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anyone watchin it last night , two hour specials on subaru in two different events, very good , was on about 12 pm

but my point , they showed a hawkeye wrc and his cousin the road going sti, and here,s just a quick comparrison

wrc sti (standard)

price 630,000 38,000
time taken on a 3km test track 1:30 1:38


so for 600k on a 3km track u get 8 seconds ,(id say about 3 seconds were at the start due to launch control) i was shocked at how little the difference was , surely for 50 grand u could do a lot to a standard sti , ie weight reduction, launch control, more bhp,trq, and get a similar time . and u would have half a mil in the back pocket


did anyone see it or have any opinions on it
 
Didn't see it but man thats nothing in the difference :icon_omg:

for an extra 600K :wall:

I could do alot with that sort of dough
 
ye but the standard sti if crashed you would be killed in it, most likely not in the wrc

you could also drive that 3 km stage all day in the wrc with no problems, i dont think the standard sti would

and plus if there were 16 3 km stages on a rally and each one you could win buy 8 seconds ,thats a total of 2 min 8 seconds

ive seen a lot of rallies won over alot less time
 
@ duffman

surely you could build a safe, reliable and powerful, stripped out race car(impreza) for 130,000 euros , that would be 8 seconds faster than factory sti :ponder2: :ponder2:












and still have half a mil in back pocket :dontknow:

this was the price of wrc cars because of factory budget (im guessing), but i was also wonderin how much donnelly or boland paid for their wrc cars, caus at rally ireland u could clearly see the diff between the two different categories (factory teams , privateers)
 
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@ duffman

surely you could build a safe, reliable and powerful, stripped out race car(impreza) for 130,000 euros , that would be 8 seconds faster than factory sti :ponder2: :ponder2:

yes but would it pass FIA rules












and still have half a mil in back pocket :dontknow:

this was the price of wrc cars because of factory budget (im guessing), but i was also wonderin how much donnelly or boland paid for their wrc cars, caus at rally ireland u could clearly see the diff between the two different categories (factory teams , privateers)
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i agree with you, its crazy money and the sooner the FIA stop with there stupid rules for eg; havent to use FIA approved fuel which costs 3 times as much as normal race fuel we will start to see subaru and the likes back in rallying, it costs far to much to compete in a wrc round now towards a national rally and i think they should srcap wrc and go with group n instead of s2000 as then shitron and ford would have to make a road going group n car like the impreza , evo and the old escorth cosy and integrale, which means we will all see some nice road cars again
 
Reality check time :icon_jook:

I've done a shakedown stage outside Milstreet for the Rally of the lakes as a guest passenger in in an Impreza S12 and I can tell you with launch control, Alcon stoppers and active diffs there is no way a regular STI could stay within 8 seconds of it. The STI's brakes and tyres would not withstand the kind of torture the WRC car can easily take and without antilag it wouldn't see which way the S12 went. Just look at the N12 times compared to the WRC cars, they are in a different league and the N12 would leave the regular STI for dead. The WRC cars are 750k for a reason. Everything in them is manufactured in such small numbers that the cost alone to produce a rear diff for eg is around Stg £35,000.

Some good news on the WRC scene is that Gronholm has confirmed he will be running an 08 Impreza WRC S13b (the very last version before Subaru pulled the plug) with full Prodrive support in Rally Portugal :multijump:.

Marcus wanted to do the full 2009 season but Subaru wanted him to compete in only 6 events and then they pulled out of the WRC altogether. So now we will have Petter and Gronholm in Portugal which will make the battle for 5th place very exciting.

Frawls
 
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