En mémoire du très talentueux pilote de rallye automobile Colin McRae, un grand convoi de plus de mille Subaru Impreza s’étaient données rendez-vous en Ecosse. Respectueux et fort, ce moment a permis de récolter quelque argent pour les œuvres de charité du défunt. Un long convoi de Scoobies sur l’autoroute (voir vidéo dans la suite) pour finir sur un circuit en formant COLIN MCRAE avec les centaines de Subaru présentes.
Emission TV Fifth Gear sur le Colin McRae Gathering 2008, par Vicki Butler Henderson.
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30 mile McRae convoy smashes world records
More than 1000 Subaru owners and thousands more fans have celebrated the life of Colin McRae this weekend.
A convoy, which at its peak stretched 30 miles with an estimated 1100 Subaru cars, left Colin’s home town of Lanark on Saturday morning, led by his father Jimmy McRae. Nine hours and 300 miles later, it arrived at Prodrive’s headquarters in Banbury, having been cheered along the way by thousands of fans who stood on every available motorway bridge on route.
« Literally every bridge had people waving and cheering us along with many hanging the Saltire from the railings. » said Grant Hendry, who led the McRae Gathering convoy. « It turned what was an already memorable event into a truly amazing and emotional occasion. »
The convoy re-gathered at Prodrive’s headquarters in Banbury on Sunday morning, before being led up the M40 by Colin McRae’s original 1996 Impreza rally car. In a fitting finale to the event, a sign almost half a mile long and made up of 1086 Subarus spelt out COLIN MCRAE and the Scottish Saltire in a new official Guinness World Record – smashing the previous record by more than 800 cars. The cars then broke a second Guinness World Record by creating the largest parade of cars as they left the Prodrive test track.
It is estimated that the event has raised nearly £40,000 for the McRae charities.