The following article is about my team’s adventures in the most competitive motorsport event in North America, the 2015 Targa Newfoundland road rally. First of all I will talk about the event, what exactly is a Targa you may ask? Older motorsport fans will no doubt recall the original three classic endurance races that were run on public roads. The Targo Florio was first, followed by the Mille Miglia and then Mexico’s Carrera Panamericana. The Targa Newfoundland is a tarmacbased rally race in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is an annual event covering 1,600 kilometers (970 miles) over a seven-day period every September on eastern and central parts of the island that is known locally as the ‘Rock’. The event allows the owners of historic, classic and modern sporting motor vehicles to drive them the way they were designed to be driven; hard and fast over a variety of road surfaces. The six days of the Targa competition is an ideal challenge for drivers where each vehicle competes against itself on a handicap basis as well as against other vehicles.
The Targa structure involves events within an event that run over the same stages, which remain closed to public traffic during the event. Fast Tour: is a non competitive go FAST event which allows the owners of exotic cars to drive them the way they were meant to be driven, without the stress of competition. Maximum allowable speed is 130 KPH in this category. Grand Touring; places the emphasis on accuracy and precision, it is a time-speeddistance rally (TSD Rally) where the focus is maintaining the average very quick speed set by the organizers. Maximum allowable speed is also 130 KPH in this category; Targa: The fastest category where the objective is to meet or slightly better the target stage times set by the organizers for age, displacement and modification level of the vehicle racing. Every competitor who completes all stages within the established trophy times wins a Targa plate. The maