Anderstorp Raceway
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| Location | Anderstorp, Sweden |
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| Coordinates | 57°15′51″N 13°36′5″E / 57.26417°N 13.60139°ECoordinates: 57°15′51″N 13°36′5″E / 57.26417°N 13.60139°E |
| Opened | 1968 |
| Major events | Swedish Grand Prix |
| Length | 4.025 km (2.501 mi) |
| Lap record | 1:21.525 (Marijn van Kalmthout, Benetton B197-Judd V10, 2009, EuroBOSS Super Prix) |
Anderstorp Raceway, previously known as Scandinavian Raceway, is a 2.505 miles (4.03 km) motorsport race track in Anderstorp (Gislaved Municipality), Sweden.
The track was built on marshlands in 1968 and became an extremely popular venue in the 1970s, just as Swede Ronnie Peterson was at the height of his career. It has a long straight (called Flight Straight, which was also used as a 980 metres (3,220 ft) aircraft runway (ICAO: ESMP)), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise. Unusually, the pit lane is located halfway round the lap.
The raceway hosted six Formula One Swedish Grand Prix events in the 1970s. When Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson died during the 1978 Formula One season, public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end. The circuit is also noteworthy because it was the site of the first and only win of two unconventional F1 cars: the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 car in 1976 and the infamous Brabham 'fan car' in 1978.
Anderstorp also hosted the Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix from 1971-1977 and 1981-1990, the European Touring Car Championship from 1985-1987, the Superbike World Championship in 1991 and 1993, and the FIA GT Championship in 2002 and 2003. The circuit has been a popular car club venue since the 1990s.
The FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) returned to Anderstorp in 2007, replacing the Istanbul Park in Turkey on the WTCC calendar. For the 2008 season however, it was replaced by the Imola circuit.
Lap records
| Class | Time | Driver | Car | Event |
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| F1 | 1:24.836 | Niki Lauda | Brabham BT46 Alfa Romeo | 1978 Swedish Grand Prix[1] |
| GT1 | 1:30.334 | Jean-Marc Gounon | Ferrari F40 LM | 1996 BPR Global GT Series[2] |
| GT | 1:31.424 | Walter Lechner | Saleen S7-R | 2003 FIA GT Championship[3] |
| Formula Renault 2.0 | 1:31.679 | Daniel Roos | Formula Renault 2.0 | 2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden[4] |
| GT3 | 1:32.902 | Fredrik Lestrup | BMW Z4 GT3 | 2012 Swedish GT round Anderstorp[5] |
| STCC | 1:34.274 | Johan Kristoffersson | Seat Leon STCC | 2016 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship[6] |
| GTA | 1:34.492 | Peter Wallenber | Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo | 2015 Swedish GT[7] |
| WTCC | 1:42.492 | Felix Porteiro | BMW 320 Si E90 | 2007 World Touring Car Championship Round Anderstorp[8] |
References
- ↑ "1978 GP round Anderstorp".
- ↑ "1996 BPR Global GT Series Round Anderstorp".
- ↑ "2003 FIA GT Championship Round Anderstorp".
- ↑ "2009 Formula Renault 2.0 Round Anderstorp".
- ↑ "2012 Swedish GT Round Anderstorp Race".
- ↑ "2016 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship Round Anderstorp" (PDF).
- ↑ "Swedish GT Heat 1 Race" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2016-08-20.
- ↑ "WTCC Heat 2 Race".
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