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Hopefully the club can arange something for this :pray: read in a mag this will be massive a figure of 750 scoobys is expected :shock:
 
Stickers will be available for sale by the end of this week hopefully. They will remain on sale right up until the 27th of August so please do not stress on making a decision this early.

So far we have 350 cars registered on the central website

The main runway at Warwick can hold up to 1300 cars side by side

Now that we have confirmed the Warwick facilty we shall be opening the invite to our European based couterparts to really make this event worthy of the great mans name

Hope this helps

Grant
 
on a personal note sounds like a once in a life-time sight, we had 97 :ponder: @ jap fest and that was mind blowing just think what even the 350 signed up so far would look and sound like :headbanger:
can we go, can we...... can we.......can we....... :lol:
 
" Stickers will be made available for sale in the next 7 days "
Ah I did panic and read " for next 7 days " :D :whistle:
Are we there yet???!!! :D
 
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it has been just over 8 months since we lost one of our most fearless drivers and a world wide hero... Colin McRae MBE.
Subaru owners in the UK are organising a momentus event at the end of August 200, in association with the McRae family and Prodrive, to enable us to pay tribute to a true hero and raise funds for the Colin McRae Charitable Foundation

Prodrive have given us access to 2 of their facilities in England and are putting on rare and exclusive treats over the weekend for us, including firing up several of Colin’s cars to make an appearance in front of an estimated 500-strong crowd of McRae and Subaru fans.
We witnessed the reaction of the motoring world to this tragic loss and recognise that many of his fans will be unable to attend this event.
In recognition of this, we invite you to make a donation towards this event and join Subaru owners across the world show our support for Colin and his association with Subaru.
The best way to get your donation to this fund is using the Paypal Donate Button located on the lower left hand column of this link http://www.mcrae-gathering.co.uk/

Details of the McRae Gathering event can be found in the official website
www.mcrae-gathering.co.uk

You can get all the latest news and developments regarding this exciting Subaru-only get together to mark and celebrate the life of a true legend whilst hopefully raising loads of money for Colin's favourite charities.

The official stickers will made available to those Internationally that, due to geographical restrictions, are unable to attend the event personally. Details on how to order the stickers are located in the shop section of the mcrae-gathering website. So even though you cant attend you will still be able to adorn your Subaru with one of these stickers and be there in spirit on the 31st of Aug 2008

Thanks for your support
 
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
 
Lads, I dunno bout ye but Ive an awful feeling that if I dont witness this, I'll regret it for a long long time!! Im so there.. anyone else? is it official list time?
 
wow, how much money would one need to save to make this trip.... estimate (petrol,ferry,the whole lot)
Would love to get to this :pray:
 
well I worked it out at 230 GBP for boats (thats with a buddy, plus Cabin on return trip), put by 200 sterling for juice, I plan on camping in banbury but travelodge is obv extra, Id say youd be safely lookin at bout 750 yoyos between 2 peeps?
 
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Chris and Petter have thiers

I have 3 orders for stickers from Eire and they will be posted before the end of this week

Thanks

Grant
 
f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

i cant feckin believe i am going to miss this... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

very tempted to fly home and get me leggy out of the garden for this one last treat..???

i wonder can you buy a sticker even if you dont go..?? it would a cool isdc trip to go on, what more could you ask for but a trip to the haggisland to pay tribute to the greatest driver of all time, and also coz i love scottish women..!!! hubba hubba..!!

still cant believe i wont be able to feckin make it.....arrggggggghhhhh... :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

smurf

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Im all booked for this! 3am sailing belfast-stranraer, hit Lanark for 9.30 (ish), stayin over in bo-peep camping in banbury, quick trip over to see silverstone before home, Holyhead-Dublin! Anyone else serious bout this?
 
Im booked, heading out of larne to cairnrayn friday 10:30, back monday 15:00 sail from cairnryan

got no where booked, got an aunt lives in Brackley so dropped her a hint, will find somewhere for friday B&B
 
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f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k f*k :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

i cant feckin believe i am going to miss this... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

very tempted to fly home and get me leggy out of the garden for this one last treat..???

i wonder can you buy a sticker even if you dont go..?? it would a cool isdc trip to go on, what more could you ask for but a trip to the haggisland to pay tribute to the greatest driver of all time, and also coz i love scottish women..!!! hubba hubba..!!

still cant believe i wont be able to feckin make it.....arrggggggghhhhh... :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

smurf

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COME HOME FOR IT THEN!!!!!!! :D :D :D
CMNOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN :D :D :D
 
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