2023 NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race explained

The 2023 NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race was the twelfth Sprint Race Brasil season, and the first under the NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race branding following NASCAR’s acquisition of the series in 2022.^[1] The season started on 19 March with the first round at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Goiânia and ended on 10 December with the second round at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo.

Three championships were contested for the 2023 season: Brazilian Championship, Overall and Special Edition. Despite only consisting of six out of the eight rounds held, the Brazilian Championship was recognized as its primary championship. The Brazilian Championship PRO division title won by the 2021 champions Júlio Campos and Léo Torres after Torres secured pole position in the points awarding Superpole session of the final round at Interlagos. The results from Qualifying also secured the PROAM division title for brothers Leonardo Reis and Rafael Reis, while a victory in his division on the penultimate race gave Henry Couto the AM championship title.

Léo Torres also clinched his first Overall title after winning the penultimate race, giving him an insurmountable amount of points to runner-up Vitor Genz. Guilherme Backes and Brendon Zonta was crowned as the Overall champions in the PROAM and AM divisions respectively. The Special Edition championship in the PRO, PROAM and AM divisions were respectively won by Vitor Genz and Rafael Dias, Guilherme Backes and Gabriel Casagrande, and rapper MC Gui.

Teams and drivers

All entries in the series are operated by Sprint Race. Two drivers may share driving duties and collect points for the same entry. All cars used a 3.6 L (3,600 cc) V6 engine and the car models represented are used for aesthetic purposes only.

PRO

Body Style		Race Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Camaro	09	Arthur Gama^[2]	1–4, 7–8
	2	Guga Lima^[3] ^[4]	1–2
	2	Marco Garcia	2
	3	Alex Seid^[5]	5–6
	11	Rafael Dias^[6]	1–4, 7–8
	11	Leandro Martins^[7]	8
	71	Valdeno Brito^[8]	6
	71	Nathan Brito	6
	88	Beto Monteiro^[9]	All
		Alex Seid	1–4, 7–8
		Kiko Porto^[10]	5
		Celso Neto^[11]	6
Ford Mustang	1	Léo Torres^[12]	All
	1	Júlio Campos^[13]	1–4, 7–8
	26	Paul Tracy^[14]	6
	27	Lucas Mendes^[15]	All
	27	Rodrigo Sperafico	1–4, 7–8
	46	Vitor Genz^[16]	All
		Raphael Teixeira	1
		Edgar Bueno Neto^[17]	2–4, 7–8
		Rafael Dias	5–6
	54	Diogo Moscato^[18]	All

PROAM

Body Style		Race Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Camaro	09	Arthur Gama	5–6
		Célio Vinicius	5
		Marcus Índio^[19]	6
	2	Marco Garcia	4
	4	Cayan Chianca^[20]	1–4, 7–8
	4	Pedro Bürger	1–4
	11	Rafael Dias	8
	11	Leandro Martins	8
	16	Antonio Junqueira^[21]	5–6, 8
	28	Guilherme Backes^[22]	1–4, 7–8
	43	Guilherme Backes^[23]	5–6
	43	Gabriel Casagrande	5–6
	57	Felipinho Tozzo^[24]	All
	57	João Bortoluzzi^[25]	All
		Lourenço Beirão^[26]	All
		Giovani Girotto	1–5
		Marco Garcia	6
		Jeff Giassi^[27]	7–8
	80	Rafael Seibel^[28]	1–4
		Vinny Azevedo	5
		Rodolpho Santos^[29]	5
	87	Jorge Martelli^[30]	All
	90	Erick Schotten^[31]	7
Ford Mustang	13	Witold Ramasauskas^[32]	5–8
	32	Leonardo Reis	1–4, 7–8
	32	Rafael Reis	1–4, 7–8
	63	Luís Trombini^[33]	6, 8
	63	Zezinho Muggiati^[34]	8
	98	Luan Lopes^[35]	1

