Renault move to retake the Nurburgring frong-wheel drive lap record has already prompted a reaction from SEAT whose Leon Cupra had not been holding the record for long.
UK magazine AutoExpress got a statement out of Sven Schawe, the manager of chassis development for the hot Leon, who was quoted as saying: “Yes Renault has the record, but it’s a very different type of car to ours. If we removed parts from our car, it’s only four seconds, I’m confident we could beat it.”
Interestingly, it seems that the Spanish automaker had prepared for this and they say they already have a car in the same vein as Renault’s lightweight record beater – “We already have a car like this,” Schawe said, concluding that, “We wanted to offer a car that’s for everyone, that’s not limited. Now we need to decide if we want to continue this competition with Renault.”
What do we say? Fight! Fight! Fight!
By Andrei Nedelea
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