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LEON & TOLEDO SILHOUETTE SUPERTOURING
BOTH PERFORM WELL ON FIRST OUTINGS
FRENCH SUPERTOURING CHAMPIONSHIP
The SEAT Leon achieved a
double podium in its debut
The SEAT Leon Silhouette
entered by the Snobeck team
debuted last month in the
French Supertouring
Championship, achieving two
podiums in both races along
the circuit located in Albi.
Snobeck’s team SEAT Leon, supported by SEAT France and SEAT
Sport finished both races in third position driven by Christophe Bouchut, current FIA GT World
Champion and winner in 1995 of the 24 Hours of Daytona and in 1993 winner of the 24 Hours of Le
Mans.
Classification race 1 (saturday, 1st Sept)
Classification race 2 (sunday, 2nd Sept)
1.Dayraut (BMW M3) 16.05.4 1.Dayraut (BMW M3) 28.08.2
2.David (Peugeot 406) + 1.1 2.Sarrazin (BMW Coupe) + 4.4
3.Bouchut (SEAT Leon) + 4.3 3.Bouchut (SEAT Leon) + 15.8
4.Helary (Peugeot 406) + 7.1 4.David (Peugeot 406) + 17.5
5.Tarrés (Opel Astra) + 7.8 5.Hernández (Ford Mondeo) + 22.9
SEAT achieved a fantastic two fold podium the next weekend in its second participation in the french
Supertouring Championship, this time with the new Toledo Silhouette supported by the Snobeck
team, SEAT France and SEAT Sport. The driver was also new and instead of Bouchut, who was
participating in the FIA GT in Madrid (Jarama circuit), Alain Cudini drove the Toledo and finished
second in both races along last weekend.
Cudini and the new Toledo Silhouette improved the first result achieved by SEAT in its first race in this
Championship some weeks ago in the Albi circuit, where Bouchut and the Leon Silhouette finished
in third position along the two races.
Cudini drove superbly in both races but in the second one (sunday), after qualifying in sixth position
after a little drove out, was the fastest car and finished second just a few seconds behind the winner.
Alain Cudini: „I’m really impressed with the performance of the SEAT Toledo Silhouette. I’ve testing
similar cars but the Toledo is fantastic and very easy to drive. I’m very happy with the result“
GERMAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
SECOND CONSECUTIVE TITLE FOR SEAT & KAHLE
Late last month SEAT won the Saarland Rally and became for consecutive time the German Rally
Champions. The german driver Mathias Kahle was driving the SEAT Córdoba WRC and achieve third
title in the German championship.
Kahle and his Córdoba WRC have shown that they make
a good couple, and here we have the results. They have
won five of the six rallys, and when is only one race to
finish Khale and his co-driver, Dieter Schneppenheim,
obtained the second title of the season for SEAT. As
Constantin Aur did in Rumania a few weeks ago.
The ex-official driver of SEAT Sport, Erwin Weber, has
managed the german team who has worked very well.
They have taken the best of the Córboba WRC and they
have shown that they are quite superior than the rest of
his rivals.
Mathias Khale: “ I’m very happy with this new award. It’s very importmant and significative that we
have obtained this title for second time. Two years with SEAT, it means two victories. When you drive
the Córdoba WRC is a grate sensation because it has an incredible potencial. The truht is that we
haven’t got any problem with car, the only thing we know is that we have obtained five victories
which has driven us to the top. I would love to thank everybody of our team because this is an award
for every single person who has been working hard during the all season.
Erwin Weber: “ We are very glad for again being the Champions of the German Rally. This was a
very exiting rally for us and was
very important to win. Mathias
did a very good job and the
mechanics made a great effort.
We are feeling very proud to
have achieve the first position,
it’s fantastic.”
Race 1 classification
1.Radermecker (Opel) 12 laps on 22’12’’174. 2.Cudini (SEAT Toledo Silhouette)
a 3’’271. 3.Dayraut (BMW) a 6’’694. 4.Hélary (Peugeot) a 7’’273.
5.Orgeval (Peugeot) 14’’016. 6.Verbergt (Audi) a 16’’753.
Race 2 classification
1.Radermecker (Opel) 17 laps on 33’15’’666. 2.Cudini (SEAT
Toledo Silhouette) a 3’’615. 3.Hélary (Peugeot) a 4’’225.
4.David (Peugeot) a 4’’486. 5.Tarres (Opel) a 5’’161.
6.Verbergt (Audi) a 12’’118.
We’ll try to keep up with the latest happenings in the
Silhouette camp, a very interesting series.