2020 Stock Car Brasil Championship

The 2020 Stock Car Brasil Championship will be the forty-second season of the Stock Car Brasil. From 2020 Toyota Gazoo Racing will enter in the series.[1]

2020 Stock Car Brasil Championship
Previous: 2019 Next: 2021
Support series:
2020 Stock Car Light

Changes

Technical regulations
  • For 2020 Toyota Gazoo Racing entered alongside Chevrolet. The make developed ten Toyota Corolla Stock Car.[2]
  • Chevrolet Cruze and Toyota Corolla models will be used in 2020 configuration. They will be adapted to Stock Car components such as suspension, brake, gear and some other items of current cars.

Teams and drivers
Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
Crown Racing Chevrolet Cruze 0 Cacá Bueno 1
4 Júlio Campos 1
Shell V-Power [lower-alpha 1] 51 Átila Abreu 1
28 Galid Osman 1
Cavaleiro Sports Chevrolet Cruze 5 Denis Navarro 1
80 Marcos Gomes 1
Vogel Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze 11 Gaetano di Mauro 1
12 Lucas Foresti 1
Blau Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze 18 Allam Khodair 1
70 Diego Nunes 1
Ipiranga Racing Toyota Corolla 21 Thiago Camilo 1
30 César Ramos 1
R.Mattheis[lower-alpha 2] Chevrolet Cruze 83 Gabriel Casagrande 1
143 Pedro Cardoso 1
Eurofarma RC Chevrolet Cruze 29 Daniel Serra 1
90 Ricardo Maurício 1
RCM[lower-alpha 3] Toyota Corolla 10 Ricardo Zonta 1
44 Bruno Baptista 1
KTF Sports Chevrolet Cruze 46 Vitor Genz 1
85 Guilherme Salas 1
120 Vitor Baptista TBA
Maxon KTF 73 Sérgio Jimenez 2
Hot Car Competições Chevrolet Cruze 54 Tuca Antoniazi 1
Full Time Sports Toyota Corolla 111 Rubens Barrichello 1
117 Matías Rossi 1
Full Time Bassani [lower-alpha 4] 8 Rafael Suzuki 1
33 Nelson Piquet, Jr 1

Team changes

Cimed Racing announced the departure as a team of the championship after seven seasons and two titles. Customer team in 2019 Crown Racing will expand to four cars.[3] The team also announced an alliance with Shell V-Power Racing that left TMG Racing.[4] After the end of partnership, TMG announced a new partner with Blau Motorsport in 2020. The new team, which will be formed by the union of the two structures.[5] After one year of partnership Full Time Sports and Shell broke up and FTS will take on four cars.

Prati-Donaduzzi breaks up with R. Mattheis Motorsport and leaves Stock Car. The team will return to the original name.[6]

KTF Sports will expand to a three-car team[7] Hot Car Competições scaled back to a single car operations and Carlos Alves Competições, who competed part-time last season, will not return.

Toyota Gazoo Racing Brasil will compete with eight cars. The teams selected was Full Time Sports with four cars; RCM and Ipiranga Racing.[8]

Drivers changes

Atila Abreu and Ricardo Zonta left TMG Racing and Galid Osman and Gaetano di Mauro left Full Time Sports. Abreu and Osman will be part of Crown Racing; Zonta joined RCM and Di Mauro entered Vogel.[9]

Felipe Fraga left the series after six season and one title to focus on his international career. He will be part of Mercedes-Benz GT programme.[10]

Gabriel Casagrande moved from Crown Racing to R. Mattheis. 2019 drivers Júlio Campos and Valdeno Brito didn't advertise 2020 plans. Later, Campos signed with Crown Racing for replaced Casagrande and Brito joined Copa Truck championship.

Argentine racing driver, Matias Rossi joined Toyota Full Time. Piquet, Jr. was relocated to the customer team alongside Rafael Suzuki, who moved from Hot Car Competições.

Race calendar and Results

The calendar suffered a lot of changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next rounds will be announced soon.

Round[11] Circuit Date Pole Position Fastest Lap Winning Driver Winning Team
1 R1 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia July 26
R2
2 Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo August 22
3 Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo (Million Race) August 23
3 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Londrina September 13
4 Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel October 18
5 TBD November 8
6 Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo December 13

Notes
  1. Shell V-Power is a customer team of Crown Racing.
  2. R. Mattheis Motorsport is a customer team of Ipiranga Racing, but raced with different makes.
  3. RCM is a customer team of Eurofarma RC,, but raced with different makes.
  4. Full Time Bassani is a customer team of Full Time Sports

References
  1. "De surpresa, Toyota confirma presença na temporada 2020 da Stock Car". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. November 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  2. "ÚLTIMAS NOTÍCIAS26 DE NOVEMBRO DE 2019O QUE VOCÊ PRECISA SABER SOBRE O NOVO STOCK 2020". www.stockcar.com.br/. December 17, 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  3. "Com foco em Fraga fora do país, Cimed anuncia fim de equipe própria na Stock Car". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
  4. "Com apoio da Shell, Osman garante vaga na Crown e segue na Stock Car em 2020". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. December 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  5. "Sem confirmar pilotos, Blau anuncia união com TMG na temporada 2020". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. December 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  6. "Patrocinadora, Prati rompe com Mattheis e deixa Stock Car no fim do ano". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. December 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  7. "Grávida, Figueiredo fica fora da Stock Car até outubro. Ipiranga busca substituto". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  8. "De surpresa, Toyota confirma presença na temporada 2020 da Stock Car". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. November 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  9. "Com apoio da Shell, Osman garante vaga na Crown e segue na Stock Car em 2020". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  10. "Fraga é anunciado em equipe oficial da Mercedes no Intercontinental GT Challenge". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  11. Temporada 2020 - StockCar.com.br
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