Subaru explains why its SuperGT title defence ended in such ignominious fashion last weekend at Motegi:
Iguchi and Yamauchi went into last weekend's Motegi finale hoping to become the first ever crew to score back-to-back GT300 titles, but ended up 20th at the end of a race for forget for the R&D Sport-run team.
Subaru general manager Masahiro Ozawa explained that Iguchi was finally able to find a way to compensate for the faulty anti-lag system as he initially struggled with a significant loss of power. "The anti-lag was cutting in and out, and a car with a two-litre turbo engine like ours becomes very peaky with no anti-lag. It becomes difficult to get any traction. But the driver [Iguchi] handled it very well.
"Yamauchi was able to set laptimes in the 1m50s even without the anti-lag, so that was very helpful."After taking a Balance of Performance hit in the wake of its dominant 2021 campaign, Subaru concluded the 2022 season with four out of eight pole positions, taking a single victory at Fuji and two other podium finishes.
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