SEAT met twee diesels aan de start:
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In Sweden, Jordi Gené and Yvan Muller will drive a León WTCC equipped with a 280 hp TDI engine, stemming from the 170 hp 2.0 mounted in the León FR.
The next FIA World Touring Car Championship event will be a milestone for both SEAT and the FIA World Series. For the first time, a manufacturer’s Diesel car will line up at a FIA-organised official World Championship race.
SEAT will be rolling two TDI cars onto the Scandinavian Raceway at Anderstorp on July 28/29, whose engine base derives from the 170 hp 2.0 TDI mounted in the León FR, as the culmination of a technological breakthrough that SEAT Sport engineers have been working on for the past few months. After a long stage of technical testing, the project will make its debut at the next WTCC meeting. The aim is to increase the team’s competitiveness at the World Championship and pave the way to winning the Manufacturers’ and Drivers’ titles.
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Verrassend dat een van de SEAT's bestuurd wordt door Yvan Muller. De Fransman is de hoogst geplaatste SEAT coureur in het kampioenschap (4e).