Anderstorp Raceway Explained

Anderstorp Raceway
Former Names:Scandinavian Raceway
Time:CET (UTC+1)
CEST (DST)
Location:Anderstorp, Sweden
Coordinates:57.2642°N 13.6014°W
Fia Grade:2
Events:Current:
PSC Scandinavia (2005–2007, 2015–present)
Former:
Formula One
Swedish Grand Prix (1973–1978)
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix (1971–1977, 1981–1990)
GT4 Scandinavia (2019, 2021–2023)
WTCC Race of Sweden (2007)
World SBK (1991, 1993)
FIM EWC (1993)
Sidecar World Championship (1981–1990, 1993, 1997)
STCC (1997–2000, 2005–2007, 2015–2022)
FIA GT (2002–2003)
ETCC (1985–1987, 2002–2003)
Layout1:Grand Prix Circuit (1998–present)
Length Km:4.025
Length Mi:2.501
Turns:8
Record Time:1:21.525
Record Driver: Marijn van Kalmthout
Record Car:Benetton B197
Record Year:2009
Record Class:EuroBOSS
Layout2:Grand Prix Circuit (1978–1997)
Length Km2:4.031
Length Mi2:2.505
Turns2:8
Record Time2:1:24.836
Record Driver2: Niki Lauda
Record Car2:Brabham BT46B
Record Year2:1978
Record Class2:F1
Layout3:Grand Prix Circuit (1975–1977)
Length Km3:4.018
Length Mi3:2.497
Turns3:8
Record Time3:1:27.607
Record Driver3: Mario Andretti
Record Car3:Lotus 78
Record Year3:1977
Record Class3:F1
Layout4:Original Grand Prix Circuit (1968–1974)
Length Km4:4.025
Length Mi4:2.501
Turns4:8
Record Time4:1:26.146
Record Driver4: Denny Hulme
Record Car4:McLaren M23
Record Year4:1973
Record Class4:F1

Anderstorp Raceway, previously known as Scandinavian Raceway, is a 4.025km (02.501miles) motorsport race track in Anderstorp (Gislaved Municipality), Sweden and the sole Nordic host of a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, when the Swedish Grand Prix was held for six years between 1973 and 1978.

Track history

The track was built on marshlands in 1968 and became an extremely popular venue in the 1970s, just as Swede Ronnie Peterson was at the height of his career. It has a long straight (called Flight Straight, which is also used as an aircraft runway), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise. Unusually, the pit lane is located halfway round the lap.

The raceway hosted six Formula One Swedish Grand Prix events in the 1970s. When Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson died during the 1978 Formula One season, public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end. The circuit is also noteworthy because it was the site of the first and only win of two unconventional F1 cars: the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 car in 1976 and the infamous Brabham 'fan car' in 1978.

Anderstorp also hosted the Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix in 1971–1977 and 1981–1990, the European Touring Car Championship in 1985–1987, the Superbike World Championship in 1991 and 1993, and the FIA GT Championship in 2002 and 2003.

In 1993, the circuit along with FIM organized a 24-hour motorcycle race. Just one week ahead of the race, an appeal was lodged against the permit for the competition, due to noise concerns. Although the organizers obtained permission to race on the morning of the event, "media had trumpeted that the competition was canceled. At the ferry berths in Skåne, passport staff turned away visitors from Denmark and the continent". During the race itself a heavy thunderstorm occurred, with torrential rain drowning the circuit. Although racing continued, no local or international audience showed up, and the circuit was forced to declare bankruptcy after the event.[1]

The FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) returned to Anderstorp in 2007, replacing the Istanbul Park in Turkey on the WTCC calendar. For the 2008 season however, it was replaced by the Imola Circuit.

International motorsport was due to return to Anderstorp in 2020 with a round of the DTM.[2] Then, it was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Events

Current
Former

Layout modifications

The circuit has been modified at least 4 times in its history. The chicane in Norra corner has been added sometime in 1975 before the 1975 Swedish Grand Prix.[3] The chicane has been re-aligned and tightened in time for the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix.[4] It had been modified again before the final Formula One Grand Prix run on the circuit (1978 Swedish Grand Prix), with modifications to the penultimate Norra corner and slight re-orientation of the following straight, which resulted in the length increase from 4.018km (02.497miles) [5] [6] to 4.031km (02.505miles).[7] It remained in that configuration through the 1980s until sometime between 1997 and 1998 it was modified again and slightly shortened to its present-day length of 4.025km (02.501miles).[8] [9]

Track variations:

Lap records

As of August 2022, the fastest official race lap records at the Anderstorp Raceway are listed as:

