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

Stock Car Pro Series The BRB Stock Car Pro Series, formerly known as Stock Car Brasil, is a touring car auto racing series based in Brazil organized by Vicar. It is considered the major Brazilian and South American motorsports series. Starting in 1979 with Chevrolet ...

, the premier

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series in Brazil, 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

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on December 17. The championship was won by

Gabriel Casagrande Gabriel Casagrande (born 20 February 1995) is a Brazilian racing driver. He competes full-time in the Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 83 Chevrolet Cruze for A. Mattheis Vogel Motorsport. He is a three-time champion of the Stock Car Pro Ser ...

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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, 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

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 Full Time Sports is a Brazilian professional auto racing team currently competing in Stock Car Pro Series, Stock Series, and F4 Brazil. The team is based in Vinhedo, São Paulo. The team has won the Stock Car Brasil championship twice, with Rube ...

was the only team that increased its operation from four to five cars. Crown Racing changed from Chevrolet to Toyota.

divided its operations into three, two cars with the Mobil Ale name, and one under the

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Racing name. After seven seasons

Bassani Racing Bassani Racing (previously known as RC3 Bassani and Full Time Bassani) , currently competing as Starrett Bassani, is a Brazilian professional auto racing team based in Itu, São Paulo, currently competing in the F4 Brazilian Championship, having ...

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. R.Mattheis Motorsport 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

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left the series to join TCR South America. Eduardo Barrichello moved up to the series with

after competing part time with the team in 2021 and 2022. Enzo Elias graduated from Porsche Cup Brasil to race full time at Crown Racing. He replaced

Cacá Bueno Carlos Eduardo Santos Galvão Bueno Filho, better known as Cacá Bueno (born 24 January 1976) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 0 Chevrolet Tracker for Scuderia Chiare ...

and Rodrigo Baptista, who left the team and joined KTF Sports.

Felipe Massa Felipe Massa (; born 25 April 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver, who competes in the Stock Car Pro Series for TMG Racing, TMG and in the IMSA SportsCar Championship for Riley Technologies, Riley. Massa competed in Formula One from to , and w ...

and

Júlio Campos Júlio Campos (born 15 January 1982) is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He currently drives in the Stock Car Brasil and NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race. Campos won the Formula Dodge National Championship in 2001 and Pick Up Racing Brazil in 2009. He ...

left R.Mattheis Motorsport to join TMG Racing.

Allam Khodair Allam Khodair (born May 15, 1981) is a Brazilian racing driver, currently driving in Stock Car Brasil for Blau Motorsport. His mother is Japanese Brazilian and his father is Lebanese. Career Karting * 1999: Khodair wins the Brazilian karting ch ...

, 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 Matias Rossi at A.Mattheis

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. Rossi returned to

, replacing

Rafael Suzuki Rafael Hideo Suzuki (born 13 August 1987) is a Brazilian racing driver of Japanese descent who currently competes for Pole Motorsport in the Stock Car Pro Series, which he has raced in since 2014. He previously raced in a number of international ...

, who joined Pole Motorsport.

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graduated from

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to race for

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alongside

Gaetano di Mauro Gaetano di Mauro (born 1 July 1997) is a Brazilian racing driver currently competing in Stock Car Pro Series with RC Competições, Eurofarma RC. He is known for winning eight Brazil Kart Championship titles and being the best-performing rookie i ...

, 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

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, 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 who is the team principal of Arrow McLaren. He is best known for racing in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) from 1998 to 2002, an ...

missed the third round to compete in the

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. He was replaced by Arthur Leist. Matias Rossi 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

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. Scuderia Chiarelli made a number of driver changes throughout the season. Antonio Junqueira,

Santiago Urrutia Santiago Urrutia Lausarot (born 30 August 1996) is a Uruguayan racing driver. He currently competes in the World Touring Car Cup, driving for Cyan Performance Lynk & Co. He formerly competed in Indy Lights, and was the 2015 Pro Mazda series ch ...

and Felipe Lapenna competed in place of Raphael Teixeira. Sérgio Ramalho made his debut in the series for

at the final round in Interlagos, standing in for

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