2013 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas explained

2013 Desafio Internacional das Estrelas was the eighth edition of Desafio Internacional das Estrelas (International Challenge of the Stars), the races scheduled for 12–13 January 2013 at Kartódromo do Beto Carrero World at Penha, Santa Catarina, Brazil.^[1] The event was won by Jules Bianchi after he won the race 1 and finished in fourth position in race 2.^[2]

Participants

Three champions took part in the 2013 edition (Massa, di Grassi and Alguersuari). 13 former and current Formula One drivers participated.

Country	No	Drivers	2012 series
Brazil	0	Cacá Bueno	Stock Car Brasil/Copa Fiat Brasil/Campeonato Brasileiro de GT
	1	Bruno Senna	Formula One
	3	Antônio Pizzonia	Stock Car Brasil/Auto GP World Series
	7	Enrique Bernoldi	FIA World Endurance Championship/Italian GT Championship
	8	Luciano Burti	Stock Car Brasil
	10	Ricardo Zonta	Stock Car Brasil/Brasileiro de Marcas
	16	Augusto Farfus	DTM
	18	Allam Khodair	Stock Car Brasil/Campeonato Brasileiro de GT
	19	Felipe Massa	Formula One
	21	Thiago Camilo	Stock Car Brasil/Brasileiro de Marcas
	23	João Paulo de Oliveira	Formula Nippon/Super GT
	25	Felipe Nasr	GP2 Series
	27	Vítor Meira	Stock Car Brasil/Brasileiro de Marcas
	30	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
	33	Bia Figueiredo	IndyCar Series
	77	Valdeno Brito	Stock Car Brasil/Campeonato Brasileiro de GT
	88	Beto Monteiro	Fórmula Truck
	90	Pietro Fittipaldi	Whelen All-American Series
	111	Lucas di Grassi	FIA World Endurance Championship
	121	Leonardo Nienkotter	Copa Fiat Brasil
France	5		Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Italy	20		Superstars Series/FIA World Endurance Championship
Japan	9		Formula One
Spain	14	Fernando Alonso	Formula One
	17	Jaime Alguersuari	none
Switzerland	31	Sébastien Buemi	FIA World Endurance Championship

^[3]

Classification

Qualifying

Pos	No	Country	Driver	Qualifying 1^[4] ^[5]	Qualifying 2^[6]
1	5	France	Jules Bianchi	53.772	54.105
2	20	Italy		53.750	54.278
3	31	Switzerland		53.814	54.318
4	27	Brazil	Vítor Meira	53.851	54:382
5	30	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr.	53.771	54.346
6	111	Brazil	Lucas di Grassi	53.811	54:398
7	25	Brazil	Felipe Nasr	54.043	54:529
8	90	Brazil	Pietro Fittipaldi	54.105	54.582
9	18	Brazil	Allam Khodair	54.044	54.590
10	16	Brazil	Augusto Farfus	54.045	54.793
11	3	Brazil	Antônio Pizzonia	53.900
12	121	Brazil	Leonardo Nienkotter	54.111
13	14	Spain	Fernando Alonso	54.008
14	23	Brazil	João Paulo de Oliveira	54.156
15	19	Brazil	Felipe Massa	54.053
16	8	Brazil	Luciano Burti	54.164
17	7	Brazil	Enrique Bernoldi	54.283
18	88	Brazil	Beto Monteiro	54.232
19	21	Brazil	Thiago Camilo	54.321
20	9	Japan	Kamui Kobayashi	54.376
21	0	Brazil	Cacá Bueno	54.556
22	17	Spain	Jaime Alguersuari	54.393
23	33	Brazil	Bia Figueiredo	55.043
24	10	Brazil	Ricardo Zonta	54.629
25	1	Brazil	Bruno Senna	54.679
26	77	Brazil	Valdeno Brito	54.731
Pole Position wins 2 points

Race 1

Pos^[7]	No	Country	Driver	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	5	France	Jules Bianchi	29	26:15.050	1
2	111	Brazil	Lucas di Grassi	29	+4.873	6	20
3	20	Italy		29	+8.779	2	16
4	31	Switzerland		29	+11.909	3	13
5	27	Brazil	Vítor Meira	29	+12.605	4	11
6	25	Brazil	Felipe Nasr	29	+13.477	7	10
7	30	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr.	29	+14.107	5	9
8	88	Brazil	Beto Monteiro	29	+14.459	18	8
9	16	Brazil	Augusto Farfus	29	+15.774	10	7
10	19	Brazil	Felipe Massa	29	+16.101	15	6
11	90	Brazil	Pietro Fittipaldi	29	+16.359	8	5
12	3	Brazil	Antônio Pizzonia	29	+18.131	11	4
13	33	Brazil	Bia Figueiredo	29	+18.814	23	3
14	17	Spain	Jaime Alguersuari	29	+21.769	22	2
15	7	Brazil	Enrique Bernoldi	29	+26.780	17	1
16	21	Brazil	Thiago Camilo	29	+26.901	19
17	18	Brazil	Allam Khodair	29	+31.175	9
18	77	Brazil	Valdeno Brito	29	+34.585	26
19	23	Brazil	João Paulo de Oliveira	28	+1 lap	14
20	1	Brazil	Bruno Senna	25	+3 laps	25
21	14	Spain	Fernando Alonso	23	+4 laps	15
22	10	Brazil	Ricardo Zonta	21	+8 laps	24
Ret	121	Brazil	Leonardo Nienkotter	13	Retired	12
Ret	0	Brazil	Cacá Bueno	11	Retired	21
Ret	9	Japan	Kamui Kobayashi	6	Retired	20
Ret	8	Brazil	Luciano Burti	1	Retired	16
Fastest Lap: Jules Bianchi, 53.573

