2023 Stock Car Pro Series

The 2023 Stock Car Pro Series was the 45th season of the Stock Car Pro Series, the premier touring car racing series in South America, and the second season under the Stock Car Pro Series moniker. The season started at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna on April 2.[1] The final race of the season was held at Interlagos on December 17.[2] The championship was won by Gabriel Casagrande.[3][4]

Gabriel Casagrande (top) won his second drivers' championship, Daniel Serra (middle left) was runner-up, Ricardo Zonta (middle right) was third. RC Competições won the teams' championship.

Calendar

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The schedule for the 2023 season was released on 3 December 2022.[5] On 12 April 2023, the calendar was modified, in which Tarumã, Cascavel, Velopark, and Buenos Aires returned to the calendar:[6] On 25 September 2023, the round at Brasília on 24–26 November was replaced by another round at Cascavel on the same date.[7]

Round Circuit (Event) Dates Map
1   Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Mixed Circuit)
Goiânia, Goiás
2 April
2   Autódromo José Carlos Pace
São Paulo, São Paulo
23 April
3   Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã
Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul
21 May
4   Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel
Cascavel, Paraná
18 June
5   Autódromo José Carlos Pace
São Paulo, São Paulo
9 July
6   Autódromo Velo Città
Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo
6 August
7   Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (External Circuit)
Goiânia, Goiás
27 August
8   Velopark
Nova Santa Rita, Rio Grande do Sul
17 September
9   Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez
Buenos Aires, Argentina
8 October
10   Autódromo Velo Città
Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo
29 October
11   Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel
Cascavel, Paraná
26 November
12   Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Super Final BRB)
São Paulo, São Paulo
17 December

Format

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Each event features two races of 30 minutes held back-to-back. The grid for the first race is set using the results of qualifying, whereas the grid for the second race is taken from the results of race one with the top ten reversed.

Teams and drivers

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Championship entries
Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
KTF Sports Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 0   Cacá Bueno[8] All
3   Rodrigo Baptista[9] All
KTF Racing 85   Guilherme Salas All
121   Felipe Baptista[10] All
Lubrax Podium Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 4   Júlio Campos[11] All
19   Felipe Massa[11] All
Cavaleiro Sports Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 5   Denis Navarro[12] All
80   Marcos Gomes[12] All
Texaco Racing Toyota Corolla Stock Car 6   Tony Kanaan[13] 1–2, 4–12
81   Arthur Leist 3
Mobil Ale Full Time 91   Eduardo Barrichello[14] All
111   Rubens Barrichello[14] All
Full Time Sports 101   Gianluca Petecof[15] All
117   Matías Rossi[16] 1–2, 4–7, 9, 11–12
Pole Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 8   Rafael Suzuki[17] All
51   Átila Abreu[18] All
RCM Motorsport Toyota Corolla Stock Car 10   Ricardo Zonta[19] All
44   Bruno Baptista[20] All
Hot Car Competições Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 11   Gaetano Di Mauro[21] 1–11
27   Sérgio Ramalho 12
95   Lucas Kohl[22] All
A.Mattheis Vogel Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 12   Lucas Foresti[23] All
83   Gabriel Casagrande[24] All
Blau Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 18   Allam Khodair[25] All
88   Felipe Fraga[26] 1–4, 6–12
70   Diego Nunes[27] 5
Ipiranga Racing Toyota Corolla Stock Car 16   Thiago Camilo[28] All
30   César Ramos[28] All
Scuderia Chiarelli Toyota Corolla Stock Car 22   Antonio Junqueira 6
37   Raphael Teixeira 1–5, 7
  Santiago Urrutia 8–9
73   Sérgio Jimenez[29] All
110   Felipe Lapenna 10, 12
Crown Racing Toyota Corolla Stock Car 28   Enzo Elias[30] All
32   Rafael Martins 2
33   Nelson Piquet Jr. 1, 3–12
Eurofarma RC Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car 29   Daniel Serra[31] All
90   Ricardo Maurício[31] All

Team changes

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The field was reduced from thirty-four to thirty-two cars.

