Driving a car on a track is not something that everyone does naturally and it is without a doubt a fantastic feeling and experience. And it is also not obvious that everyone can or likes it, you clearly have to have a certain type of attitude in order to dare and be able to understand the technology of track driving. To begin with, you obviously need a car that can withstand being driven on a track, driving on a track involves much more wear and tear on the car than in normal traffic. Brakes and tires will wear more regardless of how you choose to drive and this costs money. And the more expensive car you have the more money it will cost you. But if you are sufficiently bitten and poisoned by the allure of driving a car fast around a track and exploring the limits, this may not matter. 

To become a good driver on the track, you need to drive with your head and not your foot and to increase your speed with small steps in order to be in control of the situation at all times. If you go too hard at once, the risk is imminent that you won't be able to find out if something goes wrong. And a crashed car is probably the last thing you want to experience. There are a lot of different driving courses to take which can provide a very good banking knowledge. STACC does not offer direct driver training, but there are always instructors who are happy to ride along and help you get to know the track better. A couple of laps with an instructor can improve lap times considerably and above all you become a safer driver and don't have to be at your limit where the risk of accidents slips by. It's certainly a tickling feeling when you enter a curve a little too quickly and brake too late and just about sort the situation out, your heart pounds hard and that stomach ache makes itself heard. But it is precisely these occasions that you also learn from, you moved on too quickly and you begin to understand where the limits lie. Something that would be impossible and downright foolish to attempt in public traffic. On the track, you have well-kept margins so that nothing too serious happens.

Our vehicle for the STACC weekend on Gotland was the Audi R8 V10, also tested in this issue by CS Hemma. A car that many let their eyes fall on for an extra moment. However, this is not unusual for STACC's weekends as the guys have managed to attract a lot of exclusive cars, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Porsche are common at the meetings. And it's really fun to see people take cars like this out and really drive them hard. This is actually what the cars are built for and not 30 km/h cruising along Birgerjarlsgatan. What's also fun about a meeting like this is of course you have to take the opportunity to ride with other drivers and their cars, I myself got next to a taxi driver shouting at people in the R8. Everyone was very curious and eager to go along. 

In the evening, there is always a large banquet when prizes are awarded for the fastest and most successful of the day. There you also get the opportunity to talk to each other about the day and what happened. There is a very special atmosphere about these dinners because the adrenaline has been pumping so well all day. And let me put it this way, not everyone shows up for the drive on Sunday because many go out as hard in the evening as they did during the day in the curves. But then we are talking about completely different curves.

Johan Tilander driving a Ferrari 430 spider F1.

Own company Office management. Works with office machines.

Why did you join STACC in particular? Friend Jonny Johnsson tipped.

First year nice guys

The goal to keep up with Finland

Got out of Gotland? Better drivers, camaraderie, good team spirit, driving the track.

First time with STACC, newbie, a few laps earlier at Gotlandring but first year driving track, will continue, Nere and drive Ferrari to get better and be able to break some records next year.

Afraid of crashing the car? No never, everyone drove calmly this year. Never felt worried.