In the strange world of car press, it is good to be overcome. Access to the circle to lead something talented or overcome with full, useful and necessary confidence on the border. But the fluff in your stomach as a nerve breastfeed and fire around them – each of them is incomprehensible from the other – sometimes fun.
This is exactly what you find me now, I stood in the cold Pitlane and fog from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya while the driver of the hoti Gené shoe is heading to the RCCE roll to check the vision. The device is dangerous enough to ignite my nerve energy is the Cuprra Loon VZ TCR, also known as the latest car wandering for the Spanish company. It is qualified to compete in TCR-Ag races around the world, including the United States, will enter the market cup soon.
TCRS with a cup has sold well so far, as more than 400 of them appear in dozens of championships and won several, including TCR titles in Europe and Mexico 2024. CUPRA Racing (Sport Sport previously assembled Leons in its Martorell base along with the TCR embodiment of Audi RS3 And VW Golf GTI and still supports each one with the customers of each one. Audi and VW have retired since then from production, indicating a general decrease in the wealth of TCR options.
Although this may increase its share in the CUPRA market by default, it has not been based on its glories. The new repetition of Leon TCR is the most obvious front suspension engineering (adjustable, of course), the new SADEV gearbox, lipid dynamics, and very important beauty that the race car continues to match the road car.
The previous DSG Square’s offer has gone to the coding of amateur drivers, the ability to use and its length for two successive options now enough to revive the old weight penalty. The choice between SADEV and Hewland (our last today) is due to the preference of care instead of any tangible technological benefits for any of the rates of husband’s participation and differential settings.
Its motor is the same EA888 2.0 liters you will find in the regular CUPRA (and countless VW Vo Car), its devices are intact and merely editing electronic energy for 340 hp. Still shell and steel panels also remain, with only additional body of carbon fiber. However, it still releases standards in only 1,105 kg.
Such a strong link for display cars benefits all kinds of things: reliable and length of parts, satisfying saboteurs, and perhaps more tempting for everyone in a race race like this: cost. While 149,000 euros (before options) a lot for ion, it is a relative deal for something that could have been shaken until the support race last weekend for 24 hours.
You feel the most persuading RPR as an extension of the brand that we already know, which is the relationship between the showroom and the circles is definitely greater than that when Ferraris won Melia or Embrizas and Ivos at the stages of the assembly. So the Lyon -based TCR expatriate must feel just as a faster, more fragile and difficult hole about the transformations and turns in the Spanish Grand Prix.
He also wipes fog (well, often), Jordi jumps in one of the Cobra Form Mintor to lead me for half a scale. Usually such amazing briefing and endless evacuation forms come, but today I am suitable, and I do it and publish it through the slim cage opening without reminding the colors of science. I will simply follow the Spanish in its SUV, which looks on the surface security A way to take samples from a good -intention tour.
However, the wet cold circle is equal to the braking points in Slicks and DORTS, and it is only in a row as it was really on my way. Everywhere, Formentor cuts the shapes that deserve to be assembled by Mishap Sourismfahrten to keep a safe distance in front of me. The difference is that Jordi is wonderfully controlling, wonderfully. The CUPRA selection driver was thick Ring Ring, after all.
In the early rolls, I have an effort to keep up with it, washing the TCR nose widely from the top with modest entry speeds until Kumhus for it for warmth. Fortunately, everything can be managed in what is a completely reading car, and the comments that fall through each control, the most prominent of which is directed. I quickly go deep into the turns to help the axis of the tail, a procedure that looks completely natural, and it seems apparently in the midst of everything. The front facade is overpowering as soon as these tires gained heat and followed with sincerity of the jordi tour, and riding restrictions strongly as it does. Only in terms of sitting, you barely know that it is present.
The gearbox is also a friendly friend, as soon as the ego recovers from my first attempt by the hole box. Although it is disappointing to deny during its six speeds with DSG oxages in the showroom instead of fixed metal elements, the shifts are sharp enough to stop care. I felt a sparkling flat points and there is an automatic match on the way down, although not completely It was seized on the lower hat today, making sure that I kept knowing a moment of traction. With more time, perhaps I was activating the changes myself, although the spacing of the pedal indicates that the left brake has been better introduced than the heel.
It is EA888, unlike anyone else I tried (perhaps, for Golf GTI TCR alike, Matt Bird, samples have taken a few years ago), and their difficult heights and noise. Amazing what some ECU modifications can do, along with the anti -skipping system that properly permeates the morning air. The entire car has a feeling of durability and inability. Exactly what is required for your inputs to ignore their frequency. Racecars rarely enjoys frequency, and definitely becomes smoother and more satisfactory with my own enlarged confidence.
Then the Formentor’s scrolling index calls for time in our session. I have been biting and I will stay here throughout the day if I can. With the possibility of enormous arrest in the braking and suspension to explore it, also, slap the offer today in the middle of its potential settings. It has been proven that welcoming the leadership without being prepared, and it will certainly keep you busy between the TCR network packed in less conditions. I am still exaggerated, then. But those sparks in my stomach are now pure enthusiasm.
Specifications 2025 CUPRA Leon Vz TCR
engine: 1,984CC 4cyl, Turbo
Transition: 6 consecutive speeds, FWD
power: 340hp
0-62 miles per hour: 5.0Secs (EST)
top gear: 160 miles per hour (EST)
weight: 1,105 kg
price: 149,000 euros