2017 Porsche GT3 Cup Brasil

The 2017 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 thirteenth season. It started on March 18 with a Sprint race in Curitiba and finished on December 2 with an Endurance race in São Paulo. 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. Cup, that uses the same cars of the European series; Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991) and Challenge, that uses Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 997) cars with a less-powerful engine.

No.	Driver	Rounds	Class
00	Constantino Jr.	3	C
2	Marcio Basso	1–2	C
3	Rodrigo Baptista	All	C
4	Beto Leite	4–6	C
6	Alceu Feldmann	1	C
7	Miguel Paludo	All	C
7	Dominique Teysseyre	5	CH
8	Werner Neugebauer	All	C
8	Marco Billi	All	CH
9	Guilherme Firguerôa	All	C
10	Adalberto Baptista	1–4, 6	C
11	Marcio Mauro	All	C
12	Dario Giustozzi	All	C
12	Pablo Delponte	2, 4–6	CH
13	Pedro Queirolo	All	C
17	Marcelo Parodi	1, 3–6	CH
17	Marcelo Stallone	2	C
19	Tom Filho	2–5	CH
18	Carlos Ambrósio	1–2, 4, 6	C
20	Marcel Visconde	1–3, 5–6	C
21	Eloi Khouri	All	CH
21	Eloi Khouri	6	C
25	Mauricio Salla	1–5	CH
27	Ricardo Baptista	All	C
27	Luís Fernando Elias	All	CH
29	Rodrigo Mello	All	CH
30	Cleber Faria	All	C
31	Lucas Seripieri	All	CH
32	Fernando Fortes	All	C
33	Pablo Otero	4–5	C
34	Maurizio Billi	All	C
37	Guilherme Reischl	1–4	CH'
37	Guilherme Reischl	5–6	C
43	Matte Karlsson	6	C
44	Paulo Pomelli	3–4, 6	C
45	Paulo Totaro	All	CH
50	Ramon Alcaraz	1, 6	CH
50	Ramon Alcaraz	2, 4–5	C
51	Cristiano Piquet	1–2	C
53	Ronaldo Kastropil	1–2, 4, 6	CH
54	Pedro Costa	All	CH
55	Marcus Vario	All	CH
56	Fabian Taraborelli	6	CH
63	Lico Kaesemodel	All	C
71	Raulino Kreis Jr.	6	CH
74	Odair Dos Santos	2–3	CH
76	Fernando Guerra	4–6	CH
77	Francisco Horta	All	CH
78	Lucas Peres	5	CH
79	Marcos Peres	All	CH
80	Rouman Ziemkiewicz	All	CH
88	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo	2, 6	C
90	João Paulo Mauro	All	C
99	Tom Vale	1–3, 6	C
105	Vanuê Faria	All	C
155	Rodrigo Mendes	3	CH
544	Marçal Muller	All	CH

Endurance season entries
No	Drivers	Rounds	Class
0	Cacá Bueno Sylvio de Barros	All	C
3	Rodrigo Baptista Sérgio Jimenez	2–3	C
4	Beto Leite Nonô Figueiredo Marcos Gomes	All 3	C
5	Marçal Muller Pedro Piquet Denis Navarro	All 2 3	C
7	Miguel Paludo Norberto Gresse Justin Allgaier	All 2 3	C
8	Werner Neugebauer Allam Khodair Renan Guerra	1–2 1 2	C
9	Júlio Campos Guilherme Figueiroa	2	C
10	Adalberto Baptista Bruno Baptista	1, 3	C
13	Pedro Queirolo Clemente Lunardi	All	C
15	Carlos Ruiz Mario Chomali	3	CH
17	Felipe Nasr Ingo Hoffmann Carlos Ambrosio	1–2 1 2	C
18	Felipe Nasr Carlos Ambrosio	3	CH
19	Tom Filho Rodrigo Mello João Gonçalves	All 3	CH
20	Marcel Visconde Fernando Fortes Werner Neugebauer	1, 3 3	C
21	Eloi Khouri Marco Cozzi Esteban Guerrieri Diego Nunes	All 1 2 3	CH
27	Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito	All	C
31	Luca Seripieri Alan Hellmeister	All	CH
33	Dominique Teysseyre Giuliano Losacco Fábio Carbone	1–2 1 2	CH
34	Marco Billi Maurizio Billi	All	CH
37	Juliano Moro Guilherme Reischl Franscisco Horta Fabio Carbone	2 2–3 3 3	C
44	Marcus Vario Alberto Valério Dennis Olsen	All 2 3	C
45	Paulo Totaro Ronaldo Kastropil Laszlo Piquet	All 3	CH
50	Ramon Alcaraz Bia Figueiredo Noberto Gresse Filho	1, 3 3	C
52	Beto Posses Marcelo Stallone Rodolfo Ometto	3	C
53	Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani Danilo Dirani	All 3	CH
63	Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta	All	C
71	Raulino Kreis Jr. Giulio Borlenghi Lucas Foresti	3	C
77	Daniel Schneider Sergio Jimenez Nelson Piquet Jr. Thomas Preining	All 1 2 3	C
79	Marcus Peres Lucas Peres	All	CH
80	Nando Elias Rouman Ziemkiewicz	All	CH
88	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo Ricardo Maurício	All	C
90	João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga	All	C
99	Tom Valle Daniel Serra	3	C
155	Sérgio Maggi Ricardo Mendes Leandro Romera Alexandre Auler	2 3 3 3	CH

