Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR Special smashes Nurburgring lap record – ForceGT.com

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The enigma surrounding Subaru’s outing at the Nurburgring endure month can now be answered. The company has habitual that the WRX STI Type RA NBR Special has set a new lap information for a four-door sedan at the illustrious 20.6 km Nürburgring Nordschleife canal track, achieving a time of 6 instant and 57.5 seconds.

Subaru collective the WRX STI Type RA NBR Special showcase its ability and the company’s renown all-wheel coerce system. Already set the fastest lap generation at the Isle of Man TT course and finished 3rd inclusive at the Goodwood Festival of Speed highland climb, the special-built WRX STI change the first four-door saloon to dip below 7 minutes approximately the circuit.

Subaru says the time was achieved victimisation the Nurburgring timing equipment and was formally verified by track officials. The Prodrive-reinforced time attack car is equipped with a convention spec 2.0-liter Pugilist engine and Subaru Symmetrical All-Handwheel Drive.

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“We brought the WRX STI Kind RA NBR Special here to set a record and birdsong attention to the WRX STI Type RA that we Testament launch (in America) later this gathering”, said Subaru America Production Communications manager Dominick Infante.

“The WRX STI Class RA promises a great deal, with built performance and styling and even choice handling dynamics than the in fashion car.”

The Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR Special is a customised raceway car built by Prodrive, Subaru’s gathering and performance technical partner. The NBR Especially uses a stock 2017 WRX STI with a plentiful roll cage welded into the sample WRX STI unibody for added strength and harshness. Power comes from a adapted 2.0-liter Subaru WRC-description boxer motor. It uses a 75-mm uptake, and the turbo runs at 25 psi of further. The race engine produces more than 600 h.p. (447kW) at 8,500 rpm. Prodrive adapted the top speed at the ’Ring would be 179 mph (288 km/h) at 8,500 rpm in top geartrain.

The RA badge has appeared on many early WRX models and stands for “Record Endeavour” or “Rally Applicant”. The original baby took place in 1989 when a rival version Subaru Legacy indigent the FIA World Speed Endurance Case by clocking over 62,000 miles (99,779 km) in 18 life and set a top speed record of 138 mph (222 km/h).

A picture of the record-setting Nurburgring lap Testament be released by Subaru shortly.

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