2015 Stock Car Brasil season

2015 Stock Car Brasil season
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2015 Stock Car Brasil event: 2015 Brasileiro de Marcas 2015 Formula 3 Brasil 2015 Brasileiro de Turismo 2015 Mercedes-Benz Challenge

The 2015 Circuito Schin Stock Car Brasil season was 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. Marcos Gomes was the champion of the season.

Teams and drivers

Season entries
Manufacturer	Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Sonic	Red Bull Racing	0	Cacá Bueno	1–5, 7–12
		29	Daniel Serra	All
		91	Laurens Vanthoor	6
	Vogel Motorsport	5	Denis Navarro	All
		70	Diego Nunes	All
	RZ Motorsport	8	Rafael Suzuki	All
		14	Luciano Burti	All
	ProGP	9	Gustavo Lima	5–12
		33	Felipe Maluhy	1
	Shell Racing	10	Ricardo Zonta	All
		77	Valdeno Brito	All
	AMG Motorsport	12	Lucas Foresti	1–11
		42	Constantino Júnior	12
		51	Átila Abreu	All
	Hot Car Competições	16	Mauro Giallombardo	10–11
		26	Raphael Abbate	All
		69	Beto Monteiro	12
		72	Fábio Fogaça	1–9
	Full Time Sports	18	Allam Khodair	1–9
		100		10–12
		111	Rubens Barrichello	All
	Ipiranga-RCM	21	Thiago Camilo	All
		28	Galid Osman	All
	Eurofarma RC	65	Max Wilson	All
		90	Ricardo Maurício	All
	C2 Team	73	Sérgio Jimenez	All
		83	Gabriel Casagrande	All
Peugeot 408	Prati-Donaduzzi	1	Antônio Pizzonia	All
		4	Júlio Campos	All
	Schin Racing Team	2	Raphael Matos	1–11
		63	Néstor Girolami	12
		110	Felipe Lapenna	All
	União Química Racing	3	Bia Figueiredo	All
		25	Tuka Rocha	All
	Cavaleiro Racing	11	César Ramos	All
		74	Popó Bueno	All
	Boettger Competições	46	Vítor Genz	All
		66	Felipe Guimarães	10–12
		82	Alceu Feldmann	1
		777	Pedro Boesel	7
	Voxx Racing	80	Marcos Gomes	All
		88	Felipe Fraga	All

Team changes

• AMG Motorsport return for the official name after Mobil reduced support in the team.
• Cavaleiro Racing Sports, who raced as Hanier Racing in 2013 and 2014, will race under Total Race name duo sponsor reason.
• ProGP scaled back to a single car operation.
• RC3 Bassani returned to operating as a two-car team and the team changed name to União Química Racing for sponsorship reasons.

Driver changes

Changed teams

• Popó Bueno left Shell Racing and joined Total Racing.
• 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 União Química Racing and RZ Motorsport respectively.
• Lucas Foresti switched from RC3 Bassani to AMG Motorsport.
• 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 Axalta 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 Axalta C2 Team respectively.
• Tuka Rocha left RZ Motorsport and moved to União Quimica Racing.
• 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 debut 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 Total Racing 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 Total Racing.
• Nonô Figueiredo announced his retirement from Stock Car after three wins and fifteen seasons.
• Lico Kaesemodel, Felipe Tozzo, Mauri Zacarelli, Wellington Justino, Felipe Gama and Vicente Orige competed part-time in 2014 and will not return in 2015.

In-season changes

• After first round ProGP did not compete until fourth round, returning at fifth round with the rookie Gustavo Lima.
• Alceu Feldmann leaves Boettger Competições after first round. Boettger return to operate two cars in seventh round with Pedro Boesel and the last three rounds with Felipe Guimarães.
• Cacá Bueno had been suspended in court after offending the marshals on team radio after his victory in the first race at Ribeirão Preto - when he crossed the line, he kept racing in front of Marcos Gomes because the chequered flag was not waved at neither of them in the occasion by mistake. After competing in the first round as a wildcard driver, Laurens Vanthoor replaces Bueno at Red Bull Racing.
• Fábio Fogaça was fired on Hot Car Competições after nine round for poor results, in his place the team called the Argentine driver Mauro Giallombardo for two rounds and Fórmula Truck champion Beto Monteiro for the last round.
• Constantino Júnior return for Stock Car in last round replacing your nephew Lucas Foresti in AMG Motorsport after Foresti received a 30 days preventive suspension for doping.
• Raphael Matos also was suspensed for the same reason of Foresti. In his place Schin Racing Team called Argentine driver Néstor Girolami two time Super TC 2000 champion and winner of Stock Car All Star Race at Interlagos with Ricardo Mauricio.

Race calendar and results

The provisional 2015 schedule was announced on 18 November 2014. The seventh edition of the Schin Million was held on August 16 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. Later in the season, it was announced that the race on the Salvador street circuit was to be replaced by a race at Curitiba. All races were held in Brazil.

