2017 Mercedes-Benz Challenge season

2017 Mercedes-Benz Challenge

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The 2017 Mercedes-Benz Challenge is the seventh season of the Mercedes-Benz Challenge.

Fernando Júnior finished the season as the champion.

Entry list

• CLA AMG Cup drivers compete utilising the Mercedes-Benz CLA AMG while C250 Cup drivers use the Mercedes-Benz C250. All drivers were Brazilian-registered, excepting Jared Wilson, who raced under American racing license, and João Lemos, who raced under Portuguese racing license.

2017 Entry List
Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
CLA AMG Cup
WCR	3	Cristian Mohr	1–2
	6	Fernando Júnior	All
	90	José Vitte	All
Cordova Motorsports	10	Pierre Ventura	1–6, 8
	27	Paulo Varassin	1–5
	33	Adriano Rabelo	1, 3–5, 7–8
	37	Lorenzo Varassin	1–6
	76	Danílo Pinto	1–5, 8
L3 Motorsport	11	Neto de Nigris	1
Mottin Racing	15	Raijan Mascarello	All
	20	Roger Sandoval	All
Mottin/Sul Racing	18	Fernando Poeta	1–3, 5–7
		Alexandre Buneder	2, 6
	88	Fernando Amorim	All
	118	Sergio Ribas	8
Ourocar	19	Luis Carlos Ribeiro	All
Bardahl Hot Car	55	Fábio Escorpioni	All
Center Bus Sambaiba Racing	60	Betão Fonseca	All
	61	César Fonseca	1
	62	Jared Wilson	8
Comark Racing	77	Arnaldo Diniz Filho	4, 8
RSports Racing	110	Bruno Alvarenga	7–8
		Leandro Romera	8
	555	Renato Braga	1–6
C250 Cup
RSports Racing	9	Alexandre Navarro	All
	40	Ydenis Roberto de Souza	1–3
		Bruno Alvarenga	1–4
	51	Leandro Reis	7
	84	Cello Nunes	1–7
	155	Marcelo Lozasso	8
	225	Max Mohr	1
PGL Racing	12	André Moraes Jr.	All
	41	João Lemos	All
Paioli Racing	13	Beto Rossi	All
	21	Peter Michael Gottschalk	1, 3–8
	111	Marcos Paioli	1, 3–8
		Peter Gottschalk Jr.	1, 3–5
Bardahl Hot Car	26	Flávio Andrade	All
	225	Max Mohr	2
Friato/DCM	45	Guiseppe Vecci	1
Center Bus Sambaiba Racing	63	Ciro Lobo	1–6, 8
		Fabio Peterson	All
	64	Carlos Alberto Guilherme	All
		Sérgio Kuba	All
	65	Claudio Simão	All
	66	Fernando Pessoa	1–2
	67	Luiz Barcelos	All
	68	Carlos Machado	All
	69	Rudinei Sabino	1–2
	166	Angelo Giombelli	8
	169	Sergio Maggi	8
Brandão Motorsport	29	Vinicius Fugi	7–8
	73	Raphael Teixeira	All
		Rodrigo Cruvinel	All

Race calendar and results

All races were held in Brazil.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	C250 Cup winner
1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	April 2	Lorenzo Varassin	Fernando Júnior	Fernando Júnior	WCR	Claudio Simão
2	Autódromo Internacional de Santa Cruz do Sul	May 21	Lorenzo Varassin	Fernando Junior	Lorenzo Varassin	Cordova Motorsports	Max Mohr
3	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	July 2	Adriano Rabelo	Paulo Varassim	Fernando Júnior	WCR	Raphael Teixeira Rodrigo Cruvinel
4	Autódromo Velo Città	August 6	Fernando Júnior	Fernando Júnior	Fernando Júnior	WCR	André Moraes Jr
5	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	September 10	Betão Fonseca	Raijan Mascarello	Raijan Mascarello	Mottin Racing	Claudio Simão
6	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	October 22	Betão Fonseca	Lorenzo Varassim	Luiz Carlos Ribeiro	Charruá Ourocar	Marcos Paioli
7	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna (Goiânia)	November 19	Adriano Rabelo	José Vitte	José Vitte	WCR	Marcos Paioli
8	Autódromo José Carlos Pace	December 10	Roger Sandoval	Roger Sandoval	Roger Sandoval	Mottin Racing	Marcos Paioli

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.