Icon	Class
C	Cup
CH	Challenge

Race Calendar and Results

Races Cup Sprint

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil and Argentina.

Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba	18 March	Lico Kaesemodel	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
2	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba	18 March		Marcel Visconde	Marcel Visconde
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	6 May	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
4			Rodrigo Baptista	Ricardo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
5				Pedro Queirolo	Pedro Queirolo
6	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	3 June	Lico Kaesemodel	Rodrigo Baptista	Lico Kaesemodel
7	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu	3 June		Rodrigo Baptista	Miguel Paludo
8	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
9	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August		Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
10	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	26 August	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
11	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	26 August		Werner Neugebauer	Werner Neugebauer
12	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	11 November	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista	Rodrigo Baptista
13	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	12 November		Rodrigo Baptista	Miguel Paludo

Races Challenge Sprint

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil and Argentina.

Race	Circuit, Location	Date	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Race winner
1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	18 March	Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri	Marçal Muller
2	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	6 May	Marçal Muller	Rodrigo Mello	Marçal Muller
3	Autódromo Vello Città	3 June	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller
4	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August	Eloi Khouri	Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri
5	Autódromo Juan y Óscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires	5 August	Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri
6	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	27 August	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller	Marçal Muller
7	Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo, Santiago del Estero	27 August	Marçal Muller	Eloi Khouri	Eloi Khouri
8	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	12 November	Eloi Khouri	Marcus Vario	Marcus Vario

Endurance Series

All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.

Round	Circuit, Location	Date	Pole Position	Cup winners	Challenge winners
1	Autódromo Velo Città, Mogi Guaçu 300 km Velo Citta	16 September	Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito	Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta	Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani
2	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia) 300 km Goiania	7 October	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	Alan Hellmeister Luca Seripieri
3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace 500 km Interlagos	2 December	Rodrigo Baptista Sergio Jimenez	João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga	Alan Hellmeister Luca Seripieri

Notes

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 or 10 grid depending on a draw. Only the best 11 results in cup class counts toward the championship, while in challenge class only the best 5 results.

Points format	Position
Points format	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Cup feature race	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2
Cup reserve grid race	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Challenge race	20	18	16	14	12	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Cup

