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[marinetowing]

Watch this space...... http://targahighcoun...nt_is_building…

[DOUGMO]

should be good man

looking forward too it.


"fire up!!!!"

[brettu26]

whats an AASA license anyone? id love to be an official

[bazeng]

Awesome!

I remember working up there and damn the drive is great!
Lots of skid marks everywhere...

[DOUGMO]

aasa is like a cams license but issued through winton
aasa now run targa and a few other major rallies/events

[rob323]

aasa now run targa and a few other major rallies/events

4 rallyspirnts and one rally to be run under AASA in Qld this year.

[marinetowing]

Stage locations have been released for those who are interested!

http://targahighcoun...try/course.html

[p3akin]

fuck, that looks intensely fun.

[SIVART]

just checked the list and there is a evo 2 and a evo 3 also entered

[DOUGMO]

yeah usually the odd early running trav... should be fun.
shame Ill only be behind the wheel of scotts triton. it will be good to be there though

[marinetowing]

Only a couple of weeks away!

[SIVART]

Good to see you guys, pretty warm in the sun, let me know how the results went. Always love to see the Targa cars.

[DOUGMO]

just got back from targa looking after scott

he did bloody well even after getting a few derived times for stopping to help a guy that had a massive crash and then missing the next stage.

9th in early modern is a very good result by any standards...he literally drove the tyres off it....GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!

[bazeng]

Well done Scott!!

[SIVART]

great work , I just seen a vid on FB , your driving is awesome

9th is a awesome position , well done

[marinetowing]

Thanks guys, had a great weekend and it was good to catch up with Trav and Nick again (sorry for not being able to stop and chat for as long as I would have liked but these events seem to have you rushing to meet the next checkpoint in time).

A massive thanks to George and his lovely wife for spending the weekend with us and keeping the Evo in tip top shape which allowed us to finish the event without any car problems whatsoever.
My car has been subjected to a lot of changes over the past 6 months, diffs, suspension etc all of which transformed it into a very serious tarmac weapon that I was only just beging to get a feel for towards day 2.
As George mentioned...we destroyed a brand new set of Dunlop 03G's in the 2 day event, the last 3 stages were run with the shoulders on all 4 tyres delaminated and minimal tread depth across the tyres, the car seemed to step the rear a little more but still held off on understeer which is attributed to the new front diff that the car now has.
Sunday was our day to shine and we pushed as hard as we felt comfortable, averaging 6th position for all the stages we competed in, on the 3rd stage we came across a BMW M3 that had come into a corner too hot and left the road straight into a tree, as we were first on the scene we had to remain until the ambulance arrived, fortunately the occupants were ok (which says a huge amount for well constructed cages as this hit was so large that I was initially too scared to look in the car as I thought the driver would have certainly been dead). As there was a number of large offs on this particular stage it took 45 minutes for the medical team to arrive, making us miss the next 2 stages In this situation a derived time is awarded to competitors who miss stages due to such as the above circumstances, this time is supposed to be calculated on you pre stage performance and should reflect the time you would have placed for the stage, our incar footage up to stopping at the incident had us at a time that would have yielded a 5th or 6th position finish, the derived time they gave us actually awarded us with a 10th place finish, although we protested and took our video evidence to be checked (which they did not want to see) the officials were steadfast with the ruling.

Massively stoked with finishing 9th in Early modern although 6th or 7th would have been better if we were not dudded with the derived time! We were just glad the guys in the beemer were ok and if the situation arises again we will stop without hesitation, just next time I will argue our case a little more!
The course was amazing and had a bit of everything, plenty of twisties and some serious high speed sections- on Saturday afternoon on the Hathill stage we recorded a top speed of 230kph and this was in a section of road that had 3 right an 2 left handed corners thrown in the mix to negotiate while the car was in 5th gear with all the red lights on the shiftlight aglow
Road surfaces were also very good in terms of being smooth compared to Tassie although the surface was very abrasive, which we believed was a part of the reason for destroying the tyres.

We will be back next year!
Will post a few pics and vids once I can get motivated to upload them

[(2much)]

congrats scotty!... was good to catch up, and see your car in action..

i have a little clip on the iphone, i'll get it uploaded, but i dropped the footage to take pics while you were mid corner, i'll need to learn multitasking a bit better..

9th is excellent! however you did get beat by a couple of girls (those girls were placing well all weekend)

not sure if you saw, but there was an evo x at the end of stage 4 on saturday, ended up completely totaled by fire, and an off. good to see the driver and passenger ok, was still burning when we left the spectator spot on the stage, (road was closed and fire and police on the scene)

I'll go next year forsure, i had a great time, but i dont know if i would ever be able to be a passenger, and even driving like that on roads like that isn't drawing me in.. saw a couple of people have pretty big moments at the power lines on the whittfield road, couple looked like they were going to take the plunge... but all made it through.


Congrats again.

[trist]

Well done! I have to say that your car looked awsome

[marinetowing]

Cheers guys,
Just found this- "tipping it in at Mansfield!"

http://stephenthorpe...ography_thc2010

[(2much)]

wow, good photo spot, i was in a crap position, in the middle of the round about.. got heaps of shots of you through the corner... you can see that back wheel tripod from the otherside too..

nice commitment, lots of grip... that corner was a bit crazy with the big bump on entry, and the gutter on exit that was a bit close for some of the other competitors,

i can't wait for my tassie trip and the basky trackday.. better organise it, at least then it can happen..

nick