Swedish Touring Car Championship

Not to be confused with Scandinavian Touring Car Championship.
Swedish Touring Car Championship
Category Touring cars
Country Sweden Sweden, Norway Norway
Inaugural season 1996
Folded 2010
Last Drivers' champion Sweden Richard Göransson
Last Teams' champion Polestar Racing
Last Makes' champion Volvo
Official website stcc.se

Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) was a touring car racing series based in Sweden, but also with rounds in Norway. They began operating in 1996, heavily influenced by the British Touring Car Championship and the success of BTCC racing on Swedish television. There are also a number of support classes that compete with their races alongside STCC; Radical, the Camaro Cup, Superkart, Pro Superbike, the JTCC and the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia. The final STCC season was in 2010, as the series merged with the Danish Touringcar Championship to form the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship.[1]

Rules

The cars are built according to the Super 2000 rules used in the FIA WTCC. A national counterpart, N2000, also exists to encourage teams to build their own cars without having to have them homologated by FIA. So far Audi, Volvo, Opel, and Mercedes have constructed their own cars.

Points System (as of 2006)

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
Points 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1

Qualifying & Race
Every racing weekend consist of the following:

TV Coverage

STCC was first aired in 1997 on SVT, featured in the program called "Race" along with the British Touring Car Championship. BTCC was dropped by SVT at the end of the 1999 season and was replaced by CART, while STCC stayed. When BTCC, which had been the main focus of Race, was dropped, STCC was upgraded to be the series which the program had its focus on. Previously when BTCC and STCC clashed, the STCC races were shown in-between the two BTCC races. This was changed for the 2000 season, and now CART was shown in-between the two STCC races. In 2002 VEIDEC Trophy, a motorcycle class that raced on the STCC-weekends, replaced CART on the program. All Race programs were either 30 or 45 minutes in length, depending on if one or two series were featured.
In 2003 STCC coverage moved from SVT to TV4. The program was now shown on TV4 Plus, a channel which not everyone had access to (at the time only SVT1, SVT2 and TV4 was available to all viewers for free). TV4 only kept STCC for a year, selling it to TV3. The races appeared again in a highligts format on TV3 during 2004, but in 2005 the coverage was extended to include several hours of live coverage from each race weekend on the TV3-owned sports channel Viasat Sport.
In 2006 STCC returned to SVT and Race, again being available to all viewers, but coverage was cut down to only a 30-minute highlight program. Nowadays the competition is broadcast by another TV3-owned channel, Viasat Motor.

Car brands

The cars competing in the STCC are (as of 2010): Alfa Romeo, BMW, Chevrolet, Honda, Opel, Peugeot, Seat, Volkswagen and Volvo.

Champions

Season Championship Independent
Driver Manufacturer Team Driver Manufacturer
1996 Sweden Jan Nilsson Volvo Flash Engineering none
1997 Sweden Jan Nilsson Volvo Flash Engineering none
1998 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom BMW WestCoast Racing Sweden Pontus Mörth Opel
1999 Sweden Mattias Ekström Audi Kristoffersson Motorsport Sweden Kim Esbjug BMW
2000 Norway Tommy Rustad Nissan Crawford Nissan Racing Sweden Magnus Krokström Audi
2001 Italy Roberto Colciago Audi Kristoffersson Motorsport Sweden Tobias Johansson Audi
2002 Italy Roberto Colciago Audi Kristoffersson Motorsport Sweden Tobias Johansson Audi
2003 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom Audi Kristoffersson Motorsport none
2004 Sweden Richard Göransson BMW WestCoast Racing Sweden Johan Nilsson Volvo
2005 Sweden Richard Göransson BMW WestCoast Racing Sweden Johan Nilsson BMW
2006 Sweden Thed Björk BMW Kristoffersson Motorsport Sweden Joakim Fridh BMW
2007 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom BMW WestCoast Racing Sweden Joakim Fridh Opel
2008 Sweden Richard Göransson BMW Flash Engineering Sweden Tobias Johansson Mercedes-Benz
2009 Norway Tommy Rustad Volvo Polestar Racing Sweden Viktor Hallrup BMW
2010 Sweden Richard Göransson BMW Polestar Racing Sweden Andreas Ebbesson BMW

References

  1. By Johan Meissner (2010-08-12). "DTC: New regulations confirmed for Scandinavian TC in 2012". TouringCarTimes. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2010-10-14.
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