Polestar Cyan Racing




For other uses, see Polestar (disambiguation).

For the American Formula Atlantic racing team, see Polestar Racing Group.

For the Australian V8 Supercar racing team, see Garry Rogers Motorsport.































Sweden Cyan Racing
Cyan Racing logo.jpeg
Founded 1996 (as Flash Engineering)
Team principal(s)
 Christian Dahl
Current series World Touring Car Cup
Former series
World Touring Car Championship

Swedish GT


Scandinavian Touring Car Championship
TTA – Racing Elite League
V8 Supercars (via GRM)
Teams'
Championships		 10 (2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, 2016 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, 2017 World Touring Car Championship)
Drivers'
Championships		 9 (1996, 1997, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, 2016 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, 2017 World Touring Car Championship)

Cyan Racing is the official motorsport partner to Geely Group Motorsport[1], formerly the Volvo factory auto racing team, and runs the FIA WTCR programme for Lynk & Co[2], based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The team’s current drivers are Thed Björk, Yvan Muller and Andy Priaulx[3] who will drive the Lynk & Co 03 TCR race car[4].


The team was founded by Jan "Flash" Nilsson as Flash Engineering in 1996. Christian Dahl bought the team in 2005 and renamed it Polestar Racing. After Dahl sold the Polestar performance road car division to Volvo, the team was renamed Cyan Racing[5].




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Achievements


  • 3 Environmentally friendly racing


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





History


The Swedish Touring Car Championship was created in 1996 as a copy of the successful British Touring Car Championship. Volvo, which had been competing in the BTCC since 1994, partnered with the newly founded, Halmstad-based Flash Engineering racing team, owned by Swedish driver Jan "Flash" Nilsson. Volvo provided financial support and the cars.


In 2005, Nilsson sold the Flash Engineering team to Christian Dahl, and it was renamed Polestar Racing.


Volvo announced in July 2015 that it had purchased Polestar Performance, the production car tuning division of Polestar, as well as the Polestar brand. The Polestar Racing team remained under the direction of Christian Dahl, and was rebranded Cyan Racing[6][7] and prototypes.[8]




The racing cars for Cyan Racing in STCC 2015



Achievements


Flash Engineering initially raced a Volvo 850. Team owner Jan Nilsson won the STCC in its inaugural season (1996), as well as 1997. Flash moved to a S40 in 1998. In 2000, the team moved to Karlstad.


Volvo won the Manufacturer's Championship in 2002, with Flash Engineering winning 6 of the series' 18 rounds. Following the introduction of Super 2000 rules in 2003, the team took over technical development of both the engines and the chassis from Volvo. With the new Volvo S60, they won the Manufacturer's Championship again in 2003, with Flash Engineering winning 4 of the series' 16 races.


Tommy Rustad won the 2009 STCC drivers championship driving for Polestar Racing. 2010 saw Polestar winning the STCC teams' championship.


For the 2011 WTCC season, Polestar entered one Volvo C30, developed from scratch by Polestar, driven by Robert Dahlgren.[9]


2012 saw Polestar racing in the new Swedish break-away touring car championship TTA[10] with a Volvo S60 Solution-F. The team claimed all three titles of the 2012 TTA – Racing Elite League season, including teams', manufacturers' and drivers' title with Fredrik Ekblom.[11]


2013 saw TTA and STCC merging back again as one championship,[12] with Polestar entering five cars for the 2013 season.[13] 2013 and 2014 meant continued success as Thed Björk claimed two straight drivers' titles and the team two consecutive teams' titles.[14][15] The team claimed the drivers' and teams' titles of the 2014 Scandinavian Touring Car Championship with Thed Björk becoming drivers' champion, Fredrik Ekblom finishing third overall and Prince Carl Philip Bernadotte 12th.[16]


As STCC adopted the TCR technical regulations for the 2017 season, Polestar Cyan Racing decided to leave the championship, joining the Swedish GT series with the Volvo S60 Solution-F and switching to a Lotus Evora GT4 for the 2018 season[17].


2016 saw the team joining the FIA World Touring Car Championship with Volvo Cars and Polestar, using the S60 model, clinching the drivers' and teams' titles in 2017 with Thed Björk as driver[18]. In 2018 the team cooperated with Yvan Muller Racing, running a pair of Hyundai i30 N TCR with drivers Yvan Muller and Thed Björk, claiming the teams' title[19].



Environmentally friendly racing


Volvo promoted the use of E85 in the STCC, and that series became the first production car championship series in which bioethanol is allowed, and WTCC.[20] Volvo claims that using E85 results in as much as 80% reduction of fossil-fuel based CO2 emissions. Though experts predicted that ethanol-based cars would be disadvantaged in terms of performance compared to petrol-fueled cars,[21] Polestar's S60, powered by E85, won both the first and second rounds of the 2007 Swedish Touring Car Championship season.[22][23]


The racing version of the Volvo C30, which was jointly developed by Polestar and Volvo,[24] represents a reversal of the usual process, whereby manufacturers take race-proven innovations and incorporate them into their production cars. With the C30, Volvo has taken technology from the C30 DRIVe street car, and implemented them to make a more fuel efficient race car.[25]



References





  1. ^ "Zhejiang Geely Holding Group launches Geely Group Motorsport | Geely Group Motorsport". www.geelygroupmotorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Cyan enters WTCR with Lynk & Co, signs Bjork". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  3. ^ "Three-time World Champion Andy Priaulx joins Lynk & Co Cyan Racing". Cyan Racing. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  4. ^ "Geely Group Motorsport announces Lynk & Co 03 TCR race car". Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  5. ^ "Polestar Racing changes name to become Cyan Racing". Cyan Racing. Retrieved 2018-12-19.


  6. ^ Zander, Christina (2015-07-14). "Volvo Buys 100% of Swedish Car-Tuning Company Polestar". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2015-07-17.


  7. ^ http://www.polestar.com/en-int/performance/polestar-cars/volvo-s60-polestar-limited-edition/


  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2013-01-23.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  9. ^ http://www.fiawtcc.com/Read_News.asp?idNews=693


  10. ^ http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=6630


  11. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2015-07-17.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-12-26. Retrieved 2015-07-17.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-02-05. Retrieved 2015-07-17.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  14. ^ http://www.touringcartimes.com/2013/09/07/richard-goransson-wins-at-tierp-while-thed-bjork-takes-stcc-title/


  15. ^ http://teknikensvarld.se/thed-bjork-stcc-mastare-2014-160111/


  16. ^ http://www.stccdatabas.se/result.php


  17. ^ "Prince Carl Philip, Thed Björk and Richard Göransson confirmed for Swedish GT in a Lotus Evora | Geely Group Motorsport". www.geelygroupmotorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  18. ^ "Qatar WTCC: Bjork clinches title, Guerrieri wins finale". www.motorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  19. ^ "Lynk & Co Cyan Racing signs quadruple World Champion". Cyan Racing. Retrieved 2018-12-18.


  20. ^ Volvo...victory for the environment


  21. ^ Bio-fuel Volvo enters Anderstorp


  22. ^ A victory for a greener motor sport STCC silver medal for Volvo


  23. ^ A Victory for Volvo and a Victory for the Environment


  24. ^ volvo cars develops a new racing car for stcc


  25. ^ Här är Volvos nya "gröna" STCC-bil




External links


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