1997 Swedish Touring Car Championship

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The 1997 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 2nd season of the championship. It was decided over six race weekends (comprising twelve races) at six different circuits.

Jan Nilsson won the second championship of the STCC.

It was two-time DTM champion Mattias Ekström's touring car debut year driving a black Volvo 850 GLT.

Teams and Drivers[]

Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Flash Engineering	Volvo 850 GLT	1	Jan Nilsson	All
	Ford Mondeo Ghia	8		1-3, 5-6
		18	Fredrik Larsson	5
BMW Mobil 1 Dealer Team	BMW 320i	2		All
	Volvo 850 GLT	3	Mattias Ekström	All
	Opel Vectra 16v	4	Jan Brunstedt	All
	Opel Vectra GT	9		All
	BMW 318is	5	Peggen Andersson	All
	Ford Mondeo Ghia	6	Stig Blomqvist	All
		7		All
	Alfa Romeo 155 TS	10		All
	BMW M3	15		1-4, 6
	Volvo 850 GLT	16		2
	Renault Laguna	17		4
	Ford Sierra	20		All
	BMW M3	22		1-2, 4-6
	BMW 318is	55		1-2, 4-5
	BMW 318is	56		1, 4
	Volvo 850 GLT	99	Jens Edman	6

Race calendar and winners[]

All rounds were held in Sweden.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Mantorp Park	5 May		Jan Nilsson	Mattias Ekström
	R2				Mattias Ekström	Mattias Ekström
2	R3		25 May	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R4				Mattias Ekström	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
3	R5	Anderstorp	8 June	Jan Nilsson	Mattias Ekström	Mattias Ekström
	R6					Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
4	R7	Falkenberg	13 July	Mattias Ekström	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R8				Jan Brunstedt	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
5	R9	Ring Knutstorp	3 August	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R10				Mattias Ekström	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
6	R11	Karlskoga-Gelleråsen	31 August	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R12					Mattias Ekström

Drivers Championship[]

Points were awarded to the top ten drivers in a race as follows: 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1.
5 points were awarded to any driver who took part in qualifying.
Classified finishers in Race 1 were reversed to decide the Race 2 grid.
The final meeting of the year saw double points awarded.

Pos. Driver MAN AND FAL KNU KAR Pts 1 Jan Nilsson Ret DNS 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 249 2 Mattias Ekström 1 1 Ret 4 1 4 2 Ret Ret 2 6 1 192 3 Ret DNS 2 2 3 2 DSQ 3 DNS DNS 2 2 159 4 Peggen Andersson 9 Ret 3 3 4 3 6 2 2 10 4 5 151 5 Stig Blomqvist 3 Ret 4 Ret 5 7 3 4 3 3 3 6 146 6 4 2 Ret 6 Ret 6 7 6 7 4 7 8 105 7 Jan Brunstedt 2 Ret 7 Ret 8 5 DSQ 5 4 6 Ret 4 104 8 5 DNS 6 7 7 Ret 4 Ret Ret 7 5 9 86 9 Ret Ret 5 5 6 Ret 5 7 5 5 9 Ret 84 10 8 3 10 Ret 8 Ret 6 Ret 45 11 Ret 5 9 8 10 10 Ret 10 10 DNS 43 12 7 Ret 8 10 9 Ret 10 9 NC 10 40 13 Ret DNS Ret DNS Ret 9 10 9 9 8 NC DNS 40 14 Ret 4 Ret DNS 9 8 DNS DNS Ret DNS 40 15 Jens Edman 8 7 19 16 6 Ret Ret 8 19 17 Fredrik Larsson 8 Ret 8 18 Ret 9 7 19 Ret DNS 5 Pos. Driver MAN AND FAL KNU KAR 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 practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

References[]

External links[]

• Touring-cars.net
• 1997 Entry List