Brazilian V8 Stock Cars: First practice with 50 shades of grey

Heavy clouds and a rainy day set the tone for the first day of practice in Campo Grande for round 9. Daniel Serra and Allam Khodair set the pace on the wet track.

Campo Grande is the capital city of Mato Grosso do Sul state in the west region of Brazil and hosts round nine of Brazilian V8 Stock Car Championship. It is the return of the major Brazilian motorsport series to the ‘Orlando Moura’ Circuit. In damp conditions, the series held its first day of practice with heavy clouds and the fastest lap time by Daniel Serra - 1min34s469 through the 3.433-km circuit.

"It is good to start in P1, but it is hard to make any analysis because track conditions were different - it started really wet and then it was quite dry. Tomorrow we may have no rain and the weather prediction is for a sunny Sunday. So, we have to keep our heads down woking through the weekend", says the Red Bull driver.

Allam Khodair has shown a good pace on the wet track and finished the session with the second fastest time - only 0.07s behind Serra. "A good start, I have to say. I like this track very much and it is good to be back here and to be in good shape. If it keeps raining, then we will be in a very good situation", says the Full Time driver.

Thiago Camilo was third, followed by Felipe Fraga, Gabriel Casagrande, Ricardo Zonta, the birtyday-(jungle)-boy Antonio Pizzonia, Rubens Barrichello, series leader Marcos Gomes and Átila Abreu closed the top-10 on FP1.

The cars get back to the track this Saturday for FP2 and qualifying. Both races will be held on Sunday.

Pos.	Nº	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Time
1	29	Daniel Serra	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet	-	1:34.649
2	18	Allam Khodair	Full Time Sports	Chevrolet	0.070	1:34.719
3	21	Thiago Camilo	Ipiranga-RCM	Chevrolet	0.358	1:35.007
4	88	Felipe Fraga	Voxx Racing Team	Peugeot	0.633	1:35.282
5	83	Gabriel Casagrande	Axalta C2 Team	Chevrolet	0.912	1:35.561
6	10	Ricardo Zonta	Shell Racing	Chevrolet	1.001	1:35.650
7	1	Antonio Pizzonia	Prati-donaduzzi	Peugeot	1.045	1:35.694
8	111	Rubens Barrichello	Full Time Sports	Chevrolet	1.113	1:35.762
9	80	Marcos Gomes	Voxx Racing Team	Peugeot	1.193	1:35.842
10	51	Átila Abreu	AMG Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.270	1:35.919
11	4	Julio Campos	Prati-donaduzzi	Peugeot	1.279	1:35.928
12	74	Popó Bueno	Total Racing	Peugeot	1.360	1:36.009
13	73	Sergio Jimenez	Axalta C2 Team	Chevrolet	1.479	1:36.128
14	8	Rafael Suzuki	RZ Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.540	1:36.189
15	90	Ricardo Mauricio	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet	1.588	1:36.237
16	70	Diego Nunes	Vogel Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.614	1:36.263
17	14	Luciano Burti	RZ Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.705	1:36.354
18	72	Fabio Fogaça	Hot Car Competições	Chevrolet	1.819	1:36.468
19	0	Cacá Bueno	Red Bull Racing	Chevrolet	1.868	1:36.517
20	5	Denis Navarro	Vogel Motorsport	Chevrolet	1.902	1:36.551
21	46	Vitor Genz	Boettger Competições	Peugeot	1.965	1:36.614
22	110	Felipe Lapenna	Schin Racing Team	Peugeot	1.994	1:36.643
23	65	Max Wilson	Eurofarma RC	Chevrolet	2.013	1:36.662
24	25	Tuka Rocha	União Química Racing	Peugeot	2.295	1:36.944
25	11	Cesar Ramos	Total Racing	Peugeot	2.333	1:36.982
26	77	Valdeno Brito	Shell Racing	Chevrolet	2.445	1:37.094
27	26	Raphael Abbate	Hot Car Competições	Chevrolet	2.647	1:37.296
28	3	Bia Figueiredo	União Química Racing	Peugeot	2.959	1:37.608
29	2	Raphael Matos	Schin Racing Team	Peugeot	3.280	1:37.929
30	9	Gustavo Lima	ProGP	Chevrolet	3.299	1:37.948
31	12	Lucas Foresti	AMG Motorsport	Chevrolet	3.370	1:38.019
32	28	Galid Osman	Ipiranga-RCM	Chevrolet	4.885	1:39.534