2017 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil explained

The 2017 Porsche Império GT3 Cup Challenge Brasil is the first one-make Porsche racing championship in South America for 911 GT3 Cup cars and this was the thirteenth season. It started on March 18 with a Sprint race in Curitiba and finished on December 2 with an Endurance race in São Paulo. It was first held in 2005 and follows the same formula basis used in the Porsche Supercup and Porsche Carrera Cup championships held around the world.

Drivers

All cars are overseen by the Dener Motorsport team. Cup, that uses the same cars of the European series; Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991) and Challenge, that uses Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 997) cars with a less-powerful engine.

	Driver	Rounds	Class
00	Constantino Jr.	3	C
2	Marcio Basso	1–2	C
3	Rodrigo Baptista	All	C
4	Beto Leite	4–6	C
6	Alceu Feldmann	1	C
7	Miguel Paludo	All	C
	Dominique Teysseyre	5	CH
8	Werner Neugebauer	All	C
	Marco Billi	All	CH
9	Guilherme Firguerôa	All	C
10	Adalberto Baptista	1–4, 6	C
11	Marcio Mauro	All	C
12	Dario Giustozzi	All	C
	Pablo Delponte	2, 4–6	CH
13	Pedro Queirolo	All	C
17	Marcelo Parodi	1, 3–6	CH
	Marcelo Stallone	2	C
19	Tom Filho	2–5	CH
18	Carlos Ambrósio	1–2, 4, 6	C
20	Marcel Visconde	1–3, 5–6	C
21	Eloi Khouri	All	CH
		6	C
25	Mauricio Salla	1–5	CH
27	Ricardo Baptista	All	C
	Luís Fernando Elias	All	CH
29	Rodrigo Mello	All	CH
30	Cleber Faria	All	C
31	Lucas Seripieri	All	CH
32	Fernando Fortes	All	C
33	Pablo Otero	4–5	C
34	Maurizio Billi	All	C
37	Guilherme Reischl	1–4	CH'
		5–6	C
43	Matte Karlsson	6	C
44	Paulo Pomelli	3–4, 6	C
45	Paulo Totaro	All	CH
50	Ramon Alcaraz	1, 6	CH
		2, 4–5	C
51	Cristiano Piquet	1–2	C
53	Ronaldo Kastropil	1–2, 4, 6	CH
54	Pedro Costa	All	CH
55	Marcus Vario	All	CH
56	Fabian Taraborelli	6	CH
63	Lico Kaesemodel	All	C
71	Raulino Kreis Jr.	6	CH
74	Odair Dos Santos	2–3	CH
76	Fernando Guerra	4–6	CH
77	Francisco Horta	All	CH
78	Lucas Peres	5	CH
79	Marcos Peres	All	CH
80	Rouman Ziemkiewicz	All	CH
88	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo	2, 6	C
90	João Paulo Mauro	All	C
99	Tom Vale	1–3, 6	C
105	Vanuê Faria	All	C
155	Rodrigo Mendes	3	CH
544	Marçal Muller	All	CH

