Top Six Prodrive Race/Rally Cars, celebrating 30 years of Prodrive

This year is 30th year of Prodrive formed. Prodrive are most noticeably to Touring Cars with Ford, Rally Cars with Subaru and Mini, and most recently success in sportscar racing, with recently success with Aston martin in World Endurance Series.





To Celebrate this a top six Prodrive Race/Rally Cars that ever made and produce from Prodrive. Starting with Number six of the top six is:

Number 6: 2003 Impreza WRC 2003
Story: The Impreza WRC 2003 took four WRC wins in 2003 WRC season in the hands of Petter Solberg. And took Petter Solberg to the WRC Drivers titles in 2003 ahead of Sebastien Loeb by one point.



Number 5: 1999-2000 Ford Mondeo
Story: Prodrive replaced West Surrey Racing as Ford's works British Touring Car Championship team dubbed "Ford Team Mondeo". Designed by Prodrive themselves, Ford and Prodrive only managed one win for the Mondeo in 1999. Then in 2000, eleven wins overall, Touring Teams Champions, Manufacturers Champions, and British Touring Car Champion for Alain Menu too. Also, this was the last of the winning cars that won in the Supertouring car era too.





Number 4: 1997 Impreza WRC 97
Story: Replaced the old Group A Subaru Impreza 555 back in 1997. This was the first rally car to use the new WRC regulations back in 1997. The Impreza WRC 97 took eight WRC wins in 1997 WRC season in the hands of Colin McRae, Kenneth Eriksson and Piero Liatti. And almost took Colin McRae to the WRC Drivers titles in 1997, lost the title to Tommi Mäkinen by just one point. But, the Impreza WRC 97 did took Subaru to the 1997 WRC Manufactures title ahead of Mitsubishi and Ford.





Number 3: 2002-2004 Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello
Story: In 2001, Prodrive built racing customer versions of the Ferrari 550 for various sports car series and especially the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, although this brought the Ferrari name into the sport, the cars would be built entirely by Prodrive without any support from the Ferrari factory. Named the Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello, underneath it used a Ferrari 5.9 litre V12 that produce 600 bhp. It took Tomáš Enge, Peter Kox and Jamie Davies to tenth overall at the 2003 24 Hours of Le Mans and took GTS class win at Le Mans that year.



Number 2: 1993-1996 Subaru Impreza 555
Story: Replaced the old Legacy RS back in 1993. Subaru Impreza 555 was designed for Group A rally rules. In those years it took eleven WRC wins in three and a half seasons altogether in the WRC in the hands of Colin McRae and Carlos Sainz. And took Colin McRae to the WRC Drivers titles in 1995 ahead of team-mate Carlos Sainz. Also, the Subaru Impreza 555 did took Subaru to two WRC Manufacture titles in 1995 and 1996.





Number 1: 2005-2008 Aston Martin DBR9
Story: In 2005, Prodrive built the works racing versions of the Aston Martin DB9 for various sports car series and especially to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and return the Aston Martin brand back to winning ways in numerous sport-car series throughout the years. Named the Aston Martin DBR9, underneath it used an Aston Martin 6 litre V12 that produce 600 bhp. It took David Brabham, Darren Turner, and Rickard Rydell to fifth overall at the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans and took GT1 class win at Le Mans that year. And then at the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, it took David Brabham, Antonio García and Darren Turner to thirteeth overall at the 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans and took GT1 class win at Le Mans that year. To give the Aston Martin DBR9 the best Prodrive Race/Rally car ever built.





And to many more years of Prodrive to come. Happy 30th Prodrive.

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