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[[Image:Scandinavian Raceway Anderstorp.png|right|230px|Scandinavian Raceway - Anderstorp]]


The '''Scandinavian Raceway''' is a 2.505-[[mile]] race circuit in Anderstorp ([[Gislaved Municipality]]), [[Sweden]].

The track was built on [[marshlands]] in 1968 and became an extremely popular venue in the 1970s, just as Swede [[Ronnie Peterson]] was at the height of his career.  It had a long straight (called ''Flight Straight'', which was also used as an aircraft runway), as well as several banked corners, making car setup an engineering compromise. Unusually, the pit lane was located halfway round the lap.

The raceway hosted six [[Formula One]] [[Swedish Grand Prix]] events in the '70s.  When Peterson and [[Gunnar Nilsson]] died during the [[1978 Formula One season]], public support for the event dried up and the Swedish Grand Prix came to an end.  The circuit hosted Touring Car races in the 1980s, and has been a popular car club venue since the 1990s.

The [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] [[World Touring Car Championship]] (WTCC) returned to Anderstorp in 2007, replacing the [[Istanbul Park]] in [[Turkey]] on the WTCC calendar, however, for the 2008 season, it has been replaced by the [[Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari|Imola]] circuit.

====Formula One history====
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! Year
! Driver 
! Constructor
! Location
! Report
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! [[1978 Formula One season|1978]]
| {{flagiconAustria}} [[Niki Lauda]]
| [[Brabham]]-[[Alfa Romeo (Formula One)|Alfa Romeo]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1978 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! [[1977 Formula One season|1977]]
| {{flagiconFrance}} [[Jacques Laffite]]
| [[Ligier]]-[[Matra]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1977 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! [[1976 Formula One season|1976]]
| {{flagiconSouth Africa|1928}} [[Jody Scheckter]]
| [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1976 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! [[1975 Formula One season|1975]]
| {{flagiconAustria}} [[Niki Lauda]]
| [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1975 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! [[1974 Formula One season|1974]]
| {{flagiconSouth Africa|1928}} [[Jody Scheckter]]
| [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1974 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|-
! [[1973 Formula One season|1973]]
| {{flagiconNew Zealand}} [[Denny Hulme]]
| [[Team McLaren|McLaren]]-[[Ford Motor Company|Ford]]
| [[Scandinavian Raceway|Anderstorp]]
| [[1973 Swedish Grand Prix|Report]]
|}


==External links==
* [http://www.scandinavianraceway.info/en/index.htm Scandinavian Raceway Official website]
* [http://www.arc.nu/ Anderstorp Racing Club (Swedish)]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Gislaved,+Sweden&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=57.263172,13.603907&spn=0.021908,0.086517&t=k&om=1 Satellite picture by Google Maps]

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