AM

Body Style		Race Driver	Rounds
Chevrolet Camaro	12	Edson Reis^[36]	All
	31	Roberto Possas^[37]	1–4, 7–8
	78	Leonardo Yoshii	All
Ford Mustang	00	Henry Couto^[38]	1–4, 7–8
	08	Alexandre Kauê	1–5, 7–8
	08	Fabio Gubert	2–8
		Brendon Zonta^[39]	All
		Rômulo Molinari	1–4, 7–8
		Dorivaldo Gondra Jr.	5–6
	42	Fernando Nakamura^[40]	1–4
	59	Cassiano Lopes	1–4, 7–8
	59	Dorivaldo Gondra Jr.	1–4, 7–8
	77	Pedro Bezerra^[41]	5–6
	98	MC Gui	2–8

Notes

Schedule

The provisional calendar for the 2023 season was announced on 12 January 2023. All races of the 2023 season will be held on road courses, with the exception of the fifth round at Goiânia where it uses the track's External Circuit oval layout instead.^[42]

Round		Track	Date
1	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia), Goiânia	19 March
1	R2	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia), Goiânia	19 March
2	R3	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	30 April
2	R4	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	30 April
3	R5	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Londrina), Londrina	3 June
3	R6	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Londrina), Londrina	3 June
4	R7	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel	2 July
4	R8	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel	2 July
5	R9		30 July
	R10
	R11
6	R12		10 September
	R13
	R14
7	R15	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã, Viamão	15 October
7	R16	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã, Viamão	15 October
8	R17	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	10 December
8	R18	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo	10 December

Calendar changes

Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul, which hosted the 2022 season opening round, was removed from the schedule due to the venue undergoing renovations. Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia) will be hosting the season opening round in its place.
Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel returned to the schedule after a single season of hiatus.
On 7 June 2023, NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race announced that the second Autódromo José Carlos Pace round will now host the season finale on 10 December instead of the fifth round of the season. The schedule change was requested by the Municipality of São Paulo due to "the need to carry out a schedule of works" that needed to be done at Interlagos. The second round at Goiânia's Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, which was initially scheduled to host the final round on 19 November, will now host the fifth round of the season on 30 July.^[43]

Results

Bold indicates overall winner.

Round	Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Most Laps Led	PRO Winners	PROAM Winners	AM Winners
1	Goiânia	Leonardo Reis	Luan Lopes	Leonardo Reis	Arthur Gama	Luan Lopes	Rômulo Molinari
2	Goiânia	Lourenço Beirão	Arthur Gama	Diogo Moscato	Vitor Genz	Rafael Reis	Leonardo Yoshii
3	Interlagos	Guilherme Backes	Arthur Gama	Lourenço Beirão	Léo Torres	Lourenço Beirão	Henry Couto
4	Interlagos	Beto Monteiro	Rafael Dias	Júlio Campos	Júlio Campos	Leonardo Reis	Henry Couto
5	Londrina	Léo Torres	Jorge Martelli	Léo Torres	Léo Torres	Jorge Martelli	Henry Couto
6	Londrina	Vitor Genz	Júlio Campos	Júlio Campos	Júlio Campos	Leonardo Reis	Henry Couto
7	Cascavel	Vitor Genz Edgard Bueno Neto	Leonardo Reis	Rafael Dias	Rafael Dias	Leonardo Reis	MC Gui
8	Cascavel	Vitor Genz Edgard Bueno Neto	Rodrigo Sperafico	Rafael Dias	Rafael Dias	Rafael Reis	Leonardo Yoshii
9	Goiânia	Lucas Mendes	Arthur Gama	Kiko Porto	Kiko Porto	Arthur Gama	MC Gui
10			Alex Seid	Vitor Genz	Vitor Genz	João Bortoluzzi	Leonardo Yoshii
11			Rafa Dias	Léo Torres	Diogo Moscato	Antonio Junqueira	Alexandre Kaue
12	Velo Città	Vitor Genz	Paul Tracy	Paul Tracy	Paul Tracy	Jorge Martelli	MC Gui
13			Gabriel Casagrande	Rafael Dias	Rafael Dias	Gabriel Casagrande	Edson Reis
14			Vitor Genz	Gabriel Casagrande	Vitor Genz	Gabriel Casagrande	Brendon Zonta
15	Tarumã	Arthur Gama	Arthur Gama	Arthur Gama	Arthur Gama	Cayan Chianca	Henry Couto
16	Tarumã	Júlio Campos	Júlio Campos	Vitor Genz	Júlio Campos	Cayan Chianca	MC Gui
17	Interlagos	Léo Torres	Arthur Gama	Léo Torres	Léo Torres	Witold Ramasaukas	Henry Couto
18	Interlagos	Léo Torres	Leonardo Reis	Júlio Campos	Júlio Campos	Witold Ramasaukas	Henry Couto

