Pepe Oriola switches to Chevrolet

WTCC race winner Pepe Oriola will switch from SEAT to Chevrolet for the remaining events of the current season.

The Spanish youngster, who claimed his first WTCC victory earlier this year at Marrakech, will race in a Chevrolet Cruze car run by the Tuenti Racing Team with RML technical support, from Porto onwards.

“We had a good offer from RML to run with one of their cars and decided to accept it. I am grateful to SEAT that gave me the opportunity to build my professional racing career since when I was 15 in the León Supercópa up to the WTCC. I would love to stay with them, but so far they have not decided about future programmes. I have to think about myself and I could not let go the opportunity to drive a Chevrolet,” Oriola explained, adding: “We won’t have the time for a proper test before Porto, so we have just planned a shakedown somewhere in England.”