The inaugural SEAT Cupra Championship began in May at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire, where the seventeen car grid comprised a mix of single seater convertees, established one make saloon experts, plus a 17 year old schoolboy and a rally driver. It was Stefan Hodgetts, the son of a former double BTCC Champion who stunned everyone by taking a lights to flag win in his first ever tintop race, a feat which he would go on to repeat a further four times during the ten race season. One of the other performances of the meeting was by former Clio Cup driver Robert Huff, who bounced back from a qualifying crash and fifteenth place on the grid to take a respectable fourth in race one, before taking victory in the second event of the day.

This left Huff leading the series as it left Croft and went to the Grand Prix track at Silverstone. The Northamptonshire track saw Hodgetts claim the poles and wins for both races, closely followed by Huff who took a slender one point lead over his rival going into the next meeting. Silverstone was also a weekend where the driving standards of many drivers were called into question and numerous clashes resulted in a mass trip to the Clerk of the Course's office, with fines and licence endorsements being handed out.

The next pair of races were at Oulton Park in July on one of the hottest weekends of the year. It was also the weekend where the defining moment in the season was played out. While running second behind James Pickford, Hodgetts suffered brake trouble and tapped his best friend out of the lead at Knickerbrook. Then when he approached the daunting Druids bend, his brakes failed completely and he crashed heavily, ending his weekend with a car too damaged to continue, while he could only sit and watch his rival Huff extend his lead in the title race. Huff took the win in that race and followed it up with second in the shortened round six.

Rockingham followed and in front of a 44,000 crowd, Hodgetts won to capitalise on a large crash between Huff and Spencer Marsh, which left the championship leader's car in less than perfect condition for the second race. Luckily for Robert Huff, Stefan Hodgetts had trouble with the performance and handling of his car, which left him languishing further down the field than he wanted to be and Huff took advantage of that to take third place and head to the finale at Thruxton with a healthy lead which would see a title shootout between the cars of Huff, Hodgetts plus Gordon Shedden and Gavin Smith, who both had mathematical chances of pipping the main two drivers to the championship.

Thruxton's nature as a track which kills tyres was more than evident in the first race, which resulted in Stefan Hodgetts suffering a puncture and dropping from a big lead in the race to disappointment as he realised his championship bid was over. As ever, Robert Huff was there to benefit from Hodgetts misfortune and clinched the coveted title along with it's valuable prize by taking the chequered flag. Hodgetts regained some pride in round 10 of the series by winning his fifth race of the season, but it wasn't enough to prevent Shedden from taking the runner's up spot in the championship and he had to settle for third overall.