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Targa Tasmania on Channel 7, Sunday 1st June, 11AM. Don't miss it peeps

You'll be waiting a while :laughing-smiley-014: Well done mate, keep that flag flying!

Jenna said last weekend that 100km/h feels slow!!!! :laughing-smiley-014: Can only imagine how slow 50 must feel after Targa!

I know way more dirt Roads in Tasmania than I have uses for now! No matter what happened with the cars (gearbox, secondary exhaust flange, half shaft, 2 rear rotors and 2 engine mounts) I still had a great time because of the people involved! I'll be back next year, hopefully in the crazy seat somewhere!

Anyone who reckons motorsport is glamorous, has never done it! Although, seen Kevin Weeks lately

Yeah the box was a baptism of fire on the first night I tell ya! Luckily one of the Evo guys was doing a clutch the same night and we managed to get a lend of his engine crane, making it sooooo much easier. Undid the first bolts at 5:00PM and was in bed around 12:30AM. F*** it was cold out there after the sun went down. We're not 100% sure Ray will be making the trip West this year. Never pass up an opportunity in a Spec C

Ah yes, THAT morning...The morning of waiting all morning for 4 mins of Comp, and I wasn't even in a car! On the way back from George Town, the Orange Skelta of Nick Faure threw 6th gear so we spent 7 hrs out the front of the Silverdome replacing the GBox. (Just for safetys sake, as we werent too sure where the bits of 6th gear went to.) Hopefully we'll be able to catch up at another event, looks like Jenna has a ride with Ray for the rest of the year.

I was at the end of Ross Arden waiting for the Skeltas to exit the stage and I must say I could not believe that people had to drive their cars over 5kms of dirt rd in a TARMAC rally. Especially within 200m of Time Control, with hot tyres all ready to collect stones and dust and fling it all up the underside and side of the car. You just dont expect to see The Coad's Monaro or any of the late model Porsches (like the Kermit green 997 GT3 RS) driving on an unsealed rd. I imagine he would've had to drive it out that way, just as everyone else was

I'm sure he is a good steerer. Even more reason to give it a go! How good does 7.3 AMG Lts sound though!!!!!

Yes Although the guy driving it was soft!

Just a few I found of Jeff and Nerida

Just a few pics from my Service Crew travels... Well done to all SAu'ers who competed. Great turn out!

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Well done to The Beables in finishing 20th. The pace was crazy at the top this year, hell. even Richards and Oliver couldn't stay in touch with the Evo of Glenny and Webb! Tiges and Myself didn't want to hijack the Beable's thread Age, so we put a report in the Targa '08 thread HERE.

21/04/2008 SKELTA NUDGES TARGA PODIUM Team Skelta have scored two cars in the top twenty of Targa Tasmania 2008. The event finished in Hobart last night. Visiting Englishman, Nick Faure with Brisbane co-driver Cameron Reeves, finished a creditable 17th outright, considering that he was a rookie to the event, while Skelta designer & boss Ray Vandersee and Melbourne co-driver Jenna Kelley claimed fourth outright. Both teams had runs devoid of major problems and continued to move up the leader board right to the very end of the event. What was ultimately a great result was soured by the fact that Vandersee/Kelley were penalised for stopping to offer assistance to the crew of a crashed car near lunchtime on day four. This penalty ultimately cost the Skelta team its first podium in the Targa Tasmania tarmac event. “What was really disappointing was that the Clerk of Course would not even consider our in-car footage evidence” said the understandably upset Vandersee. “The rules state that no competitor will be disadvantaged for stopping to give assistance to a fellow crew in distress. Yet we received a 7 second penalty on a stage on which we were clearly going to lose no time. This was all the more disappointing as earlier vehicles on the scene failed to stop.” The seven second penalty ultimately pushed the hard charging team to a four second deficit behind the Subaru crew of Dean Herridge and Glenn McNeal. “We were obviously having a really close battle with the Subaru pairing so the result was always going to be close. But we were taking big lumps of time out of them in the closing stages and to be knocked off the podium by a poorly calculated derived time is a bitter pill to swallow” said Vandersee. Internationally renowned race driver and veteran of eleven Le Mans 24 hour races, Nick Faure, made a steady but calculated start in the event and held 35th place after day one. Competing for the first time in Targa Tasmania and never having driven the Skelta before, Faure was gobsmacked with the surefootedness of the vehicle. “I've never before used pace notes so it took some time to get used to the idea of taking on board the co-driver's instructions. But towards the end of the event we were starting to get into sync and it was only then that I was able to start to appreciate the vast limits of the grip and handling of the Skelta” said Faure. “It's a very forgiving car to drive with exceptional braking and tremendous grip” enthused an impressed Faure. On the last day Faure and Reeves started setting top ten stage times and moved up to an impressive 17th outright. Faure is keen to return next year and forecasts a much better result with the knowledge and experience he has gained this year. Competing in a grueling five day event like Targa requires a real team effort and Ray Vandersee would like to acknowledge the contributions and efforts of the whole team including his first time co-driver Jenna Kelley, co-driver for Nick, Cameron Reeves and service/support crew members Dennis & Louise Neagle, Ian Daniel, Tim Powell, Daniel Lemish, Guy Bedington and Bruce & Sue Vandersee. Ray would also like to thank Nick Faure for his involvement and for bringing back the car safely in one piece.

