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The 2003 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 8th Swedish Touring Car Championship

Swedish Touring Car Championship

Swedish Touring Car Championship was a touring car racing series based in Sweden, but also with rounds in Norway. They began operating in 1996, heavily influenced by the British Touring Car Championship and the success of BTCC racing on Swedish television...

(STCC) season. In total eight racing weekends at four different circuits were held; each round comprising two races, making a sixteen-round competition in total.

Changes for 2003

The Supertouring regulations where removed and replaced with Super2000.
The pitstops were also removed
Each round were to consist of two races, with one sprint race of 15–25 minutes and one super-race approximately 15–30 minutes longer.
Qualifying was conducted by having a standard qualifying session followed by a one-lap Superpole for the 8 fastest drivers.
The top 15 finishers where awarded points: 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.

Teams and drivers

Driver	Nat.	Team	Car
Fredrik Ekblom Fredrik Ekblom Fredrik Ekblom is a Swedish race car driver from Kumla.-Career:He made 13 Indy Lights starts in 1992 and 1993. He then made three starts in CART for three different teams and was entered in the 1994 and 1995 Indianapolis 500 races, but after passing rookie orientation in 1994, he never appeared...	Sweden	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Audi A4
Tommy Kristoffersson Tommy Kristoffersson Tommy Kristoffersson is a Swedish race car driver. In the beginning of his career he competed in Rallycross for Audi before starting a team in the Swedish Touring Car Championship in 1998 running Audi A4 Quattros with himself as one of the drivers. Tommy Kristoffersson has competed for his team in...	Sweden	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Audi A4
Tobias Johansson	Sweden	Kristoffersson Motorsport	Audi A4
Jan Nilsson Jan Nilsson Jan "Flash" Nilsson is a Swedish racecar driver. He is most famous for his appearance in the Swedish Touring Car Championship, having appeared in all fourteen seasons and for being the second most victorious driver .- Early career :Jake Nilson started competing in Formula Ford in 1983 before...	Sweden	Flash Engineering Flash Engineering Flash Engineering is a Swedish motorsport team based in Karlstad founded and owned by two-time Swedish Touring Car Championship winner Jan "Flash" Nilsson. The most recent time the team won the STCC-title was in 2008 with driver Richard Göransson...	Volvo S60
Magnus Krokström	Sweden	Flash Engineering Flash Engineering Flash Engineering is a Swedish motorsport team based in Karlstad founded and owned by two-time Swedish Touring Car Championship winner Jan "Flash" Nilsson. The most recent time the team won the STCC-title was in 2008 with driver Richard Göransson...	Volvo S60
Nicklas Karlsson	Sweden	Euroracing	Alfa Romeo 156
Tomas Engström Tomas Engström Tomas Engström is a Swedish auto racing driver. He is married with three children. In the 1990s he dominated the Swedish Camaro Cup, winning five back to back titles between 1994 and 1998. Since then he has mainly competed in touring cars, driving in the Swedish Touring Car Championship since...	Sweden	Engström Motorsport Engström Motorsport Engström Motorsport is a Swedish motorsport team owned by its driver Tomas Engström.- Camaro Cup :The team started competing in the Swedish Camaro Cup series in 1991. After finishing runner-up in 1993 the team and Engström took five straight championship titles, the first in 1994 and the last in 1998...	Honda Civic Type-R
Richard Göransson Richard Göransson Richard Göransson is a Swedish auto racing driver, who currently competes in the Swedish Touring Car Championship for West Coast Racing in a BMW 320si, alongside team-mate Robin Rudholm.-Career:...	Sweden	West Coast Racing	BMW 320i
Mattias Andersson	Sweden	West Coast Racing	BMW 320i
Tommy Rustad Tommy Rustad Tommy Rustad is a Norwegian auto racing driver. He currently drives in the Swedish Touring Car Championship. Tommy is the son of former wellknown Norwegian racer Ola Rustad.-Early Years:...	Norway	Opel Team Sweden	Opel Astra
Carl Rosenblad Carl Rosenblad (racing driver) Carl "Calle" Rosenblad is a Swedish auto racing driver. He is married with two children.- Racing career :His first racing was in Swedish Formula Opel in 1990, where he drove for four seasons. He also drove in the Swedish Porsche Challenge and theEuropean Interseries from 1991...	Sweden	Crawford Racing	BMW 320i
Patrik Ernstsson	Sweden	Bakajev Motorsport	BMW 320i
Jan Brunstedt Jan Brunstedt Jan Brunstedt is an auto racing driver who competed in the 2008 Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia at the age of 59. He is also an airline pilot and managing director of Nordic Aero....	Sweden	Bakajev Motorsport	BMW 320i
Johan Stureson	Sweden	Podium SEAT Sport Team	SEAT Toledo
Robin Rudholm	Sweden	Podium SEAT Sport Team	SEAT Toledo
Jens Edman Jens Edman -Career:Most of his career has been spent in Touring car racing, including the Swedish Touring Car Championship, with a best season finish of third in 2001 driving for Flash Engineering in a Volvo S40. More recently he has competed in the Danish Touring Car Championship, where he also ended the...	Sweden	Peugeot Statoil Motorsport	Peugeot 307
Roger Möen Roger Möen Roger Möen is a Norwegian retired auto racing driver. He is best known for his two different spells racing in the British Touring Car Championship...	Norway	Vic Lee Racing	Peugeot 406 Coupé