Pos	Driver	CUR^{[N 1]}		INT			VEC		BUA		TRH		INT		Pts
1	Rodrigo Baptisa	1	8	1	1	2	2	Ret	1	1	1	Ret	1	3	210
2	Miguel Paludo	2	7	5	3	3	3	1	7	3	2	3	4	1	194 (208,5)
3	Ricardo Baptista	5	4	3	2	4	4	3	5	Ret	3	4	3	5	174 (181)
4	Lico Kaesemodel	3	6	2	7	9	1	7	4	2	5	9	2	2	172 (184)
5	Werner Neugebauer	6	3	7	Ret	DNS	9	2	3	Ret	4	1	7	12	124
6	Pedro Queirolo	14	14	4	6	1	5	6	8	Ret	8	5	9	6	123 (124)
7	João Paulo Mauro	4	5	Ret	13	8	7	Ret	2	4	Ret	Ret	5	4	106
8	Marcel Visconde	8	1	9	8	7	8	4			7	6	11	10	100
9	Fernando Fortes	10	10	6	5	6	13	6	15	Ret	6	2	Ret	Ret	92
10	Maurizio Billi	Ret	15	10	10	10	8	8	10	8	13	10	10	11	72.5 (73)
11	Tom Valle	7	2	12	18	Ret	11	Ret					8	8	47
12	Vanuê Faria	12	12	17	14	11	15	11	12	10	11	11	16	Ret	45
13	Carlos Ambrósio	DSQ	DSQ	Ret	9	14			6	5			14	9	44
14	Márcio Mauro	Ret	16	11	11	15	18	13	9	6	Ret	DSQ	12	Ret	39
15	Adalberto Baptista	Ret	17	16	4	5	Ret	Ret	16	11			Ret	13	36
16	Dario Giustozzi	Ret	18	Ret	19	16	10	9	14	9	Ret	7	Ret	Ret	33
17	Guilherme Figueirôa	9	9	20	15	12	17	Ret	11	Ret	13	Ret	15	Ret	29,5
18	Eduardo Rocha Azevedo			8	DNS	DNS							6	14	23
19	Constantino Jr.						5	10							20
20	Ramon Alcaraz			18	DNS	DNS			Ret	12	10	8			20
21	Cleber Faria	13	13	14	17	18	16	12	18	13	15	Ret	19	15	18.5
22	Marcio Basso	11	11	13	12	17									17,5
23	Pablo Otero								17	7	14	12			9
24	Eloi Khouri												13	7	13
25	Guilherme Reischl										12	Ret	18	Ret	5
26	Beto Leite								13	15	Ret	DNS	21	Ret	5
27	Paulo Pomelli						14	Ret	Ret	14			20	Ret	5
28	Marcelo Stallone			19	16	13									3
29	Cristiano Piquet	Ret	19	15	Ret	Ret									2
	Matte Karlsson												17	Ret	0
	Alceu Feldmann	DNS	DNS												0
Pos	Driver	CUR		INT			VEC		BUA		TRH		INT		Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole position

Italics – Fastest lap

† – Retired, but classified

Challenge

Pos	Driver	CUR	INT	VEC	BUA^{[N 2]}		TRH^{[N 3]}		INT	Pts
1	Marçal Müller	1	1	1	2	Ret	1	Ret	2	98 (116)
2	Eloi Khouri	3	3	7	1	1	2	1	4	86 (95)
3	Marcus Vario	5	2	2	4	Ret	9	15	1	82 (89)
4	Tom Filho		7	3	3	16	3	2	9	66
5	Rodrigo Mello	2	4	Ret	5	17	15	5	8	64
6	Pedro Costa	6	10	5	10	3	4	3	6	64 (70)
7	Luiz Fernando Elias	10	6	6	9	4	6	Ret	5	56 (62)
8	Rouman Ziemkiewicz	8	Ret	4	Ret	10	7	4	Ret	42
9	Ronaldo Kastropil	4	9		8	7			3	39 (46)
10	Pablo Delponte		11		Ret	5	5	6	13	32
11	Mauricio Salla	13	12	8	7	11	13	8		32
12	Paulo Totaro	9	18	9	12	12	12	11	12	27
13	Luca Seripieri	Ret	14	16	13	2	10	10	Ret	26
14	Marcus Peres	Ret	5	Ret	6	8			Ret	22
15	Ramon Alcaraz	7		10					10	21
16	Francisco Horta	11	13	15	15	6	Ret	Ret	15	20
17	Marco Billi	Ret	15	12	14	9	Ret	7	Ret	19
18	Marcelo Parodi	12	16	14	16	14	14	14	14	12
19	Guilherme Reischl	Ret	17	11	11	13				10
20	Lucas Peres						8	7		9
21	Raulino Kreis Jr.								7	9
22	Odair dos Santos		8	Ret						8
23	Dominique Teysseyre						11	13		5
24	Fabian Taraborelli								11	5
25	Fernando Guerra				Ret	15	Ret	12	Ret	5
26	Ricardo Mendes			13						3
Pos	Driver	CUR	INT	VEC	BUA		TRH		INT	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole position

