Editing SEAT (section)

=== Touring cars ===
{{More citations needed|section|date=December 2024}}[[File:Yvan Muller and Andy Priaulx 2008 Japan.jpg|thumb|[[Yvan Muller]] driving the [[SEAT León]] TDI in Japan]]
In 2002, SEAT announced a one-make championship for the new [[SEAT León]] Cupra R, the [[SEAT León Supercopa]].

In 2004, SEAT with [[Ray Mallock Ltd.]] (RML) entered the [[British Touring Car Championship]], running two [[SEAT Toledo]] Cupra for former-BTCC Champion [[Jason Plato]], and 2003 León UK Champion, [[Rob Huff]]. In 2005, Huff left to join [[Chevrolet]] (run by RML in the [[World Touring Car Championship]] (WTCC)), and he was replaced by 2004 Leon Champion [[James Pickford]], and [[Luke Hines]] as SEAT expanded to three cars, now run by Northern South. 2006 saw the Toledo replaced by the new [[SEAT León|León]], and [[Darren Turner]] joined the team with [[James Thompson (racing driver)|James Thompson]] when his WTCC commitments allowed. 2007 was SEAT's best year in BTCC, as Plato was locked in a season-long battle with [[Fabrizio Giovanardi]], which came down to the final race of the season, but just missed out on the title.

Since 2005, SEAT has also competed in the [[World Touring Car Championship]], with its first best season being 2007 when a failed [[water pump]] robbed [[Yvan Muller]] of a certain victory at the final meeting in Macau. SEAT became the first team to run a [[Turbocharged Direct Injection|TDI]] in the WTCC, and this gave them a dominant [[2008 World Touring Car Championship season]], with Yvan Muller winning the driver's championship. French racing team [[Oreca]] cooperates with the WTCC team. SEAT's UK team followed suit in the 2008 BTCC. The BTCC team was sponsored by [[Holiday Inn]].

In 2007, SEAT – with the [[SEAT León#1P|León Mk2 TDI]] at the [[Motorsport Arena Oschersleben]] in Germany – became the first manufacturer to win a round of the [[World Touring Car Championship]] (WTCC) series in a diesel car, only a month after announcing it will enter the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] World Touring Car Championship with the León TDI. SEAT's success with the León TDI continued and resulted in winning consecutively the [[2008 World Touring Car Championship season|2008 World Touring Car Championship]] and [[2009 World Touring Car Championship season|2009 World Touring Car Championship]] both titles (for drivers as well as for manufacturers').

In September 2008, SEAT UK announced that it would withdraw from all motor sport activity in the UK at the end of the season. The SEAT Cupra Championship and the SEAT BTCC campaign ended at Brands Hatch on 21 September. BTCC drivers Jason Plato and Darren Turner have been left without drives for 2009. But Plato will drive for Silverline [[Chevrolet]].

At the opening of the 2009 WTCC, SEAT placed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th in both races in Brazil.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.seat.com/en/seat-news/359.html |title=Spectacular double 1-2-3-4 for SEAT in Brazil |publisher=Media.seat.com |access-date=2009-04-27 |archive-date=2009-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315113455/http://media.seat.com/en/seat-news/359.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> At the second meeting of the WTCC (in Mexico), the SEAT team placed 1st, 4th, 6th, 7th and 11th in the first race. In the second race, they placed 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 8th.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.seat.com/en/seat-news/372.html |title=SEAT continues on winning streak in Mexico with Muller and Rydell |publisher=Media.seat.com |access-date=2009-04-27 |archive-date=2009-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416221952/http://media.seat.com/en/seat-news/372.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> While SEAT may have withdrawn from the BTCC, they are showing impressive results in the WTCC.
[[File:SEAT Cupra GT cropped.jpg|thumb|The [[SEAT Cupra GT]] in the [[Spanish GT Championship|Spanish GT championship]] for the SunRED racing team]]