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 200KM Goiania
Crown Racing Chevrolet Cruze 0 Cacá Bueno 1
4 Júlio Campos 1 Fábio Carbone
Shell V-Power 51 Átila Abreu 1
28 Galid Osman 1 Dennis Dirani
Ipiranga Racing Toyota Corolla 3 Bia Figueiredo[3][lower-alpha 1] 10-12
21 Thiago Camilo 1
30 César Ramos 1
R. Mattheis Motorsport[lower-alpha 2] Chevrolet Cruze 83 Gabriel Casagrande 1 Gabriel Robe
143 Pedro Cardoso 1
Cavaleiro Sports Chevrolet Cruze 5 Denis Navarro 1
80 Marcos Gomes 1 Bruno Senna
Vogel Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze 11 Gaetano di Mauro 1 Danilo Dirani
12 Lucas Foresti 1
Blau Motorsport/TMG Chevrolet Cruze 18 Allam Khodair 1
70 Diego Nunes 1
Eurofarma RC Chevrolet Cruze 29 Daniel Serra 1 Augusto Farfus
90 Ricardo Maurício 1 Felipe Nasr
RCM[lower-alpha 3] Toyota Corolla 10 Ricardo Zonta 1 Laurens Vanthoor
44 Bruno Baptista 1 Rodrigo Baptista
Full Time Sports 33 Nelson Piquet, Jr 1 Antonio Felix da Costa
111 Rubens Barrichello 1 Filipe Albuquerque
FTS 8 Rafael Suzuki 1
117 Matías Rossi 1 Pechito López
KTF Sports Chevrolet Cruze TBA Vitor Baptista 1
85 Guilherme Salas 1
Maxon KTF Racing 73 Sérgio Jimenez 1
Hot Car Competições Chevrolet Cruze 54 Tuca Antoniazi 1
TBA 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.[4] The team also announced an alliance with Shell V-Power Racing that left TMG Racing.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

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

KTF Sports will expand to a three-car team, after acquiring an car of Blau/TMG.[9]

Carlos Alves Competições, who competed part-time last season, will not return.

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.[10]

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.[11] After one season in the customer team, Marcel Colletta will replace Fraga at Cimed Racing.

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

Calendar


Round Circuit Date
1 Race 1 Velopark 4 April
Race 2
2 Race 1 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Londrina 17 May
Race 2
3 Race 1 Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo 31 May
Race 2
4 Race 1 Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu 28 June
Race 2
5 Race 1 Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul 19 July
Race 2
6 Corrida do Milhão, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo 23 August
7 Race 1 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Londrina 13 September
Race 2
8 Race 1 Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel 18 October
Race 2
9 Race 1 TBA 8 November
Race 2
10† 200 KM of Goiânia, Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna.† 22 November
11 Super Final, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo 13 December

† The 200 KM of Goiânia round, which was scheduled to be the season opener, was postponed to the 10th round due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notes
  1. Figueiredo announced on that she is pregnant with her first child. She may return at november.
  2. R. Mattheis Motorsport is a customer team of Ipiranga Racing, but raced with differents makes.
  3. RCM is a customer team of Eurofarma RC.

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. "Grávida, Figueiredo fica fora da Stock Car até outubro. Ipiranga busca substituto". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  4. "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.
  5. "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.
  6. "Sem confirmar pilotos, Blau anuncia união com TMG na temporada 2020". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. December 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  7. "Patrocinadora, Prati rompe com Mattheis e deixa Stock Car no fim do ano". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. December 2019. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  8. "De surpresa, Toyota confirma presença na temporada 2020 da Stock Car". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. November 2019. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  9. "Grávida, Figueiredo fica fora da Stock Car até outubro. Ipiranga busca substituto". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2020.
  10. "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.
  11. "Fraga é anunciado em equipe oficial da Mercedes no Intercontinental GT Challenge". grandepremio.uol.com.br/. January 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
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