2003 SEAT Cupra Championship explained

The 2003 SEAT Cupra Championship season was the inaugural running of the one-make championship. The championship consisted of ten rounds at five meetings held in England, beginning on 4 May at Croft, and finishing at Thruxton on 17 August. The championship winner was rewarded with a drive in the British Touring Car Championship for the SEAT Sport UK team. Robert Huff would eventually win the championship, holding off both Gordon Shedden and Stefan Hodgetts, as those three drivers shared nine of the ten race victories between them. Huff would go on to finish seventh in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship with his prize-winning drive.

Teams and drivers

All entries ran the Mk1 SEAT León entered by SEAT themselves.

	Drivers	Rounds
3	Stefan Hodgetts	All
4	Karl Goshawk	All
5	Charles Stewart	All
6	Natalie Barratt	All
7	Emmet O'Brien	All
9	James Pickford	All
10	Spencer Marsh	All
11	Hamish Gordon	All
12	Robert Huff	All
14	Paula Cook	All
15	Stephen Colbert	All
16	Andre D'Cruze	All
17	Ben Winrow	1-4
20	Julian Westwood	All
21	Craig Murray	1-2
22	Gordon Shedden	All
23	Gavin Smith	All

Calendar

Round	Track	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winner
1	Croft	4 May	Stefan Hodgetts	Gavin Smith	Stefan Hodgetts
2			Stephen Colbert	Robert Huff	Robert Huff
3	Silverstone	27 May	Stefan Hodgetts	Robert Huff	Stefan Hodgetts
4			Stefan Hodgetts	Stefan Hodgetts	Stefan Hodgetts
5	Oulton Park	13 July	James Pickford	Robert Huff	Robert Huff
6			Robert Huff	Gordon Shedden	Gordon Shedden
7	Rockingham	3 August	Robert Huff	Stefan Hodgetts	Stefan Hodgetts
8			James Pickford	Gavin Smith	Gavin Smith
9	Thruxton	17 August	James Pickford	Stefan Hodgetts	Robert Huff
10			Stefan Hodgetts	Stefan Hodgetts	Stefan Hodgetts

Championship Standings

• Points were awarded as follows:

Pos	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	FL
Race 1	15	12	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	1
Race 2	20	17	15	13	11	9	7	5	4	3	2	1	1

Pos Driver CRO SIL OUL ROC THR Pts 1 Robert Huff 4 1 2 2 1 2 NC 3 1 Ret 122 2 Gordon Shedden 3 3 6 3 6 1 2 7 DSQ 2 107 3 Stefan Hodgetts 1 7 1 1 Ret DNS 1 6 12 1 105 4 Gavin Smith 6 2 5 4 14 3 Ret 1 11 Ret 78 5 James Pickford 7 4 3 5 8 15 Ret 2 2 Ret 70 6 Stephen Colbert 5 Ret 4 9 2 4 Ret 5 13 3 69 7 Julian Westwood 15 5 8 7 3 6 Ret 8 3 5 66 8 Spencer Marsh 2 9 7 13 4 7 Ret DNS Ret 4 48 9 Andre D'Cruze 9 10 10 8 15 8 3 4 10 7 47 10 Emmet O'Brien 8 6 15 Ret 5 5 7 Ret 4 9 45 11 Paula Cook Ret 12 12 Ret 9 9 5 9 5 6 32 12 Hamish Gordon 12 14 13 10 10 11 6 10 6 8 24 13 Karl Goshawk 13 13 14 11 12 12 4 11 7 Ret 17 14 Craig Murray 10 8 9 6 17 15 Ben Winrow 11 11 11 12 7 10 Ret Ret 10 16 Charles Stewart 16 16 17 15 13 14 8 12 9 11 8 17 Natalie Barratt 14 15 16 14 11 13 Ret Ret 8 10 6 Pos Driver CRO SIL OUL ROC THU Pts

External links

• 2003 season results on the SEAT Sport UK website