I filmen nedan får vi följa Damian Kristoff Stankiewicz när han tar sin racinglicens på Kinnekulle Ring med SSK. Han kommer att tävla i B-Zero Racing i sommar.

The businessman and racing enthusiast Bård Bergsjö created Formula Basic 13 years ago. He is now on his next big racing project; B-Zero Racing…

As with Formula Basic, B-Zero Racing is a racing class that should be so cheap that anyone can afford to participate. In England and Belgium, this is as big success and there are hundreds of teams running in their series. Bård visited Silverstone 24 hours last spring where 99 cars participated in the competition! In England you only drive with the 3-door Citroën C1, but in Scandinavia the class will be open for six different models; Toyota Aygo, Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 with both three and five doors. All three cars are built in the same car factory, only the emblems distinguish them.

"You can buy a used car today for about SEK 20,000 and a racing kit costs SEK 30,000," says Bergsjö. The only modifications allowed are the roll bar and belts and a modified front suspension for better road holding. The rest of the car must be completely standard. "The idea is that it will be cheap and easy to find spare parts," said Bergsjö.

At the weekend's races at Kinnekulle Ring, three cars were driven for the first time in Scandinavia. Fredrik Sörlie won both races before Edward Sander Woldseth and Tom Hensel.

Bergsjö has big plans for the class and there will soon be more news about this…

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Team Greenpower lined up in Silverstone 24 hours for the Citroën C1 Cup to gain experience to be able to arrange similar competitions in Scandinavia in the future.

They also had two mechanics; Nils-Erik Woldseth and Ole Martin Sörlie, coordinator Anders Grandahl, team owner Bård Bergsjö and journalist and photographer Bengt-Åce Gustavsson.

The team gathered at the hotel to get to know each other and to get information about the competition. Unfortunately, it turned out that only 60 of the 99 cars got the chance to run the training on Friday on the track! Unfortunately, as Team Greenpower belonged to those who had signed up late, they were not allowed to run the training, which was a significant handicap for the competition! Instead, the team had to walk around and check out the surroundings as the others trained.

At 21.00 the qualification started, which was run in the dark. All the drivers had to drive to start the race. After the first pass, the driver complained about the brakes, which needed to be bleeded. When the next man left, it had started to rain. That made it impossible to put in any good time and the team had to start from the 90th starting frame!

Now the starting position is not that important in a 24 hour race, but of course you always want to be as far ahead as possible. Schjerpen run the first stint of the competition and he picked placement after placement. After 1.5 hours it started to rain, which suited Schjerpen well, because then he passed even more drivers. When he drove into the depot after his stint, he had moved the team to 34th place!

Curran took over the wheel and drove the first night shift. When he entered the depot, they were in 35th place. Woldseth took over the wheel. He had only driven two laps when suddenly a car spun in front of him. He was forced to brake and unfortunately, he happened to put in the wrong gear. He blew the engine! He was towed back to the depot. Team Amigo threw themself over the car and changed the engine, but unfortunately it was the wrong type of ECU on the new engine, so they had to change the whole electrical system too! After three hours they were able to return to the competition, but then they were second to last in the competition…

Störkersen took over the wheel and he had to run behind the safety car for 45 minutes, then he got to race at a good pace for 45 minutes before having a spinn. When he got back on the track, he burned the clutch, which began to slip. He tried to get back to the depot but stopped just at the depot entrance. There was a short towing to the garage and the team changed both clutch and gearbox.

Then it became Bamber's turn to drive. Bamber did a very good stint where he fought with the race leader for 1.5 hours. They were clearly the fastest on the course! The driver of the leader car came to Bamber and thanked for good fight on the track! Scherpen was next. Soon he heard a bang in the car, which began to behave strangely. Half a lap later he saw his front wheel leave the car! It was just to park and wait for salvage ... In the depot they could see that three bolts had broken and then separated the whole rim! Two new wheels were quickly mounted and Schjerpen could drive on and he was one of the fastest in the entire field.

The team struggled but reached the finnish in 86th place. The placement was unimportant, the team was there to see and learn. They could state that if they had not had their mechanical problems they would have been at the top of the results list, but that is racing…

Everyone was happy and now the team looks forward to the 24-hour race on the classic SPA course in Belgium in October.

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The new Scandinavian Racing class B-Zero Racing have a very special name. There is a special reason for that name…

Some years ago, Toyota, Citroën and Peugeot decided to build a small car together. The projects name was “B-Zero”. It ended up with the car called Toyota Aygo, Citroën C1 and Peugeot 107, that was the same car, just the brands were different. The name "Aygo" comes from "i-go", symbolising freedom and mobility.

The decision to produce the cars was made on July 12, 2001, when the presidents of Toyota and PSA Peugeot Citroën, Fujio Cho and Jean-Martin Folz respectively, decided to produce a small car to share development costs. This project was called B-Zero. The Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 are rebadged versions of the same car. All the cars were built in the same factory in Kolin in the Czech Republic and the first car was ready in 2005.

The Aygo's starting on the road price was €8,500 (GB£6,845). The main difference between the Aygo and its siblings is in the interior equipment, badges, logos and the easily recognizable rear end of the car. The planned production is 300,000 cars annually – 100,000 cars per brand. Sales began in July 2005, and the car was available as a three or five door hatchback. There were two engines available, a 1.0 L three cylinder engine rated at 68 bhp (51 kW), and a 1.4 L HDi diesel I4 engine rated at 54 bhp (40 kW).

The Aygo was used on BBC's Top Gear in a giant match of football, showcasing its maneuverability. The Top Gear presenters deemed the Aygo and its Peugeot and Citroën counterparts to be competent town cars.

A modified Aygo was also used on Fifth Gear to perform a twelve metre high loop the loop on a specially-designed track to determine if a stunt that can be done using Hot Wheels toys can be replicated in real life. The stunt was driven by stuntman Steve Truglia in May 2009.

In January 2010, the Aygo was part of a worldwide recall by Toyota for a faulty sticking accelerator pedal. It was found that under some circumstances, the pedal could stick in a partially depressed position, or return slowly to the off position. The recall affected the Aygo, Peugeot 107 and Citroën C1 models built between February 2005 and August 2009.Information from Toyota later suggested, however, that only Aygos with automatic gearboxes were affected, and that those with manual gearboxes were not.

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