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The original plan for the weekend had the main convoy driving from Lanark to Banbury via the M74, M6, M60, M62, M1, M25 and M40. This original route would have taken up the full Saturday. Leaving Lanark at 10am the convoy was estimated to arrive at Banbury at 8pm. This would have left the full Sunday to accommodate a mass meeting of Subaru owners at the Banbury facilty. In the light of Prodrives response we have amended the route to allow the convoy to get to Banbury for about 4pm on Saturday and have the main tribute convoy travel between the 2 Prodrive sites on the Sunday. The revised route from Lanark to Prodrive on Sat the 30th of Aug is A70, M74, M6, M5 and M40. We apologise to drivers, clubs and groups that were planning the weekend around the intial route, but the offer from Prodrive was too good to turn down. Hopefully the route change will not stop anyone from attending what is sure to be a fantastic tribute to a true Subaru legend PROVISIONAL FORMAT FOR THE WEEKEND Saturday 30th August At 10am the cars will leave Lanark Market. We will travel down the M74 then the M6 There will be a refuel stop at Charnock Richards on the M6 We will then continue M6, M5, M40 The final destination is Prodrive at Banbury, hopefully arriving at about 4pm Sunday 31st August Cars from all over Europe will converge on the Banbury facilty for 10am (Marshalls to be on site at 9am) Prodrive will open the SWRT workshops, open the Heritage centre, fire up some of Colins cars and have a BBQ on the go with the obligatory Bacon Butties. The main group will leave Banbury at 12 noon, hopefully led by N1WRC (this is subject to the car being taxed and MOT'ed), and join the M40 at Jct 11 westbound heading for Jct 15. Hopefully we can get the convoy from Point A to Point B in about an hour From 1pm until 5pm the group will be located at Prodrives Warwick test facility Only cars bearing the official sticker will be allowed access to the Test Facilty. A checkpoint will be set up both at the gates of the Warwick facility and where the convoy leaves the A4177 about 2 miles from the gates of the test facilty Prodrive are looking into to arranging some driver demo's and hopefully will be offering Pax rides with Prodrive test drivers on varying disciplines like the skid pan and the adverse handling track. Due to Insurance restrictions only Prodrive employees will be able to take Prodrive cars out on track. All the attendee's at Warwick are to be parked on the main runway of the airfield.
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