Following Gronholm and the Prodrive Impreza’s strong run during the first day of Rally Portugal, Prodrive is aiming to do further WRC rounds in 2009.
Despite only having little time behind the wheel of the Prodrive Impreza WRC2008 and not having competed for nearly 18 months, Gronholm comfortably held second place during day one of Rally [...]

The Prodrive Impreza WRC2008, which Marcus Gronholm will drive at the Rally of Portugal, has successfully completed its first shakedown.
Gronholm will drive the test car in Wales this week, before undertaking a full two day pre-event test in Spain next week. This means the two-time World Rally Champion will have three days to familiarise himself [...]

The Subaru World Rally team has taken steps to further increase the performance of the new Impreza WRC2008 after revealing it will spearhead suspension damper development work from its own UK base.
The team has used off-the-shelf dampers from French firm Bos Engineering ever since the final evolution of the saloon Impreza, the WRC2007, was launched [...]