The 2015 Circuito Schin Stock Car Brasil season was the thirty-seventh season of the Stock Car Brasil. The season began at the Goiânia in March and ended at the Interlagos in December. The 2015 Stock Car Brasil consists of four main support championships which support the championship at almost every round, along with several smaller championships supporting one or two events. Marcos Gomes was the champion of the season.
Teams and drivers
Season entries Manufacturer Team Driver Rounds Chevrolet Sonic Red Bull Racing 0 Cacá Bueno 1–5, 7–12 29 Daniel Serra All 91 Laurens Vanthoor 6 Vogel Motorsport 5 Denis Navarro All 70 Diego Nunes All RZ Motorsport 8 Rafael Suzuki All 14 Luciano Burti All ProGP 9 Gustavo Lima 5–12 33 Felipe Maluhy 1 Shell Racing 10 Ricardo Zonta All 77 Valdeno Brito All TMG Racing 12 Lucas Foresti 1–11 42 Constantino Júnior 12 51 Átila Abreu All Bardahl Hot Car 16 Mauro Giallombardo 10–11 26 Raphael Abbate All 69 Beto Monteiro 12 72 Fábio Fogaça 1–9 Full Time Sports 118 Allam Khodair All 111 Rubens Barrichello All Ipiranga-RCM 21 Thiago Camilo All 28 Galid Osman All Eurofarma RC 65 Max Wilson All 90 Ricardo Maurício All C2 Team 73 Sérgio Jimenez All 83 Gabriel Casagrande All Peugeot 408 Prati-Donaduzzi 1 Antônio Pizzonia All 4 Júlio Campos All Schin Racing Team 2 Raphael Matos 1–11 63 Néstor Girolami 12 110 Felipe Lapenna All União Química Bassani 3 Bia Figueiredo All 25 Tuka Rocha All Cavaleiro Sports 11 César Ramos All 74 Popó Bueno All Boettger Competições 46 Vitor Genz All 66 Felipe Guimarães 10–12 82 Alceu Feldmann 1 777 Pedro Boesel 7 Voxx Racing 80 Marcos Gomes All 88 Felipe Fraga All First round entries Team Season driver Wildcard driver Red Bull Racing 0 Cacá Bueno José María López 29 Daniel Serra Chico Serra Prati-Donaduzzi 1 Antônio Pizzonia Bruno Senna 4 Júlio Campos Nicolas Prost Schin Racing Team 2 Raphael Matos David Muffato 110 Felipe Lapenna Vitantonio Liuzzi União Química Racing 3 Bia Figueiredo Matias Milla 25 Tuka Rocha Chris van der Drift Vogel Motorsport 5 Denis Navarro Felipe Giaffone 70 Diego Nunes Ricardo Rosset RZ Motorsport 8 Rafael Suzuki Antonio Pérez 14 Luciano Burti Jaime Alguersuari Shell Racing 10 Ricardo Zonta Jacques Villeneuve 77 Valdeno Brito Laurens Vanthoor Cavaleiro Racing 11 César Ramos Frédéric Vervisch 74 Popó Bueno Guilherme Salas AMG Motorsport 12 Lucas Foresti Luiz Razia 51 Átila Abreu Nelson Piquet Jr. Full Time Sports 18 Allam Khodair António Félix da Costa 111 Rubens Barrichello Ingo Hoffmann Ipiranga-RCM 21 Thiago Camilo Lucas di Grassi 28 Galid Osman Beto Monteiro Hot Car Competições 26 Raphael Abbate Nicolas Costa 72 Fábio Fogaça Leandro Totti ProGP 33 Felipe Maluhy Xandinho Negrão Boettger Competições 46 Vítor Genz Matheus Stumpf 82 Alceu Feldmann Ezequiel Bosio Eurofarma RC 65 Max Wilson Vítor Meira 90 Ricardo Maurício Néstor Girolami C2 Team 73 Sérgio Jimenez Fábio Carbone 83 Gabriel Casagrande Enrique Bernoldi Voxx Racing 80 Marcos Gomes Mark Winterbottom 88 Felipe Fraga Álvaro Parente
Team changes AMG Motorsport return for the official name after Mobil reduced support in the team. Hanier Racing is now called Cavaleiro Racing with the acquisition of 100% of corporate shares by Beto Cavaleiro. Textiles Hanier left the championship. ProGP scaled back to a single car operation. RC3 Bassani returned to operating as a two-car team and the team changed name to União Química Bassani for sponsorship reasons.
Driver changes
Changed teams Popó Bueno left Shell Racing and joined Total Racing. Luciano Burti changed teams from Vogel Motorsport to RZ Motorsport. Fábio Fogaça left the Schin Racing Team and moved to Hot Car Competições. Alceu Feldmann returned to Boettger Competições, having competed for the team from 2005 to 2009. Bia Figueiredo and Rafael Suzuki, who raced for ProGP in 2014, will join União Química Racing and RZ Motorsport respectively. Lucas Foresti switched from RC3 Bassani to AMG Motorsport. Felipe Fraga and Marcos Gomes joined Voxx Racing, leaving Vogel Motorsport and the Schin Racing Team respectively. Sérgio Jimenez left Voxx Racing to race for the Axalta C2 Team. Felipe Lapenna and Raphael Matos left Hot Car Competições to join the Schin Racing Team. Denis Navarro and Diego Nunes joined Vogel Motorsport, leaving Voxx Racing and the Axalta C2 Team respectively. Tuka Rocha left RZ Motorsport and moved to União Quimica Racing. After seven seasons racing for his own team, Ricardo Zonta switched to Shell Racing.
