This May, SUBARU Tecnica International (STI) heads to the Nurburgring circuit for the "37th ADAC Zurich 24 Hour Race" (24 Hours of the Nurburgring) with an originally tuned version of the Impreza WRX STI aiming for a class victory.

The ADAC Zurich 24-hour race takes place at the course of 25.378km in total, and is the largest endurance event in the world, with more than 200 cars participating, familiarized by European manufacturers who enter every year. STI particularly and practically uses 20.832kms "Nordschleife" (also called "Old Course"), known as intensively severe course, as a proofing ground for STI developed vehicles. STI's objective to participate this event is to collect data and verify technical know-how, and also to learn out of this race for future STI vehicle development. STI's vehicle development is focused on further enhancing the unique ride quality which can be characterized by the theme, "Strength and nimbleness".

he participating car is Impreza WRX STI built and tuned exclusively by STI, adopting "Flexible Tower Bar", along with a variety of original chassis and body stiffener and components. Modifications also include weight-reduction and safety equipment installation.

The car will participate in the SP3T class (for turbo-equipped machines with an engine displacement of 2.0litter). STI will conduct the team management for this race, supervised by Hideharu Tatsumi (STI's General Manager of Vehicle Experiment Division), while racing the car are four highly experienced professional Japanese drivers.

Last update: 23-04-2009 01:07

Round 4 of the Autobacs SuperGT series was held at the Sepang Circuit, located near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The Sepang track is approxmiately 5.5km's long and this event would see the 20+ GT300 drivers doing 35 laps to the finishline!

Last update: 21-07-2008 10:25

On May 24th and 25th, the ADAC ZURICH 24hr Race (a.k.a. Nurburgring 24 Hour Race) was held at the Nurburgring Circuit (approx. 25km/lap) in Germany. The Subaru NBR Impreza (drivers: Toshihiro Yoshida, Hideshi Matsuda, Naoki Hattori, Koji Matsuda), entered by the SUBARU NBR CHALLENGE TEAM, finished the 24-hour race coming in 57th overall and 5th in the SP6 class.

Last update: 20-07-2008 20:51

The NBR Impreza to be entered into the 2008 NBR 24hrs is more like a road car which satisfies racing car standard safety measures rather than a racing based on a modified road car. 

A common raod-car-based racing car reinforces the chassis etc, from the white body stage to create an extremely stiff 'box', then applies modifications to avoid roll and nose driving (pitch).

Last update: 20-07-2008 16:53