2004 Desafío Corona season
Appearance
The 2004 Desafio Corona season was the first season of stock car racing in Mexico. The serial was presented in March as Desafío Corona.[1] After 14 races Carlos Pardo of Equipo Telcel was declared champion.[2]
Cars
[edit]Pontiac Grand Am was the car used for almost drivers. Only two Dodge Stratus, both of Seeman-Baker team, was used.[3] Pontiac won 13 of 14 runs and the championship.
Teams and drivers
[edit]Full time entries
[edit]Team | Manufacturer | No. | Race Driver | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|
Escudería Telmex | Pontiac | 1 | Mara Reyes | All |
2 | Rubén Pardo | All | ||
Escudería Telcel Sun Motorola | Pontiac | 5 | Rogelio López | All |
6 | Carlos Pardo | All | ||
Escudería Seman Baker | Pontiac | 38 | Jorge Seman | 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 12–14 |
Dodge | 83 | Germán Quiroga | All | |
87 | Luis Felipe Montaño | All | ||
Escudería Díaz Racing | Pontiac | 11 | Carlos Contreras | 4–14 |
22 | César Pedrero | 1–3 | ||
Jonathan Manatou | 8–9 | |||
Eduardo Troconis | 10–12, 14 | |||
Escudería Hecsal Racing | Pontiac | 7 | Héctor Sánchez | All |
Raam Racing Team | Pontiac | 43 | Óscar Ruíz | All |
Team GP | Pontiac | 17 | Jorge Goeters | 1–13 |
18 | Fernando Plata | All |
Part time entries
[edit]Team | Manufacturer | No. | Race Driver | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bracho Racing Team | Pontiac | 12 | Julio Bracho Jr. | 1–4, 6, 8, 14 |
Dynamic Motorsport | Pontiac | 11 | Carlos Contreras | 1–3 |
Escudería Delphi | Pontiac | 9 | Sebastián Ocaranza | 1–2, 4–8 |
Héctor Rached | 3, 14 | |||
Horacio Topete | 9–10, 12 | |||
Escudería México | Pontiac | 3 | Gianfranco Cané | 1–5 |
Escudería Zeppelin | Pontiac | 44 | César Tiberio Jiménez | 1–10 |
PPG Motorsports | Pontiac | 24 | José González | 14 |
Racing Toys | Pontiac | 66 | Jonathan Manatou | 1 |
Héctor Rached | 2 | |||
Tiger Team | Pontiac | 99 | Marcelo Núñez | 1–4 |
Schedule
[edit] Oval/Speedway
Road Course/Street Circuit
Results
[edit]Races
[edit]No. | Race | Pole position | Most laps led | Winning driver | Winning manufacturer |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mexico City | Mara Reyes | Jorge Goeters | Jorge Goeters | Pontiac |
2 | Guadalajara | Patrick Goeters | Carlos Pardo | Carlos Contreras | Pontiac |
3 | Quéretaro | Germán Quiroga | Rubén Pardo | Carlos Contreras | Pontiac |
4 | Monterrey | Gianfranco Cané | Rogelio López | César Tiberio Jiménez | Pontiac |
5 | Torreón | Rubén Pardo | Carlos Pardo | Carlos Pardo | Pontiac |
6 | San Luis Potosí | Carlos Pardo1 | Jorge Goeters | Germán Quiroga | Dodge |
7 | Zacatecas | Carlos Contreras | Carlos Pardo | Carlos Pardo | Pontiac |
8 | León | Fernando Plata | Carlos Pardo | Carlos Pardo | Pontiac |
9 | Guadalajara | Jorge Goeters | Rogelio López | Rogelio López | Pontiac |
10 | Quéretaro | Jorge Goeters | Rubén Pardo | Rubén Pardo | Pontiac |
11 | León | Carlos Pardo2 | Jorge Goeters | Rogelio López | Pontiac |
12 | Guadalajara | Jorge Goeters | Jorge Goeters | Carlos Pardo | Pontiac |
13 | San Luis Potosí | Rubén Pardo | Jorge Goeters | Rogelio López | Pontiac |
14 | Mexico City | Sebastián Ocaranza | Rogelio López | Rogelio López | Pontiac |
Standings
[edit]Rank | Driver | MEX |
GDL |
QRO |
MTY |
TOR |
SLP |
ZAC |
LEON |
GDL |
QRO |
LEON |
GDL |
SLP |
MEX |
Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carlos Pardo | 5 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2326 |
2 | Rubén Pardo | 9 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2257 |
3 | Rogelio López | 7 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2201 |
4 | Jorge Goeters | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2045 | |
5 | Fernando Plata | 11 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 26 | 2026 |
6 | Mara Reyes | 10 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 23 | 1943 |
