Base weights revealed for the STCC/DTC premiere

The base weight list for the Swedish Touring Car Championship and Danish Touring Car Championship has been released. The list features 28 cars with weights from 1190 kilos to 1120 kilos. The turbo charged bio-gas powered Volkswagen Scirocco’s of Kristoffersson Motorsport heads the weight list.

The Bauhaus Telesikring BMW 320si of Jan Magnussen and Casper Elgaard are second heaviest because of the 5-speed sequential gearbox (+15 kg), a gearbox not allowed for the STCC cars to use.

The STCC BMW’s of MA:GP/IPS, Flash Engineering and WestCoast Racing all get 1170 kilos with 5-speed H-box while the BMW 320si of Alternative Engineering get 1179 because of bio-ethanol (-6 kg).

The heaviest naturally aspirated front wheel driven car is the Chevrolet Cruze of Chevrolet Team Sweden at 1165 kilos. The bio-ethanol powered Volvo C30’s of reigning STCC champions Polestar Racing weigh in at 1159 kilos.

The nationally homologated Honda Accord’s of Hartmann Honda, with James Thompson and Tomas Engström, has got the base weight of 1155 kilos. That means that they get -5 kilos on the FWD base weight, compared to the +30 kilos on the base weight given by the FIA for the European Touring Car Championship.

The lightest car of the field is the SEAT Léon, 1120 kilos, of Jason Watt because of his handicap equipment.

Weight list for STCC/DTC 2010 premiere

Fredrik Ekblom – Team Biogas.se – Volkswagen Scirocco – 1190 kg
Patrik Olsson – Team Biogas.se – Volkswagen Scirocco – 1190 kg
Jan Magnussen – Bauhaus Telesikring – BMW 320si – 1185 kg
Casper Elgaard – Bauhaus Telesikring – BMW 320si – 1185 kg
Robert Schlünssen – Alternative Engineering – BMW 320si – 1179 kg
Andreas Ebbesson – Ebbesson Motorsport – BMW 320si – 1170 kg
Thed Björk – Flash Engineering – BMW 320si – 1170 kg
Jan “Flash” Nilsson – Flash Engineering – BMW 320si – 1170 kg
Johan Stureson – MA:GP/IPS – BMW 320si – 1170 kg
Richard Göransson – WestCoast Racing – BMW 320si – 1170 kg
Viktor Hallrup – Chevrolet Sweden – Chevrolet Cruze – 1165 kg
Kim Morgan Jensen – KC Motorsport – BMW 320i E46 – 1160 kg
Tommy Rustad – Polestar Racing – Volvo C30 – 1159 kg
Robert Dahlgren – Polestar Racing – Volvo C30 – 1159 kg
James Thompson – Hartmann Honda – Honda Accord – 1155 kg
Tomas Engström – Hartmann Honda – Honda Accord – 1155 kg
Claes Hoffsten – MECA – Alfa Romeo 156 – 1150 kg
Mattias Andersson – MA:GP/IPS – Alfa Romeo 156 – 1150 kg
Roger Eriksson – Ekström Junior Team – SEAT Léon – 1150 kg
Dick Sahlén – Ekström Junior Team – SEAT Léon – 1150 kg
Viktor Huggare – Huggare Racing – Opel Astra – 1140 kg
Jens Møller – Team FDM – SEAT Léon – 1140 kg
Kim Holgaard – Team FDM – SEAT Léon – 1140 kg
Robin Appelqvist – Appelqvist Racing – Alfa Romeo 156 – 1140 kg
Niels Christiansen – TBA – Toyota Corolla – 1130 kg
Ronnie Brandt – Mälarpower Motorsport – Volvo S60 – 1130 kg
Michael Carlsen – Carlsen Motorsport – Peugeot 407 – 1125 kg
Jason Watt – Team Bygma – SEAT Léon – 1120 kg