Race 2

Pos^[8]	No	Country	Driver	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	25	Brazil	Felipe Nasr	29	26:19.434	3	25
2	30	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr.	29	+3.881	2	20
3	88	Brazil	Beto Monteiro	29	+4.339	1	16
4	5	France	Jules Bianchi	29	+4.870	8	13
5	20	Italy		29	+7.803	6	11
6	111	Brazil	Lucas di Grassi	29	+9.640	7	10
7	31	Switzerland		29	+10.227	5	9
8	19	Brazil	Felipe Massa	29	+14.490	10	8
9	3	Brazil	Antônio Pizzonia	29	+15.183	12	7
10	7	Brazil	Enrique Bernoldi	29	+17.035	15	6
11	23	Brazil	João Paulo de Oliveira	29	+17.492	19	5
12	90	Brazil	Pietro Fittipaldi	29	+21.319	11	4
13	10	Brazil	Ricardo Zonta	29	+25.062	22	3
14	1	Brazil	Bruno Senna	29	+27.772	20	2
15	33	Brazil	Bia Figueiredo	29	+27.793	13	1
16	21	Brazil	Thiago Camilo	29	+28.770	16
17	121	Brazil	Leonardo Nienkotter	29	+29.880	23
18	14	Spain	Fernando Alonso	29	+36.497	21
19	16	Brazil	Augusto Farfus	29	+37.556	9
20	77	Brazil	Valdeno Brito	28	+1 lap	19
21	8	Brazil	Luciano Burti	23	+6 laps	26
22	27	Brazil	Vítor Meira	21	+8 laps	4
Ret	9	Japan	Kamui Kobayashi	13	Retired	25
Ret	0	Brazil	Cacá Bueno	10	Retired	24
Ret	17	Spain	Jaime Alguersuari	4	Retired	14
Ret	18	Brazil	Allam Khodair	4	Retired	17
Fastest Lap: Felipe Nasr, 53.887

Final classification

Pos^[9]	No	Country	Driver	Race 1	Race 2	Total
1	5	France	Jules Bianchi	27	13	40
2	25	Brazil	Felipe Nasr	10	25	35
3	111	Brazil	Lucas di Grassi	20	10	30
4	30	Brazil	Nelson Piquet Jr.	9	20	29
5	20	Italy		16	11	27
6	88	Brazil	Beto Monteiro	8	16	24
7	31	Switzerland		13	9	22
8	19	Brazil	Felipe Massa	6	8	14
9	27	Brazil	Vítor Meira	11		11
10	3	Brazil	Antônio Pizzonia	4	7	11
11	90	Brazil	Pietro Fittipaldi	5	4	9
12	16	Brazil	Augusto Farfus	7		7
13	7	Brazil	Enrique Bernoldi	1	6	7
14	23	Brazil	João Paulo de Oliveira		5	5
15	33	Brazil	Bia Figueiredo	3	1	4
16	10	Brazil	Ricardo Zonta		3	3
17	14	Spain	Jaime Alguersuari	2		2
18	1	Brazil	Bruno Senna		2	2
	21	Brazil	Thiago Camilo
	18	Brazil	Allam Khodair
	77	Brazil	Valdeno Brito
	14	Spain	Fernando Alonso
	121	Brazil	Leonardo Nienkotter
	0	Brazil	Cacá Bueno
	9	Japan	Kamui Kobayashi
	8	Brazil	Luciano Burti
Result of race 1 is the tiebreaker

Notes and References

1. News: Edição 2013 do 'Desafio das Estrelas' será no kartódromo do Beto Carrero. 2013 edition of 'Challenge of the Stars' will be on Kartódromo do Beto Carrero. Globo.com. Organizações Globo. Portuguese.
2. News: Nasr vence; Bianchi é campeão. Nasr won; Bianchi is the champion. TotalRace.com. Total race. Portuguese. 2013-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20131111220759/http://www.totalrace.com.br/blog/redacao/2013/01/13/brasilienses-dominam-com-nasr-e-piquet-fazendo-1-2-mas-jules-bianchi-foi-quem-se-sagrou-campeao-do-desafio-das-estrelas/. 2013-11-11. dead.
3. News: Pilotos 2013. 2013 Drivers. DesafiodasEstrelas.com. Desafio Internacional das Estrelas. Portuguese. 2012-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20130116083845/http://www.desafiodasestrelas.com.br/pilotos.aspx?ano=2013. 2013-01-16. dead.
4. News: Qualifying group A. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas.
5. News: Qualifying group B. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas.
6. News: Bianchi desbanca Liuzzi e fica com a pole position. Bianchi debunks Liuzzi and gets the pole position. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas. 2013-01-12. https://archive.today/20130219175828/http://www.desafiodasestrelas.com.br/noticias.aspx?noticiaId=104. 2013-02-19. dead.
7. News: Race 1. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas.
8. News: Race 2. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas.
9. News: Final Classification. desafiodasestrelas.com.br. Desafio das Estrelas.