South American Super Touring Car Championship Explained

Category:	Touring cars
Inaugural2:	1997
Country/Region:	South America
Folded:	2001

The South American Super Touring Car Championship (known locally as the Copa de las Naciones Super Turismo then as the Copa de Superturismo Sudamericano) was an international touring car racing series in South America which used FIA Super Touring regulations.

Champions

Year	Driver1	Car
1997	Oscar Larrauri	BMW 320i
1998	Oscar Larrauri	BMW 320i
1999*	Emiliano Spataro Cacá Bueno	Peugeot 406
2000	Oscar Larrauri	Alfa Romeo 156

• Bueno and Spataro had identical numbers of wins, places down to seventh and pole positions, so were declared joint champions.^[1]

Notable drivers

• Oscar Larrauri
• Miguel Ángel Guerra
• Ingo Hoffmann
• Juan Manuel Fangio II
• Gonzalo Rodríguez
• Osvaldo Lopez

See also

• TCR South America Touring Car Championship

References

1. http://www.dlg.speedfreaks.org/archive/1999/sudamtc.html#round12 1999 South American Super Touring Championship