Sunred (short for ''Sun Race Engineering Development S.L.'') is a Spanish-based

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team and constructor. They are best known for competing in the

World Touring Car Championship The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It has had several different incarnations, including a s ...

Racing History

While in the past Sunred had participated in GT races with the

SEAT Cupra GT The SEAT Cupra GT is a GT race car made by SEAT and introduced in a world premiere first as a concept car on 24 April 2003 at the Barcelona Motor Show. The final version of the Cupra GT was presented later, produced on customer demand by the Sp ...

, in the WTCC they made their debut with another

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car at the start of the 2008 season, running

Tom Coronel Tom Romeo Coronel (born 5 April 1972) is a Dutch professional racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His most important results are winning the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race in 1997, th ...

in a SEAT León TFSI for the full season. They also ran an additional car for the highest points-scorer in the WTCC-supporting SEAT León Eurocup at the previous weekend. One of these drivers in 2008 was Tom Boardman, who in 2009 Sunred signed to drive full-time alongside Coronel in their WTCC team. In

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, they ran the

factory supported SR-Sport team, with ex-SEAT drivers Gabriele Tarquini,

Tiago Monteiro Tiago Vagaroso da Costa Monteiro (; born 24 July 1976) is a Portuguese professional racing driver currently competing in the World Touring Car Cup, driving a Honda Civic TCR for Engstler Motorsport. He competed in Formula One between 2005 an ...

and

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driving León TDIs alongside Coronel. They also ran two TDIs under the Sunred banner for rookies

Michel Nykjær Michel Nykjær (born 17 September 1979) is a Danish auto racing driver. Nykjær is a two-time European Touring Car Cup winner. Career Early years Between 1989 and 1993 he spent his early racing years in karting. After a break, he returned to mo ...

and

Fredy Barth Frédéric Nicolas "Fredy" Barth (born 5 December 1979 in Lucerne) is an auto racing driver from Switzerland. He currently drives in the World Touring Car Championship. Racing career Early years Barth started out in karting before stepping up t ...

. In

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, Sunred was announced to field Ford GTs in the FIA GT1 World Championship. They also run cars in the SEAT León Eurocup and Spanish equivalent, the León Supercopa. Sunred also build and run the Sunred SR21 in the International GT Open and Spanish GT Championship.

Gallery

File:SEAT Cupra GT.jpg, G. Vivancos and J. Vinyes in a

in the Spanish GT Championship 2006. File:Tom Coronel and Augusto Farfus 2008 Japan.jpg, Tom Coronel and Augusto Farfus at the 2008 WTCC Race of Japan. File:Tom Coronel 2009 WTCC Marrakech.jpg,

driving for Sunred at the 2009 WTCC Race of Morocco. File:Tom Coronel 2009 WTCC Race of Japan (Free Practice).jpg, Tom Coronel at the 2009 WTCC Race of Japan. File:Gabriele Tarquini 2011 WTCC Race of Japan (Practice 1).jpg, Gabriele Tarquini at the 2011 WTCC Race of Japan.

References

External links

* Spanish auto racing teams World Touring Car Championship teams FIA GT1 World Championship teams International GT Open teams Racecar constructors {{Sport-team-stub Auto racing teams established in 2004