Super-Tourenwagen-Cup
The Super Touring Car Cup, also briefly STW, was a racing series for touring cars, which took place from 1994 to 1999, from 1998 as a German Super Touring Car Championship.
In 1992, both Audi and BMW factory got out of the German Touring Car Championship and the DTM for 1993 introduced new rules with expensive class 1 racing car, a German top racing series for the previous production-based touring car was needed.
The Super Touring Car Cup or the STW fulfilled this task until 1999 for vehicles of Class 2 regulations with two liters. The brand variety was great, it went to, among others, Alfa Romeo, Audi, BMW, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Peugeot and Opel.
However, permitted or required, the rules also include offending, which were also not visible from the outside. Since the cars were so narrow as production cars, had to be created the space for the large racing tires by costly Umschweißen the inner fender. The saw also later in the further use of STW former race car in the VLN of conflict.
The factory moved Opel from 2000 again in the new DTM, the German Touring Car Masters. National was the STW continued through her foundation, the German Touring Car Challenge ( DTC ) or the current ADAC Procar Series. International, there were comparable European Touring Car Championship and in 2005 the World Touring Car Championship.