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SEAT France enters

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SEAT’s presence in the FIA World Touring Car Championship makes another step forward with the addition of Stéphane Ortelli in a Toledo Cupra car run by Team Oreca and supported by SEAT France. Ortelli, 35 year old, born in France but citizen of the Principality of Monaco, will take part in the championship’s next three meetings:

Oschersleben (28 August), Istanbul (18 September) and Valencia (2 October) alongside SEAT Sport’s works drivers Rickard Rydell, Jordi Gené and Peter Terting, and the two GR Asia Team’s Independents, Tom Coronel and Valle Mäkelä.

Hugues De Chaunac’s Team Oreca have a high reputation in motor sport, having achieved success in every category: single seaters, sportscars and touring cars (the 1994 French Supertourisme title with Yvan Muller and BMW).

As for Ortelli who has recently established himself as one of the best sportscar drivers (twice FIA GT champion in the N-GT class for Porsche), had touring car experiences in the early Nineties at the wheel of Peugeot and BMW cars. He was Muller’s team-mate at Oreca in the 1995 French Supertourisme and claimed the Independents trophy.