2018 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil explained

The 2018 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 fourteenth season. It began on March 24 at Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba and finished on November 11 at Autódromo José Carlos Pace. 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. From the 2018 season, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991), will now have the new Porsche 911 Cup (Type 991.2), making the category to align to the same molds played in other countries, now being called Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Cup series) and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Challenge series).

	Driver	Round
Carrera Cup 4.0
00	Constantino Jr.	1–5
7		All
8	Werner Neugebauer	All
10	Daniel Schneider	2–3
13	Pedro Queirolo	All
22	Luca Seripieri	3–5
27	Ricardo Baptista	2–6
29	Rodrigo Mello	4
63	Lico Kaesemodel	All
88	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo	1
90	João Paulo Mauro	All
544	Marçal Muller	All
Carrera Cup 3.8
11	Gaetano di Mauro	All
19	Tom Filho	1
20	Pedrinho Aguiar	All
21	Eloi Khouri	All
29	Rodrigo Mello	1–3
31	William Starostik	1
32	Fernando Fortes	All
44	Bruno Baptista	All
55	Marcus Vario	1–4
71	Raulino Kreis Jr.	1
73	Enzo Elias	All
77	Murilo Coletta	All
120	Vitor Baptista	All
177	Marcel Coletta	All
277	Matheu Coletta	All
GT3 Cup 4.0
4	Beto Leite		1
5	Sylvio de Barros		1–4
10	Adalbeto Baptista		1–4
11	Márcio Mauro		1–4
18	Carlos Ambrósio		1–3
19	Tom Filho		3–4
30	Bruno Garfinkel		4
31	Luca Seripieri		1–2
33	Dominique Teysseyre		1–4
34	Maurizio Billi		1–4
37	Guilherme Reischl		1–4
50	Ramon Alcaraz		3–4
53	Rodolfo Toni		1–4
80	Rouman Ziemkiewicz		1–4
99	Tom Vale		1–4
GT3 Cup 3.8
7	Patrick Choate		1–4
8	Anderson Faita		3
14	André Gaidzinski		1–4
40	Alan Turres		2–3
45	Paulo Tortaro		1–4
50	Ramon Alcaraz		3
55	Alexandre Auler		1–3
71	Sangho Kim		1–3
77	Franscisco Horta		1–4
83	Marco Billi		1–4
87	Nelson Monteiro		1–3

Race Calendar and Results

Carrera Cup

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.

Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning 3.8
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba	24 March	Lico Kaesemodel	Lico Kaesemodel	Marçal Muller	Marcus Vario
2				Lico Kaesemodel	Werner Neugebauer	Vitor Baptista
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	14 April	Miguel Paludo	Miguel Paludo	Miguel Paludo	Gaetano di Mauro
4				Constantino Jr.	Constantino Jr.	Fernando Fortes
5	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	12 May	Werner Neugebauer	Ricardo Baptista	Werner Neugebauer	Gaetano di Mauro
6				Lico Kaesemodel	Lico Kaesemodel	Vitor Baptista
7	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	10 June	Lico Kaesemodel	Pedro Queirolo	Lico Kaesemodel	Vitor Baptista
8				Constantino Jr.	Constantino Jr.	Bruno Baptista
9	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	15 September	Marçal Muller	Werner Neugebauer	Werner Neugebauer	Vitor Baptista
10				Werner Neugebauer	Werner Neugebauer	Gaetano di Mauro
11	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	10 November	Miguel Paludo	Miguel Paludo	Miguel Paludo	Eloi Khouri
12		11 November		Ricardo Baptista	Ricardo Baptista	Bruno Baptista

GT3 Cup

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.

Race	Circuit, Location	Date	Pole Position		Race winner	Winning 3.8
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba	24 March	Sylvio de Barros	Tom Valle	Sylvio de Barros	Franscisco Horta
2				Sylvio de Barros	Sylvio de Barros	Marco Billi
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	14 April	Tom Valle	Sylvio de Barros	Sylvio de Barros	Paulo Tortaro
4				Tom Valle	Tom Valle	Alan Turres
5	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	12 May	Tom Filho	Tom Vale	Tom Filho	Nelson Monteiro
6				Tom Vale	Tom Vale	Nelson Monteiro
7	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	10 June	Tom Vale	Tom Vale	Adalbeto Baptista	Paulo Tortaro
8				Rouman Ziemkiewicz	Rouman Ziemkiewicz	Franscisco Horta
9	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	15 September	Marcel Visconde	Adalbeto Baptista	Adalbeto Baptista	Nelson Monteiro
10				Marcel Visconde	Marcel Visconde	Nelson Monteiro
11	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	10 November	Sylvio de Barros	Sylvio de Barros	Sylvio de Barros	Carlos Renaux
12		11 November		Tom Filho	Tom Filho	Franscisco Horta

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 reserve grid. Only the best 10 results in each series counts for the championship.

