Seat's new diesel BTCC challenger

Seat will be switching to diesel power for this year's BTCC with a TDi Leon racer.

Seat ran diesels in the World Touring Car Championship last year and was only narrowly beaten to the title when Yvan Muller's Leon went pop at the final round.

Despite this, Seat Sport UK have an uphill battle ahead; they have yet to receive their new engines from Seat Spain, they've carried out no testing and neither their drivers (Jason Plato and Darren Turner) have driven diesel race cars.

Don't expect the cars to tug around at the back come the first race - those diesels have an incredible amount of torque...

© Source: topgear
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