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2004 Desafío Corona season

The 2004 Desafio Corona season was the first season of stock car racing in Mexico. The serial was presented in March as Desafío Corona. After 14 races Carlos Pardo of Equipo Telcel was declared champion.

Cars

Pontiac Grand Am was the car used for almost drivers. Only two Dodge Stratus, both of Seeman-Baker team, was used. Pontiac won 13 of 14 runs and the championship.

Teams and drivers

Full time entries

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

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

No.	Race Title	Track	Date	Time	Local
1	Mexico City	Mexican Federal District Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	June 6	13:30	18:30
2	Guadalajara	Jalisco Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	June 27	13:30	18:30
3	Querétaro	Querétaro Autódromo Querétaro, El Marqués	July 18	13:30	18:30
4	Monterrey	Nuevo León Autódromo Monterrey, Apodaca	August 1	13:30	18:30
5	Torreón	Durango Autódromo Marco Magaña, Gómez Palacio	August 8	13:30	18:30
6	San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí Autódromo San Luis 400, San Luis Potosí	August 22	13:30	18:30
7	Zacatecas	Zacatecas Autódromo Internacional de Zacatecas, Guadalupe	September 5	13:30	18:30
8	León	Guanajuato Autódromo de León, León	September 19	13:33	18:33
9	Guadalajara	Jalisco Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	October 3
10	Querétaro	Querétaro Autódromo Querétaro, El Marqués	October 17
11	León	Guanajuato Autódromo de León, León	October 31
12	Guadalajara	Jalisco Trióvalo Bernardo Obregón, Guadalajara	November 14	13:33	19:33
13	San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí Autódromo San Luis 400, San Luis Potosí	November 28	13:33	19:33
14	Mexico City	Mexican Federal District Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City	December 5	13:33	19:33

Results

Races

No.	Race	Pole position	Most laps led	Winning driver	Winning manufacturer
1	Mexican Federal District Mexico City	MEX Mara Reyes	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Jorge Goeters	USA Pontiac
2	Jalisco Guadalajara	MEX Patrick Goeters	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Carlos Contreras	USA Pontiac
3	Querétaro Quéretaro	MEX Germán Quiroga	MEX Rubén Pardo	MEX Carlos Contreras	USA Pontiac
4	Nuevo León Monterrey	MEX Gianfranco Cané	MEX Rogelio López	MEX César Tiberio Jiménez	USA Pontiac
5	Durango Torreón	MEX Rubén Pardo	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Carlos Pardo	USA Pontiac
6	San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Germán Quiroga	USA Dodge
7	Zacatecas Zacatecas	MEX Carlos Contreras	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Carlos Pardo	USA Pontiac
8	Guanajuato León	MEX Fernando Plata	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Carlos Pardo	USA Pontiac
9	Jalisco Guadalajara	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Rogelio López	MEX Rogelio López	USA Pontiac
10	Querétaro Quéretaro	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Rubén Pardo	MEX Rubén Pardo	USA Pontiac
11	Guanajuato León	MEX Carlos Pardo	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Rogelio López	USA Pontiac
12	Jalisco Guadalajara	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Carlos Pardo	USA Pontiac
13	San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí	MEX Rubén Pardo	MEX Jorge Goeters	MEX Rogelio López	USA Pontiac
14	Mexican Federal District Mexico City	MEX Sebastián Ocaranza	MEX Rogelio López	MEX Rogelio López	USA Pontiac

:1. Qualifying cancelled by rain. :2. Qualifying cancelled by works in the track.

