Subaru Motorsports USA has unveiled another one-off creation built off the back of its domestic rallying and rallycross success, that it will be taking to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend.
Dubbed ‘Project Midnight’, the car builds on the team’s previous one-offs, the ‘Airslayer’, and the ‘Family Huckster’, both produced for Hoonigan’s Gymkhana series, and has the sole aim of being the fastest car that Subaru’s motorsport partner Vermont SportsCar has ever produced.
It’s the first special project car based on the current generation of WRX , which the team already competes with in the American Rally Association series. The all carbon Fiber car weighs in at “well under 2,500 pounds”, which is almost 300 lbs lighter than the comparable Airslayer and 1,000 lighter than the showroom-ready WRC.
To keep the car glued to the track, a bigger version of the rally car’s rear wing is employed, while 18×11 inch OZ Racing wheels wrapped in super-sticky Yokohama slick tires provide the mechanical grip.
Power is provided by the latest in a line of turbocharged boxer engines, that can trace their roots back to Subaru’s shelved rallycross program which won four rounds from six of the 2019 Americas Rallycross championship, and took a one-two finish in the inaugural full Nitrocross championship in 2021. The two-liter unit revs to a 9,500 rp redline, pushes out 670 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torque.