Flash Engineering is a Swedish motorsport team based in Karlstad founded and owned by

Swedish Touring Car Championship Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) was a touring car racing series based in Sweden, but also with rounds in Norway. They began operating in 1996, heavily influenced by the British Touring Car Championship and the success of BTCC racing on Sw ...

(STCC) winner Jan "Flash" Nilsson. The most recent time the team won the STCC-title was in 2008 with driver

Richard Göransson Richard Göransson (born 8 August 1978 in Örebro) is a Swedish auto racing driver. He is a 4-time champion of the Swedish Touring Car Championship winning it for West Coast Racing in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2010. He won the Scandinavian Touring Car ...

. Flash Engineering was affiliated with

Volvo The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distributio ...

until 2005, when Nilsson sold the team to Christian Dahl, and reincorporated it as a new, independent racing team, running BMW and Porsche cars. Flash Engineering won the STCC-title in 2008 with

. Jan Nilsson won the STCC in its inaugural season (1996), as well as 1997. Fredrik Ros won the 2006 Porsche Carrera Cup for Flash Engineering.

History

The Swedish Touring Car Championship was created in 1996 as a copy of the

British Touring Car Championship The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA. It was established in 1958 as the British Saloon Car Championship and was renamed as ...

. Nilsson founded Flash Engineering that year to compete in the championship. Volvo, which had been competing in the BTCC since 1994, partnered with the newly founded Halmstad-based racing team, and provided financial support and the cars. The team initially raced a

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, and moved to a S40 in 1998. In 2000, the team moved to Karlstad. The team raced a

Volvo S60 The Volvo Group ( sv, Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing corporation headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distributio ...

from 2001 through the 2004 season. In 2005, Nilsson sold the team to Christian Dahl, who named it

Polestar Racing Cyan Racing is the official motorsport partner to Geely Group Motorsport, formerly the Volvo factory auto racing team, and runs the FIA WTCR programme for Lynk & Co, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The team’s current drivers are Thed Björk, Yv ...

. Nilsson kept the name "Flash Engineering" and formed a new, independent team, driving a BMW 3 Series. Porsche appointed Flash Engineering as promoter for the one make-series Carrera Cup Scandinavia in 2005. The team added a second car for

in 2006, and was replaced by

Thed Björk Thed Björk (born 14 December 1980 in Vretstorp, Örebro) is a Swedish racing driver, and 2017 World Touring Car Champion. Other notable titles include the 2006 Swedish Touring Car Championship and the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Scandinavian Touring ...

in 2009. Björk finished fifth in 2010 and second overall in 2009 on the same points at champion

Tommy Rustad Tommy Rustad (born 3 September 1968, in Oslo) is a Norwegian auto racing driver. He currently drives in the FIA European Rallycross Championship and occasionally in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. Tommy is the son of former well known Norwe ...

after a controversial finish to the season. The team also races a

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Cup in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia, driven by

Prince Carl Philip A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...

of Sweden who is a licensed race driver, one Porsche for Norwegian Roar Lindland and one Porsche shared by Linus Ohlsson and Matte Karlsson. Carl Philip Bernadotte driving a Porsche Carrera

Carl Philip Bernadotte driving a Porsche Carrera

For 2011, Björk was replaced by BTCC 2009 champion

Colin Turkington Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a British racing driver from Northern Ireland who competes in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW. He is a 4 time BTCC champion, winning the title in 2009, 2014, 2018 and 2019, havi ...

. The 28-year-old is going to drive a BMW 320si alongside teammate and team owner Jan "Flash" Nilsson. The team is also going to run three cars in Carrera Cup Scandinavia for Price Carl Philip, Roar Lindland and Matte Karlsson. Flash co-founded the

TTA – Racing Elite League TTA – Racing Elite League was a Swedish Touring Car Championship started in 2012, founded by four of the biggest teams in Swedish Touring Car racing; Polestar Racing, Flash Engineering, WestCoast Racing and Brovallen Design in 2011. TTA works ...

in 2012, entering two Saab 9-3 for Robin Rudholm and Mattias Andersson. After poor results, Nilsson closed the team. The team returned for the 2016 STCC season with drivers

Björn Wirdheim Björn Karl Michael Wirdheim (born 4 April 1980) is a Swedish professional racing driver. He is the son of Örnulf Wirdheim, also a racing driver. Björn began racing karts, competing in his first race, at the age of 10. His main achievement to ...

, Reuben Kressner and Linus Ohlsson. Wirdheim and Reuben Kressner drove Saabs, whereas Ohlsson drove a Nissan. The team left the STCC for 2017.

Carrera Cup Scandinavia

Flash Engineering is the official organiser of the Porsche one-make series Carrera Cup Scandinavia and the official Scandinavian Porsche Motorsport dealer. The team took over the series in 2005 when the series was close to bankruptcy. In 2009 the series became the biggest Carrera Cup-series in the world with 35 entries.

References

External links

* {{in lang, sv Swedish auto racing teams Swedish Touring Car Championship Porsche Supercup teams Auto racing teams established in 1996