC 21† 20 Antônio Pizzonia 25 10 9 24 12 20 18 Felipe Lapenna 23 15 Ret 18 6 18 19 Rafael Suzuki 27† 14 11 15 19 17 20 Valdeno Brito 8 DSQ Ret 11 Ret 15 Ricardo Zonta 21 NC Ret 13 8 15 22 Luciano Burti 16 19 5 NC 13 14 23 Gabriel Casagrande 20 DSQ 10 NC 7 13 24 Denis Navarro Ret 22 4 Ret 23† 11 25 Raphael Matos 13 16 Ret 17 Ret 9 26 Popó Bueno Ret NC Ret 21† 11 4 27 Raphael Abbate 22 20 16† 19 DNS 3 Bia Figueiredo 19 18† DNS 23 17 3 29 Lucas Foresti 15 Ret Ret 20† 15 1 Alceu Feldmann 18 Fábio Fogaça 24 21 Ret NC Ret César Ramos Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS Felipe Maluhy Ret Guest drivers ineligible to score points Néstor Girolami 1 Mark Winterbottom 2 António Félix da Costa 3 José María López 4 Lucas di Grassi 5 Vítor Meira 6 Álvaro Parente 7 Laurens Vanthoor 8 Nicolas Prost 9 Fábio Carbone 10 Beto Monteiro 11 Chico Serra 12 David Muffato 13 Ingo Hoffmann 14 Luiz Razia 15 Jaime Alguersuari 16 Matheus Stumpf 17 Ezequiel Bosio 18 Matias Milla 19 Enrique Bernoldi 20 Jacques Villeneuve 21 Nicolas Costa 22 Vitantonio Liuzzi 23 Leandro Totti 24 Bruno Senna 25 Chris van der Drift 26 Antonio Pérez 27† Nelson Piquet Jr. 28† Guilherme Salas Ret Ricardo Rosset Ret Frédéric Vervisch Ret Felipe Giaffone Ret Xandinho Negrão Ret Pos Driver GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ SAL GOI CAS BRA CUR TAR INT Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole position Italics – Fastest lap † – Retired, but classified

Teams' Championship

Pos Team Car No. GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ SAL GOI CAS BRA CUR TAR Pts 1 Red Bull Racing 0 4 1 Ret 5 2 98 29 12 Ret DNS 1 4 2 Full Time Sports 18 3 7 12 7 14 93 111 14 6 6 4 5 3 Prati-Donaduzzi 1 25 10 9 24 12 79 4 9 3 8 3 3 4 Voxx Racing 80 2 2 DSQ 2 18 73 88 7 12 DNS 14 DNS 5 Eurofarma RC 65 6 DSQ Ret 10 1 60 90 1 DSQ Ret 6 20 6 Ipiranga-RCM 21 5 4 15 12 10 59 28 11 5 13 NC 21† 7 C2 Team 73 10 11 2 9 16 51 83 20 DSQ 10 NC 7 8 Vogel Motorsport 5 Ret 22 4 Ret 23† 37 70 Ret 9 14 8 DNS 9 RZ Motorsport 8 27† 14 11 15 19 31 14 16 19 5 NC 13 10 Shell Racing 10 21 NC Ret 13 8 30 77 8 DSQ Ret 11 Ret 11 Schin Racing Team 2 13 16 Ret 17 Ret 27 110 23 15 Ret 18 6 Boettger Competições 46 17 8 7 22† 9 27 82 18 13 União Química Racing 3 19 18† DNS 23 17 26 25 26 13 1 Ret Ret 14 AMG Motorsport 12 15 Ret Ret 20† 15 22 51 28† 17 3 16 22 15 Cavaleiro Racing Sports 11 Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 4 74 Ret NC Ret 21† 11 16 Hot Car Competições 26 22 20 16† 19 DNS 3 72 24 21 Ret NC Ret ProGP 33 Ret Pos Team Car No. GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ SAL GOI CAS BRA CUR TAR Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 Excluded (EX)

References

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)