Mcrae Gathering

[Broxi]

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<!--sizeo:6--><!--/sizeo-->30th and 31st of August 2008<!--sizec--><!--/sizec-->



In the past few months since the sad passing of Colin McRae, feverish work has taken place behind the scenes to create a tribute from the Subaru community with the view of celebrating the life of a true legend. Now that official permission has been obtained from the parties concerned, McRae Estate, Jimmy and Margaret McRae and Prodrive, and approval for our plan been obtained from the relevent authorities, this is the time to release the details of what is planned.

An event taking place on the weekend of Aug 30th and 31st comprising of a convoy of Impreza's from Lanark, Colin's home town and Prodrive in Banbury. An overnight stop comprised of either camping for the hardcore or Travelodge/B & B's for the not so hardcore and a mass Subaru meeting on the Sunday at Prodrive in Banbury.

The route of the convoy is as follows and has been designed to go through or be near as many regions as possible

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Lanark - M74 - M6 - M61 - M60 - M62 - M1 - M25 - M40 - Prodrive, Banbury<!--colorc-->

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The maximum speed of the convoy will be 10mph less than the given speed limit for the road and <!--coloro:#FF0000--><!--/coloro-->NO<!--colorc--><!--/colorc--> excessive speed will be tolerated by <!--coloro:#FF0000--><!--/coloro-->ANYONE<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->.

Everyone taking part in the convoy will have one of these stickers on there car to designate that they are indeed part of the convoy. Details of cost and how to obtain the official stickers will be made available in the next week or two



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Please Can we have a List of those who will be Attending this event.



Derek & Sally

[RB WRX]

Derek
Had email today about a route change to above,see below 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

[Broxi]

Thanks 4 the update.... Are you going along?

[RB WRX]

Would like to, I was waiting for the final details before I confirmed,looks like a good weekend!

[Torpedo]

Ditto above looks a great tribute ; ) and will let you know asap

[nudge]

I'm going up to lanark on the friday, and do the full run, i have been on the phone to one of the organisers, ( The Squiggle ) absolute diamond bloke, and there is a lot more happening since that last post, most will be revieled in the next couple of weeks, im shocked at the amount of organising that has been and is still going on, i done the rb relay and this will be a lot bigger, to give some idea, prodrive has arranged parking for over 1200 cars on its warwick site..one not to miss...

[chris]

would really like to go to this, has anyone got a plan of the route i can look at please,

[chris]

me an a mate will deff be going to this now, where do i get get the stickers to please,

[Jason STI]

im seriously considering this, prob do it on my own tho not sure the wife cud sit in the car that long!!!

ill await further developements


CHRIS - you need to speak to BP and get discount for the amount of fuel u'll use hehe

[chris]

gonna ring shell, only run it on v-power, its only gonna be 1218 miles for me that weekend, lol

[Jason STI]

ill use some diesel shud last a bit longer :-)

[chris]

lol,

[Somerset Scooby]

The stickers are now available ........ http://www.mcrae-gathering.co.uk/content/view/26/1/

[chris]

thanks just paid for 3 stickers, looking forward to this weekend,

[Somerset Scooby]

I'll be going but probably only doing the Sunday run, just bought my stickers :smile:

[chris]

so how many people are going to this, an r u doing the hole convoy or just going up to banbury, just wondering if theres gonna be a convoy up,

[Jason STI]

we still just going on the saturday mate, you can come to mine friday night if you like,

somerset are you going up on the sat mate? me and chris are camping over with little bo peep :D

[chris]

yeah prob mate, i might ride up with u though, thinking bout taking scooby of road till i get it sorted,

[Jason STI]

thats ok mate there is room lol

ere i think my stickers come but post man could not get them thru letter box so nat getting them 2morrow

you gonna come up for the avon meet? im having a BBQ u can stay over sat night

[chris]

prob not, to far to drive in my shed,

[Jason STI]

:fighting0092:

[Somerset Scooby]

we still just going on the saturday mate, you can come to mine friday night if you like,

somerset are you going up on the sat mate? me and chris are camping over with little bo peep :D

Probably just Sunday, but not sure yet.

[Jason STI]

got my stickers!±±!

http://www.southwestscoobies.org.uk/sws_imagehosting/116648622ea1320f2.jpg

[Jason STI]

and heres the front one

http://www.southwestscoobies.org.uk/sws_imagehosting/116648622ea089b52.jpg

[Somerset Scooby]

Postman looks a bit young

[Jason STI]

lol he insisted on being in the photo!!

he would not move lol

got your pm mate sounds cool, what do you think of olly p's suggestions for my £900?

