1996 Italian Superturismo Championship
The 1996 Italian Superturismo Championship was the tenth edition of the Italian Superturismo Championship. The season began in Mugello on 14 April and finished in Vallelunga on 6 October, after ten rounds.
Season summary
The season started with an unexpected double victory of Giovanardi in a semi-official Alfa Romeo. In the following 3 rounds, due to slow tracks and bad weather condition in Monza, Capello and his Audi were able to score 6 wins in a row.
In order to avoid a strong dominance like in 1995, it was decided from the 4th round in Binetto to penalise Audi with 30kg extra bringing the weight from 1040kg to 1070kg. Thanks to this decision and together with the car developments, BMW emerged as dominant car winning 11 races (6 Cecotto and 5 Naspetti) on 12 until the end of the season. Only in race 1 in Imola, Capello was able thanks to his talent to achieve a victory with his heavier Audi.
In the last round in Vallelunga, BMW decided to add 3 more cars for Ravaglia, Winkelhock and Soper while Audi (finally come back to the original weight at 1040kg) added 2 more cars for the new German champion Pirro and his team mate Peter but although a starting grid nearly close to the FIA World Touring Car Cup, none of those drivers was able to help the 3 contended. BMW scored once again a double victory with Cecotto, but Capello thanks to a second and a third place was able to win the title. Naspetti after a race 1 finished only 6th due to a wrong tyre choice, tried his best to catch up Capello in race 2 but after a collision with Muller (Audi), he was penalized with a stop and go giving automatically the title to Capello.
Rinaldo Capello was the new Italian champion after the 2 titles in a row of Pirro, while BMW thanks to the 11 victories against 7 of Audi and 2 of Alfa Romeo was the constructors' champion.
Roberto Colciago was instead the privateers' champion with his Alfa Romeo.
Teams and drivers
Team | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds | Class | Audi Sport Italia | Audi A4 Quattro | 1 | Rinaldo Capello | All | | 2 | Yvan Muller | All | | Nordauto Engineering | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 3 | Fabrizio Giovanardi | All | | 4 | Gordon de Adamich | 2-10 | | CiBiEmme Engineering | BMW 320i | 5 | Johnny Cecotto | All | | 6 | Emanuele Naspetti | 1-8, 10 | | BMW 318iS | 7 | Yolanda Surer | 1-6 | | BMW 320i | Gianni Morbidelli | 7-8, 10 | | Audi Sport Italia | Audi A4 Quattro | 8 | Frank Biela | 9 | | A.Z.K./ROC | Audi A4 Quattro | 9 | Philipp Peter | 10 | | 11 | Emanuele Pirro | 10 | | Scuderia Bigazzi | BMW 320i | 12 | Roberto Ravaglia | 10 | | 14 | Steve Soper | 10 | | 15 | Joachim Winkelhock | 10 | | Motortrend | Peugeot 405 | 51 | Massimiliano Pezzuto | 1-6, 9 | P | 52 | Giambattista Busi | 1, 5-6 | P | 53 | Raffaele Fortunato | 1-6, 8 | P | 54 | Luigi Moccia | 1 | P | Alessandro Belloni | 3 | P | Giampaolo Vicarelli | 4 | P | Gianluca de Lorenzi | 5 | P | Marco Antonelli | 9 | P | Massimiliano Blancardi | 10 | P | Soli Racing Team | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 55 | Moreno Soli | All | P | 58 | Massimo Pigoli | 6, 8-10 | P | Felipe Ortiz | 6, 8-9 | P | EC Motorsport | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 56 | Roberto Colciago | 1-6, 9-10 | P | Tecnica Racing Team | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 57 | Felice Tedeschi | 3-10 | P | 58 | Massimo Pigoli | 1-5 | P | 59 | Alessandro Gabrielli | 1-3 | P | CiBiEmme Engineering | BMW 320i | 60 | Emanuele Naspetti | 9 | | Capannelle Racing | Opel Vectra | 61 | Sergio Sambataro | 1-3, 5-6, 9-10 | P | 62 | Fabrizio Fede | 10 | P | Varese Corse | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 63 | Davide Bernasconi | 1-6, 8-10 | P | Augusto Rossetti | 5, 9 | P | Ciemme Corse | Opel Vectra | 64 | Marco Brand | 1-3 | P | Varese Corse | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 65 | Tarcisio Bernasconi | 10 | P | Augusto Rossetti | P | Tecnica Racing Team | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 66 | Gianluca Sansoni | 6-10 | P | Falessi Racing | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 67 | Lorenzo Falessi | 5-6, 9-10 | P | Bychl Euroracing | BMW 318i | 68 | Miloš Tesar | 5 | P | Erre Team | BMW 318i | 69 | Maurizio Lusuardi | 3, 5-6, 8-10 | P | Stefano Gabellini | 3, 5-6, 8 | P | Giampiero Pindari | 9 | P | CiBiEmme Engineering | BMW 320i | 70 | Gianni Morbidelli | 9 | | Optima Modica Beograd | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 82 | Milovan Vesnić | 10 | P | Engstler Motorsport | Alfa Romeo 155 TS | 83 | Marco Bromberger | 10 | P | 84 | Franz Engstler | 10 | P | | Icon | Class | P | Private Drivers | |
Drivers changes
Changed Cars
Entering Superturismo 1996
Leaving Superturismo 1996
Race calendar and results
Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 1
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 2
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 3
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 4
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 5
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 6
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 7
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 8
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 9
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Qualifying
Championship standings after Round 10
- Drivers' Championship standings
| - Constructors' Championship standings
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Championship standings
Points system |
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
- 16 results from 20 are valid for the championship
- 8 results from 10 are valid for the championship in the firsts five rounds (Round 1 - Round 5)
- 8 results from 10 are valid for the championship in the seconds five rounds (Round 6 - Round 10)
Drivers Championship
| 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 |
Manufacturers' Trophy
Pos | Manufacturer | MUG
| MAG
| MON
| BIN
| MIS
| IMO
| PER
| PER
| VAR
| VAL
| Pts | 1 | BMW | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 551 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | Audi | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | DSQ | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 497 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Ret | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Alfa Romeo | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 312 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 9 | | 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) | |
Privateers' Certina Trophy
- 16 results from 20 are valid for the championship
- 8 results from 10 are valid for the championship in the firsts five rounds (Round 1 - Round 5)
- 8 results from 10 are valid for the championship in the seconds five rounds (Round 6 - Round 10)
External links
- 1996 Drivers List
- 1996 Standings