Statistics of the top six of the STCC 2007

The Swedish Touring Car Championship 2007 ended for little over a week ago. Fredrik Ekblom was crowned champion ahead of Robert Dahlgren and Richard Göransson. Flash Engineering took the team title ahead of WestCoast Racing and KMS. While the point tables show one thing we have gathered a big list of other statistics that show another picture.

We have gathered statistics of the top six of the championship – Fredrik Ekblom, Robert Dahlgren, Richard Göransson, Thed Björk, Jan Nilsson and Robin Rudholm. These six drivers proved during the season to be the drivers fighting for the title. In this article you will find number of wins, pitstop average, number of positions gained per race, percentage of retired races and much more.

Number of wins:

Richard Göransson who finished third in the championship tops this list with three wins ahead of champion Ekblom. Despite Göransson taking more wins, the consistency of Ekblom got him the extra points he needed.

Göransson: 3
Ekblom: 2
Dahlgren: 2
Björk: 1
Rudholm: 1
Nilsson: 0

Podium percentage:

This list follows the final championship order very close with champion Ekblom positioning him self on the podium in more than half of the races this year.

Ekblom: 55%
Dahlgren: 36%
Göransson: 36%
Björk: 36%
Rudholm: 27%
Nilsson: 18%

Top five percentage:

This order matches the championship order exactly with Ekblom being in top five 72% of the races and Dahlgren following close behind. Rudholm only managed to get in to the top five in 36% of the races due to his many retirements.

Ekblom: 72%
Dahlgren: 64%
Göransson: 55%
Björk: 55%
Nilsson: 46%
Rudholm: 36%

Top ten percentage:

This list is much closer with Dahlgren managing to get in to the top ten in an equal number of races as champion Ekblom.

Ekblom: 81%
Dahlgren: 81%
Göransson: 72%
Björk: 73%
Nilsson: 73%
Rudholm: 55%

Reliability:

Champion Ekblom continues his fine statistics and managed to cross the finish line in all races but the final one where he was out in the first corner.

Ekblom: 91%
Dahlgren: 82%
Göransson: 73%
Nilsson: 73%
Björk: 73%
Rudholm: 55%

Fastest laps:

Göransson maintains his role as the quickest driver in the races with four fastest laps, the double compared to his closest opponent Rudholm.

Göransson: 4
Rudholm: 2
Björk: 1
Nilsson: 1
Ekblom: 1
Dahlgren: 0

Pitstops:

The very important pitstops is hard to calculate an average of. Only Audi-driver Thed Björk completed all eleven pitstops while the other drivers missed one stop or more. Best of the drivers with eight or more pitstops was Volvo’s Robert Dahlgren with 9,233 seconds in average. Robin Rudholm only managed six stops and his average time is a bit hard to compare with the others.

The record time this year was of the Volvo team with Robert Dahlgren at 7,45 seconds.

Click here for a short film of an STCC-pitstop is shown in this video where the camera is mounted on the helmet of the pitstop crew.

Dahlgren: 9,233 – 8/11
Ekblom: 9,607 – 10/11
Nilsson: 9,929 – 10/11
Göransson: 10,128 – 8/11
Björk: 10,725 – 11/11

Rudholm: 9,117 – 6/11

Qualifying average:

Ekblom was the best driver during qualifying with an average qualifying position of 3,2. Rudholm and Göransson are put separate as they missed the qualifying session at the premiere race due to a crash.

Ekblom: 3,2
Björk: 3,4
Dahlgren: 3,9
Nilsson: 7,4

Rudholm: 3,5 (10 q)
Göransson: 4,4 (10 q)

Pole Positions:

Robert Dahlgren was the best driver during the Super Pole with three poles. Other than that there was few pole positions among the top six of the championship.

Dahlgren: 3
Nilsson: 1
Ekblom: 1
Björk: 1
Göransson: 0
Rudholm: 0

Pole Positions before Super Pole:

If the qualifying session, that determines the top eight that gets to drive the Super Pole, before the Super Pole was used for the grid order the number of Pole Positions for top six would have looked differently. Ekblom lost two poles going to the Super Pole sessions, just as Nilsson. Dahlgren on the other hand gained two pole positions in the Super Pole.

Ekblom: 3
Nilsson: 2
Göransson: 1
Dahlgren: 1
Rudholm: 1
Björk: 0

Passing average:

Here Nilsson compensates for his poor qualifying average. In each race he gained 3.63 positions from his starting position while his closest opponent, Björk, took 0.88 positions in average.

Champion Ekblom on the other had did often not need to gain that many positions due to his good starting positions and holds an average of 0 positions gained.

Nilsson: 3.63
Björk: 0.88
Dahlgren: 0.67
Göransson: 0.38
Rudholm: 0.33
Ekblom: 0