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Targa Tasmania Report |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Hi Guys,
Thought you might be interested in something a bit different. 23 April caught the ferry from Sydney to Tas with Becko the navigator and a whole lot of other competitors. Photo of us follows with beer in hand cruising out of the harbour. Cruise got a bit rought 12 hours later when we ran into 9 metre seas and everyone except me an a few others threw up for the next 14 hours. Long day, but we got there. Attached image(s) |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:55 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
I'm the one with hand in splint. Broke 4th metacarpal playing footy at my sisters the previous weekend. Made driving a bit painful.
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Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 0 Prologue.
Single stage around Georgetown to seed the starting order. Went pretty well but a little bit conservative. I think we came in 29 th out of 120 in the classic division. Got airborne crossing an intersection. Attached image(s) |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:59 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 1,
Cleaned most of the stages and maintained about the same position. It took Becko a while to get used to pace notes again. Heavily under brakes in the Moriarty stage. Attached image(s) |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 03:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 2 - Wet
And real slippery. I think we lost a few places but kept it on the island; especially after last year when I speared it off on Weldborough Pass and we spent 2 hours standing in the rain watching the field go by. Photo of same stage this year. Attached image(s) |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 03:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 3 - Mostly fine, but a bit damp.
I think we made up a few places, but kept it neat on the damp stuff. Photo of Ridgeway stage. I didn't notice the spectators until I got the photos. |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 03:05 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Forgot photo
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Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 03:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 4 - Dry absolute blast.
What can you say - a few really good long stages, eg Cethana 33km, and a few others. Went hard but the motor was a little off song, later traced to cross firing plug lead. Had a huge lock up coming into the infamous right hander on Natone. see pic. Overall I think we maintained position. Becko had the calls right by this time. Attached image(s) |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 03:14 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Day 5 Wet.
Lost a few spots. Longest day of the event about 130 km of stages, including the longest of the event Mount Arrowsmith 47km. In fact it was snowing at the end of that stage. I haven't seen so many trashed cars as on this stage. About 5 or 6 including 2 into a bank beside each other and 1 on the other side of the road which had rolled at more or less the same spot. Made it to the finish. PS The boat trip home was cancelled becaue it was damaged in even bigger seas so the shipping line flew us back and the cars arrived last Friday!! Attached image(s) |
VegasRacer |
May 9 2004, 05:03 AM
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ELVIRA Group: Benefactors Posts: 8,511 Joined: 27-March 03 From: Between Scylla and Charybdis Member No.: 481 Region Association: None |
Well done Howard. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_flagge24.gif)
Thanks for the photos and the story. Do they still have the Cannonball or the Castrol Rally? |
fiid |
May 9 2004, 05:27 AM
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Turbo Megasquirted Subaru Member Group: Members Posts: 2,827 Joined: 7-April 03 From: San Francisco, CA Member No.: 530 Region Association: Northern California |
Awesome pics. I want to run this event one day :-). I met a guy by the name of Lionel who was there in a blue 350Z this year and says it's quite the blast. He's also doing the targa NZ, which apparently has more open classes.... he was talking about supercharging the car for that.
Fun fun fun. Fiid. |
ablose58 |
May 9 2004, 05:32 AM
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rust never sleeps Group: Members Posts: 584 Joined: 6-December 03 From: port orchard,wa. Member No.: 1,422 |
Great job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) The pics are great also. AL
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415PB |
May 9 2004, 08:27 AM
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Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 498 Joined: 7-August 03 From: So Cal Member No.: 996 |
Now that looks like an awesome time. Great pics also (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)
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seanery |
May 9 2004, 08:38 AM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,852 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
Nice Job Howard! The pics are fantastic. You know, we're all jealous over here!
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Joe Bob |
May 9 2004, 08:58 AM
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Retired admin, banned a few times Group: Members Posts: 17,427 Joined: 24-December 02 From: Boulder CO Member No.: 5 Region Association: None |
Too cool, lifetime of memories.....in one event.
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Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 01:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
The cannonball was only run once, about 10 or 12 years ago and I think the litgation is just winding up. You might remember that the japanese guys in a Ferrari didn't stop at the end of a stage and killed a couplke of control officials.
Fiid, I mixed it with the blue Z on a couple of stages. Because we went fairly well in the prologue we ended up with a lot of cars from the modern division around us. I think it pays to go a bit slower in the prologue so you start earlier and are less likely to get run down by GT3 s etc, however dinner that night was riding on against our taildragger team mates and we won. I think I will do the Classic Adelaide event in November. Better weather and only classic cars. Thanks for the interest. |
anthony |
May 9 2004, 02:00 PM
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2270 club Group: Benefactors Posts: 3,107 Joined: 1-February 03 From: SF Bay Area, CA Member No.: 218 |
Who took all the pics? Someone from the event?
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Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:04 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
Perfect Prints from Hobart. I buy the whole set before the event because he offers a good discount. I think I ended up with about 20 photos.
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Mueller |
May 9 2004, 02:07 PM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,146 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None |
Looks like a blast Howard...too bad I didn't have decals for your car, would have been neat to have exposure way down there (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
thanks for sharing the pictures and story, not sure if I'll ever make it to your part of the world ..... |
Downunderman |
May 9 2004, 02:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 852 Joined: 31-May 03 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 766 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
BTW, I broke the spoiler not in the heat of competition doing something spectacular or heroic, but driving into the car park at lunch on day 2. The sports ground we were parking on was very soft and the entry was chopped up. It sank in the ruts and caught the spoiler at abt 5kph. Anyone know a good source of LE spoiler. I also want to a put some fibreglass bumpers on.
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