The Swedish GT weekend at Anderstorp was expected to be tough for the Polestar Cyan Racing duo of Prince Carl Philip and Nicky Catsburg and turned out to be so, with the title hope only mathematical ahead of the season finale.
Catsburg, who never before had driven the car nor the track, started the weekend strongly by qualifying second, despite lacking over 250 horsepower compared to the main Ferrari rivals on the long straights of the former F1 circuit.
The duo was fighting for a podium finish in the first and second race, but unfortunately had to retire from both.
“I am happy with our pace this weekend, especially in qualifying where we were closer than we expected to our competitors. It was of course unfortunate with two retirements, but that is racing sometimes and we were fighting for the podium which is a positive for the team to take home from this weekend,” said Nicky Catsburg.
“I am disappointed, this weekend did not turn out as we wanted. We will head to the next race at Mantorp Park without any pressure as the title is more or less out of our reach and just try to score the best possible result,” said Prince Carl Philip.
Prince Carl Philip trails the championship leading Ferrari duo of Fredrik Larsson and Ingvar Mattsson by 48 points with 50 remaining to be fought for in the final race weekend of the year.
“We have had better race weekends but also worse ones. Important in situations like these is to just keep pushing and we will. Our ambition for the season finale is get back on top with at least one victory,” said Alexander Murdzevski Schedvin, Head of Motorsport at Polestar.
The Swedish GT season finale takes place at Mantorp Park in two weeks: http://swegt.polestar.com
Swedish GT Anderstorp
Circuit: Anderstorp
Length: 4025 m
Lap record (STCC): 1:34.274 (Kristoffersson)
Results
Race 1 – Top 5
1 Larsson/Mattsson Ferrari 488 19 laps
2 Kressner/Tidstrand Ferrari 488 +22.430
3 Palm/Eriksson Porsche 911 GT3 Cup +49.912
4 Blomqvist/Blomqvist Porsche 911 GT3 Cup +50.393
5 Baron/Lindroth Ferrari 458 +51.322
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13 Catsburg/Bernadotte Volvo S60 +3 laps
Race 2 – Top 5
1 Mattsson/Larsson Ferrari 488 16 laps
2 Lindroth/Baron Ferrari 458 +25.472
3 Tidstrand/Kressner Ferrari 488 +26.125
4 Hobohm/Santoponte Ferrari 458 +26.526
5 Eriksson/Palm Porsche 911 GT3 Cup +26.896
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DNF Bernadotte/Catsburg Volvo S60
Qualifying 1 – Top 5
1 Fredrik Larsson Ferrari 488 1:33.585
2 Nicky Catsburg Volvo S60 +0.399
3 Reuben Kressner +0.688
4 Jan Brunstedt Audi R8 LMS Ultra +0.718
5 Oscar Palm Porsche 911 GT3 Cup +1.238
Qualifying 2 – Top 5
1 Ingvar Mattsson Ferrari 488 1:34.807
2 Jan Brunstedt Audi R8 LMS Ultra +1.080
3 Mats Ek Tidstrand Ferrari 458 +1.200
4 Ronny Jensen Ferrari 488 +2.272
5 Carl Philip Bernadotte Volvo S60 +2.530
Championship standings
GTA – Top 5
1 Fredrik Larsson Ferrari 488 163 points
1 Ingvar Mattsson Ferrari 488 163 points
3 Carl Philip Bernadotte Volvo S60 115 (-48)
3 Jan Brunstedt Audi R8 LMS Ultra 115 (-48)
5 Thed Björk Volvo S60 89 (-74)
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19 Nicky Catsburg Volvo S60 8 (-155)
2017 Swedish GT Entry List
No – Driver – Team – Car
GTA Class
7 – Kari Mäkinen – Euroracing – Ferrari 458
7 – Oscar Krüger – Euroracing – Ferrari 458
11 – Toni Persic – TPR Motorsport – Chevrolet Camaro
13 – Carl Philip Bernadotte – Polestar Cyan Racing – Volvo S60
13 – Nicky Catsburg – Polestar Cyan Racing – Volvo S60
25 – Peter Eriksson – TBA – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
45 – Krister Andero – TBA – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
67 – Erik Hjeltman – Brovallen Design – Ford Mondeo
98 – Jan Brunstedt – JB Motorsport – Audi R8 LMS Ultra
99 – Ingvar Mattsson – Mattsson Motorsport – Ferrari 488
99 – Fredrik Larsson – Mattsson Motorsport – Ferrari 488
GTB Class
20 – Philip Morin – Mtech Competition – Porsche Cayman GT4
20 – Linus Pröjtz – Mtech Competition – Porsche Cayman GT4
21 – Håkan Ricknäs – Ricknäs Motorsport – Porsche Cayman GT4
21 – Thomas Martinson – Ricknäs Motorsport – Porsche Cayman GT4
31 – Hans Söderholm – Ricknäs Motorsport – Porsche 911 GT4
31 – Marcus Söderholm – Ricknäs Motorsport – Porsche 911 GT4
45 – Krister Andero – TBA – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
50 – Thomas Belfrage – Euroracing – Ferrari 360
51 – Peter Larsen – Primus Racing – Ginetta G55
51 – Johan Rosén – Primus Racing – Ginetta G55
60 – Franck Århage – Århage Racing – Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
65 – Bror Ellfolk – TBA – Ginetta G55
65 – Niclas Lindström – TBA – Ginetta G55
88 – Erik Behrens – Alfab Racing – McLaren 570S
88 – Daniel Roos – Alfab Racing – McLaren 570S
2017 Swedish GT Calendar
Date Circuit Country
04-06 May Knutstorp Sweden
07-09 July Falkenberg Sweden
11-13 August Karlskoga Sweden
01-03 September Anderstorp Sweden
14-16 September Mantorp Park Sweden
Contact Details
Johan Meissner, Press Manager
+46(0)70 241 3234
About Polestar
Polestar is Volvo Car Group’s performance road car brand and was founded by Polestar Racing, today known as Cyan Racing. Polestar’s birth was a result of Cyan Racing’s race engineers desire to explore how technology behind the multiple title-winning success in racing could be applied to the performance of road going Volvo cars, on all roads and conditions in everyday life. The first road-going performance Concepts were launched in 2010 and the first performance cars, based on the Volvo S60, were ready in 2012. In 2015, Volvo Cars acquired Polestar Performance. Today, Polestar builds the S60 and V60 Polestar, 367 hp performance road cars with over 250 developments over-and-above the standard Volvo products. It also offers Polestar Engineered performance hardware upgrades and engine software optimisations for existing Volvo products.
In the future, Polestar will become a new separately-branded electrified high-performance car company. Polestar will offer a portfolio of bespoke Polestar branded cars that will no longer carry a Volvo logo. Polestar will enjoy specific technological and engineering synergies with Volvo Cars and benefit from significant economies of scale as a result of its connection to Volvo. These synergies will allow it to design, develop and build world beating electrified high performance cars.
About Cyan Racing
Founded in 1996 and today known as Cyan Racing, the privately owned and operated company has been Volvo Car Group’s official team in motorsport since its conception. Cyan Racing has claimed multiple titles with the Volvo 850, S40, C30 and S60. Today, the company enjoys success on track with the Polestar road car brand as Polestar Cyan Racing in pursuit of both the World Touring Car Championship and Swedish GT, racing the Volvo S60 Polestar road going performance car.
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