Stuart Biggerstaff's S9 Impreza Rally Car

[Graham]

On the RMS Blog: In 2004 at Rallye Monte Carlo , the Impreza pictured S400 WRT | Chassis #14 became the one and only S9 Impreza World Rally Car to run with the number 1 on its door within a World Rally event, and in the hands of Petter Solberg finished seventh overall on that event.

Since the car departed company with Prodrive it did remain within the World Championship in the hands of Alistair Ginley with Letterkenny’s Rory Kennedy on the notes.

A year later the car came to Northern Ireland to live and until around 2007 has had many a success with mostly Kenny McKinstry and Andrew Nesbitt at the helm but it also saw PWRC champion Niall McShea get fifth overall at Lurgan Park in 2006.



Since 2007 and for the foreseeable future S400 WRT has been in the hands of the Biggerstaff’s from Co. (Read the Full Article Here)



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[Cess]

Article isn't strictly accurate. *dons anorak*

Prodrive used S9s for first couple of rallies of the 2004 season, before they switched to the new S10. Solberg was seeded at number 1 for Sweden as well in a different S9 - S40 WRT.

 

[Lyons]

What way does that suspension work?

 

[AMG]

What way does that suspension work?

The interior of a shock is a closed system, but as the shaft goes in and out of the body, the available volume in the system changes because the shaft takes up some space.

Since the oil is incompressible, you have to have some gas in there to account for this change in volume. Separating the gas from the oil with a sliding piston keeps the oil from frothing up. But it also makes the shock body very long unless you 'remote' the part that has the piston in it. That's the whole purpose of the reservoir. The amount of oil that flows into the reservoir as the shock compresses is the exact volume of the shock shaft that has entered the damper body.

 

[Phil_EK9]

What way does that suspension work?

Could you be more specific? lol

If you mean the external resovoir coming off the shock, the short story is it allows for longer shock travel, cooler operation and better valve operation over the roughstuff.

 

[Graham]

Article isn't strictly accurate. *dons anorak*

Prodrive used S9s for first couple of rallies of the 2004 season, before they switched to the new S10. Solberg was seeded at number 1 for Sweden as well in a different S9 - S40 WRT.

This was a 3 am editorial before print so remembering all the detail was hard work but possibly it's the only one to finish an event with #1 on the door? I couldn't find evidence to your image but none the less it's one of two cars that ran #1 on the door then

 

[Cess]

Think he hit podium in Sweden. Would need to check.

Does Petter still have the title winning S9? This was the era when most S9, S10 and S11 models came straight from WRC and on to Irish tar.

 

[Graham]

Think he hit podium in Sweden. Would need to check.

Does Petter still have the title winning S9? This was the era when most S9, S10 and S11 models came straight from WRC and on to Irish tar.

I would imagine he does yeah, also Denis was telling me about his old car chassis #001 and how much the owner got offered for it recently, absolutely CRAZY !

 

[AMG]

I would imagine he does yeah, also Denis was telling me about his old car chassis #001 and how much the owner got offered for it recently, absolutely CRAZY !

Yeah think it's one of Denis' big regrets selling 001, he more or less gave it away compared to what it is worth now.