Crown Racing and TMG Racing decreased their operations from three to two cars and RKL left the series after two seasons. Full Time Sports was the only team that increased its operation from four to five cars.

Crown Racing changed from Chevrolet to Toyota.[32]

Full Time Sports divided its operations into three, two cars with the Mobil Ale name, and one under the Texaco Racing name. After seven seasons Bassani Racing did not return as a subsidiary of FTS.

Pole Motorsport reverted to its original name after the Shell ended its support for the team.[33]

R.Mattheis Motorsport and TMG Racing swapped their main sponsors. Lubrax switched to TMG and Blau Pharmaceutical moved to R.Mattheis.[11]

Driver changes

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Diego Nunes, Pedro Cardoso and Galid Osman left the series to join TCR South America.

Eduardo Barrichello moved up to the series with Full Time Sports after competing part time with the team in 2021 and 2022.[14]

Enzo Elias graduated from Porsche Cup Brasil to race full time at Crown Racing.[34] He replaced Cacá Bueno and Rodrigo Baptista, who left the team and joined KTF Sports.

Felipe Massa and Júlio Campos left R.Mattheis Motorsport to join TMG Racing. Allam Khodair, who raced for R.Mattheis in 2022, joined TMG alongside Felipe Fraga, who returned for the series after competing in the DTM.[11]

Lucas Foresti left KTF to replace Matias Rossi at A.Mattheis Vogel. Rossi returned to Full Time Sports, replacing Rafael Suzuki, who joined Pole Motorsport.[35]

Lucas Kohl graduated from Stock Series to race for Hot Car Competições alongside Gaetano di Mauro, who left KTF Sports. Felipe Lappena and Tuca Antoniazzi, who raced for Hot Car in 2022, both left the series.

Raphael Teixeira moved up to the series full time with Scuderia Chiarelli, having raced as a wildcard in several events in 2021 and 2022. He replaced Beto Monteiro, who left the series.

Mid-season changes

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Nelson Piquet, Jr. missed the second round due a conflict with the 2023 4 Hours of Barcelona, the first round of European Le Mans Series. He was replaced by Rafael Martins.

Tony Kanaan missed the third round to compete in the 2023 Indianapolis 500. He was replaced by Arthur Leist.

Matias Rossi missed three rounds due to schedule clashes with commitments in the Turismo Carretera.

Felipe Fraga missed the fifth round due to a conflict with the IMSA SportsCar Championship's Chevrolet Grand Prix.

Scuderia Chiarelli made a number of driver changes throughout the season. Antonio Junqueira, Santiago Urrutia and Felipe Lapenna competed in place of Raphael Teixeira.

Sérgio Ramalho made his debut in the series for Hot Car Competições at the final round in Interlagos, standing in for Gaetano di Mauro.

