2012 Formula 3 Sudamericana season

The 2012 Formula 3 Sudamericana season was the 26th Formula 3 Sudamericana season. It began on 22 July 2012, at Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba, and ended on 2 December on the same circuit. After a year more complicated of the category, Formula 3 Sudamericana becomes organized by Vicar, the same of Stock Car Brasil and Brasileiro de Marcas.^[1]

After winning the light class in 2010, Fernando Resende won the main class, the fourth successive title of Césario Fórmula team. On the light class Césario Fórmula driver Higor Hoffman won the championship.^[2] The 2012 season was marked by only three drivers racing in all rounds and with no driver and race outside Brazil.

• All cars were powered by Berta engines, and ran on Pirelli tyres. All drivers were Brazilian registered.

Team	No.	Driver	Chassis	Rounds
Class A
Cesário Fórmula	1	Fernando Resende	Dallara F309	1–2
		Rodrigo Gonzalez		3–6
	2	Carlos Padovan	Dallara F309	3
		Ramon Matias		4
		Fernando Resende		5–6
Hitech Racing	3	Nicolas Costa	Dallara F309	1
		Gustavo Myasava		2
		Christian Castro		3
		Felipe Guimarães		4–6
	4	Gabriel Casagrande	Dallara F309	1
		Pedro Nunes		2
		Gustavo Frigotto		3, 6
		Christian Castro		4
		Mathues Stumpf
	5	Lucas Biagioni	Dallara F309	1
	99	Nicolas Costa	Dallara F309	5
Bassan Motorsport	11	André Pedralli	Dallara F309	1–2, 5
Kemba Racing	28	Leonardo de Souza	Dallara F309	All
Class B
Capital Motorsport	2	Eduardo Banzoli	Dallara F301	1–2
	26			5
Cesário Fórmula	31	Higor Hoffman	Dallara F301	All
	32	Felipe Polehtto	Dallara F301	2
		Pedro Castro		3
		Fernando Stédile		4
	77	Felipe Lapenna	Dallara F301	5
Chemim Racing	14	Luis Carlos Abbade	Dallara F301	4
EMB Racing	22	Lucas de La Vega	Dallara F301	1–4
Baumer Racing	33	Lucilio Baumer	Dallara F301	6
Dragão Motorsport	37	Luir Miranda	Dallara F301	2, 6
RR Racing Team	38	Raphael Raucci	Dallara F301	All

All rounds were held in Brazil.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Class B Winner
1	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	21 July	Nicolas Costa	Nicolas Costa	Nicolas Costa	Hitech Racing	Raphael Raucci
	R2		22 July		Nicolas Costa	Fernando Resende	Césario Fórmula	Higor Hoffman
2	R1	Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet	4 August	Pedro Nunes	Fernando Resende	Pedro Nunes	Hitech Racing	Higor Hoffman
	R2		5 August		Fernando Resende	Fernando Resende	Césario Fórmula	Higor Hoffman
3	R1	Velopark, Nova Santa Rita	22 September	Higor Hoffman	Higor Hoffman	Rodrigo Gonzalez	Césario Fórmula	Lucas de La Vega
	R2		23 September		Christian Castro	Leonardo de Souza	Kemba Racing	Raphael Raucci
4	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	27 October	Felipe Guimarães	Felipe Guimarães	Felipe Guimarães	Hitech Racing	Raphael Raucci
	R2		28 October		Rodrigo Gonzalez	Felipe Guimarães	Hitech Racing	Raphael Raucci
5	R1	Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna	17 November	Felipe Guimarães	Fernando Resende	Fernando Resende	Césario Fórmula	Higor Hoffman
	R2		18 November		Felipe Guimarães	Felipe Guimarães	Hitech Racing	Higor Hoffman
6	R1	Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba	1 December	Fernando Resende	Felipe Guimarães	Felipe Guimarães	Hitech Racing	Higor Hoffman
	R2		2 December		Fernando Resende	Higor Hoffman	Césario Fórmula	Higor Hoffman

• Points were awarded as follows:

Pos Driver CUR RIO VEL TAR LON CUR Pts Class A 1 Fernando Resende 2 1 2 1 1 7 3 Ret 112 2 Rodrigo Gonzalez 1 DSQ 4 2 6 3 DSQ 4 87 3 Leonardo de Souza Ret Ret Ret 7 2 1 Ret 3 2 Ret Ret 6 84 4 Felipe Guimarães 1 1 Ret 1 1 Ret 80 5 André Pedralli 3 3 3 2 4 5 75 6 Gustavo Frigotto 4 5 2 3 57 7 Christian Castro 3 3 6 4† 37 8 Nicolas Costa 1 2 DNS DNS 35 9 Pedro Nunes 1 6 32 10 Gabriel Casagrande 4 7 20 11 Ramon Matias 2 Ret 15 12 Mathues Stumpf 6† 4 10 Lucas Biagioni Ret Ret 0 Gustavo Myasava Ret Ret 0 Carlos Padovan Ret Ret 0 Class B 1 Higor Hoffman 7 4 4 3 Ret Ret 5 6 3 2 4 1 182 1 Raphael Raucci 5 5 Ret 9 Ret 2 3 5 5 4 Ret 2 142 3 Lucas de La Vega 8 6 Ret 8 5 4 7 7 91 4 Eduardo Banzoli 6 Ret Ret 4 DSQ 6 42 5 Luir Miranda 5 5 Ret 5 39 6 Pedro Castro 6 6 27 7 Luis Carlos Abbade 8 Ret 10 Fernando Stédile Ret Ret 0 Felipe Lapenna Ret Ret 0 Lucilio Baumer Ret Ret 0 Felipe Polehtto DNS Ret 0 Pos Driver CUR RIO VEL TAR LON CUR 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 Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes:

• † — Driver did not race and did not score points for participating with partner.

• The official website of the Formula Three Sudamericana