Churchill Motorsport Secures First 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship Cars

25 October 2004

Churchill Motorsport is the first team to secure two Leon Cupra Rs to race in the 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship, with brothers Adrian and Ian Churchill ensuring sibling rivalry will be on track as they race against each other for a share of the £200,000 prize fund.

Based in the village of Potterspury near Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, Churchill Motorsport has a long and successful history in saloon car racing. Both Adrian (39) and Ian (35) started racing in 1995, with Adrian winning the 1998 Rover Turbo and the 2002 Super Coupe Cup titles and Ian winning the 1996 Polo Cup, the 1997 and 2002 Rover Turbo and the 2003 Super Coupe Cup titles. Their impressive titles to championship ratio is likely to make them frontrunners in the 2005 SEAT Cupra Championship - but don't expect team orders from within Churchill Motorsport, as Adrian and Ian are just as keen to beat each other as they are to beat everybody else. Their father Wilf Churchill, himself an experienced racing driver, will help prepare both Leon Cupra Rs.

Adrian said: "I've followed the SEAT Cupra Championship for two years and now that the cars are available to buy and be run by individual teams, this is the opportunity we have been waiting for to get involved. I think it's going to be a very competitive series, but we'd rather invest some money in a good championship with good competition. The team prize fund is very attractive too, and we'll be going all out to win it."

Ian said: "I'm going to give it my all next year - I'm in the SEAT Cupra Championship for one thing, and it's not to follow people around a circuit. I have raced on the TOCA Tour before, so I'm really excited about returning and racing in a very professionally run series. There is a lot of rivalry between Adrian and myself. We both think we're the better driver and you can be sure there will be no chance of team orders."

Scott Dennis, SEAT UK National Motorsport Manager, said: "We are extremely encouraged by the positive response we have received from many racing teams since we announced our new-look SEAT Cupra Championship for 2005. The interest in buying the grid of SEAT Leon Cupra R race cars is extremely high and we are delighted that Churchill Motorsport is the first to fully commit to racing in the series next year and has signed up and paid a deposit on two cars twenty four weeks before the opening rounds on April 10."

See series calendar for SEAT Cupra Championship 2005

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