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Thed Björk (born 14 December 1980 in
After graduating from Karting in 1997 Björk raced in the Swedish and Nordic 
In 
Vretstorp
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, Örebro
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racing driver
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, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 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 ...
and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 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 Scandina ...
. He also finished second in 2005 and 2009, and third in the 2008 STCC and the 2012 TTA – Racing Elite League
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.
Career
Early career
After graduating from Karting in 1997 Björk raced in the Swedish and Nordic Formula 3
Formula Three, also called Formula 3, abbreviated as F3, is a third-tier class of open-wheel formula racing. The various championships held in Europe, Australia, South America and Asia form an important step for many prospective Formula One driv ...
series, taking both titles in 1999. For 2000 he went to the United States to race in the Barber Dodge Pro Series
The Barber Dodge Pro Series was a professional open-wheel auto racing series from 1986 to 2003. It was one of the first professional spec series for open-wheel racecars in North America. The races were primarily on road and street courses in Nor ...
. Björk took one pole position, lap record at Mid-Ohio and two fastest race laps. His best race finish was a fourth place and had he had one fifth and three sixth places. Björk finished 10th overall.
2001 saw Björk race in several different series; concentrating on the FIA Sportscar Championship The FIA Sportscar Championship was a sports car racing series created by John Mangoletsi and was eventually taken control of by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It was a series similar to the FIA GT Championship, concentrating ...
SR2 class for Sportscar Racing Team Sweden, taking the title together with American Larry Oberto. Björk finished third in the Swedish GT series, and was on the podium in 11 out of 12 races, and he also made his debut in STCC, filling in for Kristoffersson Motorsport's Roberto Colciago
Roberto Colciago (born 4 April 1968) is a racing driver from Saronno, Italy. He has spent most of his career in touring car racing – first in Super Touring and then in Super 2000 – followed by the World Touring Car Championship and cur ...
for one weekend. There he showed pace from the start, finishing second in one of the weekend's two races. He also raced in the 24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona, also known as the Rolex 24 At Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is run on the Sports Car Course layou ...
, taking the class pole position and fastest lap but had to retire after gearbox failure while in the lead.
In 2002 Björk raced in the Formula 3000
Formula 3000 (F3000) was a type of open wheel, single seater formula racing, occupying the tier immediately below Formula One and above Formula Three. It was so named because the cars were powered by 3.0 L engines.
Formula 3000 championships
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series for team Nordic but did not score any points and finished 15th overall and 12th in the LMP900 class in the 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 2002 24 Hours of Le Mans was an automobile endurance race held for Le Mans Prototype and Grand Touring cars from 15 to 16 June 2002 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, close by Le Mans, France. It was the 70th running of the event, as organized b ...
racing for Courage Compétition
Courage Compétition was a racing team and chassis constructor company now owned by Oreca, based in Le Mans, France near the Circuit de la Sarthe. It was founded by Yves Courage, a French race driver who ran hillclimbs before founding the compa ...
.
He returned to Sweden in 2003 for another stint of GTR, this time taking the title in a Chrysler Viper GTS-R, winning all of the races he started in - only a single non-start prevented him from winning every single event. GTR however was disbanded by the end of the year, leaving Björk without a seat for 2004.
When Niklas Lovén and the works STCC BMW team WestCoast Racing
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parted ways midway through the 2004
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season, Björk was called in to replace him. He took two podium finishes and ended up 11th overall. He stayed with the team for 2005
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, winning two races, was on the podium in six out of eight races and finished second overall.
In 2006
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he signed for the Kristoffersson Motorsport Audi
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team, the same team that he raced for in 2001. The move proved to be a successful one; Björk took the championship lead with a win in the first race and kept it for the rest of the season, taking the title ahead of his former teammate Richard Göransson
Richard Göransson (born 8 August 1978 in Örebro) is a Swedish auto racing driver. He is a 4-time champion of the Swedish Touring Car Championship winning it for West Coast Racing in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010. He won the Scandinavian Touring Ca ...
. During the season he took three race wins and finished on the podium on six occasions.
DTM
When theFuturecom TME
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Audi DTM driver Nicolas Kiesa
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Previously, he had won the 2003 Formula 3000 race at Monac ...
injured his leg in a motocross accident with two races remaining Björk was called in as a replacement. In an outdated 2004 car he was third on the first free practice - his first run in the car - but then returned to where the older cars were usually seen, further down the field. He was rumored to drive for Audi for the 2007 season, but missed out on a drive.
Racing record
American Open-Wheel racing results
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Barber Dodge Pro Series
24 Hours of Le Mans results
Complete International Formula 3000 results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results
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† Driver did not finish, but completed 90% of race distance.
Complete Swedish Touring Car Championship results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
Complete Scandinavian Touring Car Championship results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
† Driver did not finish, but completed 90% of race distance.
Complete TTA - Racing Elite League results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
Complete World Touring Car Championship results
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* Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
Complete World Touring Car Cup results
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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)
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