Anderstorp Raceway

Track history

The track was built on marshlands in 1968 and became an extremely popular venue in the 1970s, just as Swede Ronnie Peterson was at the height of his career. It has a long straight (called Flight Straight, which is also used as an aircraft runway), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise. Unusually, the pit lane is located halfway round the lap.

The raceway hosted six Formula One Swedish Grand Prix events in the 1970s. When Peterson and Gunnar Nilsson died during the 1978 Formula One season, public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end. The circuit is also noteworthy because it was the site of the first and only win of two unconventional F1 cars: the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 car in 1976 and the infamous Brabham 'fan car' in 1978.

Anderstorp also hosted the Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix in 1971–1977 and 1981–1990, the European Touring Car Championship in 1985–1987, the Superbike World Championship in 1991 and 1993, and the FIA GT Championship in 2002 and 2003.

In 1993, the circuit along with FIM organized a 24-hour motorcycle race. Just one week ahead of the race, an appeal was lodged against the permit for the competition, due to noise concerns. Although the organizers obtained permission to race on the morning of the event, "media had trumpeted that the competition was canceled. At the ferry berths in Skåne, passport staff turned away visitors from Denmark and the continent". During the race itself a heavy thunderstorm occurred, with torrential rain drowning the circuit. Although racing continued, no local or international audience showed up, and the circuit was forced to declare bankruptcy after the event.

The FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) returned to Anderstorp in 2007, replacing the Istanbul Park in Turkey on the WTCC calendar. For the 2008 season however, it was replaced by the Imola Circuit.

International motorsport was due to return to Anderstorp in 2020 with a round of the DTM. Then, it was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Events

; Current

• May: Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia Porsche Weekend, Nordic 4 Championship
• August: Anderstorp Race Festival

; Former

• BPR Global GT Series (1995–1996)
• EuroBOSS Series (2009)
• European Formula 5000 Championship (1970)
• European Touring Car Championship (1985–1987, 2002–2003)
• FIA European Formula 3 Cup (1975)
• FIA GT Championship (2002–2003)
• FIA Sportscar Championship (1998)
• FIM Endurance World Championship (1993)
• Formula 750 (1973, 1975)
• Formula One
  • Swedish Grand Prix (1973–1978)
• Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup (2002)
• Formula Renault V6 Eurocup (2003)
• Grand Prix motorcycle racing
  • Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix (1971–1977, 1981–1990)
• GT4 Scandinavia (2019, 2021–2023)
• International Formula Master (2007)
• Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (1997–2000, 2005–2007, 2015–2022)
• Sidecar World Championship (1981–1990, 1993, 1997)
• SMP F4 Championship (2016)
• Superbike World Championship (1991, 1993)
• TTA – Racing Elite League (2012)
• World Touring Car Championship
  • FIA WTCC Race of Sweden (2007)

Layout modifications

The circuit has been modified at least 4 times in its history. The chicane in Norra corner has been added sometime in 1975 before the 1975 Swedish Grand Prix. The chicane has been re-aligned and tightened in time for the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix. It had been modified again before the final Formula One Grand Prix run on the circuit (1978 Swedish Grand Prix), with modifications to the penultimate Norra corner and slight re-orientation of the following straight, which resulted in the length increase from 4.018 km to 4.031 km. It remained in that configuration through the 1980s

Track variations:

• 4.025 km – 1968–1974
• 4.018 km – 1975–1977
• 4.031 km – 1978–1997
• 4.025 km – 1998–present

Lap records

As of May 2025, the fastest official race lap records at the Anderstorp Raceway are listed as:

Airfield

| owner-oper = | elevation-f = | elevation-m = 155 | metric-elev = | r1-number = 04/22 | r1-length-f = | r1-length-m = 1000 | r1-surface = Asphalt | metric-rwy =

In order to get more financiers the long straight was adopted as a 1000 m runway for small aircraft . It is open for aircraft operations. There is also a helipad, planned for ambulance helicopters at racing accidents.

Notes

Contrary to common depiction of the 1978 modification as having a chicane introduced to the Norra corner, there was no chicane ever used: the corner was made slower by decreasing its radius and making it a sharper bend instead of a sweeping curve it was before.

References

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