Subaru Tecnica International (STI) will enter the new one WRX NBR Challenge 2023 during the 24 Hours of Nürburgring this year on May 20.
The 51st Nurburgring Endurance Race will mark Subaru’s 14th time participating in the event. It has hit podium spots in previous years and plans to take the top spot this year.
The car will race in the ‘SP4T’ class, for vehicles with turbocharged engines ranging from 2.0L to 2.6L.
Naoki Shibuya will be in charge of developing the new racing car, while Carlo van Dam (Netherlands), Tim Schrick (Germany), Hideki Yamauchi (Japan) and Takuto Iguchi (Japan) will drive the team.
The total length of the Nürburgring circuit is about 25km with an altitude of 300m, located in the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Subaru has developed the new race car on the Subaru Global Platform, which underpins much of the company’s current product line, including road car WRX.
It is powered by a version of Horizontal 2.4 liter turbocharged Boxer engine from the standard road car, combined with Subaru’s symmetrical AWD system.
Developments to the racing engine include larger ball joints in the front swingarm and a revised layout to accommodate a larger silencer to accommodate reduced driving noise. vehicle and improve aerodynamics. It outputs 280kW And 590Nman increase of 78kW and 240Nm over the standard WRX.
The team also installed a flexible drawer bar support that is lighter and more rigidly balanced, and 1290kg The WRX NBR Challenge 2023 is about 300kg lighter than the road-legal WRX.
Subaru will bring in eight service technicians from dealers across Japan to assist the team in Germany on race day.
The full range of vehicles for the SP4T class is yet to be announced, but the segment grid is expected to include Porsche Cayman 718 And M240i Race car.
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