2018 Copa Truck season

2018 Copa Truck

2017

2019

Support series:
Mercedes-Benz Challenge
NASCAR Brasil Series

The 2018 Campeonato Brasileiro de Copa Truck is the second season of the Copa Truck. Roberval Andrade became the 2018 Copa Truck Champion in a Scania from Corinthians-Dakar Motorsport.

The category's origins came after nine teams left Formula Truck due to disagreements with the problematic management of Neusa Navarro Félix. These teams joined together in an association to create the category that replaced Formula Truck.^[1]^[2] The new category brings together teams and drivers from the old category.

In November 2017, it was approved by the Brazilian Automobile Confederation (CBA) and recognized as an official championship. Carlos Col, former head of the Stock Car Pro Series, is its promoter.^[3]

The Truck Cup was officially launched on April 27, 2017, in São Paulo. In the first season, the championship was divided into three regional cups: Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. The first stage took place on May 28, in Goiânia, with 17 trucks on the grid.

The association is made up of the following teams: RM Competições, AJ5 Sports, DF Motorsport, RVR Motorsports, Dakar Motors, Fábio Fogaça Motorsports, Lucar Motorsports and Clay Truck Racing.^[4]

Teams and drivers

Manufacturer	Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Ford	Ford AJ5	5	Adalberto Jardim	3–7
	Original Reis Peças	12	José Maria Reis	1
	DF Motorsport	27	Fábio Fogaça	1–7
	DF Motorsport	72	Djalma Fogaça	1–3
Iveco	Lucar Motorsport	88	Beto Monteiro	1–7
	Lucar Motorsport	99	Luiz Lopes	1–7
	Paraguay Racing/Dakar Motorsport	90	Giuliano Losacco	1–7
MAN SE	RM Competições	9	Renato Martins	3
		11	Witold Ramasauskas	1–2
		13	Witold Ramasauskas	3–7
		72	Djalma Fogaça	4–7
Mercedes-Benz	AM Motorsports	6	Wellington Cirino	1–7
	AM Motorsports	77	André Marques	1–7
	Motul-GG Motorsport	38	Alan Chanoski	3
	Motul-GG Motorsport	333	Alex Fabiano Silva	1, 3
	JL Competição	55	Paulo Salustiano	4
	JL Competição	73	Leandro Totti	6
	AN09 Team	909	Alexandre Navarro	5
	PP Competições	28	Danilo Dirani	5–6
	PP Competições	29	Pedro Paulo Fernandes	5–6
Scania	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports	15	Roberval Andrade	1–7
		55	Danilo Dirani	3
		73	Leandro Totti	5
	Original Reis Peças	33	Eurípedes Reis	1
	Luhrs Competições	46	Luiz Renato Luhrs	1–2
Volkswagen	RM Competições	4	Felipe Giaffone	1–2, 4–7
		7	Débora Rodrigues	1–2, 7
		50	Débora Rodrigues	3–6
		8	Luciano Burti	3
		9	Renato Martins	1–2, 4, 6–7
		11	Rodrigo Belinati	3–7
		30	Rogério Castro	1–3, 5–6
Volvo	Boéssio Competições	47	Duda Bana	3–7
Volvo	Boéssio Competições	83	Régis Boéssio	1–7

Race calendar and results

The Copa Truck is divided into four parallel championships with two stages (South Truck Cup, Southeast Truck Cup, Midwest Truck Cup and Mercosul Truck Cup), totaling eight stages. And a ninth stage, denominated The Great Final, will define the general champion of the category.

