SUBARU to Compete in 2022 Nürburgring 24-Hour Race

Tokyo, May 24, 2022 – Subaru Tecnica International ^*1, Subaru's motorsport subsidiary, will participate in the 50th Nürburgring 24-Hour Race from 26 to 29 May 2022 at the Nürburgring circuit in the Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with its WRX STI-based race car.

SUBARU WRX STI NBR CHALLENGE 2022

Back in the race after three years and in its 15th year of participation since its first entry in 2008^*2, Subaru will compete again in the SP3T class for cars with turbocharged engines of up to 2 liters displacement with the SUBARU WRX STI NBR CHALLENGE 2022, aiming for its seventh win in this class.

The track is said to be the toughest in the world with a total length of 25km, a 300m difference in elevation and ever-changing weather conditions. In order for the drivers to drive fast and control the car as they wish on such a challenging track, while taking advantage of the basic layout of the horizontally opposed engine and symmetrical AWD, the following performances of the car have been enhanced from current race car.

【Main Areas of Improvement in the SUBARU WRX STI NBR CHALLENGE 2022】

STI’s Hideharu Tatsumi and Takuya Sawada will be the Team General Manager and the Team Manager, respectively. Carlo van Dam (Netherlands), Tim Schrick (Germany), Marcel Lasée (Germany), and Kota Sasaki (Japan), will be driving for the team.

Eight service technicians carefully selected from Subaru dealerships around Japan will again join the team to support the race this year. Subaru has had dealer technicians participate in overseas motorsport races since 1990, a unique initiative aimed at delivering “Enjoyment and Peace of Mind” to customers by enhancing the technical skills of its service technicians.

*1: Subaru Tecnica International Inc. (President: Yasuo Hiraoka, Mitaka City, Tokyo, Abbreviation: STI)
*2: Subaru skipped the 2020 and 2021 events due to the spread of the coronavirus.

【Team General Manager / Team Manager】

Hideharu Tatsumi	Takuya Sawada

【Drivers】

Carlo van Dam	Tim Schrick	Marcel Lasée	Kota Sasaki

【Subaru Dealership Service Technicians】

Hiroki Numakura Hokkaido Subaru	Takenori Chida Iwate Subaru	Makoto Komagata Niigata Subaru	Naoto Nishimura Kanagawa Subaru

Yuya Ishibashi Chiba Subaru	Shinma Nagasawa Tokyo Subaru	Makoto Nishii Nara Subaru	Naoki Harumoto Osaka Subaru

【Race Car】

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