Results and standings

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Season summary

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Round Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1   Goiânia (Mixed Circuit) 2 April   Bruno Baptista   Ricardo Zonta   Daniel Serra Eurofarma RC
R2   Ricardo Zonta   Thiago Camilo Ipiranga Racing
2 R1   Interlagos 23 April   Gabriel Casagrande   Gabriel Casagrande   Gabriel Casagrande A.Mattheis Vogel
R2   Rafael Suzuki   Ricardo Maurício Eurofarma RC
3 R1   Tarumã 21 May   Thiago Camilo   Thiago Camilo   Thiago Camilo Ipiranga Racing
R2   Ricardo Zonta   Rubens Barrichello Mobil Ale Full Time
4 R1   Cascavel 18 June   Felipe Fraga   Felipe Fraga   Daniel Serra Eurofarma RC
R2   Thiago Camilo   Eduardo Barrichello Mobil Ale Full Time
5 R1   Interlagos 9 July   Matías Rossi   Nelson Piquet, Jr.   Matías Rossi Full Time Sports
R2   Nelson Piquet, Jr.   Ricardo Zonta RCM Motorsport
6 R1   Mogi Guaçu 6 August   Ricardo Zonta   Ricardo Zonta   Ricardo Zonta RCM Motorsport
R2   Matías Rossi   Matías Rossi Full Time Sports
7 R1   Goiânia (External Circuit) 27 August   César Ramos   César Ramos   César Ramos Ipiranga Racing
R2   Átila Abreu   Átila Abreu Pole Motorsport
8 R1   Velopark 17 September   Gabriel Casagrande   Gabriel Casagrande   Gabriel Casagrande A.Mattheis Vogel
R2   Lucas Foresti   Átila Abreu Pole Motorsport
9 R1   Buenos Aires 8 October   Felipe Fraga   Felipe Fraga   Gabriel Casagrande A.Mattheis Vogel
R2   Matías Rossi   Matías Rossi Full Time Sports
10 R1   Mogi Guaçu 29 October   Felipe Fraga   Felipe Fraga   Daniel Serra Eurofarma RC
R2   Cacá Bueno   Ricardo Maurício Eurofarma RC
11 R1   Cascavel 26 November   Bruno Baptista   Daniel Serra   Bruno Baptista RCM Motorsport
R2   Marcos Gomes   Felipe Massa Lubrax Podium
12 R1   Interlagos 17 December   Ricardo Zonta   Ricardo Zonta   Ricardo Zonta RCM Motorsport
R2   Ricardo Maurício   Felipe Massa Lubrax Podium

Championship standings

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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. Before the last round, the four worst results are discarded. Races in which a driver has been disqualified cannot be discarded. The second race of each event is held with partially reversed top ten grid.

