2016 Stock Car Brasil Championship

The 2016 Stock Car Brasil Championship 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 Brazilian 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	All
		29	Daniel Serra	All
	RZ Motorsport	1	Thiago Marques	1
		11	César Ramos	2, 6–7
		25	Tuka Rocha	8–12
		14	Luciano Burti	1–2
		56	Danilo Dirani	6–9
		117	Guilherme Salas	10–12
	C2 Team	4	Júlio Campos	All
		83	Gabriel Casagrande	All
	Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	All
		8	Rafael Suzuki	All
	TMG Motorsport	9	Gustavo Lima	All
		77	Valdeno Brito	All
	Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	All
		51	Átila Abreu	All
	Full Time-ProGP	12	Lucas Foresti	All
		66	Felipe Guimarães	1–7
	Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	All
		111	Rubens Barrichello	All
	Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	All
		28	Galid Osman	All
	Bardahl Hot Car	26	Raphael Abbate	All
		110	Felipe Lapenna	All
	Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	All
		90	Ricardo Maurício	All
Peugeot 408	União Química Basssani	3	Bia Figueiredo	All
		70	Diego Nunes	All
	Mico's Racing	6	Alceu Feldmann	1
		45	Fábio Carbone	1–2
	Cavaleiro Racing	7	Beto Cavaleiro	1
		73	Sérgio Jimenez	2–12
		74	Popó Bueno	1–8
		99	Xandinho Negrão	9–12
	Eisenbahn Racing Team	46	Vitor Genz	All
		63	Néstor Girolami	All
	Cimed Racing	80	Marcos Gomes	All
		88	Felipe Fraga	All

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 Bassani	3	Bia Figueiredo	Beto Monteiro
	70	Diego Nunes	Dennis Dirani
Axalta C2 Team	4	Júlio Campos	Alan Hellmeister
	83	Gabriel Casagrande	Márcio Campos
Geolab-Vogel	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	Beto Cavaleiro	Sérgio Jimenez
	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
Cimed 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, was renamed to Full Time-ProGP and returned to operate two cars.
• After four years of partnership, Mico's Racing lost the sponsorship of Prati-Donaduzzi and returned to his official name.
• Since 2012 Mobil Super had sponsored AMG Motorsport; 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 up the sponsorship of Brazil Kirin; the car and team name changed from Schin to Eisenbahn.
• Boettger Competições which in 2003 had a champion with David Muffato left the championship.
• Reigning Champion Voxx Racing changes its name to Cimed Racing, the action is part of the celebrations of 40 years of Cimed Group, team owner and main sponsor since the creation of the team in 2013.

Driver changes

Changed teams

• In 2016 Néstor Girolami drives for the Eisenbahn Racing Team and is 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 Corrida do Milhão 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	Cimed 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	Cacá Bueno	Cacá Bueno	Marcos Gomes	Cimed Racing
	R2			Rafael Suzuki	Ricardo Maurício	Galid Osman	Ipiranga-RCM
4	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul	June 5	Felipe Fraga	Felipe Fraga	Felipe Fraga	Voxx Racing
	R2			Ricardo Zonta	Diego Nunes	Max Wilson	Eurofarma RC
5	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	June 26	Rubens Barrichello	Felipe Fraga	Max Wilson	Eurofarma-RC
	R2			Sérgio Jimenez	Ricardo Mauricio	Julio Campos	C2 Team
6	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel	July 17	Cacá Bueno	Marcos Gomes	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing
	R2			Daniel Serra	Marcos Gomes	Rubens Barrichello	Full Time Sports
7		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	September 11	Rubens Barrichello	Júlio Campos	Felipe Fraga	Cimed Racing
8	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Londrina)	September 25	Max Wilson	Marcos Gomes	Felipe Fraga	Cimed Racing
	R2			Néstor Girolami	Rubens Barrichello	Rubens Barrichello	Full Time Sports
9	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	October 16	Felipe Fraga	Ricardo Mauricio	Felipe Fraga	Cimed Racing
	R2			Raphael Abbate	Thiago Camilo	Thiago Camilo	Ipiranga-RCM
10	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia)	November 6	Rubens Barrichello	Felipe Fraga	Rubens Barrichello	Medley Full Time Sports
	R2			Lucas Foresti	Thiago Camilo	Atila Abreu	Shell Racing
11	R1	Circuito dos Cristais	November 20	Felipe Fraga	Marcos Gomes	Felipe Fraga	Cimed Racing
	R2			Diego Nunes	Marcos Gomes	Ricardo Maurício	Eurofarma-RC
12		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	December 11	Felipe Fraga	Allam Khodair	Daniel Serra	Red Bull Racing

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.

