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Sad day in motorsport to have Subaru pull out of the WRC
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Sad news My long time interest in rallying and the WRC is why I drive a WRX today............
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they will be back. . . in the mean time they might do what Citroen did a couple of years back, and run a Private "Kronos" type team until they release their new car.
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This has been coming for months, Prodrive and Subaru have been looking at parting ways for that long. Economical situations have nothing to do with it, lack of results = 'prodive' split and the S2000+T rules.
The rally championship to watch from 2009 onwards is the Intercontinental Rally Challenge - more cars, better events, much more closer competition - http://www.ircseries.com/html/
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Agree with you about the X. No one has managed to do much with them anywhere yet. And again how much extra oomph they going to get over a 4g63 Evo to move the extra kilos when they are restricted to 98? On topic, I wonder what will happen to Atkinson. Not much chance of a seat in either of the factory teams and I'd say he'd struggle to pull together the sponsorship in what is still really a European series to run a privateer car. Poor bugger.
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IRC and Irish tarmac rally ftw.
Or bring back the good ol' GroupB days
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There are some serious competitors out there.
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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Should have bought an STI |
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Dean recently won a gravel rally in china in an 08 and everyone (sti japan et al) was pretty happy about it. Maximums got 100nm more torque out of the 08 on pump fuel than they did out of the 07 spec C on elf. Exhaust variable valve timing FTW. Power is always handy but is certainly secondary to torque in the tarmac stuff. Also if you use pump fuel the tuners always leave a bit up their sleeve because of the irregularities in the fuel. My understanding is that there are a couple of other fuels that will garantee 98 octane and people will use these because you can tune right up to the limit knowing you have good fuel. I figured there would be no point buying an evo 9 or MY06 / 07 spec C as they are at the end of their development cycles and despite them being extremely well sorted and competitive now it will be interesting to see how they go in a couple of years. Brendon
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Losing is worse than death. You have to live with losing.... |
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wow that really sucks !! loved rally mainly because of subarus !!! real shame
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straight line racing is only half the fun.... C/Vale represent!! |
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Well 100nm on 98 isn't to be sneezed at that's for sure. I'd assumed (stupidly) that that was on elf or something.
Understand what you're saying about the 9 and 07s stis being at the end of their development cycle. When I bought my car in I was really torn about whether to buy a X RS instead of the IX because there was bugger all difference in price, but I wasn't and still aren't convinced that the improvements in the engine and the slightly wider track and ability to use wider rubber is going to out weigh the weight problems the X has. However I could be proven completely wrong! Obviously a different situation with the new Spec C STI. And considering there wasn't much in it between the Spec C and the 9's sounds like they might be ahead of the game with the new car.
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Ben Evo IX GT Last edited by WRC; 18-12-2008 at 08:24 AM. |
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