Karl Richard Jonsson Göransson
(born 8 August 1978 in
Örebro
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) is a Swedish
racing driver
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. He is a 4-time champion of 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 ...
winning it for West Coast Racing in
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
,
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
,
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
and
2010
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. He won the
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
The Danish Touringcar Championship (abbreviated as the DTC) was a touring car ra ...
in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
for
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 ...
.
Career
He started racing in karting from 1989 through to 1993. In 1996 he was Swedish
Formula Ford
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Champion. He also competed in both the
British
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and European Formula Ford Championships. He won the European Formula Ford Championship in 2001. In 2002 he raced in some rounds of the
British Formula Renault, before moving to the STCC in
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
where he finished fifth in his first season.
His time in the STCC has been very successful. After winning back-to-back titles for West Coast Racing in
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
and
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
, he switched to
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 Göranss ...
in
2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
and drove alongside team owner
Jan "Flash" Nilsson for three years. In
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
he was champion for the third time. In
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
he returned to WCR and regained the drivers title in 2010.
He was winner of the
European Touring Car Cup
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...
held at
Vallelunga
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in 2005.
Racing record
WRC results
Complete FIA European Rallycross Championship results
Supercar
Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results
Supercar
RX Lites Cup
References
External links
Profile at Speedsport Magazine.
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1978 births
Living people
Swedish racing drivers
Formula Ford drivers
British Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
Swedish Touring Car Championship drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
World Rallycross Championship drivers
European Touring Car Cup drivers
Sportspeople from Örebro
Rowe Racing drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
Jenzer Motorsport drivers
Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia drivers
Cyan Racing drivers