Italics – Fastest lap

† – Retired, but classified

Endurance

Pos	Driver	VEC	GOI	INT	Pts
Cup
1=	Miguel Paludo	2	5	7	168
2=	Lico Kaesemodel Ricardo Zonta	1	7	9	154
3=	Eduardo Azevedo Ricardo Maurício	Ret	4	2	154
4	Noberto Gresse	2	5	10 ^{[N 4]}	151
5=	Ricardo Baptista Valdeno Brito	DSQ	3	3	149
6=	João Paulo Mauro Felipe Fraga	11	Ret	1	142
7	Sergio Jimenez	8	1	12	137
8=	Sylvio de Barros Cacá Bueno	20	2	8	135
9=	Pedro Queirolo Clemente Lunardi	14	9	5	129
10=	Rodrigo Baptista		1	12	68
10=	Adalberto Baptista Bruno Baptista	7		6	104
11	Daniel Schneider	8	6	14	102
12=	Beto Leite Nonô Figueiredo	5	15	13	101
13=	Tom Valle Daniel Serra			4	85
14=	Marcel Visconde	6		11	80
15=	Felipe Nasr	4	Ret	18	73
16=	Ramon Alcaraz Bia Figueiredo	19		10	65
17=	Justin Allgaier			7	62
17=	Marcus Vario	9	8	Ret	62
17=	Alberto Valério	9	8		62
17=	Werner Neugebauer	18	Ret	11	62
18=	Marçal Muller	3	Ret	Ret	55
18=	Pedro Piquet	3	Ret		55
19=	Guilherme Reischl		11	15	52
20=	Ingo Hoffmann	4			50
21=	Fernando Fortes	6			40
21=	Nelson Piquet Jr.		6		40
22=	Marcos Gomes			13	40
23=	Thomas Preining			14	29
24=	Juliano Moro		11		26
24=	Francisco Horta Fabio Carbone			15	26
25	Carlos Ambrósio		Ret	18	23
26=	Allam Khodair	18			22
27=	Marcelo Stallone Beto Posses Rodolfo Ometto			26	21
28=	Kreis Jr. Giulio Borlenghi Lucas Foresti			28	19
	Renan Guerra		Ret
	Denis Navarro			Ret
	Dennis Olsen			Ret
	Júlio Campos Guilherme Figueirôa		DSQ		0
	Challenge
1=	Luca Seripieri Alan Hellmeister	16	11	16	108
2=	Marcus Peres Lucas Peres	12	14	19	97
3=	Tom Filho Rodrigo Mello	13	17	17	95
4=	Rodolfo Toni Dennis Dirani	10	19	22	79
5=	Marco Billi Maurizio Billi	21	16	23	67
6=	Eloi Khouri	17	13	27	66
6=	Nando Elias Rouman Ziemkiewicz	23	21	20	66
7=	Paulo Totaro	15	Ret	21	59
7=	Ronaldo Kastropil	15		21	59
8	João Gonçalves			17	50
9	Dominique Teysseyre	22	12		44
10=	Marco Cozzi	17		27	40
10=	Ricardo Mendes		18	25	40
11	Laszlo Piquet			21	36
12	Danilo Dirani			22	32
13	Fábio Carbone		12		29
14=	Esteban Guerrieri		13		26
14=	Mario Chomalí Carlos Ruiz			24	26
15=	Leandro Romera Alexandre Auler			25	23
16	Diego Nunes			27	21
17	Sérgio Maggi		18		17
18	Giuliano Losacco	22			15
	Fernando Fortes		Ret		0
Pos	Driver	VEC	GOI	INT	Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not practice (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Bold – Pole position

Italics – Fastest lap

† – Retired, but classified

Footnotes

^ Half points were awarded for the second race as less than 50% of the race distance had been completed.
^ Only the best result at Buenos Aires round count for the championship in challenge class.
^ Only the best result at Termas de Río Hondo count for the championship in challenge class.
^ Gresse is part of a different pairing at Interlagos because Pauldo's sponsor, Brandt Agriculture Products, has a co-driver from the sponsor's headquarters available that weekend.

External links

Official website
Porsche GT3 Cup Brazil at Driver Database

[Half_points-1] Half points were awarded for the second race as less than 50% of the race distance had been completed.

[BUENOS_AIRES-2] Only the best result at Buenos Aires round count for the championship in challenge class.

[TRH-3] Only the best result at Termas de Río Hondo count for the championship in challenge class.

[Sponsor-4] Gresse is part of a different pairing at Interlagos because Pauldo's sponsor, Brandt Agriculture Products, has a co-driver from the sponsor's headquarters available that weekend.

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