page_title: Fredy Barth
section_title: SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED (2010–2012)
hierarchical_section_title: Fredy Barth / Racing career / World Touring Car Championship / SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED (2010–2012)
caption_attribution_description: World Touring Car Championship 2011 Race of Japan: Fredy Barth (SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED) during the qualify session on Saturday.
context_page_description: Frédéric Nicolas "Fredy" Barth is an auto racing driver from Switzerland. He currently drives in the World Touring Car Championship.
context_section_description: Barth made his World Touring Car Championship debut for Sunred Engineering at the 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil. At the start of race one of the Race of Morocco he moved up from eighth to third but was demoted to fourth by Tiago Monteiro, a position which he finished in. He started on the reversed grid pole position in Portugal but a slow start dropped him down to eighth at the end of the first lap. Barth finished the season thirteenth in the overall standings and third in the Rookie Challenge having led early on.
  He returned for another season in 2011, racing under the SEAT Swiss Racing by SUNRED banner. He was due to start on the reversed grid pole for the Race of Belgium but due to damage sustained in race one he was unable to take up his position on the grid. At the season finale in Macau, a major accident on the Friday ruled him out of the rest of the weekend. Barth was knocked unconscious by the impact before the car caught fire, he was extracted from the car and taken to hospital to treat smoke inhalation, back contusion and concussion. He was discharged from hospital the following morning.
  Barth was unable to secure a budget to continue in the WTCC for a full season in 2012, electing instead to race in the Blancpain Endurance Series. He returned to the WTCC for the final two rounds of the season. In his first race back at the Race of China he finished tenth in the provisional classification before a 30-second penalty dropped him out of the points, to fourteenth.
caption: Barth driving for SEAT Swiss Racing at the 2011 FIA WTCC Race of Japan.
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