SEAT León
The Seat Leon is a compact car of the Spanish car manufacturer Seat, which was named after the Spanish provincial capital of León.
He shares his technical basis with the VW Golf.
The series at a glance
Seat Leon II 2005-2012
Seat Leon III since 2012
Motorsport
WTCC
The Seat Leon 1P in the Motorsport design contests since mid-2005 as the successor of the Seat Toledo race in the World Touring Car Championship. Due to the high body of the car has a high air resistance. As of 2007, sat on Seat 2.0 TDI diesel engines and was able to celebrate its first successes in the debut year. For the 2008 season Seat developed the TDI Leon 1P on. This TDI had an output of 209 kW ( 284 hp) and had a torque of 450 Nm. All these enhancements have succeeded seat to win the WTCC title in 2008 and 2009 in the drivers and the team standings. Even after the factory exit seats for the 2010 season of Leon 1P is further represented in the World Touring Car Championship - since mid-2011 preferred a petrol version with 1.6 -liter turbo engine.
Seat Leon Supercopa
From 2004 to 2011 held in Germany the brand Seat Cup Seat Leon Supercopa, which first took place later on the Beru Top10 weekends and in the accompanying program of the DTM. One season was the last of eight racing events with a free practice session, a qualifying session and two scoring runs of 30 minutes each. It could only be used Seat Leon's type " Supercopa ". The race car had a 2-liter four-cylinder turbocharged engine that made 300 hp. It took 24 cars regularly participate in the race. In addition, there was a changing VIP driver.
Other series of this name were and still are in Spain, Italy and France. In the United Kingdom existed with the Seat Cupra Championship Series with a Seat Leon Cupra cars. In addition Championships were held under the name Seat Leon Cup in Hungary and Turkey.
Seat Leon Eurocup
From 2008 to 2010 also the Seat Leon Eurocup was held, who drove in the WTCC. In the years 2008 and 2009, the respective weekend winners were set on the next WTCC race weekend at the wheel of a Seat of private teams Sunred Engineering, 2010, there was instead a cash prize. And the cars were technically improved, the vehicles had now a new electronic shift control, which made the gear changes faster and smoother.