The 2017 TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship was the seventh
Scandinavian Touring Car Championship
The Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) is a touring car racing series based in Scandinavia. The series took over from the Danish Touringcar Championship and Swedish Touring Car Championship, with its first season in 2011. The Scandinav ...
season. This season will see the introduction of the
TCR regulations. The season started at
Ring Knutstorp
Ring Knutstorp is a motor racing circuit in Kågeröd, 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 ...
on 7 May and ended at
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 la ...
on 17 September, after eight rounds.
Teams and drivers
Team and driver changes
With the introduction of the new technical regulations many of the teams competing in the previous season did not return.
Polestar Cyan Racing
Cyan Racing is the official motorsport partner to Geely Group Motorsport, formerly the Volvo factory auto racing team, and runs the FIA WTCR programme for Lynk & Co, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The team’s current drivers are Thed Björk, Yv ...
left the STCC for the support Swedish GT series.
Flash Engineering
Flash Engineering is a Swedish motorsport team based in Karlstad founded and owned by Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) winner Jan "Flash" Nilsson. The most recent time the team won the STCC-title was in 2008 with driver Richard Göransso ...
also left the championship.
Calendar
On 18 October 2016, a preliminary calendar was announced, with one round still to be announced. The championship will host six rounds in
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
and one round in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
.
Race calendar and results
Championship standings
Drivers' Championship
Teams' Championship
References
External links
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Scandinavia Touring Car Championship
2017 in Swedish sport