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Saab Dealer Team ditches STCC plans

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The Saab Dealer Team has decided to close down their planned programme for the Swedish Touring Car Championship.
“We are closing it down, there will not be anything of it,” said team boss Jan Warnestad to vf.se.

The team has completed a test program with a S2000 specification Saab 9-3, powered by a bio-gas engine. The plan was initially for the team to join the STCC for a full season in 2009, plans that has been postponed several times.

The fact that the STCC is moving towards new regulations for 2012, which are reported to be set before christmas, is one of the reasons for the team to ditch their STCC plans.

“The regulations makes it hard. It does not look like we are going to make it. You’ll never know what happens in the future, but as things are now we are closing it down,” said Warnestad.

TouringCarTimes visited the Saab Dealer Team during a test earlier this year at Karlskoga, as shown in the video below.