Prodrive is the latest motorsport company to announce redundancies, it has been revealed - as the company reels from Subaru's withdrawal from the World Rally Championship and as many as 600 job losses at Aston Martin.
David Richards has admitted that everybody was taken by surprise when Subaru announced it was pulling out of the World Rally Championship last month - but he also revealed he is hopeful the manufacturer may one day return.
Subaru's technical director David Lapworth has said that the team is feeling confident about their prospects for the second half of the season following the second competitive outing with the all-new Impreza WRC2008 on the Rally of Turkey last weekend.