Points format Position
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th Pole
Race 1 30 26 22 19 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2
Race 2 24 20 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Drivers' Championship
Pos Driver GYN1 INT1 TAR CAS1 INT2 MOG1 GYN2 VLP BUE MOG2 CAS2 INT3 Pts
1   Gabriel Casagrande 4 24 1 6 3 12 3 5 23 22 18 2 7 22 1 7 1 19 4 10 18 17 3 21 308
2   Daniel Serra 1 8 26 11 23 6 1 17 7 5 7 3 Ret 5 10 DNS 19 Ret 1 12 2 7 5 12 296
3   Ricardo Zonta 3 17 10 17 24 4 11 Ret 6 1 1 Ret 4 8 15 2 27 10 Ret Ret 6 4 1 10 280
4   Thiago Camilo 6 1 23 9 1 5 6 4 8 13 23 8 17 Ret 11 19 4 4 8 6 15 Ret 6 6 280
5   Felipe Fraga Ret 3 8 20 2 Ret 2 20 11 9 6 Ret 2 9 2 6 2 3 16 25 Ret 9 265
6   Rafael Suzuki Ret Ret 29 2 6 9 8 3 15 12 6 7 5 2 12 17 7 3 7 23 7 13 4 20 263
7   Rubens Barrichello 14 6 7 4 19 1 16 Ret 10 6 5 5 15 3 8 3 9 2 11 22 17 Ret 18 3 260
8   Ricardo Maurício 7 2 9 1 Ret 18 24 7 20 16 24 Ret 14 Ret 6 6 8 9 9 1 Ret 3 15 4 231
9   Felipe Baptista 26 7 27 5 Ret 14 15 8 2 7 26 6 16 9 14 15 14 22 3 9 5 10 8 13 229
10   Felipe Massa 21 Ret 16 Ret 20 11 23 12 3 2 12 11 12 21 17 Ret 12 7 5 2 9 1 14 1 224
11   César Ramos 11 16 11 8 4 2 4 18 27 21 19 Ret 1 16 Ret 16 11 26 17 15 13 16 9 14 209
12   Guilherme Salas 20 15 2 15 10 8 10 10 11 15 8 10 Ret Ret 4 5 5 8 DSQ 24 3 20 23 Ret 207
13   Gianluca Petecof 24 18 Ret DNS 13 10 19 13 9 8 2 4 13 4 3 4 3 5 18 Ret 20 Ret 22 Ret 205
14   Nelson Piquet Jr. 5 10 5 Ret Ret Ret 4 4 9 16 2 23 19 8 15 15 24 4 21 18 27 8 191
15   Júlio Campos 9 20 DSQ DSQ 8 15 9 21 24 11 14 Ret 20 Ret Ret 12 17 16 6 7 4 9 2 19 185
16   Bruno Baptista 2 21 3 7 22 16 12 15 17 Ret 15 Ret Ret 6 Ret Ret 25 25 14 20 1 14 7 5 181
17   Matías Rossi 19 9 18 Ret Ret 11 1 3 10 1 11 Ret 10 1 11 19 24 11 178
18   Átila Abreu 25 Ret 13 21 Ret 3 21 16 29 10 Ret DNS 8 1 7 1 22 Ret 26 5 25 2 10 7 177
19   Lucas Foresti 13 14 19 12 17 Ret 7 19 14 18 DSQ 12 3 13 9 21 23 17 13 21 10 6 12 Ret 151
20   Gaetano di Mauro Ret 4 4 3 14 19 25 Ret 5 14 25 DSQ 9 11 Ret Ret 21 12 DNS 17 8 5 148
21   Eduardo Barrichello 15 13 22 22 WD WD 13 1 12 9 Ret DNS 15 Ret 20 Ret 6 11 27 8 12 11 17 Ret 140
22   Allam Khodair 8 12 25 24 16 13 5 6 26 23 4 13 24 Ret 21 Ret 18 Ret 16 11 24 12 19 23 122
23   Cacá Bueno Ret 19 14 13 9 22 20 2 13 27 13 Ret 21 10 13 21 20 13 10 19 19 23 21 Ret 117
24   Marcos Gomes 10 5 12 23 21 7 18 Ret 16 17 18 Ret 19 12 23 22 13 24 22 25 Ret 26 Ret 2 105
25   Denis Navarro 16 11 6 10 7 24 17 14 Ret 20 20 DSQ 23 14 Ret 13 DSQ 20 23 14 14 21 25 15 102
26   Enzo Elias 22 Ret 5 DSQ 15 Ret 22 Ret 30 Ret 17 Ret 23 7 24 14 26 Ret 12 Ret 23 8 11 18 81
27   Rodrigo Baptista 18 Ret 20 Ret 18 17 Ret 23 18 24 Ret DNS Ret 15 5 10 16 18 15 Ret Ret Ret 20 16 68
28   Sérgio Jimenez 12 22 28 Ret 11 21 Ret Ret 28 19 3 15 Ret 20 16 18 DSQ 23 20 Ret Ret 15 28 Ret 64
29   Lucas Kohl 17 23 15 16 Ret 20 14 9 22 26 25 Ret Ret 17 22 20 DSQ 21 25 16 Ret 22 16 22 48
30   Tony Kanaan 23 Ret 17 19 Ret 22 25 25 21 14 18 18 18 Ret 24 14 21 18 22 24 26 Ret 29
31   Felipe Lapenna 19 13 Ret 17 14
32   Arthur Leist 12 23 9
33   Sérgio Ramalho 13 24 8
34   Rafael Martins 24 14 6
35   Antônio Junqueira Ret 17 4
36   Raphael Teixeira 27 Ret 21 18 Ret 25 WD WD 21 Ret 30 19 4
37   Diego Nunes 19 Ret 2
38   Santiago Urrutia WD WD Ret Ret 0
Pos Driver GYN1 INT1 TAR CAS1 INT2 MOG1 GYN2 VLP BUE MOG2 CAS2 INT3 Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third 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 practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole position
Italics – Fastest lap
† – Retired, but classified

Broadcasting

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TV (Brazil only) Internet (Global)
Band YouTube
SportTV Motorsport.tv
TV (Russia only) Facebook
Моторспорт ТВ Zoome Archived 2022-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
Catve.com
Auto Videos
Twitch

See also

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References

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