The Subaru WRX STI Type RA NBR Special has set a new lap record for a four-door saloon at the 20.6 km Nurburgring Nordschleife race track, achieving a time of 6:57.5. The time attack car has also set lap records at the Isle of Man TT and the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb, where it was also third fastest overall.
Not to be confused with the Type RA road car, this Prodrive-built race car is a 2017 WRX STI with a full roll cage welded into the standard body for added strength and stiffness. It is powered by a modified 2.0 litre Subaru WRC-spec boxer engine with a 75 mm intake, and the turbo runs at 25 psi of boost.
This produces more than 600 hp at 8,500 rpm. Prodrive calculated the top speed at the Nurburgring would be 288 km/h at 8,500 rpm in top gear.
The car has nine-inch-wide slick tyres all around. It uses a WRC gearbox with an automatic clutch, modified with hydraulics for paddle-shift operation. Shift times are some of the fastest at 20 to 25 milliseconds.
A redesigned aero-package, different than last year’s TT car set up, delivers improved handling and top speed on the NBR Special. At top speed, the whole package produces about 295 kg of downforce.
The design includes a Drag Reduction System rear wing similar to the technology found in F1 cars. With its combined electric and hydraulic operation, the wing can deploy for full downforce/drag under braking or in fast turns and then open for less downforce/drag on long straights. The driver has full control of the DRS via a steering wheel mounted control taking less than 20 milliseconds to change position fully.
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So what Subary has done is take a race car and posed it as a regular 4 door saloon.
25 or 250psi of boost??
Must be some engine if it can take 250psi of boost.
1)Now I know what NBR means = Nur-Burg-Ring.
2)The car was ready to race when they fix the slick Dunlop tires to the car but the weather was not ready hence they have to change the tires to wet weather tires before they test the STi.
3)I must say this Prodrive-built race car did a good job of harnessing all 600hp to all wheels in the wet.
4)That unmistakable sound of the boxer engine screaming through Nurbugring.
5)What is so special about this NBR Special?! This car has a Drag Reduction System rear wing similar to the technology found in F1 that produces about 295 kg of down-force.
There you have it guys. Am sure some of our enthusiast readers like 4G63 can write/share a better comments here.
According to bashers, since Prodrive built rally car for Subalu so means Prodrive r belongs to Subalu, even thou Prodrive also built Mitsu rally cars.
250psi or 25psi? :D
250psi? Which turbo can boost up to 250psi? That size will be bigger than engine.
2.0 or 2.5?