1996 Swedish Touring Car Championship Explained

The 1996 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the inaugural season of the championship. It was decided in twelve races over five race weekends held at five different circuits.

Jan Nilsson was the first championship winner of the STCC.

Teams and drivers

Team	Car		Drivers	Rounds
Team Valvoline	Mercedes 190E	4	Mikael Dahlgren	All
Marksam Racing AB	Mercedes 190E	6	Jonas Lundberg	1-4
Tomas Nyström	BMW M3	7	Tomas Nyström	1-3
Bridgestone Sweden	Volvo 900	8	Ulf Palm	1-3, 5
Anders Svensson	BMW M3	9	Anders Svensson	1-2, 5
Håkan Malmborg	Ford Sierra	10	Håkan Malmborg	2, 5
Etab Data AB	BMW M3	21	Torbjörn Holmstedt	3
Bohlin Racing	Vauxhall Cavalier GSi	25	Nigel Smith	1-2
Lejtorp Racing	Mercedes 190E	26	Eric Persson	All
Bengt Winberg	Mercedes 190E	32	Bengt Winberg	3
Bakajev Motorsport	BMW 318is	55	Georg Bakajev	All
Anders Larsson	Renault Laguna	71	Anders Larsson	2-3, 5
Matador Racing	BMW M3	72	Hasse Berglund	All
Thomas Hall	BMW M3	74	Thomas Hall	3
Sällfors Racing	Ford Sierra	75	Andreas Boström	3-4
	BMW 318is	76	Torbjörn Sällfors	4
BMW Junior Team	BMW 318is	77	Thomas Johansson	All
Flash Engineering	Volvo 850 GLT	79	Jan Nilsson	All
	Ford Mondeo Ghia	82	Elisabeth Nilsson	All
Jan Brunstedt Motorsport	Opel Vectra GT	81	Jan Brunstedt	All

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	12 May	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R2				Nigel Smith	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
2	R3	Karlskoga-Gelleråsen	9 June	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
3	R4	Falkenberg	7 July	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R5				Jan Nilsson	Thomas Johansson	BMW Junior Team
4	R6	Ring Knutstorp	4 August	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering
	R7				Eric Persson	Mikael Dahlgren	Team Valvoline
5	R8	Kinnekulle	27 September	Jan Nilsson	Eric Persson	Hasse Berglund	Matador Racing
	R9				Jan Nilsson	Jan Nilsson	Flash Engineering

Championship standings

Points system
1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

• 5 points were awarded to any driver who took part in qualifying.
• Results in Race 1 decide the Race 2 grid.
• 7 results from 9 are valid for the championship
• Double Points in the final meeting.

Drivers championship

Pos. Driver MAN KAR FAL KNU KIN Pts 1 Jan Nilsson 1 1 1 1 (9) 1 (5) 9 1 169 (179) 2 Thomas Johansson Ret 3 (4) 3 1 2 2 4 3 143 (153) 3 Mikael Dahlgren 5 (6) Ret 5 2 3 1 3 4 132 (138) 4 Jan Brunstedt 3 4 6 2 Ret Ret 3 6 2 122 5 Eric Persson 4 (8) 3 7 3 4 Ret 2 Ret 103 (106) 6 Hasse Berglund Ret DNS DSQ Ret 8 Ret DNS 1 5 84 7 Georg Bakajev Ret 9 8 4 4 DSQ DSQ 5 6 73 8 Elisabeth Nilsson Ret 5 2 Ret 7 Ret 4 Ret 7 70 9 Thomas Nyström 7 10 5 8 6 37 10 Jonas Lundberg 6 7 7 9 Ret Ret DNS 36 11 Nigel Smith 2 2 DNS 35 12 Ulf Palm 8 12 9 Ret Ret 10 9 27 13 Anders Svensson Ret 11 Ret 7 Ret 23 14 Håken Malmborg Ret 8 8 22 15 Bengt Winqvist 6 5 19 16 Torbjörn Sällfors 5 6 19 17 Anders Larsson DNS Ret Ret Ret DNS 15 18 Andreas Boström DNS Ret Ret Ret 10 19 Thomas Hall Ret 10 6 20 Torbjörn Holmstedt Ret 11 5 Pos. Driver MAN KAR FAL KNU KIN Pts

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

• Touring-cars.net
• 1996 Entry List