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who is going to buller from tassie. since it's the last one should try and get our car up there.

I've made a Nismo dash for trackvision, i'm just in the process of setting the dash to read the logs. Should have to video in the next couple of weeks. I think the trackvision forums are a good place to to find some loggers. the traqmate was the cheapest i found that did what i wanted (gps+aux inputs). i know greg (targa tom) has used trackvision in the past.

what happened to bradford on day 1? we passed the car at the finish of sheffield, and it looked like it had been on fire. also saw him down a bank at gunns plains.

haha maybee a little to much after seeing the big no 11's it layed from your angle. how is a 400r in s2? surly with a published 0-100 of 4.0 sec it should be in s1

- Paloonait's there, but apparently still processing.

it's uploading now

i'll chop it up and upload it just for you

I've uploaded some of our stages - Western Creek - Elephant Saddle - Mt Claude - Liena - Quamby Brook

new PB for Symmons Plains for me. 1:00.98. That was with new wheel bearings and subframe bushes. Tyres were shagged though, hoping to get into the 59's with some new rubber.

might have got passed by rb20 powah, but adleast we looked good while doing it (well that's what i keep telling myself)

you get any good footage of us leaving the line?

bit of late brake on turn in hicas action. even re55s are working by that far into a stage (esp with the way we just ease the car off the line )

Here is the vid of us getting beached on day 1. Proper vids to follow soon.

wouldn't worry about the premiere. The premiere used to race the entire event back in the day

I don't know if there has ever been spectator deaths?! I know that 3 were badly injured, when they got hit by a mini a few years ago, but i'm pretty sure that none have been killed. A lot of people that oppose Targa are loud, and do stupid/illigal things to stop stages...eg empting 44gal dums of oil on the road, throwing rocks at cars.... How many other times a year does Longford or G'Town get that amount of people visiting the town, and spending money in the town (if you there for 3 hours, you'll want to get some food/drink) I think that it's been worked out that Targa compeditors spend $1000 a day when they are down here, then times that for 4 (average of 4 people per car at a guess), then times that by 300. Targa brings a huge amount of money to Tassie, plus it encorages tourests to come for a holiday via word of mouth.

Not surprised your still drunk Kel, you gave the bar a good crack on Sunday night. Won't be surprised to see more R32 Gts-t's next year. Was funny the amount of people that came up to me and said "hey you know ben, he running a stroker/race fuel?"....mainly vw drivers, he gave them a real scare.

Wll back at work, so time for a re-cap. Day0: Ran the car in Prolouge trim (high boost and no spares), first time the car has been driven since last year, made some mistakes, but was 5th is early modern. But we ended up 4th after a evo was pinned for race fuel. Day1: Got through the first stage alright. 1/2 way through stage 2 there was a long straight, got to the end of that, jumped on the brakes from 200k only to find that the front pads hadn't been bedded in properly, gave me a good scare when it grabbed the rears and we almost arrived at the corner backwoods. I bedded them in, in the next transport stage. Dad drove the next stage, we got 1.3km in and he spun the car up a bank, and wedged the car. We broke some small tree's down and tried to leaver the car out, but couldn't move it. After we got towed out we missed the next stage. We joined the back of the field at lunch. Next few stages were steady, I got back in the car and found the brakes still weren't right (dad and i drive differently, i use the brakes to stop, dad tends to use the gears). I missed a Left 2 on Seffield and went up a dirt road, used the hand brake the get back on the road, and got 2 thumbs up from a local. I managed to catch and pass one of the Maximum Motorsport subies on the last stage of the day, got to the end of the stage and the rear brakes had smoke poring off them (this is their 3rd Targa). Blead the brakes at service and got some air out of the rears (not really a good sign). Day2: Got through all of the morning stages fine, slow but alive. After lunch I thought the rotors must have been warped, cause they didn't sound reel good. Sound got worse at the end of the next stage. I drove Longford, and doriftoed the 2nd 1/2 of the stage much to dads discust. Got to the end of the stage and the brakes were now going thud thud thud. Got to servce and found the drivers rear was cracked, had to drive to devenport to take the rears off another car. Day3: Started to find some speed in the morning. Didn't go farming or stump removing like some. Wooster passed me on the stage after lunch (he was only just a little happy about that), the rest of the stages were reasnoable. Day4: I drove the morning, first stage was alright, i wasn't very happy with the second stage cethana, 30 secs slower than last year. Dad looped the car on Hellyer Goarge, didn't hit anything, but cost us heaps of time to turn the car around. Next 2 staged were wet, made it through them. The last stage of the day was long and wet. We passed a Daytona 1/3 of the way though the stage. Passed lots of wrecked cars, Peter Moore's R34 N1 was in a ball on the side of the road. On the second last corner of the stage, a Right 3, dad got on the gas to early and spun the car, we went backwoods up the road, into a ditch, through a road sign (bent it over, and pulled it out of the ground concreate and all) , hit a bank which spun the car back onto the road. Much to our surprize the car still went, and we limped accross the line. Service crew did a great job and got it drivable for the next day (had to cut 2 intercooler rows out, and it still leaked) Day5: Just limped home, didn't know if anthing was about to brake. The car was like a mobile chicane, got passed by 5 cars of mt arrowsmith. Got to Hobart and had some beers. I was surprised how many modern cars were running race fuel and not getting cought. Alot of the evo's were running it in the middle of the day, and putting 98 back in for the last stage. I'm not sure if i'll get in the car next to dad again. But if I do we will be changing tyre brand (RE55S are rubbish), locking the HICAS, and doing lots of testing. I'll get some vids up soon. Unfortinatually the Card on the camera ran out half way though the stage where dad had the big off.

2007 a farmer dumped oil on natone, and the stage was canned. it's been a regular thing over the years.

Tassie farmers rock. Hopfully I should catch up with all you guys tomorrow. Didn't make it last night cause Ben's phone service is shit, and I didn't have any other numbers to ring.

the view from work today.....rain

na there was a team of two, i just wondered where the other one is now.

I did the Targa Tour in 03. I remember the orrange GT-R's, what happened to the one that ended up on it's roof?

or do you mean your cams licence?

is targa fest on again? i really should read the dates and times

only if you don't have to go horsing around.