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Subaru is showcasing its prowess on the track with its ultimate Liberty, the B4 GT300, at the motor show.
Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
1 Jul 2011
2 min read

….but this car is a Subaru Liberty. Well, sort of.

Subaru is showcasing its prowess on the track with its ultimate Liberty, the B4 GT300, at the motor show.

Though the name is the same, the Liberty B4 GT300 has been developed as a pure racing car by R&D Sport in Atsugi City, Japan.

Subaru Australia managing director Nick Senior says his company has created a "performance corner" to house the Liberty race car – which is a highlight of the GT300 series in Japan – alongside the WRX and WRX STi.

"We’ll also have a WRX STi racing car simulator, where visitors can try and set a lap record against some fierce competition at the famous Nürburgring circuit in Germany," he says.

The Liberty B4 GT300 engine is supplied by Fuji Heavy Industries and Subaru Tecnica International (STI), which is also responsible for development of the tuning and management systems.

Specialist R&D Sport, which has a wealth of motorsport experience, undertook production and assembly. The tyres are from Yokohama and motor oil by Motul.

The car’s main driver is 46-year-old Tetsuya Yamano, a veteran three-time GT300 champion who has raced from 1992 in the All Japan Gymkhana Championship, claiming 14 titles.

From 2004, he was the Super GT GT300 class champion driver for three consecutive years. In the fourth round of the 2008 Super GT in Malaysia, he drove a Subaru Impreza to GT300 class victory.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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