Points format	Position
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	Pole
Race	20	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	1
Final race	40	34	30	26	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2	2

• Race: Used for the first to seventh round.
• Final race: Used for the last round of the season with double points.

Drivers' Championship

Pos Driver GOI SCZ CUR VCA LON TAR GOI INT Pts CLA AMG Cup 1 Fernando Júnior 1 3 1 1 3 Ret 9 4 98 2 Betão Fonseca 3 4 6 17 2 10 7 7 79 3 José Vitte 5 6 3 3 Ret 14 1 2 78 4 Roger Sandoval Ret 5 2 2 6 8 5 1 75 5 Raijan Mascarello 12 Ret 8 7 1 2 6 3 68 6 Luiz Carlos Ribeiro Ret 2 DSQ 5 4 1 Ret 8 61 7 Pierre Ventura 8 DSQ 5 6 5 4 16 5 59 8 Lorenzo Varassin 10 1 7 10 7 Ret 52 9 Adriano Rabelo 2 DSQ 4 Ret 2 6 49 10 Fernando Poeta 11 8 11 8 3 8 49 11 Fernando Amorim 6 Ret 10 25 10 5 4 49 12 Fabio Escorpioni 9 9 12 Ret 11 6 3 48 13 Renato Braga 7 7 4 22 12 16 45 14 Paulo Varassin 13 13 9 8 9 30 15 Alexandre Buneder 8 3 23 16 Cristian Mohr 4 27 17 17 Danilo Pinto Ret 10 22 9 Ret 16 18 Bruno Alvarenga 21 2 19 Cesar Fonseca 18 2 Arnaldo Diniz Filho DSQ Neto de Nigris DNS C250 Cup 1 Claudio Simão 15 17 15 13 13 12 17 103 2 Marcos Paioli 17 16 15 19 6 10 92 3 André Moraes Jr. 16 15 Ret 11 15 13 12 92 4 Flávio Andrade 20 14 17 14 18 15 11 86 5 João Lemos 26 20 14 20 14 9 15 80 6 Raphael Teixeira Rodrigo Cruvinel 18 12 13 16 22 19 Ret 73 7 Cello Nunes 28 18 19 23 17 11 22 56 8 Peter Gottschalk Jr. 17 16 15 19 50 9 Beto Rossi 22 22 Ret 18 20 18 14 49 10 Peter Michel Gottschalk 19 DSQ 12 25 22 13 48 11 Carlos Machado 27 24 20 19 21 17 20 44 12 Alexandre Navarro 23 16 18 Ret 16 Ret 26 42 13 Max Mohr 21 11 29 14 Fabio Peterson 31 26 24 24 23 23 19 25 15 Luiz Barcellos 24 25 23 Ret Ret 20 24 23 16 Carlos Alberto Guilherme Sérgio Kuba 25 Ret Ret 21 24 21 25 22 17 Ciro Lobo 31 26 24 24 23 23 18 18 Bruno Alvarenga 33 19 21 Ret 15 19 Ydenis Roberto de Souza 33 19 21 15 20 Leandro Reis 18 6 21 Fernando Pessoa 32 21 6 22 Rudinei Sabino 30 23 4 23 Vinicius Fugi 23 4 24 Giusepe Vecci 29 1 Pos Driver GOI SCZ CUR VCA LON TAR GOI 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 position Italics – Fastest lap † – Retired, but classified

External links

• Official website (in Portuguese)