just seen this on Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nürburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times
Controversies
Nordschleife runs are not without sometimes prominent critics. The TV Series Top Gear used the Nordschleife for their challenges, often involving Sabine Schmitz. Top Gear's James May, however, was very critical of the influence of Nordschleife lap timing, saying that it "corrupts performance when it is used by car makers to develop new models. Testing prototype cars on a circuit is nothing new, obviously: it's probably been going on since someone drove a horseless carriage onto a disused donkey derby track. But the 'Ring, through being communal and open to all, encourages a pointless scrabble for comparative lap times that isn't helping you or me."[5] According to Popular Science, "beating the 'ring, and making a YouTube video to prove it, is about the best marketing move a sports car company can make, even one that plans to roll only a double-digits'-worth of cars out of its production facility."
However all I can say is these are great cars, many people look down on SEAT but as i have seen many times on this site "IT BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE" so am very happy I bought the
Cupra rather than the VW R