The 2005 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 10th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total eight racing weekends at six different circuits were held; each round comprising three races, making a twenty-four round competition in total.

Changes for 2005

  • The race format of qualifying and two races per weekend were removed. Instead two short sprints would be raced, and the combined results of those two races would determine the grid for the third, longer race.
  • Points were awarded to the top six grid positions for the long race (the six drivers that succeeded the most in the qualification races): 6-5-4-3-2-1.
  • The longer race gave points by the system 20-17-14-11-9-7-5-3-2-1.
  • Grid positions for the first qualification race was decided by randomly drawing the driver's starting numbers from a cup. This grid was then reversed for the second qualification race. The drawings were later replaced by a one-lap shootout for the quickest time after teams put pressure on the organisation.
  • Extra ballast weight were given to the top four drivers of the championship and the top four long race winners by the system 1st: +20 kg, 2nd: +15 kg, 3rd: +10 kg and 4th: +5 kg. Maximum extra weight was set to 40 kg. Weight gained from the long race stayed for one weekend after the gaining of the weight and was then removed from the car.
  • Tyres were limited to 20 slick tyres per weekend, whereof 8 of these 20 were allowed to be new tyres.
  • TV coverage was extended, with Viasat Sport/ZTV covering three and a half hours live action from each race weekend
  • STCC AB had a board change. Mike Luff, Sven-Göte Svensson, Håkan Junfors and Lars Frisell were replaced by Tommy Theorin, Joakim Wiedesheim and Christer Johansson.

Teams and drivers

Team Car No. Drivers
Drivers' Championship
West Coast Racing BMW 320i 1 Sweden Richard Göransson
11 Sweden Thed Björk
Polestar Racing Volvo S60 2 Sweden Robert Dahlgren
7 Sweden Edward Sandström
Kristoffersson Motorsport Audi A4 3 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom
8 Sweden Tommy Kristoffersson
Flash Engineering BMW 320i 4 Sweden Jan Nilsson
Opel Team Sweden Opel Astra 5 Norway Tommy Rustad
Engström Motorsport Honda Accord 6 Sweden Tomas Engström
Honda Civic Type-R 9 Sweden Jens Hellström
Team Agrol Honda Civic Type-R 10 Sweden Daniel Haglöf
Mercedes-Benz Sport Mercedes C200 12 Sweden Tobias Johansson
14 Sweden Hans Simonsson
Team Italienska Bil Alfa Romeo 156 20 Sweden Mattias Andersson
IPS Motorsport Peugeot 407 21 Sweden Johan Stureson
STCC Challenge
Budda Racing Volvo S60 93 Sweden Patrik Andersson
Gellerstedt Motorsport BMW 320i 94 Sweden Christer Gellerstedt
Johansson Motorsport BMW 320 D E46 95 Sweden Håkan Johansson
JN Racing BMW 320i 97 Sweden Johan Nilsson
Team Gustavsson Volvo S60 98 Sweden Joakim Gustavsson
Mälarpower Volvo S40 Evo 5 99 Sweden Ronnie Brandt

Race calendar and winners

Round Circuit Date Winning driver Winning team
1
2
Sweden Ring Knutstorp 22 May Tommy Rustad
Thed Björk
Opel Team Sweden
West Coast Racing
3
4
Sweden Karlskoga Motorstadion 6 June Jan Nilsson
Tomas Engström
Flash Engineering
Engström Motorsport
5
6
Sweden Anderstorp 19 June Johan Stureson
Edward Sandström
IPS Motorsport
Polestar Racing
7
8
Sweden Falkenbergs Motorbana 10 July Robert Dahlgren
Robert Dahlgren
Polestar Racing
Polestar Racing
9
10
Sweden Ring Knutstorp 7 August Robert Dahlgren
Johan Stureson
Polestar Racing
IPS Motorsport
11
12
Sweden Karlskoga Motorstadion 21 August Fredrik Ekblom
Thed Björk
Kristoffersson Motorsport
West Coast Racing
13
14
Norway Våler 4 September Tomas Engström
Richard Göransson
Engström Motorsport
West Coast Racing
15
16
Sweden Mantorp 18 September Richard Göransson
Richard Göransson
West Coast Racing
West Coast Racing

Championship results

Championship Standings

Pos. Driver KNU
Sweden
GEL
Sweden
AND
Sweden
FAL
Sweden
KNU
Sweden
GEL
Sweden
GEL
Norway
MAN
Sweden
Pts
1 Sweden Richard Göransson 2 8 8 2 3 2 1 1 169
2 Sweden Thed Björk 1 3 3 6 DNS 1 2 3 141
3 Sweden Johan Stureson 10 2 2 11 1 9 7 2 117
4 Sweden Edward Sandström 4 9 1 4 5 DNS Ret 4 97
5 Sweden Tomas Engström 7 1 6 3 11 4 8 7 87
6 Sweden Fredrik Ekblom 5 5 10 5 4 3 Ret 17 73
7 Sweden Robert Dahlgren 13 11 Ret 1 2 7 Ret 6 71
8 Norway Tommy Rustad 3 Ret Ret 10 10 5 Ret 5 67
9 Sweden Jan Nilsson 9 4 14 7 6 10 4 8 49
10 Sweden Tommy Kristoffersson 6 10 5 9 8 8 3 11 41
11 Sweden Daniel Haglöf 11 7 4 12 9 Ret 5 10 30
12 Sweden Mattias Andersson 8 Ret 7 8 14 6 10 9 25
13 Sweden Jens Hellström 12 6 9 Ret 7 11 6 12 21
14 Sweden Ronnie Brandt Ret Ret 16 16 14 9 16 2
15 Sweden Johan Nilsson 14 13 11 17 12 13 0
16 Sweden Christer Gellerstedt 14 0
17 Sweden Joakim Gustavsson 15 13 15 15 15 0
18 Sweden Tobias Johansson Ret 13 13 DNS Ret Ret 0
19 Sweden Håkan Johansson Ret 13 DNS 0
20 Sweden Hans Simonsson 12 14 12 DNS Ret DNS 0
21 Sweden Patrik Andersson 12 0

Driver's championship

Position Driver Points
1 Richard Göransson 169
2 Thed Björk 141
3 Johan Stureson 117
4 Edward Sandström 97
5 Tomas Engström 87
6 Fredrik Ekblom 73
7 Robert Dahlgren 71
8 Tommy Rustad 67
9 Jan Nilsson 49
10 Tommy Kristoffersson 41
11 Daniel Haglöf 30
12 Mattias Andersson 25
13 Jens Hellström 21
14 Ronnie Brandt 2

STCC Challenge

Position Driver Points
1 Johan Nilsson 168
2 Ronnie Brandt 124
3 Joakim Gustavsson 97
4 Christer Gellerstedt 44
5 Håkan Johansson 26
6 Patrik Andersson 22

Manufacturer's championship

Position Manufacturer Points
1 BMW 159
2 Peugeot 120
3 Volvo 120
4 Honda 115
5 Audi 104
6 Alfa Romeo 68

References

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