Thanks Kaz for the quick action. The pack arrived in the mail today

You're right...MY BAD Talking to Ray he says there is ONE with a V8 in the UK, but it wouldn't pass emissions here. Reckons he doesn't need one anyway

Hi guys, My partner will be in the Co-Drivers seat of Ray Vandersee's 2.4l V8 Skelta. I'll be down there wh*ring myself around

I think I need to come and keep you buggers honest at teh Masters event... Don't want it too easy for you

Seems as though he got his just deserts! No more hardtop LOL Top work on the evasive driving!

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to each and every one of you who were out there in the heat and amongst the flies...you guys ROCK. Had an absolute blast as im sure most others did... Wasn't quite the same without RB20 GATE

Finally back on teh internetz!!! Firstly, to all that organised the trip...THANKYOU. I had a blast learning a couple of new tracks that i'd heard much about. Secondly, thanks to everyone else on the trip. Was awesome spending time talking sh1t with you and showing those north of the border how we do things in Vic. Team Wang FTW!!! Wakefield Park was a great little track. I had a great time pushing myself and my car to the limits in search of the perfect lap. Being the first ever time on real semis (Azenis aren't real semis) I was astounded at the difference a set of sticky tyres could make. Without a lap timer, I figured my fastest lap was somewhere around the 1:11-12 mark. Onto Eastern Creek, where I was a little apprehensive about the rain, but soon got into the swing of things once i realised that if i drove through the understeer in the torrential rain, the car would transition into oversteer allowing a quick exit out of the long flowing corners. Trying to stay in front of Scottish in the second last session, and then chasing him in the last were highlights What a blast! Nice pics Mav

Yeah, thats the one Snowy. Without wanting to go too far, from good sources, Ive heard the car split in 2 and Paul ended up outside of the car.

I was up there when it happened (GF is navigating in car 5) The car that was involved in the fatality was an Elfin MS8 Clubman driven by David Reynolds and Co-drven by Paul Flintoft. Unfortunately Paul passed away at the scene. There is talk of there being a ban placed on open/convertible cars from the next event onwards. In all, 10 cars came off in the 1 stage they ran on Saturday and another 10 in the one stage run yesterday. Yesterday on the way down to Mansfield for lunch i saw a 996 911 GT2 with a hole the shape of a tree smack bang in the middle of the bonnet...wish i had my camera with me!!! Even Jim Richards packed it up and went home yesterday arvo! So far 4 stages have been cancelled, but im told it is fine and sunny up there this morning so its game on!

Team 3 for me! Just got back from Mt Buller and have too much sh1t to do here to be leaving anytime Tuesday