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2017 Stock Car Brasil Championship

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The 2017 Stock Car Brasil Championship It is the thirty-ninth season of the Stock Car Brasil.

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Team changes

  • Many changes occurred on the grid. The teams that competes with Chevrolet will race with Chevrolet Cruze Stock Car full season, after competed the first race of 2016 with Chevrolet Sonic. The manufacturer will compete with eleven teams and twenty two cars. Peugeot still with ten cars, after Mico's Racing left the series after only two rounds in 2016 and remaining two times champions Cimed Racing expanded to four cars with the Cimed Racing II.
  • The 2017 seasons mark the exit of Red Bull Racing after ten seasons and three titles. A.Mattheis Motorsport team that compete in partenship with Red Bull still in the series with the sponsor of Ipiranga, that left RCM Motorsport after five seasons.
  • Retired racing driver Xandy Negrão will enter in partenship with Andreas Mattheis and his son Rodolpho in RX Mattheis Motorsport, the team and Shell part away after five seasons. RX Mattheis will receive the name and the sponsor of Prati-Donaduzzi, that did not compete in 2016, and Shell concretized a partenship with TMG Motorsport.
  • After only one season, ProGP losted the technical partenship of Full Time Sports.

    • Driver changes

  • Átila Abreu and Ricardo Zonta switeched from RX.Mattheis-Shell Racing to TMG-Shell Racing. Abreu returned from the team that he competed between 2009 and 2014
  • Thiago Camilo and Galid Osman left Ipiranga-RCM to join Ipiranga-A.Mattheis.
  • Cacá Bueno and Daniel Serra left Red Bull Racing-A.Mattheis. Bueno joined remaining two times champion Cimed Racing and Serra after ten seasons with Red Bull joined RCM Motorsport.
  • Júlio Campos will race for RX Mattheis Prati-Donaduzzi after one year in your own team C2. Antonio Pizzonia returned as a partner of Campos after competing in first round in 2016 for Cimed Racing.
  • Felipe Lappena switched from Hot Car Competições to Cavaleiro Racing.
  • Valdeno Brito and Gustavo Lima left TMG Motorsport. Brito will race for Eisenbahn Racing Team and Lima to Hot Car Competições.
  • Tuka Rocha raced part-time in 2016 at TMG Motorsport and RZ Motorsport, in 2017 he will race to RCM Motorsport.
  • Gabriel Casagrande switched from C2 Team to Vogel Motorsport.
  • Denis Navarro, who raced for Vogel Motorsport in 2016, switched to Cimed Racing II
  • Felipe Fraga, who won the 2016 championship was relocated to Cimed Racing II.
  • Nestor Girolami will not return to 2016. He will focus on Polestar Cyan Racing at World Touring Car Championship.

    • Race calendar and results

    The 2017 schedule was announced on 20 December 2016.

    References

    2017 Stock Car Brasil Championship Wikipedia
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