Rnd		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel, Paraná	March 25	Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	Wellington Cirino	AM Motorsports
1	R2	Autódromo Internacional de Cascavel, Cascavel, Paraná	March 25		Wellington Cirino	Giuliano Losacco	Paraguay Racing/Dakar Motorsport
2	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Guaporé, Guaporé, Rio Grande do Sul	April 15	Roberval Andrade	Wellington Cirino	Wellington Cirino	AM Motorsports
2	R2		April 15		Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
3	R1	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, São Paulo	May 27	Wellington Cirino	Roberval Andrade	Roberval Andrade	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports
3	R2	Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, São Paulo	May 27		Luciano Burti	Roberval Andrade	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports
4	R1	Autódromo Internacional Orlando Moura, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul	July 29	Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
4	R2		July 29		Felipe Giaffone	Roberval Andrade	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports
5	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia, Goiás	August 25	Wellington Cirino	Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	PP Competições
5	R2	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna, Goiânia, Goiás	August 25		Danilo Dirani	Danilo Dirani	PP Competições
6	R1	Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina	September 16	Wellington Cirino	Leandro Totti	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
6	R2	Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez, Buenos Aires, Argentina	September 16		Beto Monteiro	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
7	R1	Autódromo Eduardo Prudêncio Cabrera, Rivera, Uruguay	October 7	Wellington Cirino	Roberval Andrade	Roberval Andrade	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports
7	R2	Autódromo Eduardo Prudêncio Cabrera, Rivera, Uruguay	October 7		Roberval Andrade	Renato Martins	RM Competições
8	R1	Circuito dos Cristais, Curvelo, Minas Gerais	October 28	Wellington Cirino	Danilo Dirani	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
8	R2	Circuito dos Cristais, Curvelo, Minas Gerais	October 28		Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
9	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Pinhais, Paraná	December 2	Danilo Dirani	Roberval Andrade	Roberval Andrade	Dakar Motorsport-Corinthians Motorsports
9	R2	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, Pinhais, Paraná	December 2		Felipe Giaffone	Felipe Giaffone	RM Competições
Source(s): ^[5]

Drivers' Championship

Preliminary rounds

Pos	Driver	CAS		GUA		INT		CAM	GOI	BUE	RIV	CRI	CUR	South	Southwest	Midwest	Mercosul	Bonus
	Wellington Cirino	1	2	1	6	Ret	Ret							70				12
	Giuliano Losacco	7	1	7	2	DNS	DNS							60				10
	André Marques	5	3	4	4	2	3							57				8
	Felipe Giaffone	2	DNS	6	1									52
	Beto Monteiro	3	11	2	7	Ret	Ret							52
	Renato Martins	4	6	8	3	5	4							52
	Régis Boéssio	6	7	9	Ret	DNS	DNS							34
	Débora Rodrigues	8	4	5	10	8	DNS							45
	Witold Ramasauskas	13	5	13	8	6	6							33
	Alex Fabiano Silva	9	9	14	9	11	9							31
	Adalberto Jardim			3	5									21
	Luiz Lopes	11	8	12	12									29
	Rogério Castro	14	DNS	10	Ret									16
	Duda Bana			11	11									14
	José Maria Reis	15	10											14
	Djalma Fogaça	10	Ret	Ret	Ret									10
	Fábio Fogaça	12	Ret	Ret	DNS									10
	Luis Renato Luhrs	Ret	DNS	DNS	DNS									0
	Roberval Andrade	Ret	DNS	DNS	DNS									0
	Eurípedes Reis	DNS	DNS											0
Pos	Driver	CAS		GUA		INT		CAM	GOI	BUE	RIV	CRI	CUR	South	Southwest	Midwest	Mercosul	Bonus

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points classification
Blue	Non-points classification
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired, not classified (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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
Italics – Fastest Lap

Constructors' Championship standings

Points standings

Points	1°	2°	3°	4°	5°	6°	7°	8°	9°	10°	11°	12°	13°	14°	15°
Race 1	22	20	18	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5
Race 2	18	16	14	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

References

"Suspenden el campeonato de la Fórmula Truck". carburando.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-08-06.
"Fórmula Truck anuncia suspensão das atividades e encerra temporada 2017". GARAGEM 360 (in Brazilian Portuguese). 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
Martins, Victor (2017-04-06). "Associação de equipes 'dissidentes' forma Copa Truck e anuncia calendário com seis etapas já em 2017 - Notícia de Outras". Grande Prêmio (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2022-08-06.
Victor Martins (2017-04-06). "Associação de equipes 'dissidentes' forma Copa Truck e anuncia calendário com seis etapas já em 2017". Grande Prêmio. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
"FASTCRONO - Resultados VELOCIDADE NO ASFALTO". Fastcrono. Retrieved 26 August 2018.

External links

Official website (in Portuguese)