Notes:

Standings

Overall

Points are awarded to the driver's entry. While the drivers from all classes would compete at the same time, they would only score points on their respective classes, nonetheless the exception is the special edition race 1 and 2 that scored based on the final result not taking into account the class position. If an entrant entered two drivers, then both drivers would earn points for their entry. Drivers must complete at least 75% of the race in order to be classified for points. Drivers are allowed to discard points from one Special Edition score and one Brazilian championship score towards their final tally in the overall standings.^[44]

Brazilian championship points

Special edition points

Races	Position, points per race
Races	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th
Race 1 & Race 2	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Race 3 & Superpole	25	20	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1	0

(key) Bold - Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time. Italics - Fastest lap. * – Most laps led. ^S - Driver who started the race, if they were part of a two-driver entry. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 - Superpole position. † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 75% of the race distance.

Pos	Driver			INT1		LON		CAS					VEL			TAR		INT2			Points
Pos	Driver	PRO
1	Léo Torres	Ret^S	19	2^S	1	1*^S	1	3³	3^S	2²	10	13*	Ret²	4	6	3^S	1	1*¹^S	1	0	390
2	Vitor Genz	20	1^S	9^S	8	8	2 ^S	6¹^S	15	Ret⁴^S	1*^S	3	Ret¹	2	2 ^S	17	6*^S	10⁶	8^S	0	311
3	Alex Seid	8^S	4	3^S	2	7^S	4	4³	20^S	7⁵	11	15	3⁷	8	3	7^S	7	7²^S	12	20	293
4	Diogo Moscato	4	2*	Ret	DNS	3	8	7⁷	4	4⁶	2	1	4⁵	3	12	19	10	4⁵	4	10	281
5	Júlio Campos	Ret	19^S	2	1*^S	1	1*^S	3³^S	3							3	1 ^S	1¹	1*^S	0	280
6	Beto Monteiro	8	4^S	3	2^S	7	4^S	4³^S	20	1³	DQ	Ret^S	Ret⁶	11	7^S	7	7^S	7²	12^S	12	264
7	Rafael Dias	5	14	5	4	DNS	19	1³*	1*	Ret⁴	1	3 ^S	Ret¹^S	2^S	2	DQ	11	PO	PO	0	259
8	Lucas Mendes	DQ^S	6	6	3^S	4	7^S	Ret⁶^S	2	3¹	15	4	Ret⁴	7	Ret	5^S	Ret	21⁴	15^S	0	233
9	Arthur Gama	1	20	4	5	Ret	Ret	2⁵	Ret							1*	2	3³	3	0	192
10	Edgar Bueno Neto			9	8^S	8^S	2	6¹	15^S							17^S	6	10⁶^S	8	0	153
11	Rodrigo Sperafico	DQ	6^S	6^S	3	4^S	7	Ret⁶	2 ^S							5	Ret^S	21⁴^S	15	0	146
12	Valdeno Brito												Ret³	10	4^S					0	41
12	Nathan Brito												Ret³^S	10^S	4					0	41
13	Guga Lima	7	3	14	Ret^S															0	39
14	Raphael Teixeira	20^S	1																	0	35
15	Kiko Porto									1*³^S	DQ^S	Ret								0	34
16	Celso Neto												Ret⁶^S	11^S	7					0	30
17	Marco Garcia			14^S	Ret															0	8
PROAM
1	Guilherme Backes	Ret	8	15	15	5	6	14⁷	8	9¹^S	Ret	Ret	6¹^S	1	1	7	17	5⁸	6	0	293
2	Lourenço Beirão	10	17^S	1*^S	12	13	Ret^S	6²^S	13	10²^S	Ret	9	10⁴	Ret^S	9^S	5^S	5	6⁶^S	5	0	278