[chris]

they look a bit wonky lol

[dazzer]

i will be going along to this all being well, my brothers wedding on the saturday, might be a little fragile on the sunday.
lol

there doesnt seem much interest on this site.

what time are people planning on getting there?

anytime before 1pm i guess?

[Jason STI]

myself and chris will be going up on the saturday and camping!

gonna have a few beers so will prob be fragile on sunday too :lol:

[chris]

its got to be done, will be a good week end

[Jason STI]

i gotta try n peel of my sticker on my old boot :(

gutted otherwise its a tenner down the drain

[dazzer]

excellent atleast i wont be the only spewing in the hedge.

cant wait for my hangover its gonna be huge

hopefully see you all there

[GilesdWRC]

Anyone going up on Sunday morn? I'll be leaving Plymouth About 05:15 anyone fancy a convoy?
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[chris]

dont seem to much intrest on hear m8, me an a mate r going up on the sat an camping at bo peep camp site,

[Jason STI]

maybe we need to have a new post to see who is actually coming to this!

[moff1888]

I will be aslong as I'm not deploying on exercise as im not that far away fom Banbury.

[Designerman]

Have ordered my charity stickers. Will be going to Prodrive on the Sunday.

[moff1888]

Got my stickers and my t-shirt arrived this week.

[dj wagon wrx]

maybe going just trying to sort out time off
will post closer to the time about convoy

[Somerset Scooby]

Put me down for the Sunday :biggrin:

[RB WRX]

Got my sticker,still not sure what i am doing yet!

[chris]

come up on sat an get hammered only costing us £18 to stay at bo peep camp site, thats for the 3 tents, was told the pub is walking distance. ideal

[RB WRX]

That sounds tempting,will check it out.

[chanz]

im hoping to go gettin my stickers next week

[chris]

im prob going up sat an meeting the main convoy at the services north west of birmingham an following down, then pub an sleep at camp site,

[nudge]

are any of you guys going up on the friday, and following the convoy down sat morning.

[chris]

was gonna but just having simtek etc fitted to car, so cant afford to now, lol theres no intrest on here, im prob gonna convoy up with the other clubs,

[nudge]

Oh well, theres a couple of others from other sites who are going up from the southwest, just wondered if any more of us lot were going

[chanz]

im hoping to join a convoy was hopin for one from this club

[chris]

yeah me to, gonna be over 1000 scoobys there, cant be missed, an its for mcrae,

[moff1888]

I'll be going from Wiltshire aslong as I'm off that weekend.

[dazzer]

im going up on the sunday, but as for convoys i think that all thats going are going on different days from different areas so a convoy is a bit hard to get going, but like its been said before, i also think there would be more interest from a "SUBARU" site, especially with a report 1000 (THATS ONE THOUSAND) subarus in one place(world record attempt)

[chanz]

yeah i gotta be one of those thousand! cant miss it!!!

[scooby_sport_girl]

I'm probably gonna be there both days unless i go to JAE. I've heard that they are gonna get all the cars on the track to spell out colin mcrae, anyone else heard this???

[chanz]

yeah i read that on the website

[scooby_sport_girl]

and heres the front one

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Where you get your quote from??? Or you just got it done yourself???
Great idea!!!

I've decided the sticker doesn't go with yellow!!! :mad:

[dj wagon wrx]

it is worth going,all the enjoyment that colin gave us,
it is a way we all can show what we thought of him,
still trying to sort time off
if you can make it
DO IT

[Somerset Scooby]

Not currently having an events coordinator this one seems to be passing us by :redface:

We could do with a new thread starting and trying to capture names for each day, etc. I am hoping to make the Sunday and have my sticker:smile:

[dazzer]

ordered my sticker last night, cant wait.

anyone else?

the car count was on 880 when i signed on last night

[Jason STI]

looking forward to this!!!!

[chris]

me to, just gotta find some money from somewhere, im skint lol

[chris]

i hear that there gonna spell out colins name using 808 scoobies, an 210 blue an white scoobies for the flag, this will be on the sunday,

[Jason STI]

wow cool

[dj wagon wrx]

paid for my sticker
i am coming

keep your eyes on the convoy for this
SWS showing there respect
will try to keep it up to date

[chanz]

waitin for my sticker to come better start savin lol