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PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 8:04 pm 
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For the first time since 2012 does the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship host a race outside Sweden! Ironically though, not another race in Scandinavia, technically. The 2nd round of the 2017 will be held at Alastaro in Finland. Not Finland most exciting venue, I was hoping for Ahvenisto, but still good news.

STCC-kalendern 2017 i sin helhet.

Ring Knutstorp 4-6 maj
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Alastaro, Finland 19-21 maj
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Rudskogen, Norway 2-4 juni
Klasser: Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Solvalla 16-17 juni (RallyX)
Klasser: STCC, JTCC.

Falkenbergs Motorbana 7-9 juli
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Karlskoga Motorstadion 11-13 augusti
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Formula STCC Nordic

Anderstorp Raceway 1-3 september
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Mantorp Park 14-16 september
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic
and with the introduction of TCR, it means there is new hope for non-Swedish teams in the championship. It certainly can't get any worse.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 8:59 pm 
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I see they're dropping the Skövde round.


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:05 am 
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A team confirms a driver! :8:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2016/11/ ... olkswagen/


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:24 am 
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Tobias Johansson's Brovallen Design is "70% likely" on the grid next year. It won't be a Ford team, but he has good contacts with Sweden's Audi, VW, Seat and Kia importers. At least, 2 cars if any.

http://www.stcc.se/2016/11/18/brovallen ... -clio-cup/


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 11:31 am 
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ALSO! First Finnish team ever(IIRC) in STCC confirmed: Antti Buri's LMS Racing have entered one Audi RS3, one or two additional cars are possible. No drivers confirmed yet.

http://www.stcc.se/2016/11/16/tummen-up ... i-rs3-lms/


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 18, 2016 7:33 pm 
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Sportpromotion looks to run ex-West Coast Racing Honda Civics in next year's STCC:

http://teknikensvarld.se/westcoast-raci ... cr-348767/

While WCR themselves will stay in TCR International Series next year.

That makes the early entry list look something like this:

3 SEAT Dealer Team PWR Racing Seat Leons
1-2 Lestrup Racing Team VW Golfs
1-2 LMS Racing Audi A3's
1-2 Sportpromotion Honda Civics
2-3 Brovallen Design Audi/Kia/SEAT/Volkswagen

Compared to recent year's, in November, that's amazing.


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 12:48 pm 
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Clio Cup champion progress to STCC:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2016/11/ ... 2017-stcc/


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Seems like STCC will have a decent grid for 2017.

Hopefully there will also an Alfa next year.


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They're changing to a triple-header format as well.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 11:17 pm 
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Metzo wrote:
Seems like STCC will have a decent grid for 2017.

Hopefully there will also an Alfa next year.


Im not counting out Mattias Andersson on that!

I hope the triple headers means a BTCC copy.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 3:13 pm 
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Richard Göransson wants to keep racing, is positive to new STCC:

https://www.stcc.se/2016/12/14/goransso ... portgalan/

Full schedule:

STCC-kalendern 2017 i sin helhet.

Ring Knutstorp 4-6 maj
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Alastaro, Finland 19-21 maj
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Rudskogen, Norway 2-4 juni
Klasser: Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Solvalla 16-17 juni (RallyX)
Klasser: STCC, JTCC.

Falkenbergs Motorbana 7-9 juli
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Karlskoga Motorstadion 11-13 augusti
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Formula STCC Nordic

Anderstorp Raceway 1-3 september
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic

Mantorp Park 14-16 september
Klasser: STCC, Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, Swedish GT, JTCC, Formula STCC Nordic


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:33 am 
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Rallycross team Brink Motorsport moves over to STCC with two Audi RS3's for former Camaro Cup and RallyX Lites champ Tobias Brink and Nürburgring 24 regular Micke Ohlsson!

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https://www.stcc.se/2016/12/21/brink-mo ... ng-i-stcc/

STCC official website lists 8 cars as officially confirmed for STCC 2017:

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Team som hittills är klara för STCC 2017:
PWR Racing Team
Bil: SEAT León TCR.
Antal: Tre.
Förare: Ännu inte offentliggjorda.