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	R1	Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit	April 5	Max Wilson	Raphael Matos	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing
	R2			Vítor Genz	Rubens Barrichello	Tuka Rocha	União Química Racing
3	R1	Velopark, Nova Santa Rita	April 26	Marcos Gomes	Rubens Barrichello	Daniel Serra	Red Bull Racing
	R2			Max Wilson	Ricardo Maurício	Max Wilson	Eurofarma RC
4	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	May 31	Galid Osman	Marcos Gomes	Daniel Serra	Red Bull Racing
	R2			Valdeno Brito	Lucas Foresti	Júlio Campos	Prati-Donaduzzi
5	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul	June 28	Valdeno Brito	Felipe Fraga	Marcos Gomes	Voxx Racing
	R2			Daniel Serra	Cacá Bueno	Valdeno Brito	Shell Racing
6	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	August 2	Marcos Gomes	Thiago Camilo	Marcos Gomes	Voxx Racing
	R2			Max Wilson	Marcos Gomes	Sérgio Jimenez	Axalta C2 Team
7		Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	August 16	Marcos Gomes	Daniel Serra	Thiago Camilo	Ipiranga-RCM
8	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel	August 30	Valdeno Brito	Valdeno Brito	Valdeno Brito	Shell Racing
	R2			Diego Nunes	Ricardo Maurício	Thiago Camilo	Ipiranga-RCM
9	R1	Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura	September 13	Marcos Gomes	Allam Khodair	Marcos Gomes	Voxx Racing
	R2			Cacá Bueno	Ricardo Maurício	Felipe Fraga	Voxx Racing
10	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	October 18	Marcos Gomes	Lucas Foresti	Lucas Foresti	AMG Motorsport
	R2			Denis Navarro	Felipe Fraga	Max Wilson	Eurofarma RC
11	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	November 8	Allam Khodair	Felipe Fraga	Allam Khodair	Full Time Sports
	R2			Vítor Genz	Rubens Barrichello	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing
12		Autódromo José Carlos Pace	December 13	Valdeno Brito	Átila Abreu	Átila Abreu	AMG Motorsport

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.

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	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Feature races	24	20	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Sprint races	15	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
Final race	48	40	36	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	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 GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ CUR GOI CAS MS CUR TAR INT Pts 1 Marcos Gomes 2 2 DSQ 2 18 2 13 1 5 1 5 4 6 6 1 11 Ret 4 3 11 22 242 2 Cacá Bueno 4 1 Ret 5 2 7 5 6 3 9 5 5 10 2 13 Ret 9 1 20 212 3 Thiago Camilo 5 5 15 12 10 3 12 18 10 Ret DNS 1 7 1 3 17 6 3 Ret Ret 7 193 4 Rubens Barrichello 14 8 6 4 5 9 2 3 Ret 11 8 20 23 10 5 4 12 6 6 2 Ret 188 5 Allam Khodair 3 9 12 7 14 Ret 21 2 9 2 Ret Ret 3 7 2 7 2 Ret 1 Ret Ret 184 6 Daniel Serra 12 Ret DNS 1 4 1 Ret 10 2 3 4 2 25 DNS 7 6 Ret Ret 8 3 Ret 181 7 Ricardo Maurício 1 4 Ret 6 20 Ret Ret 4 6 DSQ DSQ Ret 4 3 4 3 3 2 7 Ret Ret 173 8 Max Wilson 6 6 Ret 10 1 Ret DNS 5 4 11 6 6 27 12 8 5 11 1 Ret 14 Ret 162 9 Felipe Fraga 7 14 DNS 14 DNS 15 15 11 22 Ret DNS 5 12 13 6 1 Ret 5 2 Ret 3 159 10 Átila Abreu 28 19 3 16 22 16 6 13 Ret 4 Ret 11 9 DNS 14 13 DSQ 11 17 5 1 155 11 Júlio Campos 9 3 8 3 3 8 1 Ret 16 5 2 16 29 DNS 9 20 15 8 Ret 7 Ret 154 12 Valdeno Brito 8 DSQ Ret 11 Ret 10 18 8 1 DSQ EX 7 1 2 12 9 21 Ret 4 4 Ret 148 13 Ricardo Zonta 21 Ret Ret 13 8 24 Ret 12 14 6 18 3 2 14 11 12 Ret 9 5 9 8 147 14 Diego Nunes Ret 11 14 8 DNS 11 17 Ret DNS 7 3 10 10 9 19 DNS Ret 14 13 Ret 2 139 15 Vitor Genz 17 10 7 22 9 Ret DNS 15 12 21 12 18 13 4 21 16 5 20 10 10 5 124 16 Gabriel Casagrande 20 DSQ 10 Ret 7 13 23 9 7 Ret 7 24 22 DNS 18 14 8 Ret 11 Ret 4 110 17 Sérgio Jimenez 10 13 2 9 16 22 DNS Ret 13 9 1 Ret 8 Ret 13 8 14 10 18 Ret 21 108 18 Antônio Pizzonia 25 12 9 24 12 4 11 Ret Ret 14 9 17 26 11 16 Ret 18 7 14 13 16 95 19 Luciano Burti 16 21 5 Ret 13 12 16 Ret 11 20 13 Ret 16 8 20 10 4 21 12 15 11 93 20 Galid Osman 11 7 13 Ret 21 5 14 14 17 8 17 14 Ret DNS Ret 21 Ret 13 15 Ret 10 92 21 Denis Navarro Ret 24 4 Ret 23 14 19 7 20 22 Ret 21 15 26 Ret DNS 10 Ret Ret 16 6 79 22 César Ramos Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 18 7 22 8 Ret DNS 12 17 16 Ret Ret 20 12 Ret 8 9 66 23 Tuka Rocha 26 15 1 Ret Ret 23 9 21 Ret 18 10 15 30 DNS Ret Ret 9 19 20 18 19 58 24 Raphael Matos 13 18 Ret 17 Ret 6 20 16 19 Ret DNS 8 11 25 Ret DNS Ret Ret 16 Ret 55 25 Popó Bueno Ret Ret Ret 21 11 17 3 Ret DNS 12 16 Ret 31 19 Ret 22 Ret 16 Ret 6 14 52 26 Lucas Foresti 15 Ret Ret 20 15 Ret 4 Ret Ret 15 15 13 18 18 Ret DNS 1 18 22 Ret 53 27 Rafael Suzuki 27 16 11 15 19 19 22 19 18 13 11 19 28 15 17 18 7 17 Ret DNS Ret 51 28 Felipe Lapenna 23 17 Ret 18 6 Ret DNS Ret Ret Ret DNS 26 14 24 15 23 17 Ret 21 12 17 44 29 Raphael Abbate 22 22 16 19 DNS 21 8 17 21 16 14 27 21 21 22 15 16 Ret Ret Ret 13 40 30 Felipe Guimarães 19 15 Ret Ret 15 14 31 Bia Figueiredo 19 20 DNS 23 17 20 10 24 DNS Ret DNS Ret 24 22 Ret DNS Ret Ret 23 Ret 18 13 32 Gustavo Lima 23 15 17 Ret 25 20 20 23 19 22 Ret Ret 17 DSQ 5 33 Fábio Fogaça 24 23 Ret Ret Ret Ret Ret 20 Ret Ret DNS 22 19 17 Ret DNS 3 34 Mauro Giallombardo Ret Ret 19 19 2 Alceu Feldmann 18 0 Pedro Boesel 23 0 Felipe Maluhy Ret 0 Guest drivers ineligible to score points Néstor Girolami 1 12 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 19 Ret Nicolas Prost 9 Fábio Carbone 10 Beto Monteiro 11 Ret 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 Constantino Júnior Ret Pos Driver GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ CUR GOI CAS MS 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 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

