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Rickard Rydell aiming for 2008 title

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Rickard Rydell returns to the World Touring Car Championship with SEAT. The season starts this weekend and the Swede is aiming to launch an assault on the title this year.
“This is my best chance to win the WTCC. It is great to be back with SEAT and I really feel at home,” said Rydell.

Rydell feels that the build-up for the 2008 season has been good is looking forward to drive the diesel-powered SEAT Léon.

“The car is competitive and we should have good chances to win both the drivers and manufacturers championship. But it will not be easy to win the drivers title, I have for example four strong team mates that also want to win,” said Rydell.

For this season Rydell has got a Swedish engineer, Jonas Jarlmark, who previously has worked in the Swedish Touring Car Championship. Rydell predicts that although his chances are good the opposition from the other manufacturers will be hard.

“The series is as tough as ever. In the top it will be between SEAT, BMW and Chevrolet. But I also thing that Honda can score some good results with Thompson,” said Rydell.