I want to thank City Tire and AE Performance for track support, you guys rock, and Hankook tire for outfitting the car with their outstanding Ventus RS3 tires. Pics and more details soon, first I will enjoy having Memorial day off!

Labels: Carbonetic, Crawford Performance, Drifting, Hankook, Racecar setup, Racing, SuperLap, Testing

It's been increibly windy and dusty here today, yet we got good data for this car on this track and even though we can't directly compare times to Redline a few weeks ago, due to a longer track config today, we have sector times and comparisons to other regulars and I'm pretty sure it will be the car to watch out for.

To share some non setup related impressions on how this beast is to drive, I'd say the car has an intense and responsive character and really rewards the driver who pushes it, kind of like a cool dog who just loves to run with you and the harder you run the happier it will be and it doesn't give a hint of getting tired or starting to limp. Solid build. It revs quickly with controlled aggression and the Tein chassis handles the over 600 wheel hp very maturely, and changing the center diff slightly would immediately release the hp to flow out a bit more to the Ventus C91 rear tires, amplifying the car's dynamic feel of a true driver's car. When the car hit the sweetspot in terms of handling in turns which weren't horrendously dusty, it's incrediby fun to drive and the faster you pitch it the greater the reward. Got to love that. The dust took out some of the cornering forces and played some games with balance in certain areas, but hey, it's a fast-fwd Subaru and some dust definitely doesn't change the fact that this is one of the absolute fastest Superlap cars around.

Labels: Misc