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# Experience the Lon Cupra - SEAT's World Touring Car Championship winner
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## SEAT, the winner of both the manufacturers' and drivers' titles at the FIA
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WTCC for the second year running, is launching the Leon Cupra R and the Leon
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FR TDI for road-users.
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![SEAT won the World Touring Car Championship 2009 with the Leon TDI][1]
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SEAT won the World Touring Car Championship 2009 with the Leon TDI
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12:52PM GMT 18 Dec 2009
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SEAT made it a clean sweep at the World Touring Car Championship 2009, winning
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their second consecutive manufacturers' trophy while their drivers Gabriele
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Tarquini and Yvan Muller took the individual first and second place
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respectively.
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![SEAT won the World Touring Car Championship 2009 with the Leon TDI ][2]
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SEAT won the World Touring Car Championship 2009 with the Leon TDI
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It is the fifth time the team have taken the prestigious trophy, having
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previously won in 1996, 1997 and 1998. This latest victory is particularly
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impressive as it comes after a difficult season for the team, who were forced
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to make several modifications to last year's winning SEAT Leon TDI to meet new
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regulation changes.
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To make things even harder for SEAT, both Tarquini and Muller being involved
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in a serious crash during qualifying for the Macau races. The two drivers were
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taken to hospital after the incident, but recovered in time for Sunday's
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races.
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With the victory Tarquini became, at 47, the oldest world champion in the
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history of FIA-accredited motorsport, beating the record set by Juan Manuel
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Fangio when he won the 1957 Formula One championship at 46.
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The veteran Italian's success came despite finishing second and sixth in the
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Macau legs. He thanked the "extraordinary" efforts of the SEAT team for making
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his victory possible, saying: "It is amazing to clinch the title after such a
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long sports career.
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## Related Articles
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* [SEAT - Great achievements][3]
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18 Dec 2009
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"I started the weekend with some trouble, but I was able to recover, and the
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extraordinary work of my mechanics made it possible for me to take part in a
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race that meant a unique opportunity which I simply could not miss.
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"It's been a very hard championship, very intense, and in order to win ahead
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of two rivals who are as strong as Yvan Muller and Augusto Farfus it has been
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essential to score many points in all races."
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SEAT's sporting director, Jaime Puig, agreed, praising the work of the drivers
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and the whole team: "Winning two championships for the second year in a row is
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the reward for a fantastic year, and I want to thank the whole team for their
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effort, their great capacity for work and their solidarity.
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"The races in Macau have shown that we are a team in which everybody works for
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everybody.
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"After the two championships achieved last year, we wanted to take at least
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one of the titles this year, and we took them both. It's been an extraordinary
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result."
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SEAT's remarkable day was improved by SUNRED Engineering's Tom Coronel, who
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took the Independents' Trophy driving a SEAT Leon 2.0 TFSI.
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**Now road drivers will be able to experience the power of the SEAT World
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Touring Car Championship, with the Leon Cupra R about to go on sale. At 265
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horsepower the Cupra R is SEAT's most powerful production car ever. And the
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SEAT Leon FR TDI, already available, can unleash 170 horsepower, but emits a
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relatively tiny 139 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre.**
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**[Click here to sign up for a Test Drive][4]**
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