Race Incident

The 2006 Swedish Touring Car Champion Thed Björk has joined Flash Engineering – a seat that became vacant when triple champion Richard Göransson left the squad to join West Coast Racing. Björk will partner team owner and 1996 and 1997 STCC champion Jan “Flash” Nilsson in the team’s two BMW 320si’s.

“I’m extremely happy to be a part of Sweden’s most professional team! Now I know I will have an opportunity to fight for the championship”, Thed Björk says at the Flash Engineering website.

Björk raced the newly developed Honda Accord in Tomas Engström‘s team during 2008 and managed to end the championship in third place after three wins and six podium finishes in the new car.

Thed Björk has quite an impressive career behind him eventhough he’s only 28 years old. In 1999 he was Swedish and Nordic Formula 3 champion, in 2001 he was FIA SR2 Sportscar champion, in 2003 he was Swedish GTR champion and in 2006 he won the Swedish Touring Car Championship.