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Engström Motorsport is a
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motorsport team owned by its driver
Tomas Engström Tomas Engström (born 18 January 1964) is a Swedish auto racing driver. He is married with four children. In the 1990s he dominated the Swedish Camaro Cup, winning five back-to-back titles between 1994 and 1998. Since then he has mainly competed ...
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Camaro Cup

The team started competing in the Swedish
Camaro Cup Camaro Cup, officially the Camaro Cup 2000, is a Swedish-based stock car racing series using Chevrolet Camaro Z28s. History The idea about an American class in Swedish racing was born by the SSK acting director Robin Shorter in 1974. He spr ...
series in 1991. After finishing runner-up in 1993 the team and Engström took five straight championship titles, the first in 1994 and the last in 1998. Engström also won 32 of his 45 cup races.


STCC


Chrysler

In 1999 the team moved up to race in 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 ...
as the
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works team under the Chrysler Racing Team Sweden name, running a 1998 spec Stratus for Engström. The car lacked paced and Engström finished 13th in the standings. The next season went better, with some top five finishes and tenth overall. The team switched name to DC Motorsport in 2001 and competed in the privateers cup, where Engström finishing third.


Honda

After Hubert Bergh Motorsport, the team that had run the
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works team, withdrew from the series Engström Motorsport became their replacement. With a 2001-spec Honda Accord Engström finished fifth in the 2002 season, in which he also won his first STCC race. STCC switched to Super 2000 rules in 2003 and the Accord was replaced by a Honda Civic Type-R. Now called Honda Dealer Team Sweden Engström continued to be the team's only driver and now had his most successful STCC season, winning one race and finishing third overall. The team expanded to two cars for 2004 with Jens Hellström driving the Civic. Engström finished sixth in the standings and Hellström ninth, but neither won any races. Engström also took part in two races in the Finnish Touring Car Championship. In 2005 Engström's Civic was replaced by an Accord Euro-R while Hellström kept the Civic. Engström won one race and finished fifth overall, while Hellström had a bad season and ended up thirteenth, two places behind independent Civic Type-R driver Daniel Haglöf. The team also took part in two weekends in the
World Touring Car Championship The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It has had several different incarnations, including a sin ...
. Neither driver scored any overall points, but Engström did win one race and finished ninth overall in the independent's cup. Engström Motorsport did not retain Hellström for the 2006 season. Instead they ran a brand new Honda Accord Euro-R for Engström, who took several podium finishes but no win and finished fifth overall. The team finished the season in Portugal and the European Touring Car Cup, where Engström finished on a noticeable third place behind GR Asia SEAT drivers
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and
Emmet O'Brien Emmet O'Brien (born 7 March 1981, in Dublin) is an Irish auto racing driver. Career O'Brien started competing in the Irish Karting championships at a young age, he finished 2nd in the National Irish Formula A karting championship for PCR in 1998 ...
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References

* * STCC official website
STCC results on Sportinformation.com
* Stig L Sjöberg, ''STCC-Guiden 99''. Förlags AB Albinsson & Sjöberg, 1999 * Calle Carlquist, ''Motorsportåret 2000'', Bonnier Tidskrifter AB, 2000 * Richard Schultz, ''STCC Officielt Program 2001'', STCC AB, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Engstrom Motorsport Swedish auto racing teams World Touring Car Championship teams