SEAT UK can reflect on five highly successful seasons in the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship after winning 43 races and scoring 101 podium results in 150 races.

Having entered the series in 2004, Jason Plato and Darren Turner closed the chapter on SEAT UK’s…

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SEAT Sport UK have today announced that they are to withdraw from the British Touring Car Championship at the end of the season, leaving drivers Jason Plato and Darren Turner without a seat for next year.

The Spanish manufacturer, who joined the series in 2004, says that it…

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Jason Plato led all three HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship races at Silverstone today in his SEAT Leon TDI, and his victory in the first race was SEAT Sport UK’s 100th BTCC podium result. Having given the team its first podium finish…

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With his eighth victory of the season, Jason Plato moved closer to championship leader Fabrizio Giovanardi in the points standings. The SEAT driver led all 25 laps of the race, finishing 0.545 seconds ahead of Mat Jackson who managed to pip the other SEAT of…

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Jason Plato boosted his title hopes by securing pole position for the first of Sunday’s three HiQ British Touring Car Championship rounds at Silverstone. With six races remaining on the 2008 calendar, the SEAT Sport UK driver trails VX Racing’s reigning champion Fabrizio Giovanardi by…

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Jason Plato’s hopes of reducing Fabrizio Giovanardi’s championship lead are back on track as the SEAT Sport UK driver set the fastest time in the final Free Practice session before Sunday’s penultimate rounds of the HiQ British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone.

With team-mate Darren Turner…

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Having won six of the last nine races, SEAT Sport UK hopes to continue its run of success with its Leon TDI when the penultimate race weekend of the 2008 HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship takes place at Silverstone (August 30/31).

Three out of three…

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SEAT were tonight celebrating having won all of today’s three races at Knockhill in Scotland, despite making small inroads on Vauxhall in their championship challenge.

There were victories for Jason Plato in rounds 22 and 23, although the taste of victory was made somewhat bitter by…

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Darren Turner has taken his second win of the year ahead of the fast-starting Rob Collard and pole man Andrew Jordan. However there were dramas for Jason Plato, who failed to finish the race.

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Turner made the most of…

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Jason Plato has won the second race of the day, once again finishing ahead of championship rival Fabrizio Giovanardi. Tom Onslow-Cole finished third, ahead of Gordon Shedden. It was a relatively uneventful race as the top four drivers finished in the order they started the race in.

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