CategoryTimeDriverVehicleEventCircuit Map
Grand Prix Circuit: 4.025 km (1998–present)[10]
1:21.525[11]
1:24.920[12] 1998 Anderstorp International Sports Racing Series round
1:26.094[13] 2007 Anderstorp International Formula Master round
1:26.489[14] 2003 Anderstorp Formula Renault V6 Eurocup round
1:31.044[15] 1999 Anderstorp Nordic F3 round
1:31.424[16]
1:31.449[17] 2016 Anderstorp SMP F4 round
1:31.679[18] 2009 Anderstorp Formula Renault 2.0 Sweden round
1:32.604[19] 2022 2nd Anderstorp Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia round
1:32.902[20] 2012 Anderstorp Swedish GT round
1:34.081 2003 FIA GT Anderstorp 500km
1:34.274[21] 2016 Anderstorp STCC round
1:34.830[22] 2001 Anderstorp Nordic Challenge
1:37.057[23] 1999 1st Anderstorp STCC round
1:38.247[24] 2021 Anderstorp STCC round
1:38.459[25] 2022 1st Anderstorp GT4 Scandinavia round
1:39.945[26] 2003 Anderstorp ETCC round
1:43.080 2001 Anderstorp Nordic Challenge
Grand Prix Circuit: 4.031 km (1978–1997)
1:24.836
1:29.846[27] 1992 Anderstorp Swedish F3 round
1:30.344[28]
1:31.107 1990 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:33.480[29]
1:34.833 1990 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:40.113[30] 1997 Anderstorp STCC round
1:41.909 1990 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:44.564[31] 1986 Anderstorp ETCC round
Grand Prix Circuit: 4.018 km (1975–1977)
1:27.607
1:36.314[32] 1975 Anderstorp European F3 round
1:39.802 1977 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:42.281 1977 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:46.285
1:49.263 1976 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:58.444 1976 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
Original Grand Prix Circuit: 4.025 km (1968–1974)
1:26.146
1:31.300[33]
1:31.900[34] 1970 Anderstorp F5000 round
1:35.500[35] 1970 Anderstorp European 2-Litre Championship round
1:38.400[36] 1969 Anderstorp Sports Prototype race
1:38.800[37] 1972 Anderstorp Swedish F3 round
1:44.300 1974 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:44.500 1974 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:44.520[38] 1973 Swedish Grand Prix GT support race
1:47.700 1974 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
1:49.100[39] 1972 Anderstorp Swedish Sportscar round
1:52.000 1974 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
2:01.000 1974 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix

Airfield

Anderstorp Airfield
Icao:ESMP
Type:Private
Opened:1968
Elevation-M:155
R1-Number:04/22
R1-Length-M:1000
R1-Surface:Asphalt

In order to get more financiers the long straight was adopted as a 1000m (3,000feet) runway for small aircraft . It is open for aircraft operations.[40] There is also a helipad, planned for ambulance helicopters at racing accidents.

