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The Desafio Corona is a NASCAR series in Mexico. The series was originally the Mastercard Truck Series, a Crafstman Truck Series Look-alike series, founded in 2002. NASCAR founded the series in 2004 in conjunction with OCESA, an entertainment company. The partnership between NASCAR and OCESA is now officially known as NASCAR Mexico Corona Series. The National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
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The National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
The NASCAR Mexico Corona Series is a NASCAR series in Mexico. ...
Desafio Corona Origins
After the intervention of OCESA, and with the help of SELCA, The Truck Series begins to be operated by OCESA Automovilismo, while SELCA was responsible for running the show, being the sanctioning body of the series. After the end of the 2003 season, it was presented at the season finale, the Teleton 100, the new 2004 stock car, a Pontiac Grand Prix, wich marked the end of the trucks chapter, and the start of a new era: Stock Car racing in Mexico.
After that, working together with NASCAR, they started to work on safety aspects of cars, adoption of new rules, and rebuilding existing race tracks, or even building new ones.
Their first season started with a schedule of 14 races, with Mara Reyes (Telmex #1 Pontiac) taking pole position for the season opener in Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, a race where 26 cars started the race, a big number for Mexican motorsports. This race was won by Jorge Goeters(Canels #18 Pontiac), after 90 laps to the 1 mile oval. Mara Reyes (born March 12, 1977, in Patchuca, Mexico) is a Mexican female racecar driver. ...
The Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is a 4. ...
Jorge Goeters was relatively unknown in the United States before NASCAR held its first points race in Mexico for the 2005 season. ...
 2004 season finale at Mexico City The series then went to Guadalajara and Queretaro, races won by Carlos Contreras, but bad luck came in the 4th race in Monterrey, where in lap 37 of the race, driver Marcelo Nunez lost control of his car, and was struck at full speed by Rafael Vallina. Nunez spent a week in Intensive Therapy, only to die of complications by the crash, where he broke his pelvic bone, and had a perforated lung. Contreras (right) chatting with former teammate Mike Cope. ...
At the end of the season, Carlos Pardo of Team Telcel emerged as champion, ahead of his brother Ruben Pardo (Telmex #2 Pontiac), with Rogelio Lopez (2006 Champ) of Telcel 3rd. Logo Telcel is Mexicos largest cell phone carrier, owned by Telmex. ...
Teléfonos de México (NYSE: TMX), better known as Telmex, is a Mexican telecommunications company that provides telecommunication products and services in Mexico and in many parts of Latin America, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, and in North America to the United States. ...
Cars of the Desafio Corona Series The Series competitors race stock cars similar to those used in Late Model classes at short tracks in the U.S., with fiberglass composite bodies and spec engines.
Altough there are various cars, they are all under the same rules, wich are often modified in the course of the season.
Specifications
Enginge:
Chevrolet HO 350 Vortec 5.7 Liter
Dodge Magnum 360 Crate Motor
Ford 351 Roush
400 HP @ 5850 rpm
16 valves
4 Barrell Holley Carburator
Torque: 387 Lbs @ 4000 rpm
Max Speed: 280 Km/h
4 Speed Transmission
Brakes: 4 Wheel Discs
Fuel: SUNOCO 110 Octane
Fuel Capacity: 15 Gallon
Tires:
Front Slicks: 8x15x27.0
Rear Slicks: 10x15x27.0
Chassis Make:
ENCO (Mexican Made)
Spec Truck (American Made)
Fiberglass Bodies:
Chevrolet: Monte Carlo
Pontiac: Grand Prix
Dodge: Stratus (Charger for 2007)
Ford: Fusion, Mustang
Supporting Races In 2005, most of previous and current champions of all of the racing series in mexico moved into the series (With the notable absence of Open Wheel champions, like Homero Richards) leaving other closed wheel series with young and unexperienced drivers, so the Desafio Corona decided to include those series in a supporting role; First they included the Dodge Challenge, wich included Neon T4 and Ram Pick Ups, and for 2006, they concentrated on giving a push to the T4 Series, and in some races, they included the Clio Cup Mexico series.
For 2007, the NASCAR_Mexico_T4_Series its going to become the main support series.
Past Champions Truck Series 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jorge Goeters was relatively unknown in the United States before NASCAR held its first points race in Mexico for the 2005 season. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...
Jorge Goeters was relatively unknown in the United States before NASCAR held its first points race in Mexico for the 2005 season. ...
Trivia The Truck Series celebrated one of its races in the parking of the famous Estadio Azteca In Mexico City, creating an oval of about 400 meters long. Aztec Stadium, safe stadium. ...
Jorge Goeters, Truck Series and Stock Cars Champion, was the first mexican to win a Pole Position in a Nascar race, by winning pole for his first race the Telcel Motorola 200, held in Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, in Mexico City.
The list of people involved in the Desafio Corona include all of the champions [citation needed] (If they havent retired) of the main categories in Mexican Motorsports from 2000 onwards, from the Mustang, Formula Renault, Mexican Formula 3, Mexican Super Touring, Clio Cup Mexico, and T4 Series (When they were a main category), including drivers Rafael Martinez, Jorge Goeters, Carlos Pardo, Ruben Pardo, Freddy Tame, Ruben Garcia Novoa, Ricardo Perez de Lara, German Quiroga, Homero Richards, Jose Gonzalez Ojeda, Nahum Olin and Patricio Jourdain, cousin of Champ Car and Nascar driver Michel Jourdain. Rafael E. Martinez was the 2003 U.S. candidate to serve on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the human rights arm of the Organization of American States. ...
Jorge Goeters was relatively unknown in the United States before NASCAR held its first points race in Mexico for the 2005 season. ...
The first stock cars were build on the same chassis from the Truck Series trucks, only with improved safety.
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