2025 NASCAR Brasil Series

The 2025 NASCAR Brasil Series is the third season of NASCAR Brasil after the rebrand of "Sprint Race" Series. It consists of 9 rounds starting on March 22 in Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura, Campo Grande and will finish on December 7 in Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo. It will be the last season with the 2020 generation of "Sprint Race" cars using V6 3.6L 300 hp engines, with a new car yet to be released for the 2026 season being launched in 2025.[1] Following the 2024 changes, The PRO, PRO/AM and AM classes were changed by the NASCAR Brasil and NASCAR Challenge classes, were both classes run together and compete against each other, but drivers score points in their own class, both classes compete in a third championship together in the Overall championship.[2]

The 2024 NASCAR Brasil champions Gabriel Casagrande and Alex seid will run in separated cars after being a duo in the 2024 season, in 2025 Gabriel Casagrande will do a solo campaign while Seid will run sharing a car with Júlio Campos.[3][4] The Overall is considered the primary championship within the series and the winner driver is made present in the NASCAR Awards Banquet.[5] Vitor Genz was the NASCAR Brasil sub-class champion while Victor Andrade got the NASCAR Challenge championship. For Special Edition championship, consisted by Interlagos and Circuito dos Cristais oval round in 2024, Gabriel Casagrande and Alex Seid were the champions, for 2025 it will have an addition of one more round, consisting of three rounds with nine races.

Teams and drivers

In the 2025 all cars will be run by private teams for the first time,[6] moving on from the series operation since the Sprint Race era. Four teams was elected to run 6 cars each, with the teams being: Full Time Sports,[1] R. Mattheis Motorsport,[7] Team RC[8] and MX Motorsports.[8] In January MX Motorsport announced that will partner with the traditional Stock Car Pro Series team A.Mattheis Motorsport calling themselves MX Vogel.[9] All teams run the same spec-car with aesthetics made to remember the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang body.[10] For 2025, the Chevrolet Camaro body will switch from ZL1 to SS model.

NASCAR Brasil 2025 teams and drivers
Body Style Team No. Driver Rounds
Chevrolet Camaro Team RC 0 Cacá Bueno[11] 1–5
10 Adalberto Baptista[12] 1, 3–5
Bruno Baptista 2
11 Witold Ramasauskas[13] 1–5
57 Felipe Tozzo[14] 1–5
87 Jorge Martelli[15] 1–5
99 Galid Osman[16] 1–5
R.Mattheis Motorsport 1 Ricardo Zonta[17] 2–5
3 Gianluca Petecof[18] 1
4 Cayan Chianca[19] 1–5
12 Emerson Reck 3–4
17 Pietro Rimbano 5
37 Raphael Teixeira[20] 1–5
Daniel Mencacci[17] 2
Pablo Marçal 3
39 Marcel Jorand[18] 1
45 Luciane Klai[21] TBA
46 Vitor Genz[22] 1–5
56 Gabryel Romano[23] 1–5
78 Léo Yoshii[17] 2
Ford Mustang Full Time Sports 21 Thiago Camilo[18] 1–5
8 Alfredinho Ibiapiana[24] 1–5
14 Thiago Lopes[18] 1
15 Tito Giaffone[25] 1–5
22 Victor Andrade[26] 1–5
84 Vinícius Canhedo[17] 2–5
91 Rubens Barrichello[27] 1–3, 5
MX Vogel 5 Léo Torres[9] 1–5
6 Lourenço Beirão[17] 2, 5
7 Julio Campos[28] 1–5
Alex Seid[4]
9 Nicholas Monteiro[29] 1, 3–4
16 Antonio Junqueira[18] 1, 3–4
28 Guilherme "Gui" Backes[9] 1–5
83 Gabriel Casagrande[3] 1–5
88 Beto Monteiro[17] 2, 5

Notes:

  Nascar Brasil Championship drivers
  Challenge Championship drivers

Schedule

The pre-calendar for the 2025 season of NASCAR Brazil was announced in November 16 starting March 30 and having the last round in December 7.[30] On January 10, the first official calendar was announced with 9 rounds, one more than the 2024 season, and having 21 races in total. The Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura will open the season on March 22 with the Autódromo José Carlos Pace being the last round of the season. The Brazilian championship will consist in 6 rounds with 2 races each and the "Special Edition" championship will consist in 3 rounds with 3 races each.[31]

On February 11 the calendar was updated, the unannounced tracks were confirmed being Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã track in Viamão, and the Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul in Santa Cruz do Sul. As well were determined the Special edition rounds.[32]

On May 19, Autódromo Velo Città was confirmed in place of the planned round on Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul.[33]

Location of circuits scheduled to host a NASCAR Brasil Series round in 2025
Round Track Event name Date
1 Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura
Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande
22–23 March
2 Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna
Paraná, Londrina
#sunsetLondrina 12–13 April
3 Autódromo José Carlos Pace
São Paulo, São Paulo
#sprintrace 17–18 May
4 Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã
Rio Grande do Sul, Viamão
#inverserace 14–15 June
5 Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel
Paraná, Cascavel
#100miles 11–12 July
6 Autódromo Velo Città
São Paulo, Mogi Guaçu
#matchpoint 23–24 August
7 Circuito dos Cristais
Minas Gerais, Curvelo
#ovaltrack 20–21 September
8 Autódromo Velo Città
São Paulo, Mogi Guaçu
#specialedition 1–2 November
9 Autódromo José Carlos Pace
São Paulo, São Paulo
#specialedition 6–7 December

Notes:

  Brazilian Championship round
  Special Edition round

Results and standings

Bold indicates overall winner.

