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SEAT Sport UK
BTCC trio ready to rumble
SEAT Sport UK is mounting a challenge for the BTCC Manufacturers'
title in only its second season of competition, as it prepares
for the start of the 2005 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship.
After nine races wins and finishing runners-up in the Teams'
Cup last year with two drivers, a new SEAT Sport UK three-car
squad returns to the BTCC in 2005 with Jason Plato, James Pickford
and Luke Hines driving identical SEAT Toledo Cupras.
Pickford's BTCC debut comes as a result of winning the 2004
Holiday Inn SEAT Cupra Championship by scoring three race wins,
nine podiums, six fastest laps and finishing 11 of the 12 rounds
in the top four places in his Haribo / Vivaldi Leon Cupra R.
This achievement earned the 25-year old Macclesfield driver
a place in the SEAT Sport UK team and the Autosport British
Club Racing Driver of the Year award.
Pickford said: "Everything will be new to me this year,
so I'm not going to put myself under pressure in the firstrace
meeting by worrying too much about results. It's going
to take a couple of race weekends for me to understand exactly
what goes on and then I'll be in a better position to attack
for podiums. Having said that, I feel it's very important
for us as a team to start strongly and even with my BTCC race
debut still ahead I feel very confident. We had a good
test at Silverstone and I know I can be on the pace. SEAT
has done a lot of development work on the Toledo Cupra and it's
not a difficult car to drive, so all in all I'm looking forward
to a very good season ahead."
Scott Dennis, SEAT UK National Motorsport Manager, said: "Our
aim is to challenge for the British Touring Car Championship
Manufacturers' title, and to give ourselves the best chance
of doing so we have created a very strong SEAT Sport UK team.
James has enormous potential and the Toledo Cupra is a tried,
tested and very reliable touring car. We have a good opportunity
to start the season strongly, and the depth of talent within
the team to keep that momentum going throughout the season."
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