Standings

Rank	Driver	Mexican Federal District
MEX	Jalisco
GDL	Querétaro
QRO	Nuevo León
MTY	Durango
TOR	San Luis Potosí
SLP	Zacatecas
ZAC	Guanajuato
LEON	Jalisco
GDL	Querétaro
QRO	Guanajuato
LEON	Jalisco
GDL	San Luis Potosí
SLP	Mexican Federal District
MEX	Points	2326	2257	2201	2045	2026	1943	1936	1887	1857	1815	1802	1705	1553	1525	1483	1337	1213	1084	857	854	799	796	649	545	533	499	492	475	467	430	429	318	280	212	194	146	134	118	106	103	103	103	103	100	100	Rank	Driver	Mexican Federal District
MEX	Jalisco
GDL	Querétaro
QRO	Nuevo León
MTY	Durango
TOR	San Luis Potosí
SLP	Zacatecas
ZAC	Guanajuato
LEON	Jalisco
GDL	Querétaro
QRO	Guanajuato
LEON	Jalisco
GDL	San Luis Potosí
SLP	Mexican Federal District
MEX	Points
1	MEX Carlos Pardo	5	14	3	2	1	7	1	1	2	2	15	1	3	4
2	MEX Rubén Pardo	9	18	2	3	3	4	3	6	4	1	2	5	6	3
3	MEX Rogelio López	7	3	23	15	4	9	2	11	1	3	1	6	1	1
4	MEX Jorge Goeters	1	6	6	4	19	2	18	2	11	4	4	2	2
5	MEX Fernando Plata	11	5	4	7	6	6	15	9	5	5	14	3	4	26
6	MEX Mara Reyes	10	4	10	18	8	11	5	17	3	6	7	4	8	23
7	MEX Carlos Contreras	13	1	1	6	2	5	13	22	13	7	21	24	5	21
8	MEX Oscar Ruíz	22	15	9	5	5	23	11	5	7	16	6	7	10	14
9	MEX Héctor Sánchez	6	8	20	19	11	13	9	8	10	11	8	9	11	7
10	MEX Luis F. Montaño	17	13	24	22	17	3	6	3	6	22	23	8	9	2
11	MEX Germán Quiroga	20	21	7	24	7	1	8	4	12	17	24	18	7	10
12	MEX Ignacio Alvarado	8	11	13	11	18	17	19	12	20	19	12	17	14	6
13	MEX Juan Lópezpape	25		16	8	14	12	10	16	23	14	5	20	15	13
14	MEX Alejandro Portillo	24		14	9	16	19	17	15	18	9	10	19	17	16
15	MEX Patrick Goeters	19	2	8		9	8	3		8	20	19		13	12
16	MEX César Tiberio Jiménez	18	17	5	1	15	22	7	10	9	8
17	MEX Sebastián Ocaranza	12	19		23	12	10	16	18	24	12	3	13		18
18	MEX Raúl García	14		25	17		16	21	20		18	16	11		25
19	MEX Jorge Seman	21		26			14	20			13		23	12	24
20	MEX Julio Bracho, Jr.	16	16	19	14		15	13	13						5
21	MEX Jesús Castellanos		12	21	12		18			19		20	14
22	MEX Javier de la Parra					13		14	21	25		18	16		11
23	MEX Gianfranco Cané	2	22	15	16	10
24	MEX Miguel de la Parra			22	13		21	12		22
25	MEX Marcelo Núñez ✝	3	9	12	20
26	MEX Jonathan Manatou	15							14	16
27	MEX Héctor Rached		20	17									10		9
28	MEX Sebastián Ocaranza, Jr.											17	12		19
29	MEX Eduardo Troconis										15	11	15		22
30	MEX Eduardo Goeters	23	23									13		16
31	MEX César Pedrero	4	10	11
32	MEX Horacio Topete									14	21		22
33	MEX Michael Goeters				10				7
34	MEX Roberto Fernández									15			21		17
35	MEX Eliseo Márquez			18									9
36	MEX Iván Pérez		7
37	MEX Jonathan Briseño										10				8
38	MEX Horacio Richards														15
39	MEX Ignacio Márquez	26							19
40	MEX David Hernández						20
MEX Alfredo Galland									17
MEX Eduardo Calderón									21
MEX José González														20
44	MEX Rafael Vallina				21
MEX Ricardo Marroquín											22

Notes

References

(March 5, 2004). "OCESA y SELCA presentan su nuevo serial como "Desafío Corona 2004". Sporcar.com.
(December 5, 2004). "Termina el Desafío Corona". Esmas.com.
(June 23, 2004). "Mopar – Seman Baker seguirá teniendo los únicos autos Dodge en el Desafío". Sportcar.
(August 21, 2004). "Carlos Pardo arranca primero en San Luis". SportCar.
(October 30, 2004). "Carlos Pardo tiene la pole en León de acuerdo a su posición en el campeonato". SportCar.
(August 9, 2004). "Driver dies after crash in Mexican stock car series".

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