The 2023 Stock Car Pro Series was the 45th season of the Stock Car Pro Series, the premier

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series in South America, and the second season under the Stock Car Pro Series moniker. The season started at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna on April 2. The final race of the season was held at Interlagos on December 17. The championship was won by Gabriel Casagrande.

Calendar

The schedule for the 2023 season was released on 3 December 2022. On 12 April 2023, the calendar was modified, in which

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, Cascavel, Velopark, and

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returned to the calendar: On 25 September 2023, the round at

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on 24–26 November was replaced by another round at Cascavel on the same date.

Format

Each event features two races of 30 minutes held back-to-back. The grid for the first race is set using the results of qualifying, whereas the grid for the second race is taken from the results of race one with the top ten reversed.

Teams and drivers

Team changes

The field was reduced from thirty-four to thirty-two cars. Crown Racing and TMG Racing decreased their operations from three to two cars and RKL left the series after two seasons. Full Time Sports was the only team that increased its operation from four to five cars. Crown Racing changed from Chevrolet to Toyota. Full Time Sports divided its operations into three, two cars with the Mobil Ale name, and one under the Texaco Racing name. After seven seasons Bassani Racing did not return as a subsidiary of FTS. Pole Motorsport reverted to its original name after the

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ended its support for the team.

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and TMG Racing swapped their main sponsors. Lubrax switched to TMG and Blau Pharmaceutical moved to R.Mattheis.

Driver changes

Diego Nunes, Pedro Cardoso and Galid Osman left the series to join TCR South America.

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moved up to the series with Full Time Sports after competing part time with the team in 2021 and 2022. Enzo Elias graduated from

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to race full time at Crown Racing. He replaced Cacá Bueno and Rodrigo Baptista, who left the team and joined KTF Sports.

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and Júlio Campos left

to join TMG Racing.

Allam Khodair Allam Khodair (born May 15, 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver, currently driving in Stock Car Brasil. His mother is Japanese Brazilian and his father is Lebanese. Career Karting * 1999: Win the Brazilian karting championship; Win the Seletiva ...

, who raced for R.Mattheis in 2022, joined TMG alongside Felipe Fraga, who returned for the series after competing in the

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Lucas Foresti Lucas Constantino Bethonico Foresti (born 12 May 1992) is a Brazilian racing driver who currently competes in Stock Car Brasil for KTF Sports. Career Karting After a previous career in junior motocross, Foresti made his karting debut at Brasíli ...

left KTF to replace

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at A.Mattheis Vogel. Rossi returned to Full Time Sports, replacing

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, who joined Pole Motorsport. Lucas Kohl graduated from

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to race for Hot Car Competições alongside Gaetano di Mauro, who left KTF Sports. Felipe Lappena and Tuca Antoniazzi, who raced for Hot Car in 2022, both left the series. Raphael Teixeira moved up to the series full time with Scuderia Chiarelli, having raced as a wildcard in several events in 2021 and 2022. He replaced Beto Monteiro, who left the series.

Mid-season changes

Nelson Piquet, Jr. missed the second round due a conflict with the 2023 4 Hours of Barcelona, the first round of

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. He was replaced by Rafael Martins.

Tony Kanaan Antoine Rizkallah "Tony" Kanaan Filho (born 31 December 1974), nicknamed TK, is a Brazilian racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 6 Toyota Corolla E210 for Full Time Bassani a ...

missed the third round to compete in the

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. He was replaced by Arthur Leist.

missed three rounds due to schedule clashes with commitments in the

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. Felipe Fraga missed the fifth round due to a conflict with the IMSA SportsCar Championship's Chevrolet Grand Prix. Scuderia Chiarelli made a number of driver changes throughout the season. Antonio Junqueira, Santiago Urrutia and Felipe Lapenna competed in place of Raphael Teixeira. Sérgio Ramalho made his debut in the series for Hot Car Competições at the final round in Interlagos, standing in for Gaetano di Mauro.

Results and standings

Season summary

Championship standings

;Points system Points are 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. Before the last round, the four worst results are discarded. Races in which a driver has been disqualified cannot be discarded. The second race of each event is held with partially reversed top ten grid. ;Drivers' Championship

Broadcasting

References

External links

* {{Stock Car Brasil seasons Stock Car Brasil seasons Stock Car Pro Series