2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series
The 2018 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series was the eleventh season of the NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series and the fourteenth season organized by NASCAR Mexico. It began with the Gran Premio Difrenosa at Autódromo Monterrey on 25 March and concluded with the Gran Premio FedEx at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez on 2 December. Abraham Calderón entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Rubén García Jr. won the championship, nineteen points in front of Irwin Vences. And Fabián Welter was declared the Rookie of the Year.
Drivers[edit]
| No. | Manufacturer | Car Owner | Race Driver | Crew Chief |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | Toyota | Patricia Marbán | Rodrigo Marbán 4 | Alfredo Montiel |
| 0 | Toyota | Rafael Vallina | Rafael Vallina 1 | Juan Salazar |
| 1 | Toyota | Daniel Morales | Luis Michael Dörrbecker 2 | Jorge Torres |
| 2 | Toyota | Jimmy Morales | Abraham Calderón | Alejandro Vega |
| 3 | Toyota | Sara Morales | Fabián Welter (R) 11 | Xristos Pappas |
| Jorge Goeters 1 | ||||
| 4 | Toyota | Xenia Alexis Morales | Rodrigo Rejón 1 | Miguel Guzmán |
| Piero Rodarte 1 | ||||
| 6 | Toyota | Priscila Palazuelos | Rogelio López | Juan Tapia |
| 07 | Toyota | Héctor Félix | Héctor Félix 3 | Óscar Torres |
| 7 | Toyota | Antonio Camacho | Carlos Peralta 4 | Carlos Valencia 1 Antonio Camacho 11 |
| Elliot Van Rankin 8 | ||||
| 08 | Ford | José Luis Ramírez | José Luis Ramírez | Juan Luis Quintanar |
| 8 | Toyota | David Tame | Enrique Baca 8 | Juan Salazar 2 Gregorio Loza 7 |
| Rafael Martínez 1 | ||||
| 11 | Dodge | Juan Salazar | Hugo Oliveras | Luis Ruíz |
| 13 | Toyota | Oscar Rodríguez | Alex González 1 | Federico Cedillo |
| 15 | Dodge | Luis Ruíz | Rubén Pardo | Francisco Guzmán |
| 16 | Toyota | Miguel Sánchez | Mike Sánchez 6 | Sergio Zúñiga |
| Alex González 3 | ||||
| 19 | Toyota | Ramíro Fidalgo | Héctor Aguirre | Cuauhtémoc González |
| 20 | Toyota | Homero Richards | Homero Richards | Luis Angel Avelar |
| 24 | Toyota | Pepe González | Pepe González 3 | Pablo Gutiérrez |
| 25 | Ford | Martha Teresa Chavez | Abraham Jurado 1 | Cristobal García |
| 26 | Dodge | Estefanía Oliveras | Santiago Tovar | Emanuel Moreno |
| 28 | Toyota | Lilian Castellano | Rubén Rovelo | Leonel Morales |
| 30 | Toyota | Carlos Marbán | Víctor Barrales 8 | Juan Cervantes 6 Unknown 2 Rafaél Hernández 1 |
| Víctor Barrales Jr. 1 | ||||
| 31 | Ford 5 Toyota 7 |
Franco Zanella 1 Paola Cardona 11 |
Jorge Goeters 11 | Unknown 3 Juan Manuel Hernández 2 Jorge Gerardo González 7 |
| Patrick Goeters 1 | ||||
| 37 | Toyota | Pepe González | Max González | Jorge Castorena |
| 40 | Toyota | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Michel Jourdain Jr. | Luis Carlos Machorro |
| 41 | Toyota | Rafael Vallina | Patrick Goeters 3 | Daniel Garrido 1 |
| Unknown 2 | ||||
| 46 | Toyota | Jordi Vidal | Irwin Vences | Jorge Eduardo García |
| 48 | Toyota | Salvador de Alba Jr. | Salvador de Alba Jr. | Randy Cardenas |
| 54 | Toyota | Miguel Jurado | Omar Jurado 2 | Arturo Sánchez 1 |
| Marcos García 1 | ||||
| 55 | Ford | Gerardo Rejón | Julio Rejón 1 | Humberto Castilla |
| 65 | Toyota | Isaac Aragón | Alex González 5 | Pablo Gutiérrez |
| 68 | Toyota | Horacio Richards | Manolín Gutiérrez | Mauricio Quintanar |
| 77 | Toyota | Anapaula Villegas | Xavi Razo | Fernando Huerta |
| 88 | Toyota | Juan Pablo García | Rubén García Jr. | Martín Bautista |
| 90 | Ford | Alberto Tame | Piero Rodarte 3 | Edgar Romano |
| Rafael Martínez 7 | ||||
| 96 | Toyota | Javier Fernández | Javier Fernández 2 | Valentín Fernández 1 |
| Juan Manuel Hernández 1 | ||||
| Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] | ||||
Schedule[edit]
On 25 January 2018, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. León and Pachuca were dropped from the schedule in favor of El Dorado and a road course race at Aguascalientes. The race in El Marqués was held on the road course instead of the oval.[13]
| No. | Race Title | Track | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gran Premio Difrenosa |  Autódromo Monterrey, Apodaca
|
25 March |
| 2 | Gran Premio Canel's |  Autódromo Potosino, Zaragoza
|
22 April |
| 3 | Gran Premio Frontera |  El Dorado Speedway, Juan Aldama
|
20 May |
| 4 | Gran Premio Sam's Club |  Trióvalo Internacional de Cajititlán, Guadalajara
|
10 June |
| 5 | Gran Premio Red Cola |  Autódromo Miguel E. Abed, Puebla
|
8 July |
| 6 | Gran Premio BLU Smartphones |  Autódromo Internacional de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
|
29 July |
| 7 | Gran Premio Monster Energy |  Autódromo del Ecocentro de la Unión Ganadera, El Marqués
|
19 August |
| 8 | Gran Premio Red Cola | Autódromo Miguel E. Abed, Puebla
|
9 September |
| 9 | Gran Premio ARRIS |  Súper Óvalo Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez
|
30 September |
| 10 | Gran Premio Baoli | Autódromo Internacional de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
|
21 October |
| 11 | Gran Premio Scotiabank | Trióvalo Internacional de Cajititlán, Guadalajara
|
11 November |
| 12 | Gran Premio FedEx |  Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City
|
2 December |
Oval
Road Course
Results and standings[edit]
Races[edit]
Drivers' championship[edit]
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. * – Most laps led.
