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Went to M-Sport on Tuesday for one of there tours as a present for my dads 60th. Here are a few pics of what we was allowed to take, I would have took more but we was running late & would have liked to take more of the outside...
It's a fantastic place that, I went 2 years ago The trophy room is a very impressive place and I liked the little museum, it had a different mark 2 in there when I went.
Thats cool mate, My mate visted the Prodrive Factory for a tour a couple of weeks ago which is quite similar i guess
I've done Prodrive too and you would be surprised at the differences in the way they work
The Prodrive tour has more to it on the engineering side of things because they do lots of different things and not just Subaru rallycars at the time, no idea if they are doing anything for rallying these days. Prodrive also have a very impressive museum I never understood why Subaru weren't more successful in rallying after seeing the levels that Prodrive went to, the way M-Sport approach things seem to be a simple effort which makes it less to go wrong I suppose.
I loved both though, it's just a shame M-Sport is so far away for me.
Nice pics there. How do you go about getting on a tour?
Go to M-Sports website & click on the tours. Send Julia an Email & she will email you with a form & dates. They are every Tuesday & Thursday from 5.30pm. I was told there needed to be a min of 10 but on out tour there was just 4 of us. Price is £20 per person.
The tour consists of most part of the factory. We went in the fabrication room, engine room, walked along the factory floor & saw the new Fiesta S2000 & Mikko's & Jari's Sweden cars plus got to us close & inside Ken Blocks Focus. Sadly no pics were allowed of insid ethe factory.
I've done Prodrive too and you would be surprised at the differences in the way they work
The Prodrive tour has more to it on the engineering side of things because they do lots of different things and not just Subaru rallycars at the time, no idea if they are doing anything for rallying these days. Prodrive also have a very impressive museum I never understood why Subaru weren't more successful in rallying after seeing the levels that Prodrive went to, the way M-Sport approach things seem to be a simple effort which makes it less to go wrong I suppose.
I loved both though, it's just a shame M-Sport is so far away for me.
I did the Prodrive tour a few weeks ago. And have to say it is amazing, and would recommend it to anyone !!
The amount of work and expertise in that place, and the amount of different motorsport and other areas they are involved in is truly amazing.
And they arent shy about showing you about either.
I'll definately be going back again !!
Does the M-Sport tour take you around the workshops, or is it more of a museum type setup ?
How much is it ?
Nice one mate who ever takes you on the tour ask them to tell you the story of Malcolm buying a Mk1 Esocrt from Portugal & making room on the wagon & his RS500 he's got tucked away.
Nice one mate who ever takes you on the tour ask them to tell you the story of Malcolm buying a Mk1 Esocrt from Portugal & making room on the wagon & his RS500 he's got tucked away.
You'll hear some interesting stories.
Enjoy.
Cheers for that I'll try and remember to ask them about them.