7 | Carlos Contreras | 13 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 21 | 24 | 5 | 21 | 1936 |
8 | Oscar Ruíz | 22 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 1887 |
9 | Héctor Sánchez | 6 | 8 | 20 | 19 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 1857 |
10 | Luis F. Montaño | 17 | 13 | 24 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1815 |
11 | Germán Quiroga | 20 | 21 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 24 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 1802 |
12 | Ignacio Alvarado | 8 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 1705 |
13 | Juan Lópezpape | 25 | 16 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 13 | 1553 | |
14 | Alejandro Portillo | 24 | 14 | 9 | 16 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 1525 | |
15 | Patrick Goeters | 19 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 12 | 1483 | |||
16 | César Tiberio Jiménez | 18 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 1337 | ||||
17 | Sebastián Ocaranza | 12 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 18 | 24 | 12 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 1213 | ||
18 | Raúl García | 14 | 25 | 17 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 25 | 1084 | ||||
19 | Jorge Seman | 21 | 26 | 14 | 20 | 13 | 23 | 12 | 24 | 857 | ||||||
20 | Julio Bracho, Jr. | 16 | 16 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 854 | ||||||
21 | Jesús Castellanos | 12 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 14 | 799 | |||||||
22 | Javier de la Parra | 13 | 14 | 21 | 25 | 18 | 16 | 11 | 796 | |||||||
23 | Gianfranco Cané | 2 | 22 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 649 | |||||||||
24 | Miguel de la Parra | 22 | 13 | 21 | 12 | 22 | 545 | |||||||||
25 | Marcelo Núñez ✝[note 1] | 3 | 9 | 12 | 20 | 533 | ||||||||||
26 | Jonathan Manatou | 15 | 14 | 16 | 499 | |||||||||||
27 | Héctor Rached | 20 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 492 | ||||||||||
28 | Sebastián Ocaranza, Jr. | 17 | 12 | 19 | 475 | |||||||||||
29 | Eduardo Troconis | 15 | 11 | 15 | 22 | 467 | ||||||||||
30 | Eduardo Goeters | 23 | 23 | 13 | 16 | 430 | ||||||||||
31 | César Pedrero | 4 | 10 | 11 | 429 | |||||||||||
32 | Horacio Topete | 14 | 21 | 22 | 318 | |||||||||||
33 | Michael Goeters | 10 | 7 | 280 | ||||||||||||
34 | Roberto Fernández | 15 | 21 | 17 | 212 | |||||||||||
35 | Eliseo Márquez | 18 | 9 | 194 | ||||||||||||
36 | Iván Pérez | 7 | 146 | |||||||||||||
37 | Jonathan Briseño | 10 | 8 | 134 | ||||||||||||
38 | Horacio Richards | 15 | 118 | |||||||||||||
39 | Ignacio Márquez | 26 | 19 | 106 | ||||||||||||
40 | David Hernández | 20 | 103 | |||||||||||||
Alfredo Galland | 17 | 103 | ||||||||||||||
Eduardo Calderón | 21 | 103 | ||||||||||||||
José González | 20 | 103 | ||||||||||||||
44 | Rafael Vallina | 21 | 100 | |||||||||||||
Ricardo Marroquín | 22 | 100 | ||||||||||||||
Rank | Driver | MEX |
GDL |
QRO |
MTY |
TOR |
SLP |
ZAC |
LEON |
GDL |
QRO |
LEON |
GDL |
SLP |
MEX |
Points |
Notes
[edit]- ^ The 26-year-old driver died on August 9, 2004, eight days after a racing accident at Autódromo Monterrey.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "OCESA y SELCA presentan su nuevo serial como "Desafío Corona 2004"". Sporcar.com. March 5, 2004.
- ^ "Termina el Desafío Corona". Esmas.com. December 5, 2004. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2011.
- ^ "Mopar – Seman Baker seguirá teniendo los únicos autos Dodge en el Desafío". Sportcar. June 23, 2004. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
- ^ "Carlos Pardo arranca primero en San Luis". SportCar. August 21, 2004.
- ^ "Carlos Pardo tiene la pole en León de acuerdo a su posición en el campeonato". SportCar. October 30, 2004.
- ^ "Driver dies after crash in Mexican stock car series". Associated Press Worldstream. August 9, 2004. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 – via HighBeam Research.