Super Touring Car Cup
The Super Touring Car Cup, or STW for short , was a racing series for touring cars that was held from 1994 to 1999, and from 1998 as the German Super Touring Car Championship.
Racing series
After both Audi and BMW withdrew from the German Touring Car Championship at the factory in 1992 and the DTM introduced new rules for expensive class 1 racing cars for 1993, a top German racing series was required for the previous series-based touring cars .
The Super Touring Car Cup or the STW fulfilled this task until 1999 for vehicles of the class 2 regulations with a displacement of two liters. There was a wide variety of brands, including Alfa Romeo , Audi , BMW , Ford , Nissan , Honda , Peugeot and Opel .
However, the rules also permitted or required extensive modifications that could not be seen from the outside. Since the racing cars were as narrow as production cars, the space for the large racing tires had to be created by laboriously welding around the inner fenders. This also caused conflicts later with the continued use of former STW racing cars in the VLN .
From the factory, Opel switched back to the new DTM, the German Touring Car Masters, from 2000 . Nationally, the STW was continued with its substructure, the German Touring Car Challenge (DTC) and the current ADAC Procar series . Internationally there was the comparable European touring car championship and from 2005 the world touring car championship .
driver
There were with Emanuele Pirro , Dieter Quester , Thierry Boutsen , Ivan Capelli , Hans-Joachim Stuck , Johnny Cecotto , Joachim Winkelhock , Michael Bartels , Riccardo Patrese , David Brabham , Enrico Bertaggia , Karl Wendlinger , Christian Danner , Stefano Modena , Gabriele Tarquini and Nicola Larini also started some former Formula 1 drivers in the STW. With Yolanda Surer , Claudia Hürtgen and Tamara Vidali , three women also drove in this series.
Overall winner
| year | driver | vehicle |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 |
.svg){kind=small} Johnny Cecotto
|
BMW 318i |
| 1995 |
 Joachim Winkelhock
|
BMW 320i |
| 1996 |
 Emanuele Pirro
|
Audi A4 |
| 1997 |
 Laurent Aïello
|
Peugeot 406 |
| 1998 |
Johnny Cecotto
|
BMW 320i |
| 1999 |
Christian Dept.
|
Audi A4 |