The Italian, who retired in the first race with brake problems, took the best start in the second race. Tarquini was jumping in the lead ahead of poleman Huff and Turkington. Later he was second. Tarquini completed a great defensive race, salvaging a second position that was completely unexpected, considering the brake problems he had had in the first race.

SEAT driver Tiago Monteiro finished the first race in eighth position, in the second race he retired due to a race incident.

Sunday’s two WTCC races in China did not help SEAT driver Michel Nykjaer make progress in the standings for the privateer championship. The Danish racing driver could only collect two points after an unlucky qualifying session, but he nevertheless managed to defend his third place in the table and is still in with a chance of taking the unofficial World championship in Macau in a fortnight.

- VW Group Motorsport

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Gabriele Tarquini was the most successful SEAT driver with two podium positions at the eighth World Touring Car Championship race weekend at Oschersleben.

The Touring Car World Champion from 2009 made up one position from fourth on the grid and was third in his Sunred SR Leon 1.6T in the first of two 14 lap races.

In the second race, which Tarquini tackled from sixth position due to the obligatory reverse grid, the Italian improved three positions and mounted the podium yet again thanks to his fine third place.

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Local hero Tiago Monteiro was best-placed SEAT driver at the sixth race weekend of the WTCC round at Porto.
In the first race he won the fight with his fellow driver Gabriele Tarquini and secured fourth place in front of his home crowd.

Monteiro made it even better in the second race by clinching the podium at third place. Monteiro excited the Portuguese fans who were cheering for him on his run for a well deserved podium result. He won the battle for third place, managing to keep Norbert Michelisz and Tom Coronel at bay.

The Portuguese racer gave the first podium finish to the SEAT 1.6L turbo car.

“Yes, the team did a very good job in the two weeks after the disaster we had in Brno, when I used the new engine for the first time. Now the car is becoming competitive and has a very good potential still to be xploited.”

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SEAT SUNRED driver, Michel Nykjaer, had a great weekend, adding another top five finish to his resume. Over the weekend, the fifth round of the WTCC took place at Brno. Nykjaer / SUNRED also won the independents class.

“Today, I feel happy. We have got speed in the car, and it has been a great Sunday after a Saturday with bad preparations. Even though we finished tenth in the first race, it was an acceptable result on the basis of the trouble that we have had,” Michel Nykjaer says.

Nykjaer’s SEAT Leon is equipped with the new 1.6L turbocharged petrol engine that was first run in Hungary.

Both Fredy Barth and Tiago Monteiro had troubles with their 1.6L Leons.

“I made a very good first start, where I overtook a couple of drivers in front of me, but then I was hit by my team mate Tarquini, which cost me a couple of positions,” Michel Nykjaer explains. “I managed to cross the finishing line as number 10, and that was an okay result.”

“For the second heat I was going to start from pole position. I got a good start and was running very even with Tom Coronel.”

Gabriele Tarquini finished in 6th.

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At the second run of the WTCC race weekend in Budapest ,SEAT driver Gabriele Tarquini reached the podium.

The italian made the best out of the starting rain chaos during the second race. After a clever move, he placed his SEAT Leon 2.0 TDI in front of the field. But he wasn’t able to defend the lead. In the end he became third. Tarquini finished the first race in front of his Teammate Tiago Monteiro on place six.

During the second race, Monteiro also benefitted from the rain and reached the fifth place. In the overall standings Tarquini putted himself on fourth position (75 points) and overtook Monteiro (74).

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