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Prodrive at 30: From the WRC to Mars

As Prodrive celebrates its 30th anniversary, DAVID EVANS sat down with the man behind it all, David Richards, to look back at the firm's remarkable history

David Richards' telephone is ringing. It's March, 1989 and two worlds are about to collide; a legend about to be born.

It's no surprise that Richards remembers that first call from Ryuichiro Kuze, the founding president of Subaru's Tecnica International division. That was the deal that turned Prodrive into a world-beater.

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