2022 STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship explained

The 2022 STCC TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship season is the thirteenth season of the championship, the sixth after the adoption of the TCR specification. It started on 4 June 2022 at Ljungbyheds Motorbana and finished on 1 October 2022 at Mantorp Park. Robert Dahlgren, in the CUPRA Leon Competición TCR, took his fourth drivers' title in his career, while his team, CUPRA Dealer Team - PWR Racing, took the team title. Axel Bengtsson, also in a CUPRA Leon Competición TCR, took the junior drivers' title, while Marius Solberg Hansen, in a Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR, took the Däckteam trophy.

Teams and drivers

Entrant	Car	Race drivers
Entrant	Car		Driver name	Rounds
CUPRA Dealer Team – PWR Racing	Cupra León Competición TCR	2	Robert Dahlgren	All
CUPRA Dealer Team – PWR Racing	Cupra León Competición TCR	55	Axel Bengtsson	All
Lestrup Racing Team	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	7	Oliver Söderström	All
Lestrup Racing Team	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	19	Andreas Bäckman	All
Team Auto Lounge Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	13	Christian Skaar	All
Team Auto Lounge Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	31	Johan Lund	3–6
Team Strandberg	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	14	Dennis Strandberg	All
Exion Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	16	Calle Bergman	All
Exion Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	70	Isac Aronsson	All
MA:GP	Lynk & Co 03 TCR	20	Mattias Andersson	All
Esbjug Motorsport	Honda Civic Type R TCR (FK8)	23	Didrik Esbjug	All
MSH Motorsport	Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR	24	Marius Solberg Hansen	All
FH Racing	Cupra León TCR	33	Rasmus Hedberg	All
Brovallen Design	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	66	Erik Olson Hermansson	6
Brink Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	69	Hugo Nerman	All
Brink Motorsport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2021)	71	Tobias Brink	All
Lights2Flag	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR (2017)	77	Dejan Dragicevic	1

Race calendar and results

Round		Circuit	Location	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Race Winner	Winning Team
1	R1	Ljungbyheds Motorbana	Ljungbyhed, Skåne	4 June	Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
2	R1	Drivecenter Arena	Skellefteå, Västerbotten	18 June	Andreas Bäckman	Robert Dahlgren	Andreas Backman	Lestrup Racing Team
	R2				Mattias Andersson	Mattias Andersson	Hugo Nerman	Brink Motorsport
	R3					Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
3	R1	Ring Knutstorp	Kågeröd, Skåne	23 July	Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
	R2				Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
	R3					Andreas Bäckman	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
4	R1	Gelleråsen Arena	Karlskoga, Örebro	20 August	Oliver Söderström	Oliver Söderström	Oliver Söderström	Lestrup Racing Team
	R2				Mattias Andersson	Mattias Andersson	Mattias Andersson	MA:GP
	R3					Robert Dahlgren	Robert Dahlgren	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing
5	R1	Anderstorp Raceway	Anderstorp, Jönköping	11 September	Hugo Nerman	Andreas Bäckman	Andreas Bäckman	Lestrup Racing Team
	R2				Andreas Bäckman	Calle Bergman	Andreas Bäckman	Lestrup Racing Team
	R3					Tobias Brink	Tobias Brink	Brink Motorsport
6	R1	Mantorp Park	Mantorp, Östergötland	1 October	Tobias Brink	Tobias Brink	Oliver Söderström	Lestrup Racing Team
	R2				Tobias Brink	Tobias Brink	Tobias Brink	Brink Motorsport
	R3					Andreas Backman	Axel Bengtsson	Cupra Dealer Team – PWR Racing

Championship standings

This year's scoring system, with points now being handed to the top 15 finishers.^[1]

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Qualifying 2	5	4	3	2	1	colspan=10
Race	20	17	15	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Drivers' Championship

	Driver	LJU	SKE			KNU			GEL			AND			MAN			Pts
1	Robert Dahlgren	1¹	DSQ	7	1	1	1¹	1	2	8²	1	2	3⁴	2	3	4²	3	266
2	Tobias Brink	2³	3	6⁵	2	7	2⁵	7	5	3⁵	3	10	7⁵	1	2	1¹	7	228
3	Andreas Bäckman	5	1	5²	12	4	4²	2	3	5	2	1	1¹	6	Ret	6	2	222
4	Mattias Andersson	7	4	2¹	4	3	7	5	4	1¹	5	3	5	3	8	3⁵	5	217
5	Oliver Söderström	3²	2	3⁴	3	2	5⁴	6	1	Ret³	6	4	6	DSQ	1	2³	14	204
6	Axel Bengtsson	6	7	4	8	5	3³	4	7	4	7	5	4²	5	5	8	1	191
7	Hugo Nerman	4⁴	5	1	5	9	Ret	8	6	2⁴	9	8	2³	4	4	5⁴	4	188
8	Isac Aronsson	9⁵	6	8	6	8	8	Ret	13	9	10	6	13	12	6	9	6	112
9	Marius Solberg Hansen	Ret	8	9	7	6	6	3	9	Ret	8	7	8	13	9	14	10	109
10	Didrik Esbjug	11	11	10	10	12	10	9	8	7	4	14	12	8	11	10	9	96
11	Rasmus Hedberg	13	9	11	Ret	13	11	12	10	11	11	11	10	11	12	12	11	72
12	Calle Bergman	10	12	Ret³	9	Ret	9	11	DSQ	10	13	13	14	10	14	7	8	67
13	Christian Skaar	Ret	10	12	11	11	Ret	13	Ret	12	14	12	9	9	7	13	Ret	59
14	Dennis Strandberg	8	13	13	13	10	13	10	11	6	15	9	15	7	DNS	DNS	DSQ	52
15	Johan Lund					14	12	14	12	13	12	15	11	14	10	15	13	30
16	Erik Olsson Hermansson														13	11	12	12
17	Dejan Dragicevic	12																4

Bold – Pole
Italics – Fastest Lap
† — Did not finish, but classified

Notes and References

Web site: STCC introduces BTCC inspired weight, points system. TouringCarTimes. 22 December 2020. 12 June 2021.