We took our little WRX RA to the local hill climb this past sunday, we were in a class against a nicely built and prepped Sti with sticky tyres etc.
I held off his runs, for each run I got a fraction faster, he got a fraction faster, just trailing us by a few 10th's of a second or so. Then I went a little too fast into the last turn and went wide onto the mud and had to back-off. The Sti driver got a bit ahead. And went from 3rd overall to 2nd taking my spot.
Lesson learnt, and I shot off for the next run, and not only beat the Sti again, but got 2nd overall jumping up the podium.
Then the rain came, practically canceling any more effort by anyone to do better. Phew! Fastest overall wasnt going to happen, so we'll take second fastest behind the Jedi open wheel racer.
After that run we did just one more and Cath and I were happy to call it a day. The Sti guy stayed on for the last three remaining runs to try and get the jump on the standing after it dried out again, but it wasn't to be.
The little WRX RA, totally stock, with stock suspension and street stock rubber held it's own. Homologation is a good thing.
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