TTA – Racing Elite League was a Swedish Touring Car Championship started in 2012, founded by four of the biggest teams in Swedish Touring Car racing;

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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 ...

WestCoast Racing WestCoast Racing is a Swedish motor racing team, which was founded in 1994 by Dick Jönsson-Wigroth. The team which is based in Halmstad on the Swedish west coast (hence the name) is one of Sweden's most successful racing team. WestCoast Racing ...

and Brovallen Design in 2011. TTA works with the Swedish Automobile Sports Federation and the race car is developed by the French motorsport company Solution-F. The car is a

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, where by the chassis and powertrain are standardized and custom-built for racing and where the body is molded from composite material to mimic a normal car. TTA has bought the Swedish Racing League and renamed it to the ''TTA – Elitserien i Racing'' (TTA – Racing Elite League).

Latest season

The first season will consist of an eight round competition. The racetracks used for the 2012 season will be a mix of permanent and temporary racing circuits. The season begun at

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and will end with Göteborg City Race. The season will see four different models from four different manufacturers: BMW,

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and

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TV coverage

In Sweden,

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were given the broadcast rights to the 2012 season, giving live coverage on its TV10 sports channel.http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=7498

Support races

*Carrera – GT Cup *Trofeo Abarth 500 Sweden *Swedish GT Series *Swedish Radical Championship

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:TTA - Racing Elite League Touring car racing series Auto racing series in Sweden