| Pos. | Driver | MTY | SLP | CHI | GDL | PUE | AGS | QRO | PUE | TXG | AGS | GDL | MXC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rubén García Jr. | 7 | 8 | 7* | 3 | 1 | 1* | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 488 |
| 2 | Irwin Vences | 2 | 1* | 27 | 1* | 6 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1* | 3 | 17 | 4 | 469 |
| 3 | Rubén Rovelo | 4 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 1* | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 459 |
| 4 | Hugo Oliveras | 10 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2* | 12 | 2* | 4 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 439 |
| 5 | Abraham Calderón | 18 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 12* | 1* | 435 |
| 6 | Salvador de Alba Jr. | 13* | 4 | 9 | 23 | 11 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 16* | 1 | 2 | 419 |
| 7 | Santiago Tovar | 9 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 419 |
| 8 | Manolín Gutiérrez | 11 | 11 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 400 |
| 9 | Xavi Razo | 20 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 393 |
| 10 | Rubén Pardo | 8 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 9 | 21 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 387 |
| 11 | Héctor Aguirre | 5 | 22 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 378 |
| 12 | Rogelio López | 19 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 379 |
| 13 | Jorge Goeters | 12 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 21 | 13 | 376 |
| 14 | Homero Richards | 1 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 3 | 21 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 22 | 368 |
| 15 | Michel Jourdain Jr. | 3 | 23 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 363 |
| 16 | José Luis Ramírez | 22 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 20 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 24 | 18 | 354 |
| 17 | Fabián Welter (R) | 17 | 17 | 31 | 10 | 23 | 17 | 5 | 22 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 295 | |
| 18 | Max González | 23 | 15 | 29 | 19 | 20 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 294 |
| 19 | Elliot Van Rankin | 5 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 267 | ||||
| 20 | Enrique Baca | 9 | 5 | 8 | Wth | 18 | 14 | QL4 | 18 | 10 | 226 | |||
| 21 | Alex González | 15 | 20 | Wth | 17 | 19 | 15 | 23 | 19 | 21 | 203 | |||
| 22 | Rafael Martínez | 22 | 17 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 22 | 23 | 197 | ||||
| 23 | Víctor Barrales | 21 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 23 | QL2 | 16 | 20 | 14 | 172 | |||
| 24 | Mike Sánchez | 16 | 24 | 21 | 20 | 18 | 19 | 146 | ||||||
| 25 | Carlos Peralta | 6 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 134 | ||||||||
| 26 | Piero Rodarte | 14 | 12 | 8 | 25 | 117 | ||||||||
| 27 | Patrick Goeters | 32 | 11 | 16 | 17 | 100 | ||||||||
| 28 | Héctor Félix | 19 | 16 | 25 | 72 | |||||||||
| 29 | Pepe González | DNS3 | 20 | 24 | 44 | |||||||||
| Drivers ineligible for PEAK Mexico Series points[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Julio Rejón | 12 | |||||||||||||
| Luis Michael Dörrbecker | 23 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| Víctor Barrales Jr. | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Rodrigo Marbán | 25 | 24 | 23 | 15 | ||||||||||
| Omar Jurado | 17 | 23 | ||||||||||||
| Javier Fernández | 26 | 18 | ||||||||||||
| Rafael Vallina | 22 | |||||||||||||
| Rodrigo Rejón | 28 | |||||||||||||
| Abraham Jurado | 30 | |||||||||||||
| Pos. | Driver | MTY | SLP | CHI | GDL | PUE | AGS | QRO | PUE | TXG | AGS | GDL | MXC | Points |
- Notes
- ^ They receive championship points in supporter series.
- 2 – Víctor Barrales qualified in the No. 30 for Víctor Barrales Jr.
- 3 – Pepe González received championship points, despite the fact that he did not start the race.
- 4 – Enrique Baca qualified in the No. 8 for Rafael Martínez.
See also[edit]
- 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
- 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series
- 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
- 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
- 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West
- 2018 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
- 2018 NASCAR Pinty's Series
- 2018 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
References[edit]
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Difrenosa entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Canel's entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Frontera entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Sam's Club entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Red Cola entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio BLU Smartphones entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Monster Energy entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Red Cola entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio ARRIS entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Baoli entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Scotiabank entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio FedEx entry list". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "NASCAR PEAK México Series confirma su calendario 2018". hometracks.nascar.com. NASCAR Media Group, LLC. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Difrenosa race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 25 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Canel's race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Frontera race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 20 May 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Sam's Club race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Red Cola race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio BLU Smartphones race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 29 July 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Monster Energy race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Red Cola race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 9 September 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Monster Energy race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Baoli race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "2018 Gran Premio Scotiabank race results". racing-reference.info. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Carrera All Results". speedhive.mylaps.com. MyLaps. Retrieved 6 January 2018.