# 2003 Swedish Touring Car Championship

The 2003 Swedish Touring Car Championship season was the 8th Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) season. In total eight racing weekends at four different circuits were held; each round comprising two races, making a sixteen-round competition in total.

## Changes for 2003

* The Supertouring regulations were removed and replaced with Super2000.
* The pitstops were also removed
* Each round were to consist of two races, with one sprint race of 15–25 minutes and one super-race approximately 15–30 minutes longer.
* Qualifying was conducted by having a standard qualifying session followed by a one-lap Superpole for the 8 fastest drivers.
* The top 15 finishers were awarded points: 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.

## Teams and drivers

| Team | Car | No. | Drivers |
| Kristoffersson Motorsport | Audi A4 B6/7 | 1 | Tommy Kristoffersson |
| Kristoffersson Motorsport | Audi A4 B6/7 | 8 | Tobias Johansson |
| Kristoffersson Motorsport | Audi A4 B6/7 | 10 | Fredrik Ekblom |
| Flash Engineering | Volvo S60 | 2 | Jan Nilsson |
| Flash Engineering | Volvo S60 | 4 | Magnus Krokström |
| WestCoast Racing | BMW 320i | 3 | Mattias Andersson |
| WestCoast Racing | BMW 320i | 11 | Richard Göransson |
| Engström Motorsport | Honda Civic Type-R | 5 | Tomas Engström |
| Crawford Racing | BMW 320i | 6 | Carl Rosenblad |
| Opel Team Sweden | Opel Astra | 7 | Tommy Rustad |
| Podium SEAT Sport Team | SEAT Toledo | 9 | Robin Rudholm |
| Podium SEAT Sport Team | SEAT Toledo | 12 | Johan Stureson |
| Bakajev Motorsport | BMW 320i | 15 | Patrik Ernstsson |
| Bakajev Motorsport | BMW 320i | 16 | Jan Brunstedt |
| Euroracing | Alfa Romeo 156 | 17 | Nicklas Karlsson |
| Peugeot Statoil Motorsport | Peugeot 307 | 19 | Jens Edman |
| Vic Lee Racing | Peugeot 406 Coupé | 24 | Roger Möen |

## Race calendar and winners

All rounds were held in Sweden.
| Round | Circuit | Date | Winning driver | Winning team |
| 1 2 | Falkenbergs Motorbana | 4 May | Fredrik Ekblom Richard Göransson | Kristoffersson Motorsport West Coast Racing |
| 3 4 | Mantorp Park | 18 May | Jan Nilsson Fredrik Ekblom | Flash Engineering Kristoffersson Motorsport |
| 5 6 | Karlskoga Motorstadion | 9 June | Richard Göransson Tomas Engström | West Coast Racing Engström Motorsport |
| 7 8 | Falkenbergs Motorbana | 6 July | Jan Nilsson Patrik Ernstsson | Flash Engineering Bakajev Motorsport |
| 9 10 | Ring Knutstorp | 20 July | Richard Göransson Jan Nilsson | West Coast Racing Flash Engineering |
| 11 12 | Karlskoga Motorstadion | 17 August | Richard Göransson Carl Rosenblad | West Coast Racing Crawford Racing |
| 13 14 | Ring Knutstorp | 31 August | Tommy Rustad Jan Nilsson | Opel Team Sweden Flash Engineering |
| 15 16 | Mantorp Park | 18 September | Richard Göransson Nicklas Karlsson | West Coast Racing Euroracing |

## Championship results
### Drivers' championship

| Pos. | Driver | FAL | FAL | MAN | MAN | GEL | GEL | FAL | FAL | KNU | KNU | GEL | GEL | KNU | KNU | MAN | MAN | Pts |
| 1 | Fredrik Ekblom | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 224 |
| 2 | Jan Nilsson | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Ret | 1 | Ret | Ret | 1 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 214 |
| 3 | Tomas Engström | 4 | 7 | 3 | Ret | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | Ret | Ret | 2 | Ret | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 168 |
| 4 | Tommy Rustad | Ret | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | Ret | DNS | 161 |
| 5 | Richard Göransson | 8 | 1 | DNS | Ret | 1 | Ret | Ret | DNS | 1 | Ret | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | Ret | 148 |
| 6 | Tobias Johansson | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 8 | Ret | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 11 | Ret | 140 |
| 7 | Tommy Kristoffersson | 10 | DNS | Ret | 4 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 139 |
| 8 | Carl Rosenblad | Ret | DNS | Ret | 7 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 136 |
| 9 | Nicklas Karlsson | 5 | 5 | Ret | DNS | 2 | 3 | Ret | Ret | DNS | DNS | 7 | 4 | | | 5 | 1 | 127 |
| 10 | Patrik Ernstson | Ret | DNS | 10 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 | Ret | 6 | DNS | 6 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 116 |
| 11 | Johan Stureson | 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 6 | Ret | DNS | 8 | Ret | 9 | 3 | 4 | Ret | 106 |
| 12 | Magnus Krokström | Ret | Ret | 11 | 8 | 8 | 7 | DNS | 7 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | Ret | 99 |
| 13 | Mattias Andersson | Ret | Ret | 6 | Ret | 14 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 4 | Ret | 12 | Ret | 13 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 93 |
| 14 | Robin Rudholm | 11 | Ret | 9 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 11 | Ret | 10 | 9 | 13 | Ret | 11 | Ret | 7 | 4 | 86 |
| 15 | Jan Brunstedt | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 11 | Ret | Ret | | | 14 | 10 | 78 |
| 16 | Jens Edman | 2 | Ret | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 17 |
| 17 | Roger Moen | | | | | | | DNS | DNS | DNS | 10 | | | | | | | 6 |
| | Ronnie Brandt | | | | | | | | | | | Ret | DNS | | | | | 0 |

### Manufacturer's championship

| Position | Manufacturer | Points |
| 1 | Volvo | 242 |
| 2 | Audi | 240 |
| 3 | BMW | 229 |
| 4 | SEAT | 184 |
| 5 | Honda | 181 |