3	Leonardo Reis	3*^S	5	8	6^S	6	3^S	5¹^S	5							15	4^S	DNS²	23 ^S	12	246
3	Rafael Reis	3	5^S	8^S	6	6^S	3	5¹	5^S							15^S	4	DNS²^S	23^S	12	246
4	Felipinho Tozzo	17^S	11	13^S	11	9	Ret^S	8⁵	7^S	12²^S	3	5	14⁶^S	9	Ret	17^S	16	17	17^S	0	233
4	João Bortoluzzi	17	11^S	13	11^S	9^S	Ret	8⁵^S	7	12²	3^S	5^S	14⁶	9^S	Ret^S	17	16^S	17^S	17	0	233
5	Witold Ramasauskas									8³	7	6	5²	16	8	9	8	2³	2	3	200
6	Jorge Martelli	19	10	Ret	DNS	2	5	15³	6	Ret⁴	DNS	DNS	2³	DNS	Ret	Ret	Ret	22⁴	7	0	195
7	Cayan Chianca	6	Ret^S	7^S	7	Ret	9^S	Ret⁶^S	19							2	3	15⁵	9	0	172
8	Giovani Girotto	10^S	17	1	12^S	13^S	Ret	6²	13^S	10²	Ret^S	9^S								0	158
9	Antonio Junqueira									Ret⁵	4	2	7⁷	6	6			5¹⁰	22	0	126
10	Gabriel Casagrande									9¹	Ret^S	Ret^S	6¹	1 ^S	1^S					0	117
11	Pedro Bürger	6^S	Ret	7	7^S	Ret^S	9	Ret⁶	19^S											0	88
12	Rafael Seibel	9	18	11	Ret	11	Ret	12⁷	12											0	88
13	Jeff Giassi															5	5^S	6⁶	5^S	0	82
14	Arthur Gama									5*⁸^S	8	8^S	13⁵	5^S	10^S					6	80
15	Marco Garcia							Ret⁸	21				10⁴^S	Ret	9					0	50
16	Luís Trombini												15⁸	Ret	Ret			Ret¹	15^S	0	46
17	Luan Lopes	2	7																	0	45
18	Célio Vinicius									5⁸	8^S	8								0	41
19	Zezinho Mugiiatti																	Ret¹^S	15	0	35
20	Marcus Índio												13⁵	5^S	10^S					0	31
21	Vinny Azevedo									11⁷	5	DQ^S								0	30
21	Rodolpho Santos									11⁷^S	5^S	DQ								0	30
22	Rafael Dias																	9⁷^S	Ret	0	22
22	Leandro Martins																	9⁷^S	Ret	0	22
23	Erick Schotten															21	Ret			0	8
AM
1	Brendon Zonta	11	15^S	16^S	13	14	12^S	Ret⁹	11^S	15¹	Ret	Ret^S	9¹^S	Ret	11^S	12^S	11	13¹^S	19	0	302
2	Henry Couto	12	Ret	10	9	10	10	13⁴	10							9	12	8³	10	0	281
3	Edson Reis	15	16	12	10	12	15	18⁷	16	16²	9	11	11³	12	14	14	Ret	18²	13	3	273
4	MC Gui			Ret	DNS	Ret	13	10¹	17	6⁴	12	12	8²	14	13	11	9	14⁷	14	5	252
5	Léonardo Yoshii	18	9	DNS	DNS	17	11	11²	9	Ret³	6	14	12⁴	Ret	DNS	13	DQ	16⁴	12	0	251
6	Fabio Gubert			17	18^S	19^S	14	17⁵^S	14	14⁵^S	13^S	7	17⁶	15	15	18^S	14	12⁵	20^S	3	216
7	Alexandre Kauê	14	13	17^S	18	19	14^S	17⁵	14^S	14⁵	13	7^S				18	14^S	12⁵^S	20	0	212
8	Rômulo Molinari	11^S	15	16	13^S	14^S	12	Ret⁹^S	11							12	11^S	13¹	19^S	0	212
9	Dorivaldo Gondra Jr.	16	21^S	19^S	14	15	18^S	19³	DNS^S	15¹^S	Ret^S	Ret	9¹	Ret^S	11	Ret^S	Ret	19⁶	18^S	0	208
10	Cassiano Lopes	16^S	21	19	14^S	15^S	18	19³^S	DNS							Ret	Ret^S	19⁶^S	18	0	118
11	Roberto Possas	Ret	DNS	18	17	16	16	DQ⁶	DNS							16	15	20⁸	21	0	92
12	Fernando Nakamura	13	12	Ret	16	18	17	16⁸	18											0	90
13	Pedro Bezerra									13⁶	14	10	16⁵	13	Ret					0	63
Guest drivers ineligible for championship points
	Paul Tracy												1	DQ	16					-

Brazilian Championship

Each drivers' worst score is dropped.

