[WTCC] Oreca and Seat split

[werner]

Hugues de Chaunac: Oreca won't run SEAT factorycars next year.
Questions:
-Will Seat Sport stay in the wtcc, and if so, with how many cars?
-Who will drive those cars? (Gene and Tarquini are mentioned in the article to stay at Seat, they will probably keep Monteiro as well, since he really sells cars in Portugal. Muller is said to negotiate with Chevy. Rydell anyone?)
-What will the redundant drivers do?
-Wat will Oreca do? (French GT? FIA GT? LMS? private wtcc-entry?)

[Dudu]

Originally Posted by werner

Hugues de Chaunac: Oreca won't run SEAT factorycars next year.
Questions:
-Will Seat Sport stay in the wtcc, and if so, with how many cars?
-Who will drive those cars? (Gene and Tarquini are mentioned in the article to stay at Seat, they will probably keep Monteiro as well, since he really sells cars in Portugal. Muller is said to negotiate with Chevy. Rydell anyone?)
-What will the redundant drivers do?
-Wat will Oreca do? (French GT? FIA GT? LMS? private wtcc-entry?)

As I said a few days ago, KSO and FIA should focus on private teams if they want more than 15 cars in 2010!!

Oreca has plenty of others programs, they can easily live without WTCC. They will probably enter 2 R8 LMS in French GT3 championship. In any case, the best engineers are already working on the LMP1 project and not in WTCC.

[cmk]

As mentioned, ORECA as a constructor (and related) business and ORECA as a race team does not seem to be hurting for business. They have their LMS P1 project and the FFSA-GT Audi GT3s, but they also have the FLMS cars to manufacture/rebuild, the production and maintenance of the new ALMS Challenge prototypes, their spare parts/rebuild business for all the SEAT touring cars running around the world (unless they lose that too?) and even a few Viper GT3s to sell parts for...and surely some things that I'm missing. Pretty healthy business plan in today's scheme of things!