Camaro Cup

Camaro Cup, officially the Camaro Cup 2000, is a Swedish-based stock car racing series using Chevrolet Camaro Z28s.

2006 Camaro Cup car

History

2006 Camaro Cup car interior

Two Fourth-generation Camaro Cup Cars on the starting grid.

Boo Brasta's 1978/1979 season Camaro

Marcus Larsson's Chevrolet Camaro Gen-4 at Falkenbergs Motorbana in 2010

Mikael Eklund's Chevrolet Camaro Gen-5 at Falkenbergs Motorbana in 2010

The idea about an American class in Swedish racing was born by the SSK acting director Robin Shorter in 1974. He spread his idea to active racers and to dealers selling American car brands. Work was begun by a group of people, including Shorter, Sven Hjansons, Picko Troberg and Göran Boström, to start a series called the Woodhead Super Star Cup. The first season was held in 1975 and was won by Bo "Emma" Emanuelsson, who also won the first ever race of the championship, held at the SSK premiere at Kinnekulle Ring. The series continued for several more seasons and had a couple of famous drivers including Swedish Formula One driver Reine Wisell. 1982 saw the class being changed into the Swedish Super Saloon championship and it was opened for other manufacturers.
Super Saloon was a somewhat extreme championship concerning the cars participating - e.g. Volkswagens and Porsches with double turbos. Some of the old Camaro Cup drivers stayed, including two-times champion Peter Norlander who won the premiere in a space frame Camaro. In 1988 Camaro Cup was resumed, with Boström being one of the driving forces behind the series' resumption. Between 1994-1998 the series was dominated by Thomas Engström, winning five driver's titles.
The first cars of the current generation of Camaro Cup cars took to the track in 1999. The old cars were phased out during 2000, when two classes (one with the new cars and one with the old cars) was run. Some of the old cup cars later found a new home in the V8 Challenge championship organized by the Swedish Long-distance Championship (SLC). During 2000 the series was called Super Stock Racing.

Camaro Cup had for several years run as a support series to the Swedish Touring Car Championship, but in 2004 it was axed and was forced to return to its SSK roots. The 2005 season was a miserable one, with an average of six cars per weekend, and the grid never made it over seven cars. To bolster the number of starters other SSK classes were added, including old Super Touring cars such as the Audi A4 Quattro and BMW 320i.
2006 saw the series somewhat return to its former glory. It returned as a part of the STCC program, and grid sizes increased to around 20 cars again. Several notable drivers made guest appearances, including ex-F1 test driver and current Formula Nippon driver Björn Wirdheim, OMV Kronos Citroën WRC driver Daniel Carlsson, Junior WRC champion Per-Gunner Andersson and STCC driver Edward Sandström. As of February 2006, 24 cars have confirmed their entry for the full 2007 season.

Games

Camaro Cup is one of the two available championships (along with STCC) in the Digital Illusions, CE. PC game STCC 2. It is also included in SimBin Studios's game STCC – The Game (2008 season) and will be included in STCC – The Game 2 (2010 season).

Champions

Season	Champion
1975	Bo "Emma" Emanuelsson
1976	Ulf Granberg
1977	Bo "Emma" Emanuelsson
1978	Ulf Granberg
1979	Peter Norlander
1980	Peter Norlander
1981	Ulf "Rökar'n" Larsson
1988	Anders Berggren
1989	Greger Kronegård
1990	Greger Kronegård
1991	Greger Kronegård
1992	Anders Hultqvist
1993	Anders Hultqvist
1994	Tomas Engström
1995	Tomas Engström
1996	Tomas Engström
1997	Tomas Engström
1998	Tomas Engström
1999	Göran Boström
	Markus Lundström (Classic)
2000	Thomas Nielsen
	Jörgen Eriksson (Classic)
2001	Ole Martin Lindum
2002	Ole Martin Lindum
2003	Kristoffer Lundström
2004	Kristoffer Lundström
2005	Ole Martin Lindum
2006	Ole Martin Lindum
2007	Anders Brofalk
2008	Anders Brofalk
2009	Ole Martin Lindum
2010	Tomas Engström
2011	Thed Björk
2012	Tobias Brink
2013	Fredrik Ros

References

External links

• Official website