Pos	Driver			INT1		LON		CAS		Points
PRO
1	Léo Torres	Ret^S	19	2^S	1	1*^S	1	3³	3^S	160
1	Júlio Campos	Ret	19^S	2	1*^S	1	1*^S	3³^S	3	160
2	Vitor Genz	20	1^S	9^S	8	8	2 ^S	6¹^S	15	138
3	Alex Seid	8^S	4	3^S	2	7^S	4	4³	20^S	126
3	Beto Monteiro	8	4^S	3	2^S	7	4^S	4³^S	20	126
4	Rafael Dias	5	14	5	4	DNS	19	1³*	1*	130
5	Diogo Moscato	4	2*	Ret<	DNS	3	8	7⁷	4	104
6	Edgar Bueno Neto			9	8^S	8^S	2	6¹	15^S	103
7	Lucas Mendes	DQ^S	6	6	3^S	4	7^S	Ret⁶^S	2	96
7	Rodrigo Sperafico	DQ	6^S	6^S	3	4^S	7	Ret⁶	2 ^S	96
8	Arthur Gama	1	20	4	5	Ret	Ret	2⁵	Ret	91
9	Guga Lima	7	3	14	Ret^S					39
10	Raphael Teixeira	20^S	1							35
11	Marco Garcia			14^S	Ret					8
PROAM
1	Leonardo Reis	3*^S	5	8	6^S	6	3^S	5¹^S	5	202
1	Rafael Reis	3	5^S	8^S	6	6^S	3	5¹	5^S	202
2	Giovani Girotto	10^S	17	1	12^S	13^S	Ret	6²	13^S	117
2	Lourenço Beirão	10	17^S	1*^S	12	13	Ret^S	6²^S	13	117
3	Jorge Martelli	19	10	Ret	DNS	2	5	15³	6	113
4	Felipinho Tozzo	17^S	11	13^S	11	9	Ret^S	8⁵	7^S	112
4	João Bortoluzzi	17	11^S	13	11^S	9^S	Ret	8⁵^S	7	112
5	Guilherme Backes	Ret	8	15	15	5	6	14⁷	8	108
6	Pedro Bürger	6^S	Ret	7	7^S	Ret^S	9	Ret⁶	19^S	88
6	Cayan Chianca	6	Ret^S	7^S	7	Ret	9^S	Ret⁶^S	19	88
7	Rafael Seibel	9	18	11	Ret	11	Ret	12⁷	12	48
8	Luan Lopes	2	7							45
9	Marco Garcia							Ret⁸	21	12
AM
1	Henry Couto	12	Ret	10	9	10	10	13⁴	10	170
2	Léonardo Yoshii	18	9	DNS	DNS	17	11	11²	9	128
3	Edson Reis	15	16	12	10	12	15	18⁷	16	124
4	Rômulo Molinari	11^S	15	16	13^S	14^S	12	Ret⁹^S	11	123
4	Brendon Zonta	11	15^S	16^S	13	14	12^S	Ret⁹	11^S	123
5	Alexandre Kauê	14	13	17^S	18	19	14^S	17⁵	14^S	108
6	Fernando Nakamura	13	12	Ret	16	18	17	16⁸	18	90
7	Cassiano Lopes	16^S	21	19	14^S	15^S	18	19³^S	DNS	86
7	Dorivaldo Gondra Jr.	16	21^S	19^S	14	15	18^S	19³	DNS^S	86
8	Fabio Gubert			17	18^S	19^S	14	17⁵^S	14	78
9	MC Gui			Ret	DNS	Ret	13	10¹	17	74
10	Roberto Possas	Ret	DNS	18	17	16	16	DQ⁶	DNS	52

Special Edition