2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship Season
The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 11th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total nine racing weekends at six different circuits were held; each round comprising one race. Changes for 2006 * The race format and points system was changed. During the 2006 season one race of 40 minutes was held each weekend. Each race had one mandatory pitstop. * The points system changed to the standard FIA system of 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1. * A privateers championship named Caran Cup was created for drivers using cars constructed in 2003 or earlier. Teams and drivers List of starting drivers for the 2006 Swedish Touringcar Championship season. Race Calendar Championship standings (after 9 of 9 rounds) Drivers References {{DEFAULTSORT:2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship Season Swedish Touring Car Championship seasons 2006 in motorsport, Swedish Touring Car Championship 2006 in Swedish motorsport, Swedish Touring Car Championship season ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Swedish Touring Car Championship
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 Sportscars, 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. 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-Benz in motorsport, Mercedes have constructed their own cars. Points System (as of 2006) Qualifying & Race Every raci ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Duncan Huisman
Duncan Huisman (born 11 November 1971 in Doornspijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch racing driver. He won the Guia Race four times and the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in 2005. He claimed three titles at the Dutch Touring Car Championship in 1997, 2000 and 2002, and resulted runner-up at the 2010 and 2011 Dutch GT4 Championship. He has also competed in the FIA GT Championship and the Porsche Supercup. His older brother Patrick is also a successful racing driver. Touring car racing He is three times Dutch Touring Car Champion, having won the title in 1997, 2000 and 2001 in a BMW 3 Series. Between 2001 and 2004 he drove in the European Touring Car Championship, before it was renamed the World Touring Car Championship. In 2005 he first drove in the WTCC for the final two rounds with BMW Team UK, winning in what was only his second race. He competed for just over half a season in 2006 for BMW Team Italy/Spain finishing the season thirteenth overall. Duncan drove for the WSR-managed ''Team Avi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Swedish Touring Car Championship Seasons
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Scandinavian Raceway
Anderstorp Raceway, previously known as Scandinavian Raceway, is a motorsport race track in Anderstorp (Gislaved Municipality), Sweden and the sole Nordic host of a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, when the Swedish Grand Prix was held for six years between 1973 and 1978. Track history 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 is also used as an aircraft runway), 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 onl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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VÃ¥lerbanen
VÃ¥lerbanen is a race track located in the village of Braskereidfoss in VÃ¥ler Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is a part of Norsk Trafikksenter and is also used for driving practice by driver's license students, in particular driving under special conditions such as on icy roads. Among the more popular events hosted at VÃ¥lerbanen are the annual Gatebil event and Norway's largest amateur racing event and sports car display, Classic & Sportscar Meeting. On 14 September 2008, the track hosted the tenth race of the 2008 Swedish Touring Car Championship season A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperate and .... Although not as technically demanding as Rudskogen, it is significantly faster and allows better for overtaking. For the 2008 season, a newly built track sect ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Falkenbergs Motorbana
Falkenbergs Motorbana is a motor racing circuit at BergagÃ¥rd, Sweden. The circuit was opened in 1967, as a replacement for Skreabanan, and is currently owned and run by Falkenbergs Motorklubb. A chicane was added on the first corner in 2004 to improve safety on the relatively fast track. A round of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (formerly known as the Swedish Touring Car Championship 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 Sw ...) is held there each year.http://www.stcc.se/kalender/ STCC official calendar. In addition there is a road racing event called ''Scandinavian Open'' run each year, endurance races, and a Classic motor event. Lap records The official race lap records at Falkenbergs Motorbana are listed as: Notes References External links Off ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mantorp Park
Mantorp Park is a motor racing circuit near the town of Mantorp in Mjölby Municipality, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1969 with finance from BP Sweden as a permanent road course and a drag strip. Mantorp Park is capable of four different layouts, but today only the short and long tracks are used. The European Formula Two Championship visited from 1971 until 1973, and again in 1981 and 1982. Today it mainly hosts club events, dragracing, a driving school and rounds of the Swedish Formula Three Championship and the Swedish Touring Car Championship. Mantorp Park was the first European drag racing circuit to adopt the new drag strip (about 3/16 mile) format adopted by the NHRA The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada. With over 40,000 drivers in its rosters, the NHRA claims to be the largest motorsp ... in July 2008. Lap records The official race la ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Karlskoga Motorstadion
Karlskoga Motorstadion, also known as GellerÃ¥sen Arena, is the oldest permanent motorsport race track in Sweden. The circuit is located north of Karlskoga. The layout is such that the whole track can be seen from all spectator areas. It is currently authorised for European Championship rounds of road racing and Swedish Touring Car Championship events. History Built in 1949 as a dirt track, the inaugural race was the first Kanonloppet on 4 June 1950. For the second Kanonloppet in 1952, the surface had been paved with asphalt and the length was . It was extended to in 1953 with the addition of the ''Björkdungskurvan'' section (later renamed to ''Tröskurvan''). In 1958 it was additionally extended to with the ''Velodromkurvan'' section (Velodrome bend). In 1961, 1962 and 1963 non-championship Formula One events were hosted here, which saw the likes of Stirling Moss, Jim Clark and Jack Brabham battle it out on-track. 1967 a race called Swedish Grand Prix was held there, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ring Knutstorp
Ring Knutstorp is a motor racing circuit in KÃ¥geröd, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1963, extended in 1970, and modified to its present configuration in 1980. During the seventies, rounds of the Formula Three European Cup were held at the circuit, with winners including Alain Prost. Ring Knutstorp hosts rounds of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, and is a playable track in the video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves interaction with a user interface or input device such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device to generate visual feedback. This fee ... '' STCC – The Game''. The track was used during the 1984 European Rallycross Championship season. Lap records The official race lap records at the Ring Knutstorp are listed as: References External links * Motorsport venues in Sweden Buildings and structures in SkÃ¥ne County 20th-century establishments in SkÃ¥ne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Johan Stureson
Johan Stureson (born 3 August 1973 in Kristianstad) is a Swedish auto racing driver currently racing in Scandinavian Touring Car Championship for IPS Team Biogas in a Volkswagen Scirocco. He is son of the former driver and 1985 DTM champion Per Stureson. Racing career Stureson began his career in Formula BMW Junior in 1992. He is Swedish GT champion for 2002 and he moved to the Swedish Touring Car Championship in 2003. He raced in 2005 with Peugeot 407 and with Peugeot 308 in 2008. For 2010 season he switched to BMW 320si, after racing with Peugeot since 2004. For the 2012 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season he will race Volkswagen Scirocco again for his family-run team IPS. Racing record Complete German Formula 3 results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete Swedish GTR Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Complete European ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mattias Andersson (racing Driver)
Mattias Andersson (born 9 May 1973 in Ã…tvidaberg accessed 2010-06-11) is a Swedish race car driver and commentator, who currently resides in Linköping, Sweden. He started his career in Scandinavian Formula Opel in 1991 and continued in Scandinavia until 1996, when he joined the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robert Dahlgren
Robert Dahlgren (born 1 December 1979 in SkellefteÃ¥) is a Swedish auto racing driver who currently competes for the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He previously competed in Australia and New Zealand for a single season in the V8 Supercars Championship for Garry Rogers Motorsport, as well as in the World and for Polestar Racing, accessed 27 May 2010 making him the longest-serving factory-supported driver. Career In 1998 he won the Nordic and Swedish Formula Ford Championships, before racing in Great Britain with . He won the Formula Ford Championship in 2001. ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |