Shakedown of Super Touring Volvo
The Swedish Touring Car Championship team Flash Engineering has revived their 1999 Super Touring Volvo S40. The team completed a short shakedown at Gelleråsen in freezing conditions with Jan "Flash" Nilsson behind the wheel.
"These cars are completely awesome! I am so glad that I got the opportunity to compete with them during my racing career," said "Flash".
Flash Engineering ran the Volvo S40 between the years 1998 and 2002 which resulted in 10 wins and 29 podiums finishes.
"The Super Touring-rules produced great cars and great fights on the track. Almost nothing beats the Super Touring Volvo S40 with a perfect setup around the old Falkenberg-track," said "Flash".
But it seems that "Flash" and the Volvo S40 could be back on track next year, hunting for more wins. The team has announced their ambition to take part in the Silverstone Classic 2009 in the Super Touring-class.
"Our ambition is to take part in that race! It will be a perfect event in the middle of july to compete in the home country of Super Touring against all of the other legendary Super Touring-cars," said "Flash".
The race will be held on july 24-26th next year. New for 2009 is the Super Touring-class among all of the other classes. Around 40 cars have been preliminary entered for the race, see
www.supertouringregister.com for more information.
After the shakedown double Swedish Touring Car Championship champion "Flash" was longing back to the old Super Touring-days.
"The cars were excellent. It was too bad they killed the rules when they got too expensive instead of trying to keep them alive by modifying some simple points which would have helped a lot. The looks was right, the sound was right, the speed was right," said "Flash".
The Volvo S40 "Flash" is driving was used in STCC from 2000 to 2002. Before that it was run in the 1999 British Touring Car Championship by Rickard Rydell and Vincent Rademecker.
Flash Engineering made a short movie during the shakedown of the Volvo S40. The car had been more or less unused for five years, but fired up instantly as can be seen in the following movie, which features nine !!! onboard cameras in the car.
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( source touringcar times )