Swedish Touring Car Championship

Touring car racing championship in Sweden

Not to be confused with Scandinavian Touring Car Championship.

Swedish Touring Car Championship

Category| Touring cars
Country|  Sweden,  Norway
Inaugural season| 1996
Folded| 2010
Last Drivers' champion|  Richard Göransson
Last Makes' champion| Volvo
Last Teams' champion| Polestar Racing
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. STCC replaced the 1991–1995 Nordic Touring Car Championship [sv]. There were also a number of accompanying support classes that raced 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]

In 2023, STCC planned to re-introduce itself as an all-electric category, transforming the series for a new generation of racing.[2] Using multiple manufacturers, the series was set to debut on a street circuit in Helsingborg. The championship and all planned races were then delayed to 2024[3] when production of the vehicles could not be completed on time. Demo laps were held at Mantorp Park in September, followed by an official test day[4] for the top three championship drivers of NXT Gen Cup. The series is now slated to begin in 2024.

## Rules

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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

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Points | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1

Qualifying & Race
Every racing weekend consist of the following:

* Qualifying: First, a 20-minute qualifying session open to all drivers is run. The eight fastest drivers in the 20 minute session go on to drive in the Super pole. Drivers from 9th quickest and backwards start in the qualifying order for the first race. The grid for the second race is reversed results of top eight from the results of the first race. The cars behind top eight start in the position they finished in race one.
* Super Pole: Super pole is a one-lap shootout for the first eight grid positions of race one. The driver with the 8th fastest qualifying time is the first to run a Super Pole lap. Each of the remaining seven drivers run their Super Pole lap in order of slowest to fastest. In the end, the driver with the fastest Super Pole lap starts the race from pole, or first, position.
* Race: There are two races in a race weekend and each race is approximately 20 minutes in length. All races start using a rolling start.

## TV Coverage

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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 highlights 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

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

## Champions

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Season  | Championship  | Independent

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

## References

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1. ^ Johan Meissner (12 August 2010). "DTC: New regulations confirmed for Scandinavian TC in 2012". Touring Car Times. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
2. ^ "STCC". STCC (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
3. ^ "Mästarteamet om flytten av elektrifierad STCC-säsong till 2024". STCC (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
4. ^ "Sju juniorer testar nya elektriska STCC-bilarna i Try Out 2023". STCC (in Swedish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.

## External links

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* STCC official site
* TouringCarTimes - STCC news in English

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Swedish Touring Car Championship & Scandinavian Touring Car Championship years (1996–present)

Swedish Touring Car Championship|

* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010

Scandinavian Touring Car Championship|

* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* ~~2023~~
* 2024
* ~~2025~~
* 2026

TTA – Racing Elite League|

* 2012

STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship|

* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022

TCR Scandinavia Trophy|

* 2023

* v
* t
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Super Touring championships

Australian Super Touring Championship|

* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002

Belgian Procar Championship|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997

British Touring Car Championship|

* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000

Central European Supertouring Car Championship|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996

Czech Supertouring Car Championship|

* 1996
* 1997

French Supertouring Championship|

* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999

Super Tourenwagen Cup|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999

Italian Superturismo Championship|

* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999

Japanese Touring Car Championship|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998

Portuguese Touring Car Championship|

* 1993
* 1994

Campeonato de España de Turismos|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997

South African Touring Car Championship|

* 1994
* 1995
* 1996

Swedish Touring Car Championship|

* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002

Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship|

* 1994
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999

European Touring Car Championship|

* 2000
* 2001

North American Touring Car Championship|

* 1996
* 1997

South American Super Touring Car Championship|

* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000

Touring Car World Cup|

* 1993
* 1994
* 1995

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