Isle of Man TT 2016 Subaru WRX STI

[EL34]

This car is awesome!

I saw 176mph a few times on regular street roads!

Taking corners at 160mph+

The warm up lap ends at about 2:30

[shooter]

I started with the '03 WRX, tweaked it a smidge, tightened the chassis some, then spent 5 years learnin rally style driving.
moved up to '08 EVOx-GSR which at the time was special designed to beat the STI, was even known as STI killer.  Was the meanest car I ever drove.  Sold it to a kid that already had one, mine was for his GF, they took it from the 360HP I had, to 550HP and made a drift car outta it!


watching his BPM made me chuckle, that was probably the hardest thing to control, (keeping your sheet together) driving on the edge of the envelope.  Great times!

[acheld]

Wow!

Fantastic driving.  That, friends, is more difficult than dogfighting an F-16! 

I'd be comfortable driving that at about 1/4 of the speed he was doing . . . 

[shooter]

at about 1/4 of the speed

That's how you do it, slow......!
once you build up muscle memory enough, then you can add speed.  (a tricked out 1/4-million-dollar car doesn't hurt either  )


my goal was to double the posted speed limit for curves as I came out. (AND stay in my lane!!!)
I was stuck a 35mph (70) couldn't solve it.  Talked with my kid (avid gamer that liked the rally video games)


He called a couple days later, explained what he did on the games, took that knowledge to my favorite double "S" 35mph section and an hour later I was leaving the curve at 72mph pretty consistent!


anyone can drive fast in a straight line 

[EL34]

I was curious about what he said about they changed the chassis

Wonder what they did to it over the previous years attempt?

[shooter]

The STI, like most modern cars is a uni-body.  The suspension is hung to it.  the uni-metal was on the thin side causing unwanted flex.  that was around 2010, after that I quit following the tech data.


I never followed the pro's changes much since I was just a good amateur driver, in a mostly-stock rally car.
the shop manuals alone set me back $800 just for books!!! and factory parts, or factory performance parts were a paycheck each! 

[shooter]

The lineage for the modern 2.0L 4 door rally class goes back to the mid 80's (IIRC)


the 2 cars I had were based off Subaru's Impressa platform and Mitsubishi's Lancer.
both took the stock platform, gave them all-wheel vs front wheel, turbo'd, better brakes, suspension, and more.
my '03 WRX was the culmination of the early days, the STI and "upgrade" to WRX, heads, brakes, bigger throttle-body, bigger turbo.
'08 was the next "big jump" for the WRX-STI.  from the video, I'd say the '16 was another "big jump"
somewhere around '06 the platform moved to the 2.5L


the Lancer platform had the Evolution line, (EVO), similar to the WRX, again '08 was a big jump.  Mitsubishi added a computer controlled rear-end, variable valves, 28lb turbo and large throttle body, the braking system was a thing of beauty. 100 to 0 in <120ft!


 

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Upper michigan winter rally race at DuckDuckGo


amateur video
start at 2:00
The white car is an '03 WRX, the next one, blue, is the version I had.
Once I put in a set of winter tires, steel rims, 5mm studs, winter became fun again! 


fwiw, guessing speeds ~~ 60mph as they clear the mud-hole then start hammer'n gears and brakes, it's bad form to Mame spectators