At wet Interlagos, Rafael Suzuki has started 29th after a car issue in qualify, climbed 14 positions before deliver to frenchman, who completed a great recovery race to finish 8th, adding first points to Brazilian in the season
For Bardahl Hot Car #8 car, it was a almost perfect Saturday race. At damp conditions after a sudden heavy rain at the formation lap, both Rafael Suzuki and guest driver Jean-Karl Vernay managed to climb the all-star field during the 31 laps at Sao Paulo F1 circuit.
Pole position pair Daniel Serra / J.P Oliveira completed a 100% weekend giving Serra the leadership of point standing after winning round 1.
Next Stock Car race is schedule to April 8th at Curitiba Circuit.
Official Result Corrida de Duplas – Interlagos - Stock Car
(Position / Number of the car / Official Driver / Guest Driver / Team)
1. 29 Daniel Serra / J. P. Oliveira (Eurofarma RC) – 31 laps in 1h02min03s255 (average 129,1 km/h)
2. 111 Rubens Barrichello / Filipe Albuquerque (Full Time Sports) – a 2s214
3. 90 Ricardo Maurício / Felipe Nasr (Full Time Sports) – a 7s094
4. 10 Ricardo Zonta / Laurens Vanthoor (Shell V-Power) – a 7s757
5. 65 Max Wilson / Felipe Giaffone (Eurofarma RC) – a 10s024
6. 80 M.Gomes / Pipo Derani (Cimed Racing) – a 11s237
7. 18 Allam Khodair / Alan Hellmeister (Blau Motorsport) – a 12s372
8. 8 Rafael Suzuki / J.K.Vernay (Hot Car Bardahl) – a 15s232
9. 117 Guilherme Salas/ Mariano Altuna (Hot Car Bardahl) – a 18s014
10. 12 Lucas Foresti / Jerome D’Ambrosio (Cimed Racing) – a 20s786
11. 51 Atila Abreu/ Mark Winterbottom (Shell V-Power) – a 22s408
12. 30 Cesar Ramos / Kevin Van der Linde (Blau Motorsport) – a 26s428*
13. 0 Caca Bueno / Felipe Massa (Cimed Racing) – a 28s340
14. 1 Antonio Pizzonia / Oliver Jarvis (Prati-Donaduzzi) – a 47s991
15. 9 Guga Lima/G.Myasava (Squadra G-Force) – a 1min00s757
16. 77 Valdeno Brito / Jeroen Bleekemolen (Eisenbahn Racing Team) – a 1min18s313
17. 55 Sergio Jimenez / Fabio Carbone (Squadra G-Force) – 1 lap
18. 43 Vitor Meira / Vicente Orige (Scuderia Colón) – 1 lap
19. 25 Tuka Rocha / Raphael Matos (Vogel Motorsport) – 1 lap
20. 5 Denis Navarro / Franco Girolami (Cavaleiro Sports) – 1 lap
21. 28 Galid Osman / Damien Fineschi (Cavaleiro Sports) – 1 lap
22. 84 Tarso Marques / Fernando Croce (Scuderia Colón) – 1 lap
23. 46 Vitor Genz / David Muffato (Eisenbahn Racing Team) – 6 laps
24. 4 Julio Campos / Jamie Green (Prati-Donaduzzi) – 8 laps
Did not complete:
25. 110 Felipe Lapenna / Gabriel Robe (Cavaleiro Sports) – 11 laps
26. 44 Bruno Baptista / Nono Figueiredo (Hero Motorsport) – 11 laps
27. 33 Nelson Piquet / Robin Frijns (Texaco Racing) – 12 laps
28. 70 Diego Nunes / Luciano Burti (Texaco Racing) – 13 laps
29. 21 Thiago Camilo / Nico Mueller (Ipiranga Racing) – 13 laps
30. 3 Bia Figueiredo / Beto Monteiro (Ipiranga Racing) – 16 laps
31. 88 Felipe Fraga / Nick Catsburg (Cimed Racing) – 16 laps
32. 83 Gabriel Casagrande / Chris Van der Drift (Vogel Motorsport) – 18 laps
33. 11 Lucas Di Grassi / Augusto Farfus (Hero Motorsport) – 27 laps
FASTEST LAP: 29 Daniel Serra / J.P.Oliveira, 1min37s867 (158,5 km/h)
*Penalized in 20sec for refueling under SC
Standings after 1 of 12 rounds:
1. Daniel Serra, 20 pontos 2. Rubens Barrichello, 17 3. Ricardo Maurício, 14 4. Ricardo Zonta, 12 5. Max Wilson, 10 6. Marcos Gomes, 8 7. Allam Khodair, 6 8. Rafael Suzuki, 5 9. Guilherme Salas, 4 10. Lucas Foresti, 3 11. Átila Abreu, 2 12. Cesar Ramos, 1 13. Cacá Bueno, 0 14. Antonio Pizzonia, 0 15. Guga Lima, 0 16. Valdeno Brito, 0 17. Sérgio Jimenez, 0 18. Vitor Meira, 0 19. Tuka Rocha, 0 20. Denis Navarro, 0 21. Galid Osman, 0 22. Tarso Marques, 0 23. Vitor Genz, 0 24. Julio Campos, 0 25. Felipe Lapenna, 0 26. Bruno Baptista, 0 27. Nelson Piquet Jr., 0 28. Diego Nunes, 0 29. Thiago Camilo, 0 30. Bia Figueiredo, 0 31. Felipe Fraga, 0 32. Gabriel Casagrande, 0 33. Lucas di Grassi, 0