Lewistown track day with Big Sky Subaru


Here are some video clips and pictures from our track day in Lewistown. There was a good turnout and track time was essentially unlimited. It is about the best bang for the buck track time you can get, and that includes SLMP. The STI ran strong all day, big thumbs up to Clark for the tune! The magnets stayed on the car even at speeds of 130mph.

This is the crew stopped along the highway on the commute to Lewistown:

Group shot on highway

Here is a video of most of the cars doing fly-by’s near the “pits”:

 Pits

Here is a lap in the STI during the morning session, where they had an autocross course setup on the venue’s skidpad:

A video of a ride along in the STI taken by a passenger:

Afternoon session (open track) in the STI:

A local character who goes by the name of DOUGY FRESH, doing what he does best in his Subaru RS with a WRX powertrain swap:

sti-in-turn

  

sti-on-front-straight

sti-in-chicance

sti-shot

 120mph fly-by in the STI:

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The course:

lewistown-trackmap

 A clip of the STI turning onto the front straight:

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Listen to those Kumho tires squeal!

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Another shot of the course at Lewistown:

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To put this into perspective- I can come out of turn 5 in 3rd gear and hold WOT all the way until I brake for turn 10, hitting right around 130mph on that back section in 6th gear.

And check out the backdrop- beautiful scenery up that way…

sti-scenic

Legend has it that Lewistown is an old bomber base from the 50’s that went defunct.  A few years alter, the Montana DOT modified it into a driver’s training facility. I am told it is around 2.2 miles in length and the fastest cars that run there run lap times in the 1:30’s. We did not have timing equipment so I am not sure what the STI was turning.

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