[STCC] Race 5 - Gothenburg (SWE), 13/14 June 2008

[JMeissner]

Time for the first ever city race for the Swedish Touring Car Championship.

Gothenburg City Race is the place for the event and the track is lockated in the harbour of Gothenburg - the second largest city in Sweden.

Should be interesting as no teams have any previous information about the track. Lets hope the crashes are few.

A video around the track:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2408

[werner]

You could argue about if this track really is a street-circuit, or a track that happens to be close to a city-center. But at least the walls are close enough to the track to make it a proper street-course! I think it's going to be a really challenging track, but it has to be seen if anyone can overtake...

[PorscheFanNo1]

Great video! Really looking forward to this race, it should be awesome. Altho I cant be at the track to watch the racing as planned sadly, so will have to watch it on TV instead, almost as good. But the first corner complex there look so sweet for spectators!

[Pettersson]

I wonder what will happen if it rains? Thinking of the drainage on such a flat surface as an old pier.

[stedevil]

Originally Posted by werner

but it has to be seen if anyone can overtake...

There was a lot of talk about how they would make several slow 3+ car wide corners (both entering and exiting the corner) to make overtaking a ****ibility. Lets hope they did the homework properly and succeded

[touringlegend]

Originally Posted by werner

You could argue about if this track really is a street-circuit, or a track that happens to be close to a city-center. But at least the walls are close enough to the track to make it a proper street-course!

I can see your point on that but like you say the walls are still there to catch anyone out.

Looks like it'll be a quick, flowing circuit, just wish we got to see STCC over here.

[stedevil]

Originally Posted by touringlegend

Looks like it'll be a quick, flowing circuit, just wish we got to see STCC over here.

Both SVT and NRK have the races on their websites. SVT I know have all this years races as well as all last years races on their site and they don't block residents from outside the country. Not the best every quality, but good enough if you dont want to download full res captures from 3rd party sites.

[Alex K]

I watched the movies, must say, qualifing will be much more important than on permanent circuit.

I know it's a street circuit, but do they plan to leave the fences and stands for the rest of the year? It looks to me they're permanent.

[werner]

Is there a replacement on the programme for the mororcycles? I'm sure they won't drive at this track.

[JMeissner]

The track is permanent for minimum 5 years.

The support-races for this weekend are Carrera Cup Scandinavia, JTCC and Camaro Cup.

[Mr Pink]

Originally Posted by JMeissner

The track is permanent for minimum 5 years.

The support-races for this weekend are Carrera Cup Scandinavia, JTCC and Camaro Cup.

Who bet against a pile-up in JTCC?

Looking forward to seeing this on TV.

[JMeissner]

Simonsen replaces Kristoffersson:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2411

[PorscheFanNo1]

Test session right now has been red flaged after Dalhgren put his Volvo into the barrier. He still has the fastest lap however.

[JMeissner]

Report from the first test:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2416

Apparently Dahlgren is at the hospital after back pain, but he said he is going to be back tomorrow.

[PorscheFanNo1]

Meissner, would it be possible to have an onboard lap from Flash or Göranssons car up on youtube later this evening, so we can see a full speed lap?

[PorscheFanNo1]

Just notised its already up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmdnjKqp7_w

[PorscheFanNo1]

Times from 2nd test, impressive times from Andersson in the Alfa and also from Simonsen in the Audi in his very first STCC weekend!

Pl.	Nr.	Name		Lap	Diff	Gap	Snaste tid	Bästa tid	Bt.varv	Hastighet	Total tid
1	4	Thed Björk	29			48.024	47.361	18	119,719	45:26.933
2	20	Mattias Anders	31	0.055	0.055	47.416	47.416	31	119,580	45:18.519
3	22	Thomas Schie	24	0.177	0.122	IN PIT	47.538	19	119,273	40:36.484
4	6	Robin Rudholm	34	0.227	0.050	IN PIT	47.588	22	119,148	44:00.948
5	7	Tomas Engström	33	0.373	0.146	48.234	47.734	31	118,783	45:09.019
6	3	Richard Görans	33	0.387	0.014	48.931	47.748	32	118,748	45:27.357
7	28	Carl Rosenblad	29	0.444	0.057	IN PIT	47.805	28	118,607	43:15.994
8	1	Fredrik Ekblom	11	0.622	0.178	47.983	47.983	11	118,167	45:18.200
9	17	Andreas Simons	33	0.679	0.057	IN PIT	48.040	33	118,027	44:58.224
10	8	Roger Eriksson	31	0.709	0.030	48.070	48.070	31	117,953	45:34.546
11	5	Jan Nilsson	26	0.743	0.034	48.252	48.104	23	117,870	45:12.658
12	90	Tobias Johans	33	1.286	0.543	48.739	48.647	31	116,554	45:50.006
13	93	Dick Sahlén	23	1.499	0.213	IN PIT	48.860	10	116,046	30:47.214
14	21	Johan Stureson	21	1.632	0.133	49.601	48.993	20	115,731	33:02.932
15	96	Viktor Huggare	24	2.996	1.364	IN PIT	50.357	23	112,596	33:51.094
16	97	Joakim Ahlberg	33	3.151	0.155	50.665	50.512	31	112,251	45:46.394
	9	Tommy Rustad	2	12.400	9.249	IN PIT	59.761	2	94,878	6:07.538
dns 	2	Robert Dahlgren						0		-

[JMeissner]

Björk tops second test:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2418

Dahlgren to hospital:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2417

[Alex K]

Have you changed gearbox to manual for Goeransson for Gothenburg? I remember I saw him driving semi- car when I browsed youtube last time? Does it better suit highdownforce circuits?

[JMeissner]

From this year Göransson drives H-box while Flash still has seq.

[JMeissner]

Björk wins:

http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2421

Must say the new track is completely awesome!

[PorscheFanNo1]

Was a good and eventful race. Only 4 points seperates top 4 in the standings now!

[stedevil]

Yeah, I was a little bit worried after seeing the bigger heavier Porsches and Camaros drive round round in starting order. But the smaller and nimbler TCC cars REALLY had an exciting race where overtaking was definitely possible. The much bigger spread in car characteristics as well as old/new tires on the cars due to the much longer race and pitstops spiced it up as well. Definitely one of the best city races I've seen with Touring Cars.

[FIRE]

Good track.

Why did they race on saturday?

[werner]

I enjoyed the race very much. Congratulations to Bjork, and a big compliment to Schie, who had the mental and fysical strenght and the car to attack right to the end. It was great to see him overtake backmarkers in a descisive style and get closer and closer to Bjork.
Having said that, I'm sure Bjork would have kept him behind anway, but still.
Some bad luck for Dahlgren, although he shouldn't have closed the door so hard, since Engstrom was really far inside, and couldn't have avoided him. Also Stureson had a lot of bad luck. Everytime something happend, he came out as the largest loser, sometimes through no fault of his own.
Anyway, great race!