Innovative Tuning controls championship season with a pair of Subarus

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Innovative Tuning controls championship season with a pair of Subarus

Buffalo, NY, September 18th 2013

Innovative Tuning announced today that their season’s success came from developing a pair of Subaru based race cars. Innovative Tuning took the championship win in the Canadian Sport Compact Series (CSCS) in two separate disciplines for the 2013 season. By dominating the championship with cars in both the Drag Racing and Time Attack categories, they possess one of the most successful combination teams in the history of the CSCS.

The proof is in the results. The Drag Subaru tied for first place in 2011, it’s inaugural run in the CSCS. The Drag Subaru captured the championship in both 2012 and 2013, making it the reigning champion. 2013 was the most dominant season. The Innovative Tuning Drag Subaru won every round of every CSCS event all year.

The Time Attack Subaru is a showcase of sound engineering and design work. What started as a $1000 base model Subaru is now making the field of exotic race-prepped cars look slow. Even though it was built for the road course, the Time Attack Subaru holds the world record at the drag strip for a Subaru stock short block, earning bragging rights as the only stock short block to run a 9 second quarter mile pass.

In their quest for the lead on the Time Attack course, Innovative captured overall lap records at all of the tracks in this year’s series. No team has ever held all of the lap records at the same time, let alone in a rookie year. The Time Attack Subaru is not only the fastest car to ever be in the series for the Unlimited AWD class, it is the fastest car overall. No car has won two rounds in the Unlimited AWD Time Attack class in a row, let alone four. The fact that Innovative captured all of the lap records on DOT legal tires is a testament to how quick the car really is.

The team’s success intensified this year, securing two championship positions in only 4 rounds. Considering this was the first year for the Time Attack Subaru, the team’s record holding streak is just getting started.

About the Canadian Sport Compact Series (CSCS)
The CSCS is the largest sport compact series throughout Canada. With events attracting over 5000 spectators per race, and extensive media coverage at the events, it is an attractive venue for those able to compete. Combining Time Attack, Drag Racing, Drifting and Car Show competitions in one place, the series has attracted extensive vendor participation and continues to grow.

About Innovative Tuning
Located in Buffalo, NY, Innovative Tuning is the premier import tuning facility in the Western NY region, spanning into southern Ontario. Founded in 2004, they specialize in all aspects of automotive performance; from project planning to parts selection, fabrication, welding, installation, service, repair, dyno and track tuning.

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I know I’m posting this here late, but winning the season championship in time attack and drag was a big deal so better late then never. :wink:

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Congrats on your season Mike and the innovative crew :tup:

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Congrats! very impressive car.

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Great season :tup:

What’s next? Can anything be done to improve the cars and beat your own records? Will you try other events?

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Great job guy! What are the plans for next year?

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Thanks. A lot can be done to improve the cars, but I have a very limited budget compared to my competition. We’re just making a few small changes on the time attack car for next year. I’m pretty happy with it and if the other guys who are outspending me by a mile beat me, so be it. The GT-R race car is coming back after a 100k plus build at AMS according to the owner. That’s on top of the full race prep it already had. He says he’ll have 1500 HP. I’ll have about half that. Unless I win the lottery I’ll just have to try and keep beating him with what I’ve got. :slight_smile:

I’m not sure what’s happening with the drag car for next year to be honest.

I did a NARRA event this year and hope to do more next year with the time attack car as long as they don’t interfere with CSCS events. I plan to run the full CSCS season again with the time attack car.

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I think as some point that GTR is going to be too much for tracks like TMP.

And you can’t upgrade the driver :slight_smile:

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+1. Watching the vids of Voltron on track I don’t think your competition is going to do much with a 1500 hp GTR on most of those tracks (other than die in a way that will generate millions of youtube views). If he was Stig grade he wouldn’t need to hire chicks to stand next to his car.

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lol I guess we’ll see next year!

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The gtr looks cool but other than that front straight to turn 2, tmp is a track that rewards vehicle balance and car control over massive horsepower. If by some means he manages to be quicker than you next season, it is still hillarious that you will be nipping at his heels with a car that (i assume) cost less than $10k, while he splurged over a quarter million into his car.

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He’ll have around 400k in his GT-R, but mine is well over 10k. It cost 900 bucks when I bought it stock, but an STI tranny is 6 grand, STI engine isn’t cheap, it adds up quickly.

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Fine. $400,000 vs $25,000

Still.

Racing on about 1/16th his budget or so and still whooping his ass?

Accept a little credit Mike.
Pretty sure if you were in his car you could turn at least 1-1.5 seconds a lap faster.