Race Incident

Swedish energy company E-ON have announced together with Brovallen Motorsport that they will enter the Swedish Touring Car Championship with two LPG fuelled Volkswagen Sciroccos.

The two cars will be driven by three time STCC champion Fredrik Ekblom and former ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup driver Patrik Olsson.

“The purpose of the entry is to show the potential of the bio gas fuel – Sweden’s best green fuel.”, says Håkan Buskhe of E-ON.

Fredrik Ekblom comments: “For me this is a big challenge. I’ve competed in the STCC for a total of nine seasons so to be able to take part from the beginning with a totally new racing concept with a clear environmental profile feels new, fresh and very exciting.”

Ekblom moves from the WestCoast Racing BMW team which last week announced that current champion Richard Göransson would join their squad alongside Robin Rudholm. With the Volkswagen Scirocco Ekblom will now switch to front wheel drive cars after a couple of seasons with the BMW 320′s.

At the moment, as far as Race Incident knows, the LPG fuels are not included in the allowed fuels for the STCC but with the strong environmental profile of the championship I guess there will be no problems for the two Volkswagens to be on the starting line in 2009.