STCC Round 1 Sturup - 10-Tenths Motorsport Forum

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 09:53

STCC kick off this weekend, and I'm going to be at the track watching it. Anyone else?

STCC Entry List (23)
Thed Björk - Audi A4 - Kristoffersson Motorsport
Frank Stippler - Audi A4 - Kristoffersson Motorsport
Tommy Kristoffersson - Audi A4 - Kristoffersson Motorsport
Richard Göransson - BMW 320si Ethanol - Flash Engineering
Jan Nilsson - BMW 320si Ethanol - Flash Engineering
Robin Rudholm - BMW 320si - West Coast Racing
Fredrik Ekblom - BMW 320si - West Coast Racing
Carl Rosenblad - BMW 320si - Elgh Motorsport
Tomas Engström - Honda Accord - Engström Motorsport
Robert Dahlgren - Volvo S60 Ethanol - Polestar Racing
Alexander Storckenfeldt - Volvo S60 Ethanol - Polestar Racing
Tommy Rustad - Opel Astra GTC - Opel Team Sweden
Johan Stureson - Peugeot 407 - IPS Motorsport
Mattias Andersson - Alfa Romeo 156 - MA GP
David Björk - BMW 320i - Team caWalli
Tobias Johansson - Mercedes C200 - MB Sport
Hans Simonsson - Mercedes C200 - MB Sport
Roger Eriksson - BMW 320i - Picko Troberg Racing
Fredrik Lestrup - BMW 320i - Picko Troberg Racing
Andrey Smetsky - Honda Accord - Artman Racing
Joakim Fridh - Opel Astra Coupe - Team Euromaster (I)
Tobias Tegelby - BMW 320i - Tysslinge Racing (I)
Ronnie Brandt - Volvo S60 - Mälarpower (I)

Not present are Viktor Huggare (problems with his car) and Niklas Karlsson (joins the series at the half-way point of the season).

The support lineup:
S60 Challenge
JTCC
Radical
Superbike
Carrera Cup

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 10:05

S60 Challenge have only mustered 8 cars for this weekend. This was their chance to show that STCC was wrong in ditching them, but they seem to have missed it.

S60 Challenge Qualifying
1. Tobias Brink 1:09.464
2. Ted Brink 1:10.166
3. Mikael Granberg 1:10.677
4. Dick Sahlén 1:10.992
5. Jonas Nilsson 1:11:102
6. Mattias Ekeroth 1:11:543
7. Christian Swartswe 1:12:696
8. Rikard Salesjö 1:13:517

Bezzen · 21 Apr 2007, 11:06

Eight cars. Pretty embarrassing.

What's the weather like down south?

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 11:06

JTCC Qualifying
1. Thomas Faraas (Peugeot 206/RM Motorsport) 1:12.841
2. Alexander Graff (Ford Fiesta/Graff Motorsport) 1:12.946
3. Martin Öhlin (Ford Fiesta/Flash Engineering) 1:13.246
4. Simon Reinberth (Volkswagen Golf/Eljas Motorsport) 1:13:774 (R)
5. Therese Svensson (Ford Fiesta/TS Motorsport) 1:14:011
6. Tommie Lööf (Volkswagen Golf/Eljas Motorsport) 1:14:060 (R)
7. Roar Lindland (Peugeot 206/RM Motorsport) 1:14:089
8. Joakim Ahlberg (Citroën C2/Brovallen Motorsport Junior[MB Sport]) 1:14:101
9. Jonas Brinkemar (Ford Fiesta/JB Racing Team) 1:14:199
10. Marcus Fluch (Volkswagen Golf/Eljas Motorsport) 1:14:432 (R)
11. Andreas Ahlberg (Citroën C2/Brovallen Motorsport Junior[MB Sport]) 1:14:735 (R)
12. Alexander Holmberg (Ford Fiesta/AB Holmbergs) 1:14:967
13. Gustav Jebsen (??/??) 1:16:271 (R)
14. Alexander Bender (Citroën C2) 1:22:715 (R)
15. Angelica Haraldsson (Ford Fiesta) No Time (R)

Bezzen · 21 Apr 2007, 11:08

Faraas will probably be hard to stop this year in JTCC.

