Kaká Magno scores back to back top-10 finishes with strong Curvelo weekend in Stock Light

Kaká Magno completed another strong and consistent weekend at Curvelo, continuing her steady run in the 2026 Stock Light Championship and returning to the top ten with her best result of the weekend in the final race.

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Kaká Magno completed another strong and consistent weekend at Curvelo, continuing her steady run in the 2026 Stock Light Championship and returning to the top ten with her best result of the weekend in the final race.

The Brazilian arrived at the fifth round having made consistent improvements in pace through her first season with W2 Racing ProGP, relying on disciplined racecraft to make progress through the field. The only woman on the Stock Light grid, Magno had already scored a personal-best 13th at Interlagos, her first top-ten finish of the season at Goiânia, and further consistent results at Cuiabá and Velo Città, where she also reached 60 career starts in the championship.

A difficult qualifying session marred by a gearbox issue left Magno starting Race 1 from 16th on the grid, but she immediately set about recovering positions. After a clean opening lap, she passed Fausto Filho for 15th and began battling closely with Gomes, although Filho was able to regain the position on the third lap. Magno remained in the fight, consistently lapping in the 1:31s and closing back in on Gomes before finally taking advantage of a mistake from her rival, who spun into the gravel on lap seven to promote the W2 ProGP driver to 15th.

The safety car was subsequently deployed, and Magno was able to capitalize again when Tieri was forced to pit, moving her into 14th with five minutes remaining. She continued pushing to the chequered flag, closing rapidly on Moura over the final laps and finishing just 0.3 seconds short of 13th place. Magno therefore crossed the line in 14th, having recovered two positions from her starting spot.

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Race 2 provided an even stronger opportunity to move forward. Starting 15th, Magno made an excellent launch as Moura encountered problems at the start, immediately gaining positions on Nienkotter and Gomes before passing Bastos, who was forced to pit with an issue. She therefore emerged from the opening lap in 12th, and gained another position when Tieri was handed a drive-through penalty for a jump start.

With clear track ahead, Magno continued to improve her pace, setting a 1:29.5 before producing a particularly strong lap seven in which she improved across all three sectors to record a 1:28.739. She could not quite match the pace of Faquete and Bedani ahead, but maintained a comfortable margin over Gomes behind and remained in contention for a top-ten finish.

That opportunity arrived when Bedani made contact and spun on lap 10, triggering another safety car and promoting Magno into the top ten. With only around a minute and a half remaining after the restart, she defended strongly, although Bastos closed rapidly and eventually found a way past on lap 13. Magno took the chequered flag in 11th, still fighting for the top ten until the final moments, and was subsequently promoted to 10th in the final classification.

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The third and final race offered another chance to consolidate that progress, with Magno starting from 11th and again targeting a top-ten result. She initially dropped to 13th before immediately benefiting from an incident involving Papareli, Sangalli and Bortoluzzi, avoiding the contact and moving back to 12th under the resulting safety car.

Once racing resumed with 18 minutes remaining, Magno gained another position when Bortoluzzi pitted with damage, although Papareli was able to recover and pass her shortly afterwards. Magno then turned her attention to Gomes, who was five seconds up the road, gradually finding more pace as the race developed. By lap eight she had broken below the 1:30 mark, and after Papareli was forced to pit again, Magno returned to 11th with eight minutes remaining.

The Brazilian continued to close the gap to Gomes while maintaining 1:29s pace, and another retirement promoted her into the top ten. Magno then set a 1:29.3 as she reduced the gap to Gomes to around one second approaching the final lap. She finally caught and passed her rival on the last lap, only for Koenigkan to recover from an earlier issue and pass Magno in the closing moments. Nevertheless, Magno secured ninth place at the chequered flag and was subsequently promoted to eighth, completing her strongest result of the weekend and securing consecutive top-ten finishes.

"Curvelo, you've already become my favourite track!" Magno said after the weekend. "Sunday was about putting everything on track, and we had good progress. We finished the round with good points to take home. Thank you to the W2 ProGP team for the car and for all the work throughout the weekend!"

Magno will now turn her attention to the sixth round of the season, the Brasília Endurance Stock Light event at the Autódromo Internacional de Brasília on September 25-27.