The thirteenth and fourteenth races of the season were originally planned to be held at Istanbul, Turkey, but were relocated to Anderstorp, Sweden just before the season started. Coming in the second half of the season, the spotlight is now on the forecast of the championship, but some other factors, such as the entries of newcomers, also attracted much attention in this round.
　
The entry of VOLVO was finally realised in its homeland, which had been suggested by Jacque Behar, president of WTCC promoting company KSO, at the ADVAN Motorsport Annual Presentation held in Tokyo, February 2007. The first ever VOLVO entered in a WTCC event was run by Polestar Racing and it was remarkable that the S60 based racing car uses a bio-fuel, ethanol E85. As the top category of touring car races, the WTCC has been addressing environmental issues and plans a shift to bio-fuel in 2009, so the bio-fueled VOLVO is a forerunner.
　
On the other hand, a regular competitor of the Russian Touring Car Championship, Golden Motors, entered two Honda Accord Euro R's for this event with two Russian drivers, Alexander Lvov and Andriy Smetsky. On top of that, Chevrolet employed Rickard Rydell who had driven for SEAT in WTCC last year in his home event. Considering that he finished second in the Round 15 last season at Turkey, the addition of him to the upbeat American marque certainly strengthened its driver line-up.
　
It was Tiago Monteiro of SEAT who took the pole position in Saturday's qualifying session. Then the two Chevrolet drivers, Nicola Larini and Rob Huff, followed to show their continued success after monopolising the podium at Porto. Robert Dahlgren driving the sole VOLVO was thirteenth and the local hero, Rydell was fifth on the starting grid for round thirteen.
　
On Sunday, difficult surface conditions made the races unpredictable. At the time of the start of Race 1 (the thirteenth round), at five past noon local time, the track was wet because it had just rained, although the sky was partly cleared up.
　
After taking the top spot at Turn 2, Huff completed the opening lap as the race leader. As the track was still wet and the water spray from the lead cars affected the followers, Huff was able to mark the fastest lap of the race and pulled away. He led throughout the thirteen lap race and took the checkered flag. The pole sitter, Monteiro, finished second and James Thompson took third place in his Alfa Romeo from the tenth on the grid and joined the others on the podium.
　
After a two and half hour interval, Race 2 (the fourteenth round) started. The 4,025m race track was partly dried up, but some wet patches were here and there with big paddles at clipping points of several corners, so the track conditions became even more difficult than that of Race 1.
　
As the reverse grid system was applied to the top eight finishers in Race 1, the two Chevrolets driven by Alan Menu and Nicola Larini sat on the front row. Larini led the opening lap and then they lapped in the one-two formation keeping the gap between them within one second. But the situation changed quickly in the second half of the race. Partly due to difficult surface conditions, the running order below third place became choppy, and Tom Coronel in a SEAT and Thompson moved up in the ranks.
　
Then, after ten laps, Rydell's Chevrolet climbed up in the order quickly. On Lap 12, he passed Thompson and Coronel in succession and came up to third, which made up the Chevrolet's one-two-three formation. And a final twist that was typical of WTCC events waited on the last lap. As a result of Rydell's hard charge, three Chevrolets in the same livery held a fierce battle for the top slot in front of the huge, thrilled crowd! At the end, Rydell surprisingly managed to overtake his two teammates and finished first.
　
Consequently, Chevrolet dominated the podium of Race 2 after the same feat in Race 1 at Porto, confirming its superiority to the rivals in the middle stage of the season.

Born in Sweden, September 22nd, 1967.
　
Started his motor sport career with a racing kart in 1984 and took the crown of the Swedish Kart Championship in 1984 and 1985. Afterwards, he stepped up to Formula Three which was the start of his full scale car racing and met with good results in the Swedish, British and Japanese F3 series. Particularly, he won the Macau Grand Prix in 1992 driving TOM'S TOYOTA.
Then he turned to the tin-top racing and drove for VOLVO (1994 - 1999) and Ford (2000) in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). His best year in the series was 1998 when he won five races and the championship title.
In 2005, he participated in WTCC with SEAT and scored a win and continued to drive for the Spanish marque in 2006 when his best result was second in Turkey. He lost a regular seat in the series this year, but marked an impressive home win in his brief return to WTCC in Sweden.

Anderstorp Circuit (Sweden)

Anderstorp Circuit is located 70km south-east of Boras, Sweden, which is the home of a world-renowned textile manufacturer.
It has quite a long history since the 1970's, including the Formula One Grand Prix races and the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) events. The 4,025m race track has another purpose which is as a local air field and you can see small air planes parked on the course side.
As the Scandinavian countries have produced so many famous racing drivers, it seems to be proper that the Swedish track joined the WTCC calendar this year.