The 2018 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 fourteenth season. It began on March 24 at Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba and finished on November 11 at Autódromo José Carlos Pace . 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. From the 2018 season, the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991), will now have the new Porsche 911 Cup (Type 991.2), making the category to align to the same molds played in other countries, now being called Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio Carrera Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Cup series) and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 4.0 and Porsche Imperio GT3 Cup 3.8 (Equivalent to category Challenge series).
Race Calendar and Results
Carrera Cup
All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.
GT3 Cup
All races are scheduled to be held in Brazil.
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 reserve grid. Only the best 10 results in each series counts for the championship.
Points format
Position
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
Feature race
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
Reserve grid race
20
18
16
14
12
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Carrera Cup
Pos
Driver
CUR
INT
INT
INT
VEC
INT [ lower-alpha 1]
Pts
4.0
1
Brazil Werner Neugebauer
5
1
4
6
1
4
5
5
1
3
2
4
172 (194)
2
Brazil Miguel Paludo
Ret
4
1
5
5
3
2
4
4
1
1
DSQ
170
3
Brazil Lico Kaesemodel
Ret
Ret
2
3
4
1
1
2
3
6
7
2
168
4
Brazil Marçal Müller
1
2
8
8
2
6
Ret
6
2
2
3
12
154 (162)
5
Brazil Pedro Queirolo
2
3
Ret
7
6
7
3
3
5
12
6
3
142 (150)
6
Brazil Constantino Jr.
3
5
7
1
8
5
4
1
6
7
138
7
Brazil Ricardo Baptista
3
2
3
2
Ret
DNS
8
4
5
1
129
8
Brazil João Paulo Mauro
4
Ret
6
4
9
8
Ret
9
7
5
4
5
115
9
Brazil Daniel Schneider
5
DNS
7
9
33
10
Brazil Luca Seripieri
Ret
10
6
8
27
11
Brazil Eduardo Azevedo
Ret
DNS
9
7
19
12
Brazil Rodrigo Mello
7
7
18
3.8
Pts
1
Brazil Vitor Baptista
7
6
13
12
13
11
8
18
9
10
6
2
182 (193)
2
Brazil Gaetano di Mauro
18
18
9
10
10
13
9
12
12
8
20
Ret
167
3
Brazil Bruno Baptista
15
13
12
15
15
16
11
10
11
DSQ
2
1
141 (148)
4
Brazil Marcel Coletta
Ret
10
10
11
11
14
14
17
Ret
11
3
Ret
132
5
Brazil Murilo Coletta
8
7
16
Ret
Ret
15
10
15
13
9
Ret
4
131
6
Brazil Fernando Fortes
9
8
14
9
16
18
15
14
15
14
9
6
125
7
Brazil Enzo Elias
Ret
19
17
14
12
20
12
13
10
15
7
Ret
109
8
Brazil Eloi Khouri
13
15
15
Ret
Ret
19
13
11
14
17
1
5
108
9
Panama Marcus Vario
6
9
11
16
14
12
Ret
19
100
10
Brazil Matheus Coletta
17
14
20
17
18
Ret
17
Ret
16
13
5
3
90
11
Brazil Pedrinho Aguiar
11
18
18
13
17
18
16
16
Ret
16
4
Ret
89
12
Brazil Rodrigo Mello
12
16
19
18
Ret
Ret
27
13
Brazil Raulino Kreis Jr.
10
11
24
14
Brazil Tom Filho
14
17
12
15
Brazil William Starostik
16
20
7
Pos
Driver
CUR
INT
INT
TRH
VEC
INT
Pts
Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third place
Green
Points finish
Blue
Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Retired (Ret)
Red
Did not qualify (DNQ)
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 positionItalics – Fastest lap † – Retired, but classified
↑ On the last round of the season, Carrera Cup and Carrera Cup 3.8 competed separated.
GT3 Cup
Pos
Driver
CUR
INT
INT
INT
VEC
INT [ lower-alpha 1]
Pts
1
Brazil Sylvio de Barros
1
1
1
2
2
7
2
3
12
147
2
Brazil Adalberto Baptista
4
4
12
17
7
2
1
2
1
121
3
Brazil Maurizio Billi
3
2
Ret
3
3
10
4
Ret
Ret
92
4
Brazil Rouman Ziemkiewicz
Ret
12
Ret
5
6
6
5
1
Ret
75
5
Brazil Tom Valle
Ret
DNS
Ret
1
4
1
6
Ret
68
6
Brazil Guilherme Reischl
5
8
Ret
6
5
4
15
Ret
7
66
7
Brazil Tom Filho
1
5
3
5
Ret
64
8
Brazil Carlos Ambrósio
2
3
Ret
4
8
Ret
4
59
9
France Dominique Teysseyre
Ret
DNS
3
8
10
9
12
6
Ret
58
10
Brazil Rodolfo Toni
Ret
6
Ret
7
20
3
Ret
4
6
55
11
Brazil Márcio Mauro
6
Ret
2
Ret
19
8
8
DSQ
Ret
53
12
Brazil Luca Seripieri
Ret
5
11
18
32
13
Brazil Ramon Alcaraz
21
DNS
7
12
22
14
Brazil Bruno Garfinkel
9
8
17
3.8
1
Brazil Paulo Totaro
7
10
4
12
11
14
10
10
146
2
Brazil Francisco Horta
6
13
5
15
14
16
11
7
129
3
Brazil Patrick Choate
8
11
7
13
13
13
14
9
128
4
Brazil Marco Billi
12
9
Ret
11
12
12
13
11
114
5
Brazil André Gaidzinski
11
14
8
14
15
19
16
Ret
81
6
Brazil Nelson Monteiro
DNS
DNS
6
10
9
11
78
7
South Korea Sangho Kim
10
16
10
16
18
20
55
8
Brazil Alexandre Auler
9
15
13
Ret
16
17
54
9
Brazil Alan Turres
9
9
Ret
15
44
10
Brazil Anderson Faita
17
18
17
11
Brazil Ramon Alcaraz
DNS
21
55
Pos
Driver
CUR
INT
GOI
TRH
VEC
INT
Pts
Colour
Result
Gold
Winner
Silver
Second place
Bronze
Third place
Green
Points finish
Blue
Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple
Retired (Ret)
Red
Did not qualify (DNQ)
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 positionItalics – Fastest lap † – Retired, but classified
↑ On the last round of the season, GT3 cup competed with Carrera Cup and GT3 Cup 3.8 raced with Carrera Cup 3.8.
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