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Flash Engineering returns to the STCC Championship

Saab 9-3 STCC

Flash Engineering is a Swedish motorsport team based in Karlstad founded and owned by two-time Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) winner Jan “Flash” Nilsson. The most recent time the team won the STCC-title was in 2008 with driver Richard Göransson.

Flash Engineering Team entering in STCC with two cars (most likely Saab 9-3 STCC), with one driven by former Formula 1 test driver Björn Wirdheim, and also with Reuben Kressner and Linus Ohlsson.

.Saab 9-3 STCC TTA

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Flash Engineering Team drivers

Björn Wirdheim
36 years
From Växjö
Living in England
Main qualifications: Formula 3000 champion in 2003, a reserve and test driver for the Jaguar Formula 1 2004 team champion in the Super GT in Japan in 2014, European champion in the Le Mans Series LMP2 2015.

Reuben Kressner
19 years
From Stockholm
Live in Stockholm
Main qualifications: Podiums in the French Formula 4 and the Swedish Formula Renault 1.6 2015 Bronze Medalist in the Championship in karting, KF2, in 2013.

Linus Ohlsson
25 years
from Jönköping
Lives in Jonkoping
Main qualifications: Second in the TTA – Racing Elite League 2012, third in the Porsche Carrera Cup in 2011, champion in JTCC in 2009.

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Linus Ohlsson in Saab 9-3 STCC
Linus Ohlsson in Saab 9-3 STCC

 

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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