• 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 CUR GOI CRI INT Pts 1 Felipe Fraga 16 4 4 12 2 1 15 2 Ret 8 9 1 1 12 1 14 2 18† 1 16 10 310 2 Rubens Barrichello 20† 6 5 11 3 21 2 17† 11 17 1 2 6 1 11 2 1 5 3 22† 2 295 3 Daniel Serra 4 2 6 19 Ret 3 12 4 13 10 21† 8 20 Ret 4 13 7 15 Ret 3 1 229 4 Valdeno Brito 22† 9 2 3 17 24† 13 5 12 6 7 3 2 14 5 20† 3 20† Ret 4 9 229 5 Marcos Gomes 1 3 14 1 16 4 DSQ 3 Ret 25† 4 Ret 4 10 21† Ret 4 7 2 10 15 213 6 Ricardo Maurício 3 22† DNS 2 15 5 6 6 21 19 11† DSQ 3 8 2 18 Ret DNS 12 1 3 207 7 Diego Nunes 9 10 1 17 7 13 DSQ 18† 7 3 Ret 6 8 11 24† Ret 5 3 10 14 16 190 8 Átila Abreu 6 8 3 6 18 6 10 14 10 24† DNS 20† 14 2 17 21† 9 1 5 13 14 187 9 Cacá Bueno Ret 1 11 20 6 18 7 20 5 1 12 18† 7 15 8 15 22† Ret 16 24† 4 186 10 Allam Khodair 2 Ret 9 Ret 8 2 Ret Ret 3 18 2 5 13 6 3 12 Ret DNS 4 23† 12 181 11 Júlio Campos Ret Ret 16 9 Ret 11 Ret Ret 1 Ret 3 7 Ret Ret 6 Ret 6 19† 7 8 5 170 12 Max Wilson 18 5 Ret 4 19 22 1 1 16 5 8 4 22† 9 Ret 3 21† 4 Ret 7 Ret 167 13 Vitor Genz 7 11 23 5 20 8 18† 8 18 4 18 10 Ret 3 15 4 12 8 Ret 6 22 158 14 Galid Osman 11 Ret DNS 14 1 17 5 19 9 21 6 14 11 Ret 19† 5 16 6 9 DNS 17 142 15 Thiago Camilo 14 Ret 8 13 5 19 Ret Ret 2 15 13† 17† 15 4 22† 1 13 2 6 15 Ret 141 16 Ricardo Zonta 5 14 DNS 16 4 10 9 Ret 8 2 10 22† Ret 5 14 Ret Ret DSQ DSQ DNS 13 130 17 Rafael Suzuki 10 15 10 10 21 16 8 DSQ EX 7 14 Ret Ret Ret 20 11 19 12 13 20 7 117 18 Denis Navarro 12 7 7 15 12 DSQ Ret 13 Ret Ret Ret Ret 23† 7 18 6 Ret 14 17 5 11 114 19 Gustavo Lima Ret Ret 22 22† 9 14 16 11 14 12 16 Ret 17 Ret 13 17 18 9 14 18 8 113 20 Sérgio Jimenez Ret* 18 Ret 8 Ret 9 17† 10 Ret 9 19† 19† 5 13 Ret 7 Ret 11 15 21 23 110 21 Gabriel Casagrande Ret 16 18 Ret DNS 7 14 15 4 Ret Ret 9 Ret Ret Ret 10 17 Ret 8 17 Ret 89 22 Néstor Girolami Ret 21 15 Ret 10 Ret DNS Ret Ret 11 Ret 16 10 Ret 16 8 8 23† Ret 9 Ret 77 23 Raphael Abbate 23† Ret 21 21† DNS 20 4 Ret 17 13 17 12 9 18† 10 Ret Ret DNS Ret 12 DSQ 67 24 Lucas Foresti 8 19 19 Ret Ret 12 11 9 20 Ret 20† Ret Ret Ret 7 Ret 10 22 Ret Ret 20 67 25 Tuka Rocha Ret* 16 16 9 16 11 16 18 2 19 60 26 Bia Figueiredo Ret 17 24 18 14 23† DNS 16 6 23 Ret 13 21 17 Ret 19† 15 21† 19 11 Ret 57 27 Guilherme Salas 3* 20 10 11 19 6 55 28 Felipe Guimarães 21† 12 Ret 7 22† Ret 3 Ret 19 22 5 51 29 Felipe Lapenna 13 Ret 12 Ret 13 Ret Ret 7 15 20 Ret 11 19 Ret 23† Ret Ret 13 21† DNS 18 51 30 Popó Bueno 17 20 17 Ret 11 15 Ret 12 Ret 16 Ret 23† 12 Ret 46 31 Danilo Dirani 4* 14 15 15 18 Ret 25† 9 30 32 Xandinho Negrão 12 Ret 14 17 20 25† 21 23 33 Luciano Burti Ret 13 20 11 34 Fábio Carbone 15 23† 13 2 Alceu Feldmann 19 0 César Ramos Ret* Ret DNS Ret Ret 21† 0 Beto Cavaleiro Ret 0 Thiago Marques Ret 0 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Antônio Pizzonia 1 António Félix da Costa 2 Laurens Vanthoor 5 Nelson Piquet, Jr. 6 David Muffato 7 Luiz Razia 8 Dennis Dirani 9 Franco Vivian 10 Damián Fineschi 11 Felipe Maluhy 12 Marco Cozzi 13 Lucas di Grassi 14 Vicente Orige 15 Rodrigo Sperafico 16 Norberto Gresse 17 Vitor Meira 18 Tarso Marques 19 Augusto Farfus 20† Duda Pamplona 21† Maxime Martin 22† Nicolas Costa 23† Allan Heillmeister Ret Ricardo Sperafico Ret Márcio Campos Ret Beto Monteiro Ret Felipe Giaffone Ret Franco Girolami Ret 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

• * –Inegible to score points in first round.

References

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)