Super Touring

As Super Touring touring car are called, which are constructed according to the Class 2- FIA regulations. In the 1990s, it was a very successful Regulations for near- touring car with 2 liters, which was used in many national racing series.

Their beginnings took the Super Touring Car in 1990 in the British Touring Car Championship ( BTCC ). From the year 1994, the FIA wrote these regulations internationally as Class 2 Regulations under the Regulations of Class 1. While the elaborate racing car, Class 1 is used only in the German Touring Car Championship ( setting 1996), was driven to the Class 2 regulations in various national championships. In the years between 1993 and 1995 was even proclaimed a Touring Car World Cup Super Touring Car.

However, permitted or required, the rules also complicated rebuilding the Super Touring Car, 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 or for Lowering by costly Umschweißen the inner fender.

There were conflicts with the factory dedicated manufacturers on the classification and evolution of vehicles in several national series, this led to special rules in the respective countries. However, these conversions were usually not allowed in other super touring car racing series. The continuous development of aerodynamics and the introduction of telemetry could increase dramatically the cost of a Super Touring car. You had to take advantage of the small Regulations Travel consuming. While one Vauxhall Cavalier 1990 was £ 60,000 so cost a similar car in the late 90 already £ 250,000.

With the new millennium, the Super Touring cars were gone from most national racing series again. International wrote the FIA again in 2001 a European Touring Car Championship, which used the Super Touring Car regulations this year as a transition. In the course of 2001, they worked with several manufacturers but a new touring car regulations, which should take the legitimate successor of the Super Touring Car. The result was the Super 2000 regulations, which is used in the European Touring Car Championship and the World Touring Car Championship, as well as in various national racing series since 2002.

Super Touring Car Race Series

Category I (production cars): Group A ( World Rally Car, Super 2000 ) | Group B | Group N | Group R | Group SP | Group T2

Category II ( racing cars): Group CN | Group D ( Formula 1, Formula 3) | Group E | Group GT1 | Group GT2 | GT3 group | group T1

Category III ( Trucks ): Group F | Group T4

Former formulas and groups: Formula 2 | Formula 3000 | Formula Junior | Group C | Group S | Class 1 ( DTM ) | Class 2 ( Super Touring )