Challenge Midnight 2024 Subaru WRX race automotive goals to tame the tarmac

• Scott Pace to drive Challenge Midnight on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace hillclimb
  
• This carbon-fiber-bodied 2024 Subaru WRX weighs simply 2,469 kilos
  
• Challenge Midnight to make undisclosed velocity report makes an attempt

Forward of a run up Lord March’s driveway later this week on the 2024 Goodwood Pageant of Pace, Subaru on Tuesday revealed “Challenge Midnight,” which Subaru Motorsports USA calls the quickest and quickest WRX race automotive ever.

Impressed by the “Airslayer” 2020 WRX STI piloted by Travis Pastrana in “Gymkhana 2020,” this 2024 Subaru WRX is constructed to deal with the tarmac relatively than carry out as an all-around rally automotive. Subaru Motorsports USA labored with Vermont SportsCar to make quite a lot of modifications to assist it do exactly that.

Challenge Midnight 2024 Subaru WRX race automotive

Essentially the most noticeable distinction between Challenge Midnight and a inventory WRX is the extensive physique constructed from carbon-fiber. It is designed for higher aerodynamics and straps on a bigger model of the rear wing from the racing group’s WRX ARA24 gravel rally automotive. Along with a lightened chassis, the physique helps the automotive weigh in at simply 2,469 kilos, which is about 300 kilos lower than Airslayer and nearly 1,000 kilos lighter than a inventory WRX.

The suspension is tuned for the pavement, with out the necessity for suspension journey of a rally automotive, and all of it rides on 18×11-inch OZ Racing Superturismo LMP magnesium wheels mounted on 280/650R18 Yokohama Advan slicks.

Beneath the lightened hood sits a model of the turbocharged 2.0-liter flat-4 rallycross engine that Scott Pace used to win the 2021 Nitro Rallycross Groups Championship. Right here it spins out 670 hp and 680 lb-ft of torque, revs all the way in which to 9,500 rpm, and spits flames from hood-exit exhaust. Like all WRXs, the ability goes to all 4 wheels

Challenge Midnight 2024 Subaru WRX race automotive

Pace, who additionally drove in Components 1, will pilot Challenge Midnight up the hill at Goodwood, and Subaru says he’ll drive the automotive to tackle new challenges and set new data. The corporate did not disclose what these different report makes an attempt could also be, solely saying the automotive will make further appearances this 12 months.

Challenge Midnight will deal with the hillclimb on the Goodwood Pageant of Pace together with the “Household Huckster,” a 1983 Subaru GL wagon that appeared in “Gymkhana 2022.” Prefer it was in that video, the Household Huckster will probably be piloted by Travis Pastrana at Goodwood.