19/05/2026
Subaru earns class win at 24 Hours of Nurburgring!
There's a unique place in culture when speaking of the Nurburgring, from a motorsport standpoint, none other is like it and from a car culture standpoint, it is the center of everything.
Perhaps that is why each year Subaru and STI enter one car into the ADAC Ravenol 24 Hours of Nurburgring. The longest running Japanese team at the event, you can see their experience in the car, which have been an accumulation of what they learnt at the circuit in the past and the passionate personnel and drivers that make up the team.
This year, the FA24 powered, heavily modified Subaru WRX S4 would compete in the SP-4T class. In true Subaru fashion, the erratic Nurburgring weather did little to bother the WRX on track and in qualifying the Takuto Iguchi/Kota Sasaki/Carlo Van Dam/Rintaro Kubo driven WRX would qualify 2nd in class and 68th overall. Starting in Group 2, the race with its changing conditions and over 160 cars would mean chaos on track and sure enough it was.
Yet, if you watched the broadcast, you saw very little of the Subaru. Taking the lead of SP-4T in the first hour, trouble would rarely find the WRX in the race. Reliability did not let Subaru down this year and even as they made precautions to swap the driveshaft during the night hours, the WRX gave the team nothing else to worry about. About as close to smooth sailing as you can get, the WRX would deliver the SP-4T win in 31st overall, completing 139 laps.
📸: STI | Takuto Iguchi
