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Originally Posted by tobyobi
They're duds in terms of reliability. When they were running, the car could be up the front in the right hands, but it just kept breaking down. For example - the team running the WRX ended up pilfering a road car for driveshafts just to try and keep running during a race weekend as they had been through the entire stock of spares on hand.
A symptom of a lack of development by the racecar developer, rather than not reaching the performance goals.
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Yes. If you remember, Top Run was trying to run the Subaru for 3 years before selling it in Australia. We knew that the car had major issues too, but many of us thought, that they don't have the budget to do a full season anywhere. Comini did a TCR Italy round in late 2017 if I'm not wrong, and the car did well on that weekend, being on the podium. But then at the beginning of the 2018 season, they abandoned the whole project after just a single round. (Yes, I know that he was planning a WTCR season in a Megane, which did not materialise in the end, and the Subaru was just a last minute decision).