Draft:SEAT World Rally Team

SEAT
Full name	SEAT World Rally Team
Base	Martorell, Spain
World Rally Championship history
Debut	1998 Monte Carlo Rally
Last event	2000 Rally GB
Manufacturers' Championships	0
Drivers' Championships	0

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SEAT World Rally Team was the official SEAT team that competed in the World Rally Championship during the years 1998 and 2000, and previously in the 2 Liter World Rally Cup between 1996 and 1998. It was managed by its sports area, SEAT Sport. The team debuted in the 1998 Monte Carlo Rally and competed in a total of fifty-one events. He did not achieve any victory but three podiums: New Zealand and Great Britain in 1999 and the Safari in 2000. The last event in which he took part was the Rally of Great Britain in 2000.

The team made its debut in the world championship, after the success in the 2 Liter Cup that it had won three times, in the 1998 season. The drivers who debuted were Harri Rovanperä and Oriol Gómez in the Monte Carlo Rally, achieving an eleventh place for Rovanpera, while Oriol had to withdraw. After Sweden, the brand faced the tough African test, the Safari Rally where the Finn achieved fifth place, thus adding the first points for the brand in the constructors' and drivers' championships.

History

In the 1990s, SEAT had extensive and long experience in rally competitions. His activity focused mainly on Spain where he participated in both the Spanish Rally Championship and the Spanish Dirt Rally Championship. One of the first trips to international tests in that decade was in 1993 with the participation of José María Serviá in the Baja Portugal with the SEAT Toledo Marathon. In 1995 the brand returned to the world rally championship with the SEAT Ibiza 1.8 16V in group A, with which it debuted in the Rally of Portugal, achieving third place in the two-wheel drive category. The following year he participated in the 2 Liter Rally World Cup with the SEAT Ibiza Kit Car, achieving the title in his first year. He would revalidate the title in the following two years in 1997 and 1998 and in view of these results he decided to build his first World Rally Car, the SEAT Córdoba WRC with which he would debut in the top category in the 1999 season.^{[citation needed]}

World Championship 1998-2000

In 1998 the brand had drivers Harri Rovanperä and Oriol Gómez who competed in the world championship with the SEAT Ibiza and whose results alternated abandonments with classifications far from the points. The best result of the first half of the season was Rovanperä's fifth place in the Safari Rally, first in the group A category. The SEAT Córdoba WRC did not debut until the Rally Finland, a test in which while Oriol abandoned, his teammate He finished in a discreet eleventh position.^{[citation needed]}

WRC Results

Year	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	WDC	Points	WMC	Points
1998	SEAT Córdoba WRC	9	Harri Rovanperä	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN 11	ITA Ret	AUS 11	GBR 6		15th*	3*	5th	1
		10	Oriol Gómez	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN Ret					-	0
			Marc Duez											ITA 16	AUS Ret			-	0
			Gwyndaf Evans													GBR Ret		-	0
1999	SEAT Córdoba WRC	9	Harri Rovanperä	MON 7	SWE 16	KEN 6	POR Ret	ESP 14	FRA 13	ARG Ret	GRE Ret	NZL Ret						9th	10	5th	23
	Seat Cordoba WRC Evo2	9	Harri Rovanperä										FIN 5	CHN 5	ITA 16	AUS 6	GBR 3	9th	10
	SEAT Córdoba WRC	10	Piero Liatti	MON 6	SWE	KEN Ret	POR Ret	ESP 10	FRA 9	ARG Ret	GRE Ret							23rd	1
	Seat Cordoba WRC Evo2		Piero Liatti											CHN Ret	ITA 16			23rd	1
	SEAT Córdoba WRC		Marcus Grönholm		SWE Ret													15th*	5*
	SEAT Córdoba WRC		Toni Gardemeister									NZL 3						13th*	6*
	Seat Cordoba WRC Evo2		Toni Gardemeister										FIN 6			AUS 16	GBR Ret	13th*	6*
	Seat Cordoba WRC Evo2	16	Gwyndaf Evans	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	CHN	ITA	AUS	GBR Ret	-	0
	Seat Cordoba WRC Evo2	20	Toni Gardemeister	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG	GRE			CHN	ITA Ret			13th*	6*
2000	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo2	7	Didier Auriol	MON Ret	SWE 10	KEN 3	POR 10	ESP 13	ARG Ret	GRC Ret	NZL Ret							12th	4	5th	11
	SEAT Córdoba WRC Evo3	7	Didier Auriol									FIN 11	CYP Ret	FRA 8	ITA 17	AUS 8	GBR 9	12th	4
	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo2	8	Toni Gardemeister	MON 4	SWE Ret	KEN Ret	POR 9	ESP Ret	ARG Ret	GRC Ret	NZL Ret							13th	4
	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo3	8	Toni Gardemeister									FIN Ret	CYP Ret	FRA 11	ITA Ret	AUS 6	GBR 12	13th	4
	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo2	17	Harri Rovanperä	MON	SWE 12	KEN	POR	ESP	ARG	GRC	NZL							9th*	7*
	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo3	17	Harri Rovanperä									FIN	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS	GBR 10	9th*	7*
	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo3	20	Gwyndaf Evans	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	ARG	GRC	NZL	FIN	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS	GBR Ret	-	0
2001	SEAT Cordoba WRC Evo3	-	Marc Blázquez	MON	SWE	POR 16	ESP Ret	ARG Ret	CYP Ret	GRC	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR	–	0	-	0
		21	Salvador Cañellas Jr.	MON	SWE	POR	ESP Ret	ARG	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR	–	0
		24	Gwyndaf Evans	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR Ret	–	0