Experion Racing Team
Bil: Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR.
Antal: En.
Förare: Albin Wärnelöv.

LMS Racing
Bil: Audi RS3 LMS.
Antal: En.
Förare: Ännu inte offentliggjord.

Rent A Wreck Racing
Bil: Honda Civic TCR.
Antal: En.
Förare: Marcus Annervi.

Brink Motorsport
Bil: Audi RS3 LMS.
Antal: Två.
Förare: Tobias Brink och Micke Ohlsson.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 7:13 pm 
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SEAT expands to four cars, confirms first driver: 57 year old GT entrant Peter Wallenberg...

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/01/ ... st-driver/


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Janne Flash's STCC project is still pending approval:

http://www.vf.se/ovrig-motorsport/flash ... atsningen/


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Robert Dahlgren "retires" from his "professional racing career", but may still race in 2017. He will work for a major Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda dealership, so don't be surprised to see him in one of PWR's Seat Leon's in 2017. Johan Kristoffersson full-time gig will be in world rallycross, but still wants to do some STCC this year. See these guys splitting a Seat, perhaps?

Funny if it would be that way, two of Sweden's best drivers not going for the championship. (I'm just speculating, of course.)

https://www.stcc.se/2017/01/30/dahlgren ... ar-vidare/
https://www.stcc.se/2017/01/19/kristoff ... c-losning/


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Volvo's manipulation of the STCC regulations these last few years does not seem to end on a fond note. Dahlgren's "retirement" was just a political way of saying "don't like Volvo's racing attitude", throwing their toys out of the pram when STCC announced the transition to TCR and so on; he will race for the PWR Seat team. Volvo's other top driver, reigning champ Göransson, is also linked to a seat at Seat.
https://www.stcc.se/2017/02/16/robert-d ... wr-racing/

Flash Engineering however will not return to STCC in 2017. http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/02/ ... 2017-stcc/


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10 cars "guaranteed"! :flag:

https://www.stcc.se/2017/02/22/ny-honda ... -for-stcc/


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Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky to drive an Audi for PWR Racing – Junior Team. She will attend 5 out of 7 race weekends due to other commitments racing abroad.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/03/ ... wr-racing/


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:23 pm 
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Kristoffersson Motorsport returns to STCC! :flag:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/03/ ... olkswagen/

That means 12 cars confirmed, so the target of more cars than in recent years have been met! Awesome.

It's still a bit weak on the driver's front though. Johan Kristoffersson will only race at 4 of the 7 weekends, due to World Rallycross commitments. Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky will also miss a couple of race meetings. At the moment, it seems very much like smooth sailing for Robert Dalhgren, as the rest of the field are unknown quantities. Hopefully, some of the old guard can return. Would be very nice if Richard Göransson, Linus Ohlsson, Mattias Andersson, Björn Wirdheim, Emma Kimiläinen and Fredrik Larsson could find programmes, so that 2017 can be STCC return to force driver wise too.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:01 am 
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Two more VW Golfs! :8:

Micke Kågered Racing, previously in V8 Thunder Cars and in drag racing, will field cars for Andreas Ahlberg (ran in STCC in 2012) and former V8TC driver Peter Möller.

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2017/03/ ... 2017-stcc/

Micke Ohlsson – Audi RS 3 – Brink Motorsport
Tobias Brink – Audi RS 3 – Brink Motorsport
Marcus Annervi – Honda Civic – Rent A Wreck Racing
Albin Wärnelöv – Volkswagen Golf – Lestrup Racing
Poker Wallenberg JR – SEAT León – PWR Racing
Robert Dahlgren – SEAT León – PWR Racing
Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky – Audi RS 3 LMS – PWR Racing
Fredrik Blomstedt – Volkswagen Golf – Kristoffersson Motorsport
Johan Kristoffersson – Volkswagen Golf – Kristoffersson Motorsport
Andreas Ahlberg – Volkswagen Golf – Micke Kågered Racing
Peter Möller – Volkswagen Golf – Micke Kågered Racing
TBA – SEAT León – PWR Racing
TBA – Audi RS 3 – LMS Racing
TBA – Honda Civic – TBA

14 cars! :8:


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