Circuit Round Race Pole Position Fastest lap NASCAR Brasil

Winners

Challenge

Winners

Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura 1 1 Vitor Genz Cayan Chianca Vitor Genz Jorge Martelli
2 Cacá Bueno Gabriel Casagrande Jorge Martelli Jorge Martelli
Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna 2 3 Bruno Baptista Thiago Camilo Thiago Camilo Alfredinho Ibiapina
4 Gabriel Casagrande Cacá Bueno Léo Torres Alfredinho Ibiapina
Autódromo José Carlos Pace 3 5 Thiago Camilo Galid Osman Rubens Barrichello Felipe Tozzo
6 Thiago Camilo Cacá Bueno Rubens Barrichello Gabryel Romano
Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã 4 7 Galid Osman Léo Torres Jorge Martelli Jorge Martelli
8 Júlio Campos/Alex Seid Jorge Martelli Jorge Martelli Jorge Martelli
Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel 5 9 Rubens Barrichello Cayan Chianca Rubens Barrichello Alfredinho Ibiapina
10 - Cayan Chianca Thiago Camilo Gabryel Romano
Autódromo Velo Città 6 11
12
Circuito dos Cristais 7 13
14
15
Autódromo Velo Città 8 16
17
18
Autódromo José Carlos Pace 9 19
20
21

Notes:

  Brazilian Championship round
  Special Edition round
Brazilian championship points
Races Position, points per race
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th
Races 1 & Race 2 25 20 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1
Superpole 5 4 3 2 1 0
Inverse Race Qualy 25 20 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1

Note: In Tarumã "Inverse Race" qualy points are awarded the same way as Race 1 and Race 2 results.

Special edition points
Races Position, points per race
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

Notes:

Bold- Pole position awarded by fastest qualifying time. †– Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed more than 75% of the race distance. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 - Superpole position.

Pos Driver
CAM

LON

INT1

TAR

CAS

VEL1

CUR

VEL2

INT2
Points
R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R1 R2 S1 S2 R1 R2 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
NASCAR Brasil Championship
1 Rubens Barrichello 3 15 11 32 1 14 WD WD 11 2 140
2 Galid Osman Ret 102 3 24 4 12 91 2 4 5 134
3 Thiago Camilo Ret 11 1 153 2 21 194 DSQ 5 1 126
4 Vitor Genz 1 33 Ret Ret 6 4 82 Ret 6 3 120
5 Léo Torres 5 9 18 1 7 62 310 5 12 6 105
6 Jorge Martelli 4 15 8 Ret 13 Ret 111 1 10 14 101
7 Gabriel Casagrande 2 16 2 Ret1 11 7 4 10 24 11 96
8 Victor Andrade Ret Ret 6 4 10 33 126 3 32 15 93
9 Cacá Bueno 13 141 9 10 8 8 27 Ret Ret3 4 66
10 Alfredinho Ibiapina 7 Ret 4 5 16 135 188 4 75 Ret 63
11 Witold Ramasauskas Ret 5 5 8 5 5 10 Ret 16 19 57
12 Felipe Tozzo 10 7 7 9 9 20 59 5 15 17 43
13 Cayan Chianca 19 Ret4 14 Ret5 3 Ret 173 11 18 Ret 37
14 "Gui" Backes 6 6 10 14 21 19 2012 9 14 9 32
15 Júlio Campos/Alex Seid 8 12 Ret Ret 12 Ret 65 Ret 20 Ret 32
16 Antonio Junqueira 11 2 Ret 10 Ret 8 31
17 Gabryel Romano 14 18 Ret 16 14 9 15 6 13 8 20
18 Tito Giaffone 9 13 13 11 Ret 16 Ret 7 11 10 19
19 Ricardo Zonta 16 12 15 21 11 14 8 7 17
20 Raphael Teixeira 18 4 - DSQ - 15 16 Ret WD WD 14
21 Nick Monteiro 12 Ret 18 11 7 Ret 11
22 Beto Monteiro 15 6 Ret 12 11
23 Lourenço Beirão Ret 7 19 Ret 8
24 Adalberto Baptista 17 8 20 14 14 13 17 16 7
25 Pietro Rimbano 9 18 4
26 Vinicius Canhedo 19 13 19 17 13 12 21 13 1
27 Bruno Baptista 12 Ret 1
28 Thiago Lopes 15 17 0
29 Marcel Jorand 16 19 0
30 Léo Yoshii 17 17 0
31 Emerson Rack 17 18 WD WD 0
32 Daniel Mencacci 20 - 0
33 Gianluca Petecof Ret Ret 0
34 Pablo Marçal Ret - 0
Challenge Championship
1 Jorge Martelli 1 1 3 Ret 2 Ret 13 1 2 5 184
2 Alfredinho Ibiapina 3 Ret 1 1 4 4 71 2 1 Ret 173
3 Felipe Tozzo 5 4 2 2 1 10 22 3 6 7 156
4 Gabryel Romano 8 8 Ret 6 3 1 66 4 4 1 136
5 "Gui" Backes 2 3 4 5 9 9 84 7 5 2 132
6 Tito Giaffone 4 6 6 3 Ret 6 Ret7 5 3 3 112
7 Vinicius Canhedo 8 4 7 7 45 8 8 4 81
8 Adalberto Baptista 11 5 8 5 59 9 7 6 80
9 Antonio Junqueira 6 2 Ret 2 Ret8 6 74
10 Nick Monteiro 7 Ret 6 3 3 Ret 60
11 Emerson Rack 5 8 18
12 Léo Yoshii 7 7 16
13 Bruno Baptista 5 Ret 12
14 Thiago Lopes 9 7 12
15 Marcel Jorand 10 9 7

See also

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