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14 Aug 2008, 13:49 (Ref:2269051) | #1 | ||
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[STCC] Race 7 - Gelleråsen (SWE), 17 August 2008
The Swedish Touring Car Championship returns after the summerbreak of five weeks at Gelleråsen. This is the second time this year the STCC visits the track.
Last year Richard Göransson won the second Gelleråsen race ahead of reigning champion Fredrik Ekblom and his team mate Robin Rudholm. The race this weekend seems to be a wet one as several low pressures are passing Sweden at the moment. Who will win? Ekblom again? Göransson? Björk in the lightened Honda? Andersson in the fast Alfa? |
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I hope for an Alfa or Volvo win! They both deserve it.
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17 Aug 2008, 16:29 (Ref:2270570) | #4 | ||
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Björk wins, Ekblom second, Göransson third.
http://www.touringcartimes.com/news.php?id=2594 "I've never had to concentrate this hard during a race before. It is a great feeling to win on your home track," said a very happy Björk after the race. Very messy start, onboard video of it coming tomorrow. |
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17 Aug 2008, 19:21 (Ref:2270622) | #5 | |
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No surprise on the incidents in the first turn. It's been like that since they redesigned it a few years ago; it's just dumb, you always gets first lap incidents there.
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19 Aug 2008, 09:47 (Ref:2271436) | #6 | |
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19 Aug 2008, 13:32 (Ref:2271552) | #7 | ||
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Here is the onboard video showing, among other things, the messy start:
http://www.flashengineering.se/2008/...pa-gellerasen/ |
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Did anyone at the track see the incident between the Volvo and Mattias Andersson? The STCC web page erroneously claims that he lost his rear bumper in the kerfuffle in the first corner, but he had it when he came out of the pits in front of the Volvos. One lap later he was behind one of them, rear bumper missing.
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And anyone know what happend to Engström? All of a sudden he was on the grass with a rear wheel missing and the commentators didnt even notice it.
Good race tho, and good results for both Volvo and Andersson (who was my instructor at a track-day the weekend before btw). |
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So, how do we put forward the idea to replace everybody currently commentating on SVT in a nice way? And who will take over on track PA? Im sure the on track crowds will storm the building if they put somebody bad into his chair.
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22 Aug 2008, 09:06 (Ref:2273203) | #14 | ||
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I just saw the Flash-video on youtube. Clearly teamorders are in place at westcoast. When Goranson got out of the pits, he was passed by Bjork quikly after. The 2 then became stuck behind a very slow driving Rudholm, who let Bjork pass easily, but then blocked Goranson very hard a few times. Clearly WC is more afraid of Goranson.
The fact that Ekblom is the only top-driver who has a teammate capable of running in the thick of the fight makes him the favorite for the title, as ofcourse is his lead. |
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22 Aug 2008, 10:17 (Ref:2273242) | #15 | |
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While I agree that having a teammate at the front is advantage to Ekblom, I'm not completely convinced you interpreted the above situation correctly.
After all Björk pretty much pulled off the same move on Göransson the lap before. Coming out of the pits you just have so much lower speed than somebody coming down the straight that overtaking is almost unavoidable if you are close enough. Göransson to me just seemed to be too far behind, and once Robin got up to speed, he for sure isn't too far off the pace making him hard to pass with the same car. |
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Göransson was unable to pass him as he had problems with the car, well, not sure if Ekblom would have enabled him to get past even if he didn't have the problems though... But Göransson got 7 mm more toe out on his front wheels after the first corner incident which led to his car not performing as it should. |
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22 Aug 2008, 17:55 (Ref:2273483) | #17 | ||
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I just saw the complete race, and indeed I was wrong. Altogether it was a nice race, although the first half was a bit processional. But the Volvo's with their fantastic qualifyingpace and -drivers at the front held the first 5 nicely together with their higher tyrewear. If Volvo and Anderson didn't mess up their pitstops they could have made life more difficult for the 3 championshiprivals, so that was a shame.
Great race of Bjork, faultless and 1 very good passingmanouvre at just the right time. Ekblom did good to defend and later run away from Goranson. The rest of the field is really just 1 level lower. |
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