“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.

Team mate to Göransson will be Robin Rudholm, who will stay for his fourth consecutive season with the team. Göransson will fill Fredrik Ekblom‘s seat who will, according to Touringcartimes, stay in the championship but will drive a front-wheel car for 2009. Swedish magazine Auto Motor & Sport reported on their website that Ekblom will be joining the new STCC Volkswagen team.

Flash Engineering’s team boss and driver Jan “Flash” Nilsson comments on Göransson’s departure on his homepage: “The reason for Richard Göransson’s move to WestCoast Racing is something only Richard knows himself. Personally I think his made a good short-term descision (more money in the wallet) but in the long-run a worse descision. Time will tell.”

Race Incident wonders on a slightly different note: how many STCC titles will Richard Göransson have to get before he’s considered for a WTCC drive?