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Fastest Subarus in the UK

By Anthony Crawford |

If you happen to own a Subaru WRX or an STi and reside in the United Kingdom, Sunday September 23 is your lucky day.

This is round four of the Scooby Sprint Championship at Northamptonshire’s Santa Pod raceway.

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Anyone can go, which means you don’t need a racing licence or even the proper gear. Just bring a helmet and your Subaru and you can try and emulate the legendary Ken Block on a similar course set up.

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All cars compete against the clock and that’s everything from a standard spec WRX to fully worked WRC cars.


 
  • Flying High

    Great way to spend an afternoon…

  • Tim

    LOVE Subaru’s. Yes, their styling has always been different to mainstream stuff…but that is one of the unique features of owning one. Best AWD in the business (along with Audi), fantastic boxer engines and proper mini supercar performance with bulletproof reliability and good prices.

    I do realise I sound like a fanboy, but it is all from personal experience.

  • Alex

    Great way to spend an afternoon? Yes. One of the most irritating, boring and unpleasant groups of people to spend an afternoon talking to? Probably also a yes.

  • lee

    why do you need AWD for in the city? 90% of the cars are FWD or RWD, and they don’t get into accidents or have safety issues.

    days of internal combustion engine is numbered….

  • Devil666

    Tim, total fanboy. being able to recognize this fact doesn’t excuse it.

    Fantasic boxer engines? i think that is quite the overstatement, I find those boxers rather uneventful and even anemic at times, pure boredom (from my experience, 2.5 outback + forester, both manual, 3.6 Tribeca auto). unless you get the turbo. but just one good engine in the range? tad sad. maybe the diesel will change that for me.

    Really, the only reason the drivetrain is ‘bulletproof’ (i agree with you here) is because there is barely any stress through it, with such a mild range of powerplants. the suspension on the other hand is no match for Aus roads and just deteriorates over time.

    most of all, if I want a boxer, i’ll get one done right i.e porsche.

    still, I cant deny the BFYB, and thats with my allegiance to the Germans :)

  • RoFlmaTiC

    “this Sunday (23rd September)”

    What happened to the rest of august :o

  • demonaz

    What’s the bet that Devil666′s pov pack German car got owned by a Subie, and now he’s a real man by paying out Subaru on the internet.

  • http://Caradvice.com.au Baddass

    I’m glad Subaru sponsors and endorses events like this. If only other carmakers followed suit.

  • Toxic_Horse

    666 you sound like a goose
    the article is about the turbo

  • RdS

    I absolutley love bugeye wrx’s – a nice white MY02 STi itd be for me. :)
    ..pretty much the white one with the buddyclubs in the first pic. :D

  • Shadow Boxer

    666 is right. The normally aspirated boxer engines are the very definition of mediocre. Sure, a turbo Subaru is a different beast, but then again slapping a big turbo on something and going “ZOMG teh performance!!111″ is hardly a skill set unique to Subaru. Still…it just goes to demonstrate the marketing and perception power of a “halo” model or two in a lineup of otherwise unremarkable vehicles (saving for the remarkably ugly design of the newer ones).

  • Andy

    Best AWD in the business?
    I disagree, i believe the best would belong to Mitsubishi with the system they use in the EVO’s

  • m-a

    Good fun but a bit chav.

  • My Cars Called T-Rex

    Last time I looked Porsche had a boxer engine that was fast and powerful,320kw naturally aspirated 3.8 boxer.

  • http://www.gtddghf trainee

    Thats a day when you can show off your Subaru then everyone gets jealous cuz you have the nicest car hehehe.