Subaru out of WRC

[RobDon]

Scooby owners must be baulking into their hot chocolate over this, Subaru becoming a bog standard car company selling hatchbacks, diesels and 4X4's to the school run brigade. Mind you, Mitsubishi gave up the WRC a few years ago and I doubt it affected sales of the EVO much at all.

I can see all forms of motorsport being affected by the global economic downturn.

 

[cupra777]

Didn't see this one coming

Subaru cancel WRC entry with immediate effect

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72492

Honda gone from F1, Suzuki from the WRC yesterday, now Subaru.

Who's next

seat out of BTCC as well

 

[Poverty]

its funny, the only manufacturers left in wrc dont even make 4wd road cars!

 

[mrcoyote]

seat out of BTCC as well

Really? Why? When did that happen?

 

[Ian Carvell]

Maybe it's because Prodrive are buying Honda F1 Racing

I was thinking along the same lines...maybe Prodrive have suggested to Subaru that F1 might be a better option than Rallying.....not really their target audience, but they have achieved everything they need to in rallying, maybe time for a new project?

 

[ZBOYD]

Subaru have in recent months said they intend to enter the WTCC from 2010, this was thought at the time to be alongside the WRC program. But seems they maybe taking a year out to develop their touring car ambitions. Unless of course they put that on ice too.

 

[mrcoyote]

I was thinking along the same lines...maybe Prodrive have suggested to Subaru that F1 might be a better option than Rallying.....not really their target audience, but they have achieved everything they need to in rallying, maybe time for a new project?

With Toyota owning a stake in Subaru I doubt they've got money to embark on a F1 adventure right now tbh. I reckon they're already losing enough money with their own F1 effort and wouldn't want another loss making exercise with another team.

 

[Ian Carvell]

I didn't realise Toyota had a stake in Subaru.

I was just thinking about the links between Prodrive and BAR/Honda in the past....probably wishful thinking.

Having them in WTC would be good!!!

 

[mrcoyote]

Toyota bought part of GM's stake in Subaru's parent company it seems.

 

[Poverty]

Subaru probably put their wtcc ambitions on hold also. 2009 is going to be such a terrible year for car manufacturers that they are all cost cutting like crazy. Things are alot worse than you guys could imagine!

 

[Craig Senior]

The real reason why Subaru quit:

It was 'cos they had to sack their number 1 driver for making them look silly.

http://www.motorsportmad.com/view/6318/solbergs-embarrassing-fall--bettega-memorial-rally-sprint

It was going to happen at some point Petter

 

[RobDon]

Haha, looked a right donut there! Can just imagine the Subaru bosses all on there knees, samurai swords at the ready after watching that!!!

 

[ZBOYD]

pmsl What a clown.

 

[FSiLeonMike]

Thats cheered me up, classic. How long till it turns up on a TV out-take show.

 

[Poverty]

that made me lol

 

[Ian Carvell]

 

[WeeJase]

i once made a similar mistake trying to look cool jumping off a school bus before it had stopped.
i thought the road moved with you as you went along.perhaps petter never had nutter norman driving his bus.

 

[Ian Carvell]

HaHa...I did the same thing, runnin like fook trying to get my legs to keep up with my head...until my nose hit the ground

 

[cupra777]

i support swrt and have done since 2002, well cant now
as seat are out of btcc
my fav teams in each sport have gone
i gotta find diffrent teams for 09

 

[F2 Stu]

The real reason why Subaru quit:

It was 'cos they had to sack their number 1 driver for making them look silly.

http://www.motorsportmad.com/view/6318/solbergs-embarrassing-fall--bettega-memorial-rally-sprint

It was going to happen at some point Petter

he broke his arm as a result according to reports