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 Miguel Paludo 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 Müller 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 Müller 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 RetDNS 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 14 171 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 PtsBold – Pole positionItalics – 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 21DNS 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 MonteiroDNSDNS 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 AlcarazDNS 21 55 Pos Driver CUR INT GOI TRH VEC INT PtsBold – Pole positionItalics – Fastest lap† – Retired, but classified

External links

Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil at Driver Database