Seat sees red!

This is a messy episode. The Seat Leon TDi, usually placed at the top of the grid, had poor qualifying times. Spanish touring cars ranked 15th to 18th in qualifying for the French WTCC round on Saturday. For Yvan Muller, reigning world champion and who hoped to do well in front of the French public, it is even a snub. But the restrictions imposed on the Leon Tdi turbos explain these surprising results. Deprived of part of their power, the cars of Muller, Tarquini, Gene and Rydell were unable to qualify in Q2. Worse, they are even ranked behind the Seat Leon TFSI. And in particular Tom Coronel, who set an excellent third time less than half a second from pole.

Considering itself wronged by the FIA ​​regulations, the Seat Sport team is furious. And could possibly not present his cars on Sunday at the start of the first race. In any case, Seat feels targeted by this measure which only penalizes its cars and which prevents them from competing with the BMW 320si and Chevrolet Cruze. Antonio Rodriguez, Seat Sport team manager, even felt that it was “impossible to race in these conditions!” ". Beyond this Pau race, which already promises to be lost for Seat as the Leon TDi are far away on the grid, it is the regulations that Seat Sport wishes to review.