At the outset of this grand plan to celebrate Colins association with Subaru it was the intention of this convoy to replicate the success of the RB Relay from John O'Groats to Lands End, which raised 17k for the RB Foundation. At the begining we had no idea how well Prodrive would respond and never in a million years did we think Prodrive's response would have been on the scale that it has.

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.

All in all it's shaping up to be a cracking weekend!

More, including sticker sales, soon...

The McRae Gathering team