Targa Tas '08, Whos Running, Discussion Etc

[Duncan]

hahah that's so true I'm still trying to find the glamour. A real high point for me was doing an oil change at the burnie road side service a couple of years back. hot engine, hot oil, pouring rain, no shelter. glamourous

but re dirt roads....what is with you big girls? service crews spend half of targa on dirt roads in crappy old vans tgrying to get around to road closures. you guys are soft. rocks fall off as soon as you launch at the next stage as long as you give it a serious launch

[navdan]

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!

[Marlin]

True, it aint glamarous, it's damn hard work!

On that dirt road thing.... I don't have an issue, ask young Timmy about our BIG off-road excursion on Cethana!

[Duncan]

I'm sure he didn't notice. As a navigator he never even looked up right?

[Marlin]

lol, it was a definate double seat grab!

[sav man]

got some good clips up now

Queenstown

Liena

Mt Claude

TT: A whatletic converter?

[Marlin]

Great stuff Benno! How cools the chopper on Queenstown!

I only wish our in-car was anywhere near as good

[sav man]

you notice the chopper didn't follow us like it followed the leaders, was pretty cool to drive under it at that altitude.

If you turn Queenstown to high quality, you can see kids running accross the road at around 3:20

[Kel]

Loving that chopper on Queenstown!

Did anyone see the one parked on the side of the road at Reece Dam (???)- I never normally look up enough to see anything during a TS but it was hard to miss! It was big for me to notice- Pete had to tell me about the fact we nearly went through a fence (apparently) @ Beaconsfield!

[sav man]

A Torana went through a fence at Bece, saw the hole in the fence in our footage.

Which car on Reece? There was that many of them, the Pug with the smashed in face?

[guesty]

MY99 STI type RA :-)

[Marlin]

MY99 STI type RA :-)

Excellent! Been dreaming of one myself.... light weight goodness!

[guesty]

Yes, the only bad thing is i will be in a harder class :-(

[sav man]

and you'll need a colection of gearboxes for it

[guesty]

No problems, i work here: www.burniesubaru.com.au

we just rebuilt another engine today actually

[Kel]

Sorry- it was a chopper parked on the side of the road at Reece (if my memory of teh stages is still working).

It was the LHS of the road, about half way through I think?

I was like WTF- that's a bloody funny looking car

Way too many offs on that stage, and it was hard to tell what some of those cars started off as- I saw what I think was a very messed up diesel mazda, the pug and the porker.

We were literally the last car in before the sweep so saw all of the carnage.

[Marlin]

Yes I saw the HUUUUGE chooper too.... I was thinking, "funny place to park a mega-dollar chopper!"

Oh, and here's our Liena stage - VERY POOR SOUND THOUGH! Grrrrrr

Edited April 24, 2008 by Marlin

[joelstrick]

Congrats to all who competed

To team shake and bake, loved your stickers, followed your guys all week

Targa is such a tough event to cover photographically, but a lot of fun

Savman on your video from Queenstown, you can see me on the video in a yellow vest at the 1:07 mark. That was such a good stage to photograph

Il hopefully get some photos up over the weekend

I shot way too much, about 8000 frames which works out to be 30+GB of files

[Targa Tom]

How do you blokes afford the fee to upload car footage onto the net?

Yeah Ben, that big yellow stain is a giveaway.

The Gravel - much better than running on two coat seal flat out... Sidling for eg. Longley a few years ago too. Bit of gravel - our tyres didnt pick up jack. But Duncan did warn me!! Even though we went M.

TT984

[sav man]

show's up like dogs balls on a white car dosn't it. There were a few other cars with yellow up their arse too, i'm sure ours will be fixed when the rest of the car is fixed.

I didn't think you had to pay to upload footage, unless it was for commersial perposes?