McRae Gathering announcement
 

It’s been a helluva week for the McRae Gathering team, but have we got news for you! Two of our Members travelled down from Scotland at some ungodly hour on Tuesday morning for a meeting with Prodrive, the local police and the local council to finalise things. I’m not going to go into all the details, but suffice to say it was a VERY successful meeting. We have the police and the local council very much on-side and the support that Prodrive are offering is simply incredible.
Straight after that and having had very little sleep and a somewhat adventurous journey back north of the border, our intrepid heroes had a meeting with Jimmy McRae and Campbell Roy regarding their involvement in this event, both from a McRae family point of view and the involvement of McRae Motorsport.

We still have loads to sort out, but there are some MAJOR high points already arranged and confirmed which we’re absolutely delighted and very excited to be able to tell you about:

Saturday Morning – 30th August

Jimmy McRae will make the iconic Colin McRae World-beating Impreza L555 BAT and Colin's Subaru Legacy available at the start point at Lanark Market for us all to drool over!

Jimmy is also going to look into making the Impreza L555 BAT road-worthy and legal to lead the convoy from the start point onto the motorway. If that can happen it will be a unique and truly one-off experience in our lifetimes that is guaranteed to send a shudder down the spine of all in attendance. Cross your fingers and everything else that this can happen.

Sunday Morning – 31st August at the Prodrive Banbury facility

Prodrive will open their heritage centre at the Banbury facility and the Subaru World Rally Team workshops for you to explore and make their barbecue available from which we’ll be serving hot breakfast rolls whilst we wait for everyone to arrive for what is truly going to be a once in a lifetime event

Sunday Lunchtime – 31st August

At 12 noon, Colin’s car from the 2006 World Rally Championship – N1 WRC – will roll out of the gates from Banbury to lead the convoy to the Prodrive facility at Warwick.

The Essex Police Impreza Interceptor as featured in the Channel 5 TV Programme “Police Interceptors” will take part in the convoy along with Warwickshire Police’s unmarked Impreza (be on your best behaviour guys!) We’re really excited about these guys taking part as it shows the support and buy-in we have for this event and we’re delighted they’re going to be part of it.

Sunday Afternoon – 31st August
There are still some final bits to sort out, but as things stand right now this is going to be an afternoon NOT to be missed!

On arrival of the convoy at Warwick:

Prodrive will lay on demos/passenger laps on the adverse handling track, demos/passenger laps on the wet grip and also on the off-road tracks

There will be the opportunity to book on Prodrive's Rally Day, with discounted rates available and 10% will go towards the charities

There will be a Show and Shine event for those who want to take part. Prodrive employees will be the judges with an exclusive Prodrive prize for the winner.

Warwick Police's road safety stand and their unmarked Impreza will be displayed

Plans are afoot to spell out C. McRae or Colin McRae in Imprezas on the runway at Warwick. Dave Richards of Prodrive who has bought into this event totally has said he will make his helicopter available for aerial photos. This would be awesome, but is going to take some organising! We’d love to do it and are looking into it. More on that soon but if anybody fancies taking the organising of that on then please email me - andy AT mcrae-gathering.co.uk. We're swamped with work so could be done with someone to take ownership of this.

The TV Company that are doing the “Police Interceptor” series on Channel 5 are interested in the TV rights to this event. That shows how big this is going to be. It’s going to be totally unique and an awesome day for any Subaru or Colin McRae fan. If you’ve not yet got your stickers for the Subaru event of the year then get them soon!

Other News

In other exclusive news, we have the official polo shirts for this all done, dusted and approved. We held off on publicising this as we were not going to go public until we were totally happy and had approval from the various people involved. We're now delighted to announce they will feature the McRae Gathering logo, the official Prodrive logo and the official Colin McRae Sport logo.