Notes

Teams' Championship

Pos Team No. GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ CUR GOI CAS MS CUR TAR INT Pts 1 Red Bull Racing 0 4 1 Ret 5 2 7 5 6 3 197 29 12 Ret DNS 1 4 1 Ret 10 2 2 Full Time Sports 18 3 9 12 7 14 Ret 21† 2 9 158 111 14 8 6 4 5 9 2 3 Ret 3 Eurofarma RC 65 6 6 Ret 10 1 Ret DNS 5 4 145 90 1 4 Ret 6 20 NC Ret 4 6 4 Voxx Racing 80 2 2 DSQ 2 18 2 13 1 5 143 88 7 14 DNS 14 DNS 15 15 11 22 5 Prati-Donaduzzi 1 25 12 9 24 12 4 11 NC Ret 126 4 9 3 8 3 3 8 1 NC 16 6 Ipiranga-RCM 21 5 5 15 12 10 3 12 18 10 109 28 11 7 13 NC 21† 5 14 14 17 7 Shell Racing 10 21 NC Ret 13 8 24 Ret 12 14 79 77 8 DSQ Ret 11 Ret 10 18 8 1 Axalta C2 Team 73 10 13 2 9 16 22† DNS NC 13 79 83 20 DSQ 10 NC 7 13 23† 9 7 9 Vogel Motorsport 5 Ret 24 4 Ret 23† 14 19 7 20 66 70 Ret 11 14 8 DNS 11 17† Ret DNS 10 AMG Motorsport 12 15 Ret Ret 20† 15 NC 4 NC Ret 53 51 28† 19 3 16 22 16 6 13 Ret 11 RZ Motorsport 8 27† 16 11 15 19 19 22† 19 18 44 14 16 21 5 NC 13 12 16 NC 11 12 Schin Racing Team 2 13 18 Ret 17 Ret 6 20† 16 19 43 110 23 17 Ret 18 6 Ret DNS NC Ret 13 Total Racing 11 Ret Ret Ret Ret DNS 18 7 22 8 38 74 Ret NC Ret 21† 11 17 3 NC DNS 14 União Química Racing 3 19 20† DNS 23 17 20 10 24† DNS 34 25 26 15 1 Ret Ret 23† 9 21 Ret Boettger Competições 46 17 10 7 22† 9 Ret DNS 15 12 34 82 18 16 Hot Car Competições 26 22 22 16† 19 DNS 21† 8 17 21 14 72 24 23 Ret NC Ret Ret Ret 20 Ret ProGP 9 23 15 33 Ret Pos Team No. GOI RBP VEL CUR SCZ CUR GOI CAS MS 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 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)

External links

• Official website (Portuguese)