No diesel SEAT-engines for customers

Following reports suggesting that the Leon TDI will be available for customer teams to race in the 2009 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship, SEAT Sport UK wishes to clarify that the team’s two chassis (as driven by Jason Plato and Darren Turner in 2008) will be put up for sale. The TDI engines, which won 10 races in 2008, have been returned to SEAT Sport in Spain and will not be available for customer use in 2009.

SEAT Sport continues to develop the highly competitive race-winning petrol engine for customer and importer use and SEAT Sport UK running a diesel engine (the only team to do so outside SEAT Sport’s WTCC campaign) was a non-transferable agreement between SEAT UK (who own the chassis) and SEAT Sport (who own the engines).