Super touring car
As Super touring cars are touring car referred to by the class 2 regulations of the FIA are constructed. In the 1990s, it was a very successful set of regulations for near-series touring cars with 2 l displacement , which were used in many national racing series.
The super touring cars began in 1990 in the British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ). From 1994 the FIA announced these regulations internationally as class 2 regulations below the class 1 regulations . While the elaborate class 1 racing cars were only used in the German Touring Car Championship (discontinued in 1996), they were driven in various national championships according to the class 2 regulations. In the years between 1993 and 1995, a Touring Car World Cup was even proclaimed for super touring cars.
However, the rules also allowed or required extensive conversions of the super touring cars, which could not be seen from the outside. Since the racing cars were as narrow as production cars, the space for the large racing tires or for lowering had to be created by laboriously welding around the inner fenders .
Since there were conflicts with the factory involved manufacturers over the classification and development of the vehicles in several national series, this led to special rules in the respective countries. However, these conversions were mostly not allowed in other super touring car racing series. The constant further development of aerodynamics and the introduction of telemetry caused the costs of a super touring car to rise enormously. You had to make extensive use of the small scope for regulation. A Vauxhall Cavalier cost £ 60,000 in 1990, a comparable car cost £ 250,000 in the late 1990s.
With the new millennium, the super touring cars had disappeared from most national racing series. Internationally, the FIA once again announced a European Touring Car Championship in 2001 , which this year used the super touring car regulations as a transition. In the course of 2001, however, a new touring car regulation was drawn up with several manufacturers, which should become the legitimate successor to the super touring cars. The result was the Super 2000 regulations , which have been used since 2002 in the European Touring Car Championship and the World Touring Car Championship as well as in various national racing series.
| International touring car regulations | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| class 1 | DTM | ITC | DTM | DTM / Super GT | DTM / Super GT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd grade | BTCC | u. a. ETCC , Touring Car World Cup , Super Touring Car Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TC1 | WTCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TC2 | u. a. WTCC , ETCC , BTCC , DPM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TCR (TCN-2) | including TCR | including WTCR , ETCC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Super touring car racing series
| Super touring car racing series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| British Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Championnat de France de Supertourisme | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italian Superturismo Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Touring Car World Cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Super touring car cup | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South African Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spanish Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian Super Touring Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Swedish Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South East Asian Touring Car Challenge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North American Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Touring Car Championship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||