Prodrive History 1984-2009

But what is exactly the Prodrive?
The Prodrive is a Great British tuning firm which was founded by Dave Richards and by Ian Perry in 1984. Its seat can be found in Banbury from 1986.
Dave Richards was the earlier leader of the formula 1 Bar Honda team.
The Prodrive prepares Ford, Aston Martin, Ferrari and Subaru cars for rally-, tour car- and Le Mans racings. They won three times the famous 24 hours Le Mans round in the last 25 years and five times the British tour car championship. Further there are 1 North-American rally, 2 Belgian, 2 French, 2 British, 4 Asia league-cups and 5 rally world league-cups on the shelf of the Prodrive.
They got married in 1990 with the Subaru. In the beginning they took part in the different rally rounds with Legacy RS, after that with Impreza from 1993. Such big names like Ari Vatanen, Richard Burns, Carlos Saints, Colin Mcrae and Petter Solberg gave reputation to the Subaru and to the Prodrive. Unfortunately the Subaru filed out of the rally world championship from 2009.
Of course the race technology comes also to the street by and by and it is typical for the quality that the guarantee of the factory doesn’t fail, too.