TTA announces buy out of the Swedish Racing League
The Swedish Touring Car Team Association (TTA) has announced its plans for its championship season for next year, joining up with the Swedish Racing League and announcing a provisional calendar for 2012.
The breakaway series from the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC), presently formed of the teams Polestar Racing, Flash Engineering, Brovallen Design and WestCoast Racing, has bought the Swedish Racing League, which comprises of the present Swedish GT Series as well as the Ginetta G20 Cup and the Scandinavian Trofeo Abarth 500.
“We have along with SRL created a strong championship for Swedish racing where the core values of spectators, fast cars, sporting justice, design, green technology and entertainment gets back as main focus,” said Christian Dahl, TTA representative and Managing Director for Volvo Polestar Racing.
The touring series in the new SRL will be feature the TTA’s new concept, with 400bhp V6 engined cars with a hybrid KERS based system in a silhouette space-frame touring car. The cars will be based on large saloon cars such as the Volvo S60, Audi A4, BMW 3 series and Alfa Romeo 159.
The Swedish GT series features cars running to GT3 and GT4 regulations, and includes models such as the Audi R8, BMW Z4, Ferrari 458 & Porsche 911 GT Cup among others.
For the TTA series, 20 cars are currently being built and will be delivered to the teams over the winter break.
“Next up is further testing with our two concept cars and further development of the body shells in the wind tunnel,” said Jan ‘Flash’ Nilsson, MD at Flash Engineering. “The glow has at last returned for racing and the most exciting news is yet to be revealed.”
The affiliation with the TTA has been welcomed by the Swedish Racing League.
“We were convinced that there is a strong need for GT racing when we started SRL,” said Poker Wallenberg, SRL representative. “That the TTA teams has bought SRL strengthens my belief in that we made the right decision to start our series, something the number of participants this year also confirms. I am really proud that I am a part of starting this success that is going to be a part of TTA.”
The nine event provisional calendar for the 2012 SRL/TTA season will start at a yet to be confirmed location on April 28th, before going on to race at Karlskoga, Falkenberg, the Gothenburg street circuit and the Anderstorp raceway, where the FIA Formula 1 World Championship competed during the 70s. Anderstorp also held a round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship in 2007, where Chevrolet recorded their first double weekend victory in the championship.
Provisional Calendar TTA 2012
April 28th – TBC
May 12th – Karlskoga
June 2nd – Anderstorp
June 16th – Gothenburg
July 7th – Falkenberg
August 18th – Karlskoga
September 1st – Anderstorp
September 15th – TBC
September 29th – Gothenburg
