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Danish Touringcar Championship to open new track
The drivers in the Danish Touringcar Championship will face a new challenge this season. For the third time in the series' history it will have the honour of topping the bill of the inaugural race programme on a new circuit layout in Scandinavia.
This will happened at the end of June, when the Danish Touringcar Championship will be racing on the new version of Sturup Raceway, which has Danish owners, even though the circuit is based in southern Sweden close to the town of Malmö. The original circuit opened in 1989, but has since been revised on a couple of occasions. Work on the most recent extension will start this spring, and it will see the circuit being extended from 1480 metres to more than 2 km, while the circuit will also get more straights and faster corners.
The Copenhagen Raceway event will take place at Sturup Raceway on June 26th, and it will count as the fourth round of this year's Danish Touringcar Championship, which will be fought out over nine rounds, with the other races taking place at FDM Jyllands-Ringen, Padborg Park and Ring Djursland. Apart from the new race at Sturup Raceway the other change to the calendar is that there will once again be a douple header meeting at Denmark's largest motor race, Grand Prix Danmark, at the last weekend of August.
The complete 2005 calender of the Danish Touringcar Championship looks as follows:
May 1st 2005 Åbningsløb FDM Jyllands-Ringen Round 1
May 15th 2005 Padborg Open Padborg Park Round 2
June 12th 2005 Juniløbet FDM Jyllands-Ringen Round 3
June 26th 2005 Copenhagen Raceway Sturup Raceway Round 4
August 7th 2005 40 Years Anniversaary Race Ring Djursland Round 5
August 27th 2005 Grand Prix Danmark FDM Jyllands-Ringen Round 6
August 28th 2005 Grand Prix Danmark FDM Jyllands-Ringen Round 7
September 18th 2005 Padborg Super Prix Padborg Park Round 8
October 2nd 2005 DM-Finale FDM Jyllands-Ringen Round 9
Brief facts: The two other circuit layouts that the Danish Touringcar Championship have opened were the Padborg Park circuit and the present configuration of FDM Jyllands-Ringen. • Like in 2004 satelite channel TV2/Zulu will broadcast live from the Danish Touringcar Championship.