Endurance season entries
	Drivers	Rounds	Class
0	Cacá Bueno Sylvio de Barros	All	C
3	Rodrigo Baptista Sérgio Jimenez	2–3	C
4	Beto Leite Nonô Figueiredo Marcos Gomes	All 3	C
5	Marçal Muller Pedro Piquet Denis Navarro	All 2 3	C
7	Miguel Paludo Norberto Gresse Justin Allgaier	All 2 3	C
8	Werner Neugebauer Allam Khodair Renan Guerra	1–2 1 2	C
9	Júlio Campos Guilherme Figueiroa	2	C
10	Adalberto Baptista Bruno Baptista	1, 3	C
13	Pedro Queirolo Clemente Lunardi	All	C
15	Carlos Ruiz Mario Chomali	3	CH
17	Felipe Nasr Ingo Hoffmann Carlos Ambrosio	1–2 1 2	C
18	Felipe Nasr Carlos Ambrosio	3	CH
19	Tom Filho Rodrigo Mello João Gonçalves	All 3	CH
20	Marcel Visconde Fernando Fortes Werner Neugebauer	1, 3 3	C
21	Eloi Khouri Marco Cozzi Esteban Guerrieri Diego Nunes	All 1 2 3	CH
27	Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito	All	C
31	Luca Seripieri Alan Hellmeister	All	CH
33	Dominique Teysseyre Giuliano Losacco Fábio Carbone	1–2 1 2	CH
34	Marco Billi Maurizio Billi	All	CH
37	Juliano Moro Guilherme Reischl Franscisco Horta Fabio Carbone	2 2–3 3 3	C
44	Marcus Vario Alberto Valério Dennis Olsen	All 2 3	C
45	Paulo Totaro Ronaldo Kastropil Laszlo Piquet	All 3	CH
50	Ramon Alcaraz Bia Figueiredo Noberto Gresse Filho	1, 3 3	C
52	Beto Posses Marcelo Stallone Rodolfo Ometto	3	C
53	Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani Danilo Dirani	All 3	CH
63	Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta	All	C
71	Raulino Kreis Jr. Giulio Borlenghi Lucas Foresti	3	C
77	Daniel Schneider Sergio Jimenez Nelson Piquet Jr. Thomas Preining	All 1 2 3	C
79	Marcus Peres Lucas Peres	All	CH
80	Nando Elias Rouman Ziemkiewicz	All	CH
88	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo Ricardo Maurício	All	C
90	João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga	All	C
99	Tom Valle Daniel Serra	3	C
155	Sérgio Maggi Ricardo Mendes Leandro Romera Alexandre Auler	2 3 3 3	CH

Icon	Class
C	Cup
CH	Challenge

Race Calendar and Results

Races Cup Sprint

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil and Argentina.

Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba	18 March	Lico Kaesemodel	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
2				Marcel Visconde	Marcel Visconde
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	6 May	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
4			Rodrigo Baptista	Ricardo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
5				Pedro Queirolo	Pedro Queirolo
6	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	3 June		Rodrigo Baptista
7				Rodrigo Baptista	Miguel Paludo
8	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
9				Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
10	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	26 August	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
11				Werner Neugebauer	Werner Neugebauer
12	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	11 November	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
13		12 November		Rodrigo Baptista	Miguel Paludo

Races Challenge Sprint

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil and Argentina.

Race	Circuit, Location	Date	Pole Position		Race winner
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	18 March	Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri	Marçal Muller
2	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	6 May	Marçal Muller	Rodrigo Mello	Marçal Muller
3	Autódromo Vello Città	3 June	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller
4	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August	Eloi Khouri	Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri
5			Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri
6	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	27 August	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller
7			Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri
8	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	12 November	Eloi Khouri	Marcus Vario	Marcus Vario

Endurance Series

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.

Round	Circuit, Location	Date	Pole Position	Cup winners	Challenge winners
1	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu 300 km Velo Citta	16 September	Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito	Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta	Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani
2	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia) 300 km Goiania	7 October	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	Alan Hellmeister Luca Seripieri
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace 500 km Interlagos	2 December	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga	Alan Hellmeister Luca Seripieri

Notes

Drivers' Championship

Points are awarded for each race at an event to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 70% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race. The sprint races has the partially top 6 or 10 grid depending on a draw. Only the best 11 results in cup class counts toward the championship, while in challenge class only the best 5 results.

