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SEAT Sport will be back in 2013 supporting customer programmes as it has been during the 2012 season, with a number of teams expected to contest the venerable SEAT León WTCC.

Where any of the three works Chevrolet drivers will be racing next year was still unclear as the 2012 WTCC season came to a close at Macau. All three drivers are currently out of contract after Chevrolet announced their decision to leave back in July.

Norbert Michelisz won the 2012 WTCC Yokohama Independents’ Trophy, despite only picking up one point for the fastest lap in race two through the whole weekend at Macau.

Rob Huff has won the 2012 World Touring Car Championship after finishing second in an incident packed second race at Macau. Alain Menu won the final race for Chevrolet in the WTCC, with Yvan Muller completing the podium in third.

Rob Huff has continued his run, topping every session since Friday, with the fastest time in the warm-up, with the Honda of Tiago Monteiro the only driver within a second at the Macau circuit.

Zengõ Motorsport’s Norbert Michelisz is the top placed of the Yokohama independents’ trophy competitors for race one, but that reverses around for race two, with rival Pepe Oriola starting second in his SUNRED SEAT León.

Bamboo Engineering have enjoyed a strong qualifying session at Macau, despite having to work all night to repair Darryl O’Young’s Chevrolet Cruze after a crash in testing.

Fredy Barth crashed out of qualifying at Macau and brought out the red flag, as he did in FP2 last year, but only the car was the casualty this time after Barth’s nasty experience in 2011.

Rob Huff’s fourth pole in four years at the Guia Race of Macau has put the 32-year-old in the best possible position to secure his first World Championship on Sunday.