Race calendar and winners

Round	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning team
1 2	Falkenbergs Motorbana Falkenbergs Motorbana Falkenbergs Motorbana is a motor racing circuit at Bergagård, Sweden. The circuit was opened in 1967, as a replacement for Skreabanan, and is currently owned and run by Falkenbergs Motorklubb. A chicane was added on the first corner in 2004 to improve safety on the relatively fast track...	4 May	Fredrik Ekblom Richard Göransson	Kristoffersson Motorsport West Coast Racing
3 4	Mantorp Park Mantorp Park Mantorp Park is a motor racing circuit near the town of Mantorp in Mjölby Municipality, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1969 with finance from BP Sweden as a permanent road course and a drag strip...	18 May	Jan Nilsson Fredrik Ekblom	Flash Engineering Kristoffersson Motorsport
5 6	Karlskoga Motorstadion Karlskoga Motorstadion Karlskoga Motorstadion, also known as Gelleråsen is the oldest permanent racing facility in Sweden.The circuit is located 6 km north of Karlskoga.The layout is such that the whole track can be seen from all spectator areas....	9 June	Richard Göransson Tomas Engström	West Coast Racing Engström Motorsport
7 8	Falkenbergs Motorbana Falkenbergs Motorbana Falkenbergs Motorbana is a motor racing circuit at Bergagård, Sweden. The circuit was opened in 1967, as a replacement for Skreabanan, and is currently owned and run by Falkenbergs Motorklubb. A chicane was added on the first corner in 2004 to improve safety on the relatively fast track...	6 July	Jan Nilsson Patrik Ernstsson	Flash Engineering Bakajev Motorsport
9 10	Ring Knutstorp Ring Knutstorp Ring Knutstorp is a motor racing circuit in Kågeröd, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1963 and extended to its present configuration in 1970. During the seventies, rounds of the Formula Three European Cup were held at the circuit, with winners including Alain Prost...	20 July	Richard Göransson Jan Nilsson	West Coast Racing Flash Engineering
11 12	Karlskoga Motorstadion Karlskoga Motorstadion Karlskoga Motorstadion, also known as Gelleråsen is the oldest permanent racing facility in Sweden.The circuit is located 6 km north of Karlskoga.The layout is such that the whole track can be seen from all spectator areas....	17 August	Richard Göransson Carl Rosenblad	West Coast Racing Crawford Racing
13 14	Ring Knutstorp Ring Knutstorp Ring Knutstorp is a motor racing circuit in Kågeröd, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1963 and extended to its present configuration in 1970. During the seventies, rounds of the Formula Three European Cup were held at the circuit, with winners including Alain Prost...	31 August	Tommy Rustad Jan Nilsson	Opel Team Sweden Flash Engineering
15 16	Mantorp Park Mantorp Park Mantorp Park is a motor racing circuit near the town of Mantorp in Mjölby Municipality, Sweden. The circuit was built in 1969 with finance from BP Sweden as a permanent road course and a drag strip...	18 September	Richard Göransson Nicklas Karlsson	West Coast Racing Euroracing

Driver's championship

Position	Driver	Points
1	Fredrik Ekblom	224
2	Jan Nilsson	214
3	Tomas Engström	168
4	Tommy Rustad	161
5	Richard Göransson	148
6	Tobias Johansson	140
7	Tommy Kristoffersson	139
8	Carl Rosenblad	130
9	Nicklas Karlsson	127
10	Patrik Ernstsson	116
11	Johan Stureson	106
12	Magnus Krokström	99
13	Mattias Andersson	93
14	Robin Rudholm	86
15	Jan Brunstedt	78
16	Jens Edman	17
17	Roger Moen	6

Manufacturer's Championship

Position	Manufacturer	Points
1	Volvo	242
2	Audi	240
3	BMW	229
4	SEAT	184
5	Honda	181

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