Entering/re-entering the series Campeonato Brasileiro de Turismo runner-up Raphael Abbate will debut in the series, with Hot Car Competições. César Ramos, who competed for Belgian Audi Club Team WRT in the Blancpain Endurance and Sprint championships in 2014, joined Total Racing in 2015. Ramos competed as a wildcard at the first round in 2014, with Ipiranga-RCM.
Leaving the series Beto Cavaleiro will not return to the series in 2015, and will focus on running the Cavaleiro Racing. Nonô Figueiredo announced his retirement from Stock Car after three wins and fifteen seasons.
Lico Kaesemodel, Felipe Tozzo, Mauri Zacarelli, Wellington Justino, Felipe Gama and Vicente Orige competed part-time in 2014 and will not return in 2015.
In-season changes After first round ProGP did not compete until fourth round, returning at fifth round with the rookie Gustavo Lima. Alceu Feldmann leaves Boettger Competições after first round. Boettger return to operate two cars in seventh round with Pedro Boesel and the last three rounds with Felipe Guimarães. Cacá Bueno had been suspended in court after offending the marshals on team radio after his victory in the first race at Ribeirão Preto - when he crossed the line, he kept racing in front of Marcos Gomes because the chequered flag was not waved at neither of them in the occasion by mistake. After competing in the first round as a wildcard driver, Laurens Vanthoor replaces Bueno at Red Bull Racing. Fábio Fogaça was fired on Hot Car Competições after nine round for poor results, in his place the team called the Argentine driver Mauro Giallombardo for two rounds and Fórmula Truck champion Beto Monteiro for the last round. Constantino Júnior return for Stock Car in last round replacing your nephew Lucas Foresti in AMG Motorsport after Foresti received a 30 days preventive suspension for doping. Raphael Matos also was suspended for the same reason of Foresti. In his place Schin Racing Team called Argentine driver Néstor Girolami two time Super TC 2000 champion and winner of Stock Car All Star Race at Interlagos with Ricardo Mauricio.
Race calendar and results The provisional 2015 schedule was announced on 18 November 2014. The seventh edition of the Schin Million was held on August 16 in Goiânia; the season was contested over twenty-one races at twelve rounds, with the first round – also to be held in Goiânia – being contested by two-driver entries with wildcard drivers. The Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit returned to the series after one year off the schedule, and was held in April. Later in the season, it was announced that the race on the Salvador was to be replaced by a race at Curitiba. All races were held in Brazil.
Round Circuit Date Pole position Fastest lap Winning driver Winning team 1 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia March 22 Átila Abreu Nelson Piquet Jr. Ricardo Maurício Néstor Girolami Ricardo Maurício Néstor Girolami Eurofarma RC 2 R1 Ribeirão Preto Street Circuit April 5 Max Wilson Raphael Matos Cacá Bueno Red Bull Racing R2 Vítor Genz Rubens Barrichello Tuka Rocha União Química Racing 3 R1 Velopark, Nova Santa Rita April 26 Marcos Gomes Rubens Barrichello Daniel Serra Red Bull Racing R2 Max Wilson Ricardo Maurício Max Wilson Eurofarma RC 4 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba May 31 Galid Osman Marcos Gomes Daniel Serra Red Bull Racing R2 Valdeno Brito Lucas Foresti Júlio Campos Prati-Donaduzzi 5 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul June 28 Valdeno Brito Felipe Fraga Marcos Gomes Voxx Racing R2 Daniel Serra Cacá Bueno Valdeno Brito Shell Racing 6 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba August 2 Marcos Gomes Thiago Camilo Marcos Gomes Voxx Racing R2 Max Wilson Marcos Gomes Sérgio Jimenez Axalta C2 Team 7 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia August 16 Marcos Gomes Daniel Serra Thiago Camilo Ipiranga-RCM 8 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel August 30 Valdeno Brito Valdeno Brito Valdeno Brito Shell Racing R2 Diego Nunes Ricardo Maurício Thiago Camilo Ipiranga-RCM 9 R1 Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura September 13 Marcos Gomes Allam Khodair Marcos Gomes Voxx Racing R2 Cacá Bueno Ricardo Maurício Felipe Fraga Voxx Racing 10 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba October 18 Marcos Gomes Lucas Foresti Lucas Foresti AMG Motorsport R2 Denis Navarro Felipe Fraga Max Wilson Eurofarma RC 11 R1 Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã November 8 Allam Khodair Felipe Fraga Allam Khodair Full Time Sports R2 Vítor Genz Rubens Barrichello Cacá Bueno Red Bull Racing 12 Interlagos Circuit December 13 Valdeno Brito Átila Abreu Átila Abreu AMG Motorsport
Championship standings Points system Points were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver/s of a car that completed at least 75% of the race distance and was running at the completion of the race, up to a maximum of 48 points per event.
Points format Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th Dual race 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Feature races 24 20 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Sprint races 15 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Final race 48 40 36 34 32 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2
Dual Race: Used for the first round with Wildcard drivers. Feature races: Used for the first race of each event and the Stock Car Million race. Sprint races: Used for the second race of each event, with partially reversed (top ten) grid. Final race: Used for the last round of the season with double points.
Drivers' Championship