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.

Drivers changes
Changed Cars
 * Roberto Colciago: Opel Vectra → Alfa Romeo 155

Entering Superturismo 1996
 * Yvan Muller: French Supertouring → Audi A4 Quattro
 * Johnny Cecotto: BTCC → BMW 320i
 * Gordon De Adamich→ CIVT

Leaving Superturismo 1996
 * Emanuele Pirro: → STW
 * Antonio Tamburini: No full-time drive
 * Gabriele Tarquini: → DTM/ITC
 * Oscar Larrauri: → Japanese GT

Round 1 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Mugello
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 1

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 2 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Magione
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 2

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 3 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Monza
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 3

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 4 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Binetto
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 4

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 5 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Misano Adriatico
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 5

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 6 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Imola
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 6

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 7 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Pergusa
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 7

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 8 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Pergusa
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 8

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 9 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Varano De Melegari
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 9

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Round 10 [[italy|🇮🇹]] Vallelunga
Qualifying 

 Race 1

 Race 2

Championship standings after Round 10

 * Drivers'  Championship standings


 * Constructors'  Championship standings

Championship standings

 * 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)

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)