Production Car World Rally Championship (P-WRC) driver Toshi Arai will compete in Round 6 of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), the Geko Ypres Rally in Belgium on June 25 and 26. This will be the first IRC event for Toshi who will be driving a Group N SUBARU Impreza WRX STI. The Ypres Rally is an all-tarmac event around the town of Ypres in western Belgium. It is a classic rally which has been held as part of the European Rally Championship (ERC) for many years.

The Polish Rally, round three of the Polish Rally Championship, which also counts for the European Rally Championship, concluded with an overall victory for the brand new Group N Subaru Impreza WRX STI spec C, which is entirely developed and built by Belgian team Symtech Racing. The SUBARU Poland crew of Kajetan Kajetanowicz and Jarek Baran drove faultlessly and did not experience the slightest problem throughout the event.

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd(FHI), the maker of Subaru automobiles, today announces that the Subaru Impreza WRX STI spec C* (Japanese specifications model) successfully completed the vehicle homologation process and received the official Group N Homologation certificate from FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile) as of April 1, 2010.

The first gravel round of the 2010 P-WRC took place over the weekend in the Rally Mexico. Two-time Production Car World Rally Champion Toshi Arai was joined by Gianluca Linari as the sole Impreza runners. With new co-driver Daniel Barritt onboard, Toshi made a fresh start in P-WRC. Although he had problems with the power steering in second place on the opening stage, he took the top spot by a wide margin, 23.3 seconds.

This May, SUBARU Tecnica International (STI) heads to the Nurburgring circuit for the “37th ADAC Zurich 24 Hour Race” (24 Hours of the Nurburgring) with an originally tuned version of the Impreza WRX STI aiming for a class victory. The ADAC Zurich 24-hour race takes place at the course of 25.378km in total, and is the largest endurance event in the world, with more than 200 cars participating, familiarized by European manufacturers who enter every year.

From the creators of the original anti lift and caster kit comes the latest addition to th program with the release of the WALK for 2008 onwards Impreza WRX and Sti. The WHITELINE anti lift and caster kits are infamous among WRX and STi owners the world over. With a WALK fitted to your Subaru.

Spy photos of the 2008 Subaru WRX STI seen on Autoblog…

These 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI images look like they could be the real thing!

Images after the jump!

Legendary Japanese Drifter, Time Attack Record-Holder and Road Racer Eiji “Tarzan” Yamada to Join Team as Guest Driver.

The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) heads for Utah to compete in the Grand-Am Koni Challenge race on September 14. This new Grand-Am team has been spectacular in its first four outings, taking pole position in its season-opening effort at Homestead-Miami, chasing a podium finish at Laguna Seca, then following that with 1st-place finishes at Lime Rock and at Mid-Ohio.

The event at the new Miller Motorsports Park represents the 12th round of the Koni Challenge this season - the fifth in SRRT’s 2007 schedule. Of interest is the length of the track - 4.486 miles, which makes it the longest road course in America.

The STI looks hot according to those Ithat work closely with Subaru in Japan, but nobody has been able to get us the images.  Finally, some more images of the new 2008 STI have appeared in and on the cover of a Japanese magazine.

Images after the jump!

Did Subaru leak the photographs or has a left hand drive 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX STI made its way to North America and someone was able to get some pics of it?  You be in the judge. 

More photographs after the jump!

STI announced that the silver 6 pot front brake kit and rear STI 2 pot rear brake kit found on the STI Spec C Type RA-R is now available at Subaru dealers in Japan.  The application is designed for the GDB type Impreza.

This brake kit includes a 6 pot caliper and 2 piece floating hat rotor for the front and a 2 pot caliper and rotor for the rear, 4 STI stainless steel brake lines.  Both the front and rear rotors are grooved.

STI suggests that this system provides improved fade resistance and greater damping force.  The kit is painted silver and does not require exchanging the wheel on the special S203 and S204 editions in Japan, but may require a different wheel on other STI models.

Because this is a sport part, designed to function on the track, is not abnormal to experience brake chatter, additional brake noise, and quicker wear rates for the pads and rotors as compared to the original equipment installed on their vehicles.

STI Announces 2007 Spring & Summer Catalog Sale

The 2007 Spring & Summer STI Collection went on sale today, including STI, SWRT (Subaru World Rally Team) merchandise and apparel, which is superior in functionality and fashion.  Such products are only manufactured are manufactured to the highest standards using the highest quality materials.

These items can be purchased from the shopping corner of STI’s official website:

https://shop.subaru-sti.co.jp/