2012 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship

2012 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season
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The 2012 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season was the second Scandinavian Touring Car Championship season. The season started at Mantorp Park on 5 May and ended on 22 September at the brand new track at Solvalla in Stockholm. It was the first season which included cars built to the Next Generation Touring Car specification.

Teams and drivers

(Note: drivers with car numbers 88–99 are eligible for the Semcon cup). All teams were Swedish-registered.

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden	Chevrolet Cruze 1.6T	1	Rickard Rydell	All
		4	Michel Nykjær	All
Volkswagen Team Biogas	Volkswagen Scirocco^1	2	Jordi Gené	All
		3	Johan Kristoffersson	All
IPS Team Biogas		15	Patrik Olsson	All
		21	Johan Stureson	All
Honda Racing Sweden	Honda Civic	17	Tomas Engström	All
SEAT Sport Sweden	Seat León	22	Robin Appelqvist	All
		23	Santosh Berggren	All
MECA	Alfa Romeo 156	89	Claes Hoffsten	1
NP Racing	Seat León 2.0 TFSI	90	Niclas Olsson	All
G-Rex Sweden	Mercedes C200	91	Tony Johansson	2–8
Memphis Racing	Opel Astra	92	André Andersson	1–2
	BMW 320i			3–8
BMS Event	Audi A4	97	Joakim Ahlberg	All
		98	Andreas Ahlberg	All

Notes:

• ^1  — Volkswagen Team Biogas and IPS Team Biogas are using Biogas (CNG) 2.0-litre Turbo engines in their four Volkswagen Sciroccos.

Race calendar

The provisional calendar was announced by the championship organisers on 15 October 2011. 2012 will see the inclusion of the brand new Sovalla track on the streets of Stockholm and a track at the Östersund airport.^[1][2]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Mantorp Park	5 May	Johan Stureson	Rickard Rydell	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen Team Biogas
	R2			Johan Kristoffersson	Rickard Rydell	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen Team Biogas
2	R3	Ring Knutstorp	19 May	Rickard Rydell	Rickard Rydell	Rickard Rydell	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
	R4			Michel Nykjær	Michel Nykjær	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
3	R5	Sturup Raceway	16 June	Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Honda Racing Sweden
	R6			Michel Nykjær	Tomas Engström	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
4	R7	Mantorp Park	7 July	Rickard Rydell	Tomas Engström	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen Team Biogas
	R8			Michel Nykjær	Tomas Engström	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
5	R9	Airport Race Östersund	11 August	Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Honda Racing Sweden
	R10			Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Tomas Engström	Honda Racing Sweden
6	R11	Jyllands-Ringen	26 August	Michel Nykjær	Jordi Gené	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
	R12			Jordi Gené	Johan Kristoffersson	Patrik Olsson	IPS Team Biogas
7	R13	Ring Knutstorp	9 September	Michel Nykjær	Michel Nykjær	Michel Nykjær	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
	R14			Rickard Rydell	Michel Nykjær	Rickard Rydell	Chevrolet Motorsport Sweden
8	R15	Solvalla Stockholm	22 September	Johan Kristoffersson	Johan Stureson	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen Team Biogas
	R16			Patrik Olsson	Johan Stureson	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen Team Biogas

Championship standings

Drivers Championships

Pos Driver MAN KNU STU MAN ÖST JYL KNU SOL Pts Overall 1 Johan Kristoffersson 1 1 2 3 6 2 1 4 2 6 3 3 4 Ret 1 1 264 2 Rickard Rydell 2 2 1 2 5 3 2 3 3 4 2 4 3 1 4 4 258 3 Michel Nykjær 6 4 Ret 1 4 1 4 1 5 5 1 2 1 2 9 8 231 4 Patrik Olsson 5 5 4 6 3 4 6 5 Ret 7 4 1 2 4 3 5 183 5 Tomas Engström Ret DNS 3 4 1 5 3 2 1 1 Ret Ret Ret 6 5 3 178 6 Johan Stureson 3 3 5 5 2 11 5 6 Ret 3 5 Ret 5 5 2 2 167 7 Jordi Gené 4 6 6 7 7 6 7 7 4 2 6 5 6 3 6 6 147 8 Niclas Olsson 8 7 9 9 8 7 Ret 10 Ret 9 8 6 8 9 8 7 55 9 Santosh Berggren 7 Ret 7 8 10 12† 11† 8 Ret DNS 7 9 7 8 7 10† 46 10 Joakim Ahlberg 10 10† Ret 12† 11 10† 9 Ret 6 12 12† 7 9 10 10 9 25 11 Andreas Ahlberg Ret 9 10 11 9 8 8 11 7 10 9 11† 10 Ret 11† 11† 23 12 Robin Appelqvist Ret 8 8 Ret 13† DNS Ret 9 Ret 8 Ret 10† Ret 7 Ret Ret 21 13 André Andersson 11† Ret DNS DNS 12 9 10 12 8 11 11 8 11 11 DNS DNS 11 14 Tony Johansson Ret 10 Ret DNS Ret Ret 9 Ret 10 Ret DNS DNS DNS DNS 4 15 Claes Hoffsten 9 Ret 2 Semcon Cup 1 Niclas Olsson 8 7 9 9 8 7 Ret 10 Ret 9 8 6 8 9 8 7 350 2 Andreas Ahlberg Ret 9 10 11 9 8 8 11 7 10 9 11† 10 Ret 11† 11† 241 3 Joakim Ahlberg 10 10† Ret 12† 11 10† 9 Ret 6 12 12† 7 9 10 10 9 224 4 André Andersson 11† Ret DNS DNS 12 9 10 12 8 11 11 8 11 11 DNS DNS 153 5 Tony Johansson Ret 10 Ret DNS Ret Ret 9 Ret 10 Ret DNS DNS DNS DNS 45 6 Claes Hoffsten 9 Ret 18 Pos Driver MAN KNU STU MAN ÖST JYL KNU SOL Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX)

† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

References

1. "Preliminary 2012 calendar issued by STCC". TouringCarTimes (Mediaempire Stockholm AB). 18 October 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2011.
2. "Airport race in Östersund set for STCC 2012". TouringCarTimes (Mediaempire Stockholm AB). 18 October 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.

External links

• Official website of the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship