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TwitterThe FIA World Motor Sport Council has ratified the World Rally Championship’s switch to non-turbocharged Super 2000 cars from 2011. While it had been known for some time that the S2000 rules would form the basis of the WRC’s next technical package, there was continued debate over how much the more standard cars would be [...]
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Fact: Subaru pulls out of WRC
Posted by Acejam on December 16th, 2008
Subaru have become the latest team to withdraw from next year’s World Rally Championship as the economic downturn continues to hit motorsport hard. It comes a day after Suzuki also quit the WRC and less than a fortnight after Honda withdrew from Formula One. Colin McRae, Richard Burns and Petter Solberg all won titles with [...]
WRC2008 Gearbox nominated for Powertrain Innovation of the Year
Posted by Acejam on November 30th, 2008
The newly designed Prodrive / Xtrac transmission that is used by the Subaru World Rally Team has been nominated for the Powertrain Innovation of the Year award. This is an award that is given out at the annual Professional Motorsport World Expo. For those readers who may not know, this expo is considered to be [...]