Points format	Position
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Cup feature race	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
Cup reserve grid race	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Challenge race	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Cup

Pos Driver CUR INT VEC BUA TRH INT Pts 1 Rodrigo Baptisa 1 8 1 1 2 2 Ret 1 1 1 Ret 1 3 210 2 Miguel Paludo 2 7 5 3 3 3 1 7 3 2 3 4 1 194 (208,5) 3 Ricardo Baptista 5 4 3 2 4 4 3 5 Ret 3 4 3 5 174 (181) 4 Lico Kaesemodel 3 6 2 7 9 1 7 4 2 5 9 2 2 172 (184) 5 Werner Neugebauer 6 3 7 Ret DNS 9 2 3 Ret 4 1 7 12 124 6 Pedro Queirolo 14 14 4 6 1 5 6 8 Ret 8 5 9 6 123 (124) 7 João Paulo Mauro 4 5 Ret 13 8 7 Ret 2 4 Ret Ret 5 4 106 8 Marcel Visconde 8 1 9 8 7 8 4 7 6 11 10 100 9 Fernando Fortes 10 10 6 5 6 13 6 15 Ret 6 2 Ret Ret 92 10 Maurizio Billi Ret 15 10 10 10 8 8 10 8 13 10 10 11 72.5 (73) 11 Tom Valle 7 2 12 18 Ret 11 Ret 8 8 47 12 Vanuê Faria 12 12 17 14 11 15 11 12 10 11 11 16 Ret 45 13 Carlos Ambrósio DSQ DSQ Ret 9 14 6 5 14 9 44 14 Márcio Mauro Ret 16 11 11 15 18 13 9 6 Ret DSQ 12 Ret 39 15 Adalberto Baptista Ret 17 16 4 5 Ret Ret 16 11 Ret 13 36 16 Dario Giustozzi Ret 18 Ret 19 16 10 9 14 9 Ret 7 Ret Ret 33 17 Guilherme Figueirôa 9 9 20 15 12 17 Ret 11 Ret 13 Ret 15 Ret 29,5 18 Eduardo Rocha Azevedo 8 DNS DNS 6 14 23 19 Constantino Jr. 5 10 20 20 Ramon Alcaraz 18 DNS DNS Ret 12 10 8 20 21 Cleber Faria 13 13 14 17 18 16 12 18 13 15 Ret 19 15 18.5 22 Marcio Basso 11 11 13 12 17 17,5 23 Pablo Otero 17 7 14 12 9 24 Eloi Khouri 13 7 13 25 Guilherme Reischl 12 Ret 18 Ret 5 26 Beto Leite 13 15 Ret DNS 21 Ret 5 27 Paulo Pomelli 14 Ret Ret 14 20 Ret 5 28 Marcelo Stallone 19 16 13 3 29 Cristiano Piquet Ret 19 15 Ret Ret 2 Matte Karlsson 17 Ret 0 Alceu Feldmann DNS DNS 0 Pos Driver INT VEC BUA TRH INT Pts

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

Challenge

Pos Driver INT VEC BUA TRH INT Pts 1 Marçal Müller 1 1 1 2 Ret 1 Ret 2 98 (116) 2 Eloi Khouri 3 3 7 1 1 2 1 4 86 (95) 3 Marcus Vario 5 2 2 4 Ret 9 15 1 82 (89) 4 Tom Filho 7 3 3 16 3 2 9 66 5 Rodrigo Mello 2 4 Ret 5 17 15 5 8 64 6 Pedro Costa 6 10 5 10 3 4 3 6 64 (70) 7 Luiz Fernando Elias 10 6 6 9 4 6 Ret 5 56 (62) 8 Rouman Ziemkiewicz 8 Ret 4 Ret 10 7 4 Ret 42 9 Ronaldo Kastropil 4 9 8 7 3 39 (46) 10 Pablo Delponte 11 Ret 5 5 6 13 32 11 Mauricio Salla 13 12 8 7 11 13 8 32 12 Paulo Totaro 9 18 9 12 12 12 11 12 27 13 Luca Seripieri Ret 14 16 13 2 10 10 Ret 26 14 Marcus Peres Ret 5 Ret 6 8 Ret 22 15 Ramon Alcaraz 7 10 10 21 16 Francisco Horta 11 13 15 15 6 Ret Ret 15 20 17 Marco Billi Ret 15 12 14 9 Ret 7 Ret 19 18 Marcelo Parodi 12 16 14 16 14 14 14 14 12 19 Guilherme Reischl Ret 17 11 11 13 10 20 Lucas Peres 8 7 9 21 Raulino Kreis Jr. 7 9 22 Odair dos Santos 8 Ret 8 23 Dominique Teysseyre 11 13 5 24 Fabian Taraborelli 11 5 25 Fernando Guerra Ret 15 Ret 12 Ret 5 26 Ricardo Mendes 13 3 Pos Driver INT VEC BUA TRH INT Pts

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

Endurance

Pos Driver VEC GOI INT Pts Cup 1= Miguel Paludo 2 5 7 168 2= Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta 1 7 9 154 3= Eduardo Azevedo Ricardo Maurício Ret 4 2 154 4 Noberto Gresse 2 5 10 151 5= Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito DSQ 3 3 149 6= João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga 11 Ret 1 142 7 Sergio Jimenez 8 1 12 137 8= Sylvio de Barros Cacá Bueno 20 2 8 135 9= Pedro Queirolo Clemente Lunardi 14 9 5 129 10= Rodrigo Baptista 1 12 68 10= Adalberto Baptista Bruno Baptista 7 6 104 11 Daniel Schneider 8 6 14 102 12= Beto Leite Nonô Figueiredo 5 15 13 101 13= Tom Valle Daniel Serra 4 85 14= Marcel Visconde 6 11 80 15= Felipe Nasr 4 Ret 18 73 16= Ramon Alcaraz Bia Figueiredo 19 10 65 17= Justin Allgaier 7 62 17= Marcus Vario 9 8 Ret 62 17= Alberto Valério 9 8 62 17= Werner Neugebauer 18 Ret 11 62 18= Marçal Muller 3 Ret Ret 55 18= Pedro Piquet 3 Ret 55 19= Guilherme Reischl 11 15 52 20= Ingo Hoffmann 4 50 21= Fernando Fortes 6 40 21= Nelson Piquet Jr. 6 40 22= Marcos Gomes 13 40 23= Thomas Preining 14 29 24= Juliano Moro 11 26 24= Francisco Horta Fabio Carbone 15 26 25 Carlos Ambrósio Ret 18 23 26= Allam Khodair 18 22 27= Marcelo Stallone Beto Posses Rodolfo Ometto 26 21 28= Kreis Jr. Giulio Borlenghi Lucas Foresti 28 19 Renan Guerra Ret Denis Navarro Ret Dennis Olsen Ret Júlio Campos Guilherme Figueirôa DSQ 0 Challenge 1= Luca Seripieri Alan Hellmeister 16 11 16 108 2= Marcus Peres Lucas Peres 12 14 19 97 3= Tom Filho Rodrigo Mello 13 17 17 95 4= Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani 10 19 22 79 5= Marco Billi Maurizio Billi 21 16 23 67 6= Eloi Khouri 17 13 27 66 6= Nando Elias Rouman Ziemkiewicz 23 21 20 66 7= Paulo Totaro 15 Ret 21 59 7= Ronaldo Kastropil 15 21 59 8 João Gonçalves 17 50 9 Dominique Teysseyre 22 12 44 10= Marco Cozzi 17 27 40 10= Ricardo Mendes 18 25 40 11 Laszlo Piquet 21 36 12 Danilo Dirani 22 32 13 Fábio Carbone 12 29 14= Esteban Guerrieri 13 26 14= Mario Chomalí Carlos Ruiz 24 26 15= Leandro Romera Alexandre Auler 25 23 16 Diego Nunes 27 21 17 Sérgio Maggi 18 17 18 Giuliano Losacco 22 15 Fernando Fortes Ret 0 Pos Driver VEC GOI INT Pts

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

External links

• • Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil at Driver Database