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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:23 am 
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Fredrik Ekblom returns "home" - 20 years since his first title with WCR he is back where he started:

https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/04 ... cc-season/

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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 2:49 pm 
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Nicklas Oscarsson's KIA effort fell through, but has been picked up by KMS for their third car.

https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/04 ... line-2018/

21 cars, 11 VW Golf's...


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 10:43 am 
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The Midnight Sun Race returns, after 50 years. It used to be held on Skellefteå's airport in the 50's and 60's, and now a new permanent facility is being built in Skellefteå, and STCC has made a 10-year commitment to host a race there, starting in 2019.

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Video of the track layout on STCC.se:

https://www.stcc.se/2018/04/12/stcc-skr ... -norrland/


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:23 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:17 pm 
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The track will be northern Europe's longest, at 4120 meters. It doesn't say whether there will be racing at actually midnight, but a primetime event the weekend before midsummer would be pretty cool, and a great opportunity for STCC. There is 24 hour sunlight up there that time of year, so it'll be a very unique event! A friend of mine has a cabin in the woods just 4 or 5 kilometers from there, I guess I'll have to go then!


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:53 am 
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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 3:53 pm 
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Season kicks off this weekend at Knutstorp! It is on a new network in Sweden, so there probably won't be a stream readily available though.

Entry list
No – Driver – Team – Car
1 – Robert Dahlgren – PWR Racing – SEAT Dealer Team – Cupra TCR
3 – Johan Kristoffersson – Kristoffersson Motorsport – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
4 – Oliver Söderström – Lestrup Racing Team – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
7 – Andreas Wernersson – Lestrup Racing Team – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
14 – Fredrik Ekblom – WestCoast Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
15 – Oskar Krüger – Micke Kågered Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
19 – Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky – SEAT Dealer Team – PWR Racing – Cupra TCR
20 – Mattias Andersson – Honda Racing Sweden – Honda Civic Type R TCR
21 – Andreas Ahlberg – Micke Kågered Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
22 – Albin Wärnelöv – Experion Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
23 – Alex Andersson – Brovallen Design – Audi RS 3 LMS
26 – Jessica Bäckman – WestCoast Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
29 – Andreas Bäckman – WestCoast Racing – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
36 – Micke Ohlsson – Brink Motorsport – Audi RS 3 LMS
37 – Daniel Haglöf – PWR Racing – SEAT Dealer Team – Cupra TCR
44 – Olli Kangas – LMS Racing – Cupra TCR
59 – Peter “Poker” Wallenberg – PWR Racing – Customer Team – Audi RS 3 LMS
69 – Hugo Nerman Kristoffersson – Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
71 – Tobias Brink – Brink Motorsport – Audi RS 3 LMS
81 – Nicklas Oscarsson – Kristoffersson Motorsport – Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR
86 – Philip Morin – SEAT Dealer Team – PWR Racing Cupra TCR

Timetable
Friday 4th May
10:00 – Test 1
13:50 – Test 2
16:30 – Qualifying 1
16:55 – Qualifying 2

Saturday 5th May
09:00 – Warm up
13:10 – Race 1
15:30 – Race 2

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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Thu May 03, 2018 7:08 pm 
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No stream? :(


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2018 1:24 pm 
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No streams. Coverage looked the same as last year, but on a rubbish network.

Pretty good racing nontheless. Neither Dahlgren or Kristoffersson won a race, but the underdogs Haglöf and Wernersson did. Looks like the quality of the field is higher than last year! Shame just that 20 out of 21 cars are VW's, Seats or Audis...


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:00 am 
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Wildcard at Anderstorp and on 1 or 2 other races, Estonian driver Andre Kiil: https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/06 ... nderstorp/

Never heard of, but nice with a little bit of international flavour in STCC.


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2018 9:12 am 
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Starting from the Falkenberg round last weekend, STCC will upload their broadcasts on their website!

https://www.stcc.se/stcc-tv/


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:55 pm 
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So was at Karlskoga for Kanonloppet, a weekend that went from tragic, to feel-good, to controversial.

On Saturday, a marshall was killed in an accident during the GT support qualifying session. I believe this was the first fatality in Swedish circuit racing since Ronnie Peterson. So the feeling in the paddock on Sunday was a bit gloomy. But the racing turned out great, and there was a nice tribute to the deceased marshall as well. And then Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky's maiden win (also first female winner in STCC's history) became a wonderful feel-good story for the weekend.

However, then politics reared it's ugly head. The entire PWR team (Åhlin-Kottulinsky, race 1 winner Daniel Haglöf, championship leader Robert Dalhgren and Philip Morin) was excluded from race 1 as race 2 was going on, and then Mikaela was stripped of her historic win a couple of hours later. Sounds like the exclusion is due to some technicalities over paperwork more than the actual exhaust system they have been using. It's sad that this protest hasn't been lodged earlier in the year, but that the team that protested waited until this pivotal point in the championship to voice their concerns.

https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/08 ... karlskoga/
https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/08 ... c-victory/
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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:11 pm 
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All races now up on STCC's Vimeo page.

R1-2 Ring Knutstorp: https://vimeo.com/281269411
R3-4 Anderstorp: https://vimeo.com/281269434
R5-6 Falkenberg: https://vimeo.com/279856770
R7-8 Karlskoga: https://vimeo.com/286160884


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
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nice find. they geo restricted svtplay at some point as I wasn't able to watch any races for a while


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:40 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
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Apparently STCC will be shown here

http://www.tcr-series.tv/


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:21 pm 
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It's really wet there

And the stream just died on me :(


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:09 am 
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Kristoffersson dominated in Norway, but the PWR Seats got their Karlskoga results back, so it is Dahlgren leading with the final round at Mantorp Park coming up this weekend. With the Karlskoga results reinstated, it is now confirmed that Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky is the first woman to win in the STCC.

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Robert Dahlgren
Sweden, PWR Racing

167 pts


Johan Kristoffersson
Sweden, Kristoffersson Motorsport

160 pts

Daniel Haglöf
Sweden, PWR Racing

146 pts

Andreas Wernersson
Sweden, Lestrup Racing Team

130 pts

Philip Morin
Sweden, PWR Racing

110 pts


So it's a real battle royale for the championship with a lot of bad blood between PWR Racing and the VW teams. Ironically enough, it is not PWR's closest competition, Kristoffersson Motorsport, that have been upset with them, but West Coast Racing, who are sitting in 6th with Fredrik Ekblom, and has been nowhere near PWR or KMS this season.


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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:23 am 
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I finally got around to watching the season today. It was nice to see Mikaela win, she's improved quite a bit since last year. It was a bit more competitive in 2018 as well but I suppose reverse grids helped. Kristoffersson won the title after Dahlgren retired in the last race, although he'd probably have won it anyway. And what a mess Exhaust gate was.

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 Post subject: Re: STCC - 2018 season
PostPosted: Mon Nov 26, 2018 2:00 pm 
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2019 STCC calendar
May 03-04 – Knutstorp
June 01-02 – Anderstorp
June 14-15 – Skellefteå
July 13-14 – Falkenberg
August 17-18 – Gelleråsen Arena
September 07-08 – Jyllandsringen
October 04-05 – Mantorp Park

https://www.touringcartimes.com/2018/11 ... ndsringen/

STCC returns to Denmark in 2019. Finland in 2017 was a flop, Norway in 2018 didn't seem to go around much better. Hope at least the Danish race can become a staple. 3rd time they are trying to establish a Danish round in the championship.


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