SEAT Cupra Championship Prize Fund Increased to Over £650,000

26 January 2004

With a works touring car drive for the champion, the total prize fund for this year’s SEAT Cupra Championship has been increased to over £650,000, making it the most well rewarded motorsport series in the UK.
 
The winner of the 12-round SEAT Cupra Championship will walk away with the biggest single prize in British motorsport – an official works touring car drive in 2005 worth approximately £500,000, plus a £30,000 salary and a sporty company SEAT car.  This is the only prize that guarantees an up and coming star a professional drive at the end of the year.
 
The SEAT Cupra Championship is not only about the overall champion.  The drivers that finish 2nd, 3rd and 4th share scholarship awards of £75,000 for them to put towards their budgets for the 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship, making a two year push for the touring car seat a realistic goal for any budding newcomer. The £75,000 is split as follows: 2nd receives £30,000, 3rd wins £25,000 and the 4th placed driver gets £20,000.
 
In addition, each of the 20 drivers receives £100 start money for each of the 12 races, while each race has a prize fund of £2,000 – increasing the overall fund by nearly £50,000.
 
The one person who appreciates the value of the top prize more than anyone else is the 2003 Holiday Inn SEAT Cupra Champion, Rob Huff, who won his works drive with SEAT Sport UK in this year’s Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship – driving a SEAT Toledo Cupra alongside team-mate Jason Plato (the 2001 BTCC Champion).
 
Huff said: “Take it from me, the SEAT Cupra Championship offers a driver the best opportunity to progress their career in British motorsport. In twelve races you can leap from being an amateur to being a professional works touring car driver. For an ambitious young driver that is worth more than anything else. Quite simply, contesting the SEAT Cupra Championship was undoubtedly the best season I’ve ever had in motorsport - and just about the best year of my life so far.”
 
The 12 round 2004 SEAT Cupra Championship, which is held over six ‘double header’ race weekends, starts at Brands Hatch on April 24/25.

For more information please contact the SEAT Cupra Championship Press Officer, Paul Evans, on 029 20 38 30 88. Interested drivers should contact the SEAT Cupra Championship Co-ordinator, Mark Turner, on 01604 708075.
 
See series calendar for SEAT Cupra Championship 2004

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