New Seat Leon Cup Racer
SEAT took the wraps off its
2016 Leon racer, continuing its intense and long standing commitment to
motorsport.
The new racing season will
once again see the SEAT Leon Eurocup on some of the most fascinating racetracks
in six European countries, and at the starting grid will be the Spanish car
maker’s Leon Cup Racer, a top-flight machine with 330
PS on tap and filled to the brim with technology.
The company says that more
than 100 of these racing cars are now used by teams from 22 countries in a wide
array of racing series, including the new TCR international series. Not only
that, but the Cup Racer will be continuously developed in many details
throughout the season – thus ensuring for a more captivating motorsport
experience.
The improved, second variant
of the SEAT Leon Cup Racer TCR, will sport a sequential gearbox as it’s equipped and optimized for endurance racing, as Dr.
Matthias Rabe, Vice President of SEAT S.A. for Research and Development
mentions:
This racing machine can be
ordered form SEAT Sport in DSG guise for € 85,000 (US$ 94,680), or with the TCR
sequential form for € 110,000 (US$ 122,557).
