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# SEAT's World Touring Car Championship win a testament to engineers and the
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Lon Cupra
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## SEAT's second consecutive victory in the World Touring Car Championships
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was a testament to the skill of the team's engineers and the robust SEAT Leon
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Cupra TDi.
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![SEAT Lon Cupra R][1]
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SEAT Lon Cupra R
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12:46PM GMT 18 Dec 2009
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SEAT's second consecutive victory in the World Touring Car Championships was a
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testament to the skill of the team's engineers and the robust SEAT Leon Cupra
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TDi.
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![SEAT Lon Cupra R][2]
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SEAT Lon Cupra R
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Gabriele Tarquini and his teammate Yvan Muller, who came first and second in
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the drivers' trophy respectively, did so despite several changes to the
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technical specifications to the competition and a serious crash during
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qualification for the last races at Macau.
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But the Spanish team's engineers were able to overcome every obstacle. The
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back-to-back victories in 2008 and 2009 gave SEAT their fifth manufacturers'
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trophy, following wins in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
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The sport's governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile
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(FIA), ordered SEAT's engineers to reduce the pressure in their Turbocharged
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Direct injection (TDi) system, severely limiting the cars' speed.
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At times during the competition, even the drivers were unsure that the team's
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mechanics were up to the task of providing a winning car under such
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restrictions.
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18 Dec 2009
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"The FIA reduced our performance, and there is nothing else we can do. This is
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our level right now and [therefore] I'm happy to be leading the standings,"
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said Tarquini after the race in Oschersleben, Germany, when the new rules led
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to BMW closing the gap on SEAT to a single point.
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But despite Tarquini's concerns, he was to win the next race in Imola, Italy,
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with team-mate Muller coming second - and in the second race there was another
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SEAT one-two, this time with Muller taking the flag.
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The engineers worked another miracle after the two drivers were taken to
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hospital after a crash during qualifying in Macau.
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Both cars were badly knocked about in the collision, but the solidly built
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SEAT Leon Cupras were swiftly repaired in time for the race less than 48 hours
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later.
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Tarquini praised the efforts of the mechanics as "extraordinary" in getting
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the cars back on the track so quickly. SEAT's sporting director Jaime Puig
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agreed, saying that the result showed that "we are a team in which everybody
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works for everybody."
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In 2008, the Leon TDi became the first car in any FIA-sanctioned motorsport to
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win using a diesel engine. Repeating the feat in the face of so many obstacles
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is surely an even greater accomplishment for the team.
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The SEAT clean sweep didn't finish there: Tom Coronel also took the
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Independents' Trophy for the SUNRED Engineering team in a SEAT Leon WTCC.
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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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