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Anderstorp Raceway

Anderstorp Raceway

Motorsport track in Sweden

Anderstorp Raceway, previously known as Scandinavian Raceway, is a 4.025 km (2.501 mi) motorsport race track in Anderstorp (Gislaved Municipality), Sweden and the sole Nordic host of a Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, when the Swedish Grand Prix was held for six years between 1973 and 1978.

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Track history

The track was built on marshlands in 1968 and became an extremely popular venue in the 1970s, just as Swede Ronnie Peterson was at the height of his career. It has a long straight (called Flight Straight, which is also used as an aircraft runway), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise. Unusually, the pit lane is located halfway round the lap.

The raceway hosted six Formula One Swedish Grand Prix events in the 1970s. When Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson died during the 1978 Formula One season, public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end. The circuit is also noteworthy because it was the site of the first and only win of two unconventional F1 cars: the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 car in 1976 and the infamous Brabham 'fan car' in 1978.

Anderstorp also hosted the Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix in 1971–1977 and 1981–1990, the European Touring Car Championship in 1985–1987, the Superbike World Championship in 1991 and 1993, and the FIA GT Championship in 2002 and 2003.

In 1993, the circuit along with FIM organized a 24-hour motorcycle race. Just one week ahead of the race, an appeal was lodged against the permit for the competition, due to noise concerns. Although the organizers obtained permission to race on the morning of the event, "media had trumpeted that the competition was canceled. At the ferry berths in Skåne, passport staff turned away visitors from Denmark and the continent". During the race itself a heavy thunderstorm occurred, with torrential rain drowning the circuit. Although racing continued, no local or international audience showed up, and the circuit was forced to declare bankruptcy after the event.[1]

The FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) returned to Anderstorp in 2007, replacing the Istanbul Park in Turkey on the WTCC calendar. For the 2008 season however, it was replaced by the Imola Circuit.

International motorsport was due to return to Anderstorp in 2020 with a round of the DTM.[2] Then, it was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Events

Current
Former

Layout modifications

The circuit has been modified at least 4 times in its history. The chicane in Norra corner has been added sometime in 1975 before the 1975 Swedish Grand Prix.[3][4][5] The chicane has been re-aligned and tightened in time for the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix.[6] It had been modified again before the final Formula One Grand Prix run on the circuit (1978 Swedish Grand Prix), with modifications to the penultimate Norra corner[N 2] and slight re-orientation of the following straight,[7] which resulted in the length increase from 4.018 km (2.497 mi) [8][9] to 4.031 km (2.505 mi).[10] It remained in that configuration through the 1980s[11] until sometime between 1997 and 1998 it was modified again and slightly shortened to its present-day length of 4.025 km (2.501 mi).[7][12]

Track variations:

  • 4.025 km (2.501 mi) – 1968–1974[7]
  • 4.018 km (2.497 mi) – 1975–1977[7]
  • 4.031 km (2.505 mi) – 1978–1997[7]
  • 4.025 km (2.501 mi) – 1998–present[7]

Lap records

As of August 2022, the fastest official race lap records at the Anderstorp Raceway are listed as:

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Airfield

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In order to get more financiers the long straight was adopted as a 1,000 m (3,300 ft) runway for small aircraft (ICAO: ESMP). It is as of 2022 open for aircraft operations.[41] There is also a helipad, planned for ambulance helicopters at racing accidents.

Notes

^[N 2] Contrary to common depiction of the 1978 modification as having a chicane introduced to the Norra corner, there was no chicane ever used: the corner was made slower by decreasing its radius and making it a sharper bend instead of a sweeping curve it was before.[42][43][44][45]

  1. Anderstorp Raceway's Grade 2 license expired 28 May 2021.

References

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    "Sweden joins expanded 2020 DTM schedule". Motorsport.com. 19 September 2019.
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    "The Swedish Grand Prix". Motorsport: 735–737. July 1973. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
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    "The Swedish Grand Prix". Motorsport: 935–936. July 1978. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
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    "WTCC Heat 2 Race". Archived from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-08-20.
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    "Swedish Touring Car Championship 1999 » Anderstorp Round 7 Results". Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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    "TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship 2021 » Anderstorp Round 10 Results". Retrieved 24 April 2022.
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    "1993-08-06 to 1993-08-08 World Superbike Scandinavian Round". Retrieved 22 December 2022.
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    ANDERSTORP AIRFIELD ESMP
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    Video on YouTube – on-board camera view
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    Video on YouTube – 1978 Grand Prix highlights
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    Video on YouTube – full coverage of the 1978 Grand Prix
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    Ventura, Xavier (1978-06-15). "G.P. Suecia: ¿Andretti o Peterson?". El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). p. 21. Retrieved 2017-06-04. El difícil circuito de Anderstorp conoce este año una serie de cambios que pueden hacerlo más seguro pero también más difícil. La tradicional curva de la recta de salida ha sido modificada para convertirla en un ángulo recto de 90°... que puede tener importancia decisiva para la resolución de la carrera. Así mismo, nuevas barreras han mejorado las condiciones de seguridad del G.P. de Suecia de tal manera que ha recibido ya este circuito su homologación hasta 1981 por parte de la Federación Internacional.
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