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 11:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bezzen

Faraas will probably be hard to stop this year in JTCC.

I agree, with the best guys moving up to STCC he has to be the favourite. It will still be interesting to see what Reinberth can do though; he's a rookie from Karting and Eljas is a very good team.

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 11:42

Radical Qualifying
1. Emma Kimiläinen (JFG Motorsport Oy) 58.807
2. Christian Kronegård (M&W Radical Motorsport) +0.077
3. Christoffer Karlsson (Mäki Racing) +0.252
4. Mikael Ohlsson (Empole Motorsport) +0.282
5. Viktor Hallurp (Team CaWalli) +0.774
6. Audun Njös (??) +0.831
7. Niklas Lovén (M&W Radical Motorsport) +0.961
8. Andreas Ebbesson (Ebbesson Motorsport) +0.997
9. Dick Sahlén (Team Caliber) +2.078
10. David Olsson (??) +2.162
11. Erik Hellum (M&W Radical Motorsport) +2.201
12. Perry Johansson (??) +2.612
13. Roger Andersson (Slash X Motorsport) +2.797
14. Robert Enestedt (Slash X Motorsport) +3.347
15. Tobias Larsson (M&W Radical Motorsport) +3.473
16. Per Staaf Jr (Fastighetsgruppen AB) +4.890
17. Mikael Eklund (Team Nya Åkeriet Örebro) +7.882

I guess something must have happened some time into the session considering the full one second jump between 8th and 9th.

Valker · 21 Apr 2007, 13:15

Ilmari Ullakko is missing from Radical qual results...

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 13:31

yeah, I get these times from MyLaps, which seems to work a bit so-so at times.

Jimmy Magnusson · 21 Apr 2007, 18:59

Nice to have Carrera Cup mustering 20+ cars atleast. But now to some bad news: there won't be a Superbike race tomorrow! The Swedish Motorcycle Association SVEMO had cleared the track after a saftey inspection - Sturup had invested a fair bit of money into the track to get the security up to acceptable security for motorcycles. But the riders themselves rejected this clearing and thus there won't be a race tomorrow. 25 superbikes goes home without turning a lap... And leaves a sizeable hole in tomorrow's program. I wonder how popular the Superbike boys are at Pålsson, Huzell & Co now...

JMeissner · 21 Apr 2007, 19:20

I'm in position at Sturup, the weather was nice today, sunny but a bit cold - 10 degrees. No STCC-runs today (remember that this is a TC forum

), but tomorrow it's all action!

Alex K · 22 Apr 2007, 08:56

Any news on Carrera Cup mates? And its winners in both classes

It's really nice to see Swedish and Danish TCCs doing so well, and having such a big audience, TV coverage and grids with support races. IMO it looks much better than BTCC.

BTW. Any live timing from Sturup. LT covering all classes competing?

PorscheFanNo1 · 22 Apr 2007, 09:28

Livetiming: http://www.mylaps.com/liveresult/liveevent.jsp?id=23

However, it doesnt make much sence to me...
I can however see that Dahlgren was fastest on this mornings warmup just ahead of Stippler, Göransson, Björk, Rudholm and Ekblom in 6th. The laptimes however seem to be a little f***edup.

Heres the timetable for this afternoon:

12.30-12.50 STCC Qual
12.55-13.15 STCC Super pole
13.35-14.05 Superbike Race
14.15-14.35 Carrera Cup Race 2
15.00-15.40 STCC Race

And heres a nice little map of the new track:

Not any real high speeds on this track, but it does have some fast flowing corners with some very tight and tricky corners at the end of the lap, should be interesting, I also heard it was raining down there, donno if its raining at the track right now, but it looks very likely to be a wet race. They should have races last weekend when we had 20 degrees and real summer weather here in the whole Sweden.

BTW, lets see how many tracks you can come up with that they have borrowed cornernames from, I can see atleast 3 or 4 right now.