Subaru BRZ to compete in Super GT Racing Championship next year - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

poormans_LFA · 11-13-2011, 04:01 AM

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Subaru has announced on its website that the BRZ will represent the company at next year's Super GT Championship in Japan by racing in the GT300 Class. That means it will probably replace the STI Legacy B4 currently racing in that class for Subaru.

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Subaru Tecnica International (STI) on December 13, Subaru "BRZ" in production-based racing car made it clear that it is planning to compete in the 2012 SUPER GT GT300 class series. BRZ is, FR compact sports car being developed jointly by Toyota and new Subaru. In the STI, in 2009, "Legacy B4" plans to compete with the R & D SPORT has competed in, and more are expected to announce the venue for the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon.

http://response.jp/article/2011/11/13/165377.html

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Dark · 11-13-2011, 04:09 AM

That sketchy picture excites me. Looks so hot.

Silverhks · 11-13-2011, 06:45 AM

Not a surprise, but very cool. I fully expect toyota to take advantage of finally having a sports car in its stable.

It will hopefully be showing up in many professional series here soon, alms, grand am, etc...

Matador · 11-13-2011, 08:15 AM

^ yeah no surprise. I wonder if APR will replace the Corolla Axio with the FT-86....

ft86Fan · 11-13-2011, 10:30 AM

No surprise but still very good news.

MiguelAE86 · 11-13-2011, 11:05 AM

I wonder how long until someone fills in that sketch for fun

*hint* *hint*

4agze · 11-13-2011, 05:25 PM

Wow great news, i love it that both cars are on a race campain makes it better for owners & enthusiast

Marrk · 11-13-2011, 07:07 PM

This can't be a bad thing. Racing improves the breed.

Matador · 11-13-2011, 07:20 PM

Super taiku would serve it better, Super GT cars are very unrelated to their street going counterparts these days.

Sea1monkey2 · 11-13-2011, 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

Super taiku would serve it better, Super GT cars are very unrelated to their street going counterparts these days.

+1

That'd be like asking someone to pull the street body of a gt-r out of this...

blur · 11-13-2011, 10:40 PM

Other GT classes aren't so extravagant....

cyde01 · 11-14-2011, 02:45 AM

Yeah gt300 is a lot closer to reality than that gt500 class gtr. But I agree that super taikyu would be even better for technology trickle down.

4agze · 11-14-2011, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by MatadorRacing_F1

Super taiku would serve it better, Super GT cars are very unrelated to their street going counterparts these days.

True true I'm waiting for is the BTCC or WTCC remember the old ae86 levin

Matador · 11-14-2011, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by blur

Other GT classes aren't so extravagant....

GT300 isn't as extravagant, but this is the Toyota that runs in GT300

That's supposed to be a Coroola Axio GT... right. Pretty sure even the IS350 is mid-engined.

@4AGZE, of course I remember

BTCC regs have recently got kinda weird with respect to their config and such.... lets see what happens.

Another outline.. any more info there?

11-13-2011, 04:09 AM	#2
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ft86Fan Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Drives: FR-S, Exige S, Miata Location: Basking Ridge NJ Posts: 798 Thanks: 327 Thanked 131 Times in 80 Posts Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	No surprise but still very good news. __________________ '13 Scion FR-S (Whiteout) '07 Lotus Exige S (Aspen White) Touring, Traction, Starshield '95 Miata (Montego Blue)

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