The 2005 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 10th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total eight racing weekends at six different circuits were held; each round comprising three races, making a twenty-four round competition in total.
Changes for 2005 The race format of qualifying and two races per weekend were removed. Instead two short sprints would be raced, and the combined results of those two races would determine the grid for the third, longer race. Points were awarded to the top six grid positions for the long race (the six drivers that succeeded the most in the qualification races): 6-5-4-3-2-1. The longer race gave points by the system 20-17-14-11-9-7-5-3-2-1. Grid positions for the first qualification race was decided by randomly drawing the driver's starting numbers from a cup. This grid was then reversed for the second qualification race. The drawings were later replaced by a one-lap shootout for the quickest time after teams put pressure on the organisation. Extra ballast weight were given to the top four drivers of the championship and the top four long race winners by the system 1st: +20 kg, 2nd: +15 kg, 3rd: +10 kg and 4th: +5 kg. Maximum extra weight was set to 40 kg. Weight gained from the long race stayed for one weekend after the gaining of the weight and was then removed from the car. Tyres were limited to 20 slick tyres per weekend, whereof 8 of these 20 were allowed to be new tyres. TV coverage was extended, with Viasat Sport/ZTV covering three and a half hours live action from each race weekend STCC AB had a board change. Mike Luff, Sven-Göte Svensson, Håkan Junfors and Lars Frisell were replaced by Tommy Theorin, Joakim Wiedesheim and Christer Johansson.
Teams and drivers TeamCarDrivers Drivers' Championship West Coast Racing BMW 320i 1 Richard Göransson 11 Thed Björk Polestar Racing Volvo S60 2 Robert Dahlgren 7 Edward Sandström Kristoffersson Motorsport Audi A4 3 Fredrik Ekblom 8 Tommy Kristoffersson Flash Engineering BMW 320i 4 Jan Nilsson Opel Team Sweden Opel Astra 5 Tommy Rustad Engström Motorsport Honda Accord 6 Tomas Engström Honda Civic Type-R 9 Jens Hellström Team Agrol Honda Civic Type-R 10 Daniel Haglöf Mercedes-Benz Sport Mercedes C200 12 Tobias Johansson 14 Hans Simonsson Team Italienska Bil Alfa Romeo 156 20 Mattias Andersson IPS Motorsport Peugeot 407 21 Johan Stureson STCC Challenge Budda Racing Volvo S60 93 Patrik Andersson Gellerstedt Motorsport BMW 320i 94 Christer Gellerstedt Johansson Motorsport BMW 320 D E46 95 Håkan Johansson JN Racing BMW 320i 97 Johan Nilsson Team Gustavsson Volvo S60 98 Joakim Gustavsson Mälarpower Volvo S40 Evo 5 99 Ronnie Brandt
Race calendar and winners Round Circuit Date Winning driver Winning team 12 Ring Knutstorp 22 May Tommy RustadThed Björk Opel Team SwedenWest Coast Racing 34 Karlskoga Motorstadion 6 June Jan NilssonTomas Engström Flash EngineeringEngström Motorsport 56 Anderstorp 19 June Johan SturesonEdward Sandström IPS MotorsportPolestar Racing 78 Falkenbergs Motorbana 10 July Robert DahlgrenRobert Dahlgren Polestar RacingPolestar Racing 910 Ring Knutstorp 7 August Robert DahlgrenJohan Stureson Polestar RacingIPS Motorsport 1112 Karlskoga Motorstadion 21 August Fredrik EkblomThed Björk Kristoffersson MotorsportWest Coast Racing 1314 Våler 4 September Tomas EngströmRichard Göransson Engström MotorsportWest Coast Racing 1516 Mantorp 18 September Richard GöranssonRichard Göransson West Coast RacingWest Coast Racing
Championship results Championship standings Pos. Driver KNU GEL AND FAL KNU GEL GEL MAN Pts 1 Richard Göransson 2 8 8 2 3 2 1 1169 2 Thed Björk 1 3 3 6 DNS 1 2 3141 3 Johan Stureson 10 2 2 11 1 9 7 2117 4 Edward Sandström 4 9 1 4 5 DNS Ret 497 5 Tomas Engström 7 1 6 3 11 4 8 787 6 Fredrik Ekblom 5 5 10 5 4 3 Ret 1773 7 Robert Dahlgren 13 11 Ret 1 2 7 Ret 671 8 Tommy Rustad 3 Ret Ret 10 10 5 Ret 567 9 Jan Nilsson 9 4 14 7 6 10 4 849 10 Tommy Kristoffersson 6 10 5 9 8 8 3 1141 11 Daniel Haglöf 11 7 4 12 9 Ret 5 1030 12 Mattias Andersson 8 Ret 7 8 14 6 10 925 13 Jens Hellström 12 6 9 Ret 7 11 6 1221 14 Ronnie Brandt Ret Ret 16 16 14 9 162 15 Johan Nilsson 14 13 11 17 12 130 16 Christer Gellerstedt 140 17 Joakim Gustavsson 15 13 15 15 150 18 Tobias Johansson Ret 13 13 DNS Ret Ret0 19 Håkan Johansson Ret 13 DNS0 20 Hans Simonsson 12 14 12 DNS Ret DNS0 21 Patrik Andersson 120
Driver's championship Position Driver Points 1 Richard Göransson 169 2 Thed Björk 141 3 Johan Stureson 117 4 Edward Sandström 97 5 Tomas Engström 87 6 Fredrik Ekblom 73 7 Robert Dahlgren 71 8 Tommy Rustad 67 9 Jan Nilsson 49 10 Tommy Kristoffersson 41 11 Daniel Haglöf 30 12 Mattias Andersson 25 13 Jens Hellström 21 14 Ronnie Brandt 2
STCC Challenge Position Driver Points 1 Johan Nilsson 168 2 Ronnie Brandt 124 3 Joakim Gustavsson 97 4 Christer Gellerstedt 44 5 Håkan Johansson 26 6 Patrik Andersson 22
Manufacturer's championship Position Manufacturer Points 1 BMW 159 2 Peugeot 120 3 Volvo 120 4 Honda 115 5 Audi 104 6 Alfa Romeo 68
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