Prodrive branded clothing is almost impossible to get hold of and the official Colin McRae clothing is only available through official McRae Sport channels. For both of them to grant us permission to use their logos is a real honour and way beyond what we expected. It shows how highly Colin was and still is thought of by those who knew him and how much those people are supporting this event. These will be "once in a lifetime" shirts - NEVER again will anyone be able to purchase anything carrying the McRae Gathering, Prodrive and Colin McRae Sport logos. It's only down to the support of the people who loved and respected Colin that we've got permission to produce these. We expect to have them on the online shop early next week and expect demand to be high!

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank Prodrive, Jimmy McRae and the McRae family, Campbell Roy, Thames Valley Police, Warwickshire Police and the local authorities for agreeing to and supporting this event. We will not let any of you down.

Finally...


It’s been a hectic few weeks since things have started to ramp up with much more going on behind the scenes than most of you will ever know. To those who have ordered stickers and waited patiently for them, thanks! To those who have ordered stickers and moaned they haven’t arrived within a week – give us a break! This is a massive event that isn’t happening for another 85 days so you’re not going to die if you don’t have your sticker(s) yesterday! There is absolutely shedloads of organising going on, but at the same time we have to juggle the work with our full-time jobs. If you’ve ordered then you will get your sticker(s) in plenty time. Please don’t make our job harder by complaining or hassling us!

More from us soon..

McRae Gathering Team

Sounds AMAZING. What an event. :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

I think its fantastic all the support you are getting.

Will try my best to make it!

Well done to all involved!

as above.

sounds absolutely amazing..........

Keep up the good work guys.

;)

Sounds good

Your guys are amazing.....Well done:thumb: can I now buy my sticker by cheque as I do not have PayPal?
Cheers
Colin

excellent work, really looking forward to this

Me too!

Super-excited.

Would love for my car to be in the spelling of "Colin McRae" and would pay gladly for the aerial photo.

Looking forward to this, have bought 3 of the stickers already for the two scoobs we have and think the organising and the plans afoot are brilliant.

well done to you all :thumb:

excellent organisation, can't wait to attend :D

Am I being a noob? Its an awesome idea, but do i need to buy a ticket? Or a sticker to attend?
I really want to go as do my mum and dad with their imprezas!
:)

yes you do need a sticker to attend and only scoobs are allowed

wow this really sounds like a once in a lifetime event to be able to pay our respects was enough but you guys have really pulled out all the stops and is a credit to you well done all involved

never been to prodrive so realy looking forward to this although its a shame we have to do this, would rather Colin be crashing fords still :D

....or putting Skoda on the podium.

the friday night before will be good too. :D

True!







especially as you said you're paying. :D

Prove it :lol:

Damn, i've emptied my PM inbox.

But we both know :p



Aslo, you were bringing the meths, me the lemonade. :lol1:

You dancer!

My stickers arrived today. :D

Couldn't resist....

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Could someone point me to the website so I can get the sticker please.
Cheers
Colin

go to www DoT mcrae-gathering DoT co DoT uk

I too am looking forward to this event. Have ordered my stickers (but still waiting on them). I missed the RB one, but this event look like it will surely make up for it.

Keep up the good work guys

Looking grand sir!!!!!!!!!!!

Dropped them off this morning on the way out to Larky

Posted a lot of orders today.

Should be up to date postal wise by the middle of next week, this week and last have been slightly frantic so i apologise for the delay

Thanks for your support everyone

I hadn't noticed there was no stamp on it.

I hoped you liked the freshly painted cottage? :)




Spent the last 3 days doing it. (OK, the wifey did. :D )

i take it you were doing the supervising then :D :thumb:

bloody good show with all thats been done for this so far! :thumb::thumb:

Only Scoobs allowed :(

is there like a register for this event or is it a case of turn up with your sticker in? cheers, shawn

Colin McRae Subaru Gathering - Home

Register on there and purchase a sticker

Only cars registered on the site and displaying a valid sticker will gain access to the Prodrive facility at Warwick.

The registration process is being carried out at the request of Prodrive, this is for Insurance purposes and they need a rough idea of how many people will be on the Warwick site