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

Carrera Cup

Pos Driver CUR INT INT INT VEC INT Pts 4.0 1 Werner Neugebauer 5 1 4 6 1 4 5 5 1 3 2 4 172 (194) 2 Miguel Paludo Ret 4 1 5 5 3 2 4 4 1 1 DSQ 170 3 Lico Kaesemodel Ret Ret 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 6 7 2 168 4 Marçal Müller 1 2 8 8 2 6 Ret 6 2 2 3 12 154 (162) 5 Pedro Queirolo 2 3 Ret 7 6 7 3 3 5 12 6 3 142 (150) 6 Constantino Jr. 3 5 7 1 8 5 4 1 6 7 138 7 Ricardo Baptista 3 2 3 2 Ret DNS 8 4 5 1 129 8 João Paulo Mauro 4 Ret 6 4 9 8 Ret 9 7 5 4 5 115 9 Daniel Schneider 5 DNS 7 9 33 10 Luca Seripieri Ret 10 6 8 27 11 Eduardo Azevedo Ret DNS 9 7 19 12 Rodrigo Mello 7 7 18 3.8 Pts 1 Vitor Baptista 7 6 13 12 13 11 8 18 9 10 6 2 182 (193) 2 Gaetano di Mauro 18 18 9 10 10 13 9 12 12 8 20 Ret 167 3 Bruno Baptista 15 13 12 15 15 16 11 10 11 DSQ 2 1 141 (148) 4 Marcel Coletta Ret 10 10 11 11 14 14 17 Ret 11 3 Ret 132 5 Murilo Coletta 8 7 16 Ret Ret 15 10 15 13 9 Ret 4 131 6 Fernando Fortes 9 8 14 9 16 18 15 14 15 14 9 6 125 7 Enzo Elias Ret 19 17 14 12 20 12 13 10 15 7 Ret 109 8 Eloi Khouri 13 15 15 Ret Ret 19 13 11 14 17 1 5 108 9 Marcus Vario 6 9 11 16 14 12 Ret 19 100 10 Matheus Coletta 17 14 20 17 18 Ret 17 Ret 16 13 5 3 90 11 Pedrinho Aguiar 11 18 18 13 17 18 16 16 Ret 16 4 Ret 89 12 Rodrigo Mello 12 16 19 18 Ret Ret 27 13 Raulino Kreis Jr. 10 11 24 14 Tom Filho 14 17 12 15 William Starostik 16 20 7 Pos Driver CUR INT INT TRH VEC INT Pts

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

GT3 Cup

Pos Driver CUR INT INT INT VEC INT Pts 1 Sylvio de Barros 1 1 1 2 2 7 2 3 12 147 2 Adalberto Baptista 4 4 12 17 7 2 1 2 1 121 3 Maurizio Billi 3 2 Ret 3 3 10 4 Ret Ret 92 4 Rouman Ziemkiewicz Ret 12 Ret 5 6 6 5 1 Ret 75 5 Tom Valle Ret DNS Ret 1 4 1 6 Ret 68 6 Guilherme Reischl 5 8 Ret 6 5 4 15 Ret 7 66 7 Tom Filho 1 5 3 5 Ret 64 8 Carlos Ambrósio 2 3 Ret 4 8 Ret 4 59 9 Dominique Teysseyre Ret DNS 3 8 10 9 12 6 Ret 58 10 Rodolfo Toni Ret 6 Ret 7 20 3 Ret 4 6 55 11 Márcio Mauro 6 Ret 2 Ret 19 8 8 DSQ Ret 53 12 Luca Seripieri Ret 5 11 18 32 13 Ramon Alcaraz 21 DNS 7 12 22 14 Bruno Garfinkel 9 8 17 3.8 1 Paulo Totaro 7 10 4 12 11 14 10 10 146 2 Francisco Horta 6 13 5 15 14 16 11 7 129 3 Patrick Choate 8 11 7 13 13 13 14 9 128 4 Marco Billi 12 9 Ret 11 12 12 13 11 114 5 André Gaidzinski 11 14 8 14 15 19 16 Ret 81 6 Nelson Monteiro DNS DNS 6 10 9 11 78 7 Sangho Kim 10 16 10 16 18 20 55 8 Alexandre Auler 9 15 13 Ret 16 17 54 9 Alan Turres 9 9 Ret 15 44 10 Anderson Faita 17 18 17 11 Ramon Alcaraz DNS 21 55 Pos Driver CUR INT GOI TRH VEC INT Pts

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

External links

• • Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil at Driver Database