2004 Desafío Corona season

The 2004 Desafio Corona season was the first season of stock car racing in Mexico. The serial was presented in March as Desafío Corona.^[1] After 14 races Carlos Pardo of Equipo Telcel was declared champion.^[2]

Cars

Pontiac Grand Am was the car used for almost drivers. Only two Dodge Stratus, both of Seeman-Baker team, was used.^[3] Pontiac won 13 of 14 runs and the championship.

Teams and drivers

Full time entries

Part time entries

Schedule

Guadalajara

El Marqués

Gómez Palacio

México City

Apodaca

SLP

Zacatecas

León

2004 Desafío Corona venues

No.	Race Title	Track	Date	Time
				Local	UTC
1	Mexico City	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	June 6	13:30	18:30
2	Guadalajara	Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	June 27	13:30	18:30
3	Querétaro	Autódromo Querétaro, El Marqués	July 18	13:30	18:30
4	Monterrey	Autódromo Monterrey, Apodaca	August 1	13:30	18:30
5	Torreón	Autódromo Marco Magaña, Gómez Palacio	August 8	13:30	18:30
6	San Luis Potosí	Autódromo San Luis 400, San Luis Potosí	August 22	13:30	18:30
7	Zacatecas	Autódromo Internacional de Zacatecas, Guadalupe	September 5	13:30	18:30
8	León	Autódromo de León, León	September 19	13:33	18:33
9	Guadalajara	Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	October 3
10	Querétaro	Autódromo Querétaro, El Marqués	October 17
11	León	Autódromo de León, León	October 31
12	Guadalajara	Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	November 14	13:33	19:33
13	San Luis Potosí	Autódromo San Luis 400, San Luis Potosí	November 28	13:33	19:33
14	Mexico City	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	December 5	13:33	19:33

Results

Races

No.	Race	Pole position	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning manufacturer
1	Mexico City	Mara Reyes	Jorge Goeters	Jorge Goeters	Pontiac
2	Guadalajara	Patrick Goeters	Carlos Pardo	Carlos Contreras	Pontiac
3	Quéretaro	Germán Quiroga	Rubén Pardo	Carlos Contreras	Pontiac
4	Monterrey	Gianfranco Cané	Rogelio López	César Tiberio Jiménez	Pontiac
5	Torreón	Rubén Pardo	Carlos Pardo	Carlos Pardo	Pontiac
6	San Luis Potosí	Carlos Pardo1	Jorge Goeters	Germán Quiroga	Dodge
7	Zacatecas	Carlos Contreras	Carlos Pardo	Carlos Pardo	Pontiac
8	León	Fernando Plata	Carlos Pardo	Carlos Pardo	Pontiac
9	Guadalajara	Jorge Goeters	Rogelio López	Rogelio López	Pontiac
10	Quéretaro	Jorge Goeters	Rubén Pardo	Rubén Pardo	Pontiac
11	León	Carlos Pardo2	Jorge Goeters	Rogelio López	Pontiac
12	Guadalajara	Jorge Goeters	Jorge Goeters	Carlos Pardo	Pontiac
13	San Luis Potosí	Rubén Pardo	Jorge Goeters	Rogelio López	Pontiac
14	Mexico City	Sebastián Ocaranza	Rogelio López	Rogelio López	Pontiac

1.^ Qualifying cancelled by rain.^[4]

2.^ Qualifying cancelled by works in the track.^[5]

Standings

Rank	Driver	MEX	GDL	QRO	MTY	TOR	SLP	ZAC	LEON	GDL	QRO	LEON	GDL	SLP	MEX	Pts
1	Carlos Pardo	5	14	3	2	1	7	1	1	2	2	15	1	3	4	2326
2	Rubén Pardo	9	18	2	3	3	4	3	6	4	1	2	5	6	3	2257
3	Rogelio López	7	3	23	15	4	9	2	11	1	3	1	6	1	1	2201
4	Jorge Goeters	1	6	6	4	19	2	18	2	11	4	4	2	2		2045
5	Fernando Plata	11	5	4	7	6	6	15	9	5	5	14	3	4	26	2026
6	Mara Reyes	10	4	10	18	8	11	5	17	3	6	7	4	8	23	1943
7	Carlos Contreras	13	1	1	6	2	5	13	22	13	7	21	24	5	21	1936
8	Oscar Ruíz	22	15	9	5	5	23	11	5	7	16	6	7	10	14	1887
9	Héctor Sánchez	6	8	20	19	11	13	9	8	10	11	8	9	11	7	1857
10	Luis F. Montaño	17	13	24	22	17	3	6	3	6	22	23	8	9	2	1815
11	Germán Quiroga	20	21	7	24	7	1	8	4	12	17	24	18	7	10	1802
12	Ignacio Alvarado	8	11	13	11	18	17	19	12	20	19	12	17	14	6	1705
13	Juan Lópezpape	25		16	8	14	12	10	16	23	14	5	20	15	13	1553
14	Alejandro Portillo	24		14	9	16	19	17	15	18	9	10	19	17	16	1525
15	Patrick Goeters	19	2	8		9	8	3		8	20	19		13	12	1483
16	César Tiberio	18	17	5	1	15	22	7	10	9	8					1337
17	Sebastían Ocaranza	12	19		23	12	10	16	18	24	12	3	13		18	1213
18	Raúl García	14		25	17		16	21	20		18	16	11		25	1084
19	Jorge Seman	21		26			14	20			13		23	12	24	857
20	Julio Bracho, Jr.	16	16	19	14		15	13	13						5	854
21	Jesús Castellanos		12	21	12		18			19		20	14			799
22	Javier de la Parra					13		14	21	25		18	16		11	796
23	Gianfranco Cané	2	22	15	16	10										649
24	Miguel de la Parra			22	13		21	12		22						545
25	Marcelo Nuñez †	3	9	12	20											533
26	Jonathan Manatou	15							14	16						499
27	Héctor Rached		20	17									10		9	492
28	Sebastían Ocaranza II											17	12		19	475
29	Eduardo Troconis										15	11	15		22	467
30	Eduardo Goeters	23	23									13		16		430
31	César Pedrero	4	10	11												429
32	Horacio Topete									14	21		22			318
33	Michael Goeters				10				7							280
34	Roberto Fernández									15			21		17	212
35	Eliseo Márquez			18									9			194
36	Iván Pérez		7													146
37	Jonathan Briseño										10				8	134
38	Horacio Richards														15	118
39	Ignacio Márquez	26							19							106
40	David Hernández						20									103
	Alfredo Galland									17						103
	Eduardo Calderón									21						103
	José González														20	103
44	Rafael Vallina				21											100
	Ricardo Marroquín											22				100

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