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NGTC back as regulations for STCC 2012

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The Scandinavian Touring Car Championship organizers have made a u-turn on the regulations and gone back to selecting the British NGTC regulations for introduction in 2012.
“These are regulations for the future,” said Bob Huzell, STCC MD.

The NGTC cars will be allowed from 2012 and will be run alongside the S2000 for one year until 2013 when NGTC will be the only type of cars allowed.

“The advantage is that the teams with new cars according to the old regulations can continue using them for another year at the same time as the teams wanting to go with the new NGTC car can do so, creating conditions for a good start field in the near future,” said Huzell.

STCC AB announced NGTC in october last year, only to a couple of months later pull them back from the website after negotiations with the STCC team organization TTA [Touring Car Teams Associated]. The teams of TTA put forward the French regulations Solution-F as their proposal for new regulations.

When STCC announced NGTC as regulations for 2012 in october last year, the plan was to perform a complete switch to NGTC, completely phasing out the S2000 cars the first year. The plan was also to run rear-wheel-driven cars only and a different type of engine with more horsepower.

This has been changed now and STCC states that they are going to run with the NGTC specifications completely unchanged.

“We feel that we have support from the car industry and it is an important condition for our position. The importers and resellers has got an decisive importance for the teams to run their business on a professional level,” said Huzell.

The STCC organization is hoping for the number of cars being built according to complete NGTC specification for the BTCC to increase ahead of 2012.

“Already this year Toyota and Audi are represented in the UK and next year another six to eight new cars are expected to be on the grid according to the new regulations and that is for sure going to make it easier for the Scandinavian teams to use them in STCC,” said Huzell.