Notes

Contrary to common depiction of the 1978 modification as having a chicane introduced to the Norra corner, there was no chicane ever used: the corner was made slower by decreasing its radius and making it a sharper bend instead of a sweeping curve it was before.[41] [42] [43] [44]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1991–95 SRWanderstorp. live. 21 July 2021. www.srwanderstorp.se. https://web.archive.org/web/20201024170905/https://www.srwanderstorp.se/sv/arc/historik/1991-95/ . 2020-10-24 .
  2. News: Sweden joins expanded 2020 DTM schedule. Motorsport.com. 19 September 2019.
  3. The chicane is absent in Lantmäteriet Historic Orthophoto 1975 (from lantmateriet.se), but is reported in the contemporary race report in the Motorsport magazine: The Swedish Grand Prix . Motorsport . July 1975 . 717–720 . 2022-02-05.
  4. The Swedish Grand Prix . Motorsport . July 1976 . 765–768 . 2022-02-05.
  5. The Swedish Grand Prix . Motorsport . July 1973 . 735–737 . 2017-03-19.
  6. The Swedish Grand Prix . Motorsport . July 1977 . 795–796 . 2022-02-05.
  7. The Swedish Grand Prix . Motorsport . July 1978 . 935–936 . 2017-03-19.
  8. Web site: Anderstorp . 18 January 2022.
  9. Web site: WTCC Heat 2 Race . 2016-08-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160921001723/https://www.svenskracing.se/resultatlista.php?tavling=1356&heat=217&typ=heat2 . 2016-09-21 . dead .
  10. Web site: Anderstorp Motor Sport Magazine . . 24 April 2022.
  11. Web site: EuroBOSS Anderstorp Super Prix 2009 - EuroBOSS, Heat 2, 15 laps . 23 August 2009 . 25 December 2022.
  12. Web site: 1998 International Sports Racing Series Round Anderstorp . 16 August 1998 . 2 May 2022.
  13. Web site: 2007 Anderstorp Formula Master - Round 9 . . 28 July 2007 . 29 June 2022.
  14. Web site: 2003 Anderstorp Formula Renault V6 – Round 11 . . 6 September 2003 . 2 May 2022.
  15. Web site: 1999 Nordic F3 Anderstorp Race 2 . 20 June 1999 . 18 July 2022.
  16. Web site: 2003 FIA GT Championship Round Anderstorp . 7 September 2003 . 2 May 2022.
  17. Web site: 2016 SMP F4 NEZ Anderstorp Formula 4 Revision 1 - Final Results Race 1 . 3 September 2016 . 2 July 2022.
  18. Web site: EuroBOSS Anderstorp Super Prix 2009 - Formula Renault 2000, Heat 2, 15 laps . 23 August 2009 . 25 December 2022.
  19. Web site: 2022 Porsche Cup Scandinavia Anderstorp 2 (Race 3) . 5 August 2022 . 30 October 2022.
  20. Web site: 2012 Swedish GT Round Anderstorp Race . https://web.archive.org/web/20160921001915/https://www.svenskracing.se/resultatlista.php?tavling=352&heat=1127&typ=race . 2 June 2012 . 21 September 2016 . 20 August 2016 . live.
  21. Web site: STCC 2016 » Anderstorp Round 5 Results . 19 June 2016 . 24 April 2022.
  22. Web site: Euro GT Anderstorp 2001 . 26 August 2001 . 7 January 2023.
  23. Web site: Swedish Touring Car Championship 1999 » Anderstorp Round 7 Results . 20 June 1999 . 2 May 2022.
  24. Web site: TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship 2021 » Anderstorp Round 10 Results . 5 September 2021 . 24 April 2022.
  25. Web site: Porsche Carrera Cup Anderstorp 2022 - GT4 Scandinavia, Heat 1, 35 laps . 14 May 2022 . 25 December 2022.
  26. Web site: ETCC 2003 » Anderstorp Round 14 Results . 7 September 2003 . 24 April 2022.
  27. Web site: 1992 Swedish Formula 3 Anderstorp . 7 June 1992 . 10 June 2024.
  28. Web site: 1996 BPR Global GT Series Round Anderstorp . 14 July 1996 . 2 May 2022.
  29. Web site: 1993-08-06 to 1993-08-08 World Superbike Scandinavian Round . 8 August 1993 . 22 December 2022.
  30. Web site: Swedish Touring Car Championship 1997 » Anderstorp Round 5 Results . 8 June 1997 . 2 May 2022.
  31. Web site: 1986 Anderstorp 500 . 18 May 1986 . 2 May 2022.
  32. Web site: 1975 Anderstorp European F3 . . 8 June 1975 . 2 May 2022.
  33. Web site: Nordic Challenge Cup Anderstorp 1969 . 14 September 1969 . 7 January 2023.
  34. Web site: 1970 Anderstorp F5000 . . 28 June 1970 . 19 May 2022.
  35. Web site: Europamästerskap För 2L Sportvagnar Anderstorp . 7 June 1970 . 18 July 2022.
  36. Web site: Anderstorp [SP] 1969 ]. 29 June 1969 . 7 January 2023.
  37. Web site: 1972 Swedish Formula 3 Anderstorp . 7 May 1972 . 18 July 2022.
  38. Web site: Anderstorp [T/GT] 1973 ]. 17 June 1973 . 7 January 2023.
  39. Web site: SM Anderstorp [GT3.0] 1972 ]. 7 May 1972 . 7 January 2023.
  40. Web site: ANDERSTORP AIRFIELD ESMP . 2022-08-14 . 2022-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220814162859/https://www.srwanderstorp.se/en/airfield/ . dead .
  41. – on-board camera view
  42. – 1978 Grand Prix highlights
  43. – full coverage of the 1978 Grand Prix
  44. News: es . G.P. Suecia: ¿Andretti o Peterson? . Xavier . Ventura . 1978-06-15 . El Mundo Deportivo . 21 . 2017-06-04 . El difícil circuito de Anderstorp conoce este año una serie de cambios que pueden hacerlo más seguro pero también más difícil. La tradicional curva de la recta de salida ha sido modificada para convertirla en un ángulo recto de 90°... que puede tener importancia decisiva para la resolución de la carrera. Así mismo, nuevas barreras han mejorado las condiciones de seguridad del G.P. de Suecia de tal manera que ha recibido ya este circuito su homologación hasta 1981 por parte de la Federación Internacional..

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