2003 Swedish Touring Car Championship

The 2003 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 8th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total eight racing weekends at four different circuits were held; each round comprising two races, making a sixteen-round competition in total.

Changes for 2003

  • The Supertouring regulations were removed and replaced with Super2000.
  • The pitstops were also removed
  • Each round were to consist of two races, with one sprint race of 15–25 minutes and one super-race approximately 15–30 minutes longer.
  • Qualifying was conducted by having a standard qualifying session followed by a one-lap Superpole for the 8 fastest drivers.
  • The top 15 finishers were awarded points: 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Teams and drivers

Team Car No. Drivers
Kristoffersson Motorsport Audi A4 B6/7 1 Sweden Tommy Kristoffersson
8 Sweden Tobias Johansson
10 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom
Flash Engineering Volvo S60 2 Sweden Jan Nilsson
4 Sweden Magnus Krokström
WestCoast Racing BMW 320i 3 Sweden Mattias Andersson
11 Sweden Richard Göransson
Engström Motorsport Honda Civic Type-R 5 Sweden Tomas Engström
Crawford Racing BMW 320i 6 Sweden Carl Rosenblad
Opel Team Sweden Opel Astra 7 Norway Tommy Rustad
Podium SEAT Sport Team SEAT Toledo 9 Sweden Robin Rudholm
12 Sweden Johan Stureson
Bakajev Motorsport BMW 320i 15 Sweden Patrik Ernstsson
16 Sweden Jan Brunstedt
Euroracing Alfa Romeo 156 17 Sweden Nicklas Karlsson
Peugeot Statoil Motorsport Peugeot 307 19 Sweden Jens Edman
Vic Lee Racing Peugeot 406 Coupé 24 Norway Roger Möen

Race calendar and winners

All rounds were held in Sweden.

Round Circuit Date Winning driver Winning team
1
2
Falkenbergs Motorbana 4 May Fredrik Ekblom
Richard Göransson
Kristoffersson Motorsport
West Coast Racing
3
4
Mantorp Park 18 May Jan Nilsson
Fredrik Ekblom
Flash Engineering
Kristoffersson Motorsport
5
6
Karlskoga Motorstadion 9 June Richard Göransson
Tomas Engström
West Coast Racing
Engström Motorsport
7
8
Falkenbergs Motorbana 6 July Jan Nilsson
Patrik Ernstsson
Flash Engineering
Bakajev Motorsport
9
10
Ring Knutstorp 20 July Richard Göransson
Jan Nilsson
West Coast Racing
Flash Engineering
11
12
Karlskoga Motorstadion 17 August Richard Göransson
Carl Rosenblad
West Coast Racing
Crawford Racing
13
14
Ring Knutstorp 31 August Tommy Rustad
Jan Nilsson
Opel Team Sweden
Flash Engineering
15
16
Mantorp Park 18 September Richard Göransson
Nicklas Karlsson
West Coast Racing
Euroracing

Championship results

Championship Standings

Pos. Driver FAL MAN GEL FAL KNU GEL KNU MAN Pts
1 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom 1 3 2 1 3 4 2 10 2 2 3 8 3 11 2 7 224
2 Sweden Jan Nilsson 3 2 1 2 5 Ret 1 Ret Ret 1 9 10 2 1 6 2 214
3 Sweden Tomas Engström 4 7 3 Ret 4 1 5 9 Ret Ret 2 Ret 5 9 3 3 168
4 Norway Tommy Rustad Ret 6 4 5 6 2 3 5 6 4 11 7 1 2 Ret DNS 161
5 Sweden Richard Göransson 8 1 DNS Ret 1 Ret Ret DNS 1 Ret 1 2 6 4 1 Ret 148
6 Sweden Tobias Johansson 6 4 5 3 9 6 8 Ret 5 5 6 3 8 10 11 Ret 140
7 Sweden Tommy Kristoffersson 10 DNS Ret 4 7 12 4 4 9 7 5 5 4 5 13 8 139
8 Sweden Carl Rosenblad Ret DNS Ret 7 11 13 7 3 3 8 4 1 10 12 9 5 136
9 Sweden Nicklas Karlsson 5 5 Ret DNS 2 3 Ret Ret DNS DNS 7 4 5 1 127
10 Sweden Patrik Ernstson Ret DNS 10 11 10 5 10 1 Ret 6 DNS 6 12 6 8 6 116
11 Sweden Johan Stureson 7 8 7 6 12 10 9 6 Ret DNS 8 Ret 9 3 4 Ret 106
12 Sweden Magnus Krokström Ret Ret 11 8 8 7 DNS 7 7 3 10 9 7 8 10 Ret 99
13 Sweden Mattias Andersson Ret Ret 6 Ret 14 9 6 2 4 Ret 12 Ret 13 7 12 9 93
14 Sweden Robin Rudholm 11 Ret 9 9 15 11 11 Ret 10 9 13 Ret 11 Ret 7 4 86
15 Sweden Jan Brunstedt 9 9 8 10 13 8 12 8 8 11 Ret Ret 14 10 78
16 Sweden Jens Edman 2 Ret 17
17 Norway Roger Moen DNS DNS DNS 10 6
Norway Ronnie Brandt Ret DNS 0

Driver's championship

Position Driver Points
1 Fredrik Ekblom 224
2 Jan Nilsson 214
3 Tomas Engström 168
4 Tommy Rustad 161
5 Richard Göransson 148
6 Tobias Johansson 140
7 Tommy Kristoffersson 139
8 Carl Rosenblad 130
9 Nicklas Karlsson 127
10 Patrik Ernstsson 116
11 Johan Stureson 106
12 Magnus Krokström 99
13 Mattias Andersson 93
14 Robin Rudholm 86
15 Jan Brunstedt 78
16 Jens Edman 17
17 Roger Moen 6

Manufacturer's Championship

Position Manufacturer Points
1 Volvo 242
2 Audi 240
3 BMW 229
4 SEAT 184
5 Honda 181

References

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