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

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  • 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

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

Race calendar and winners

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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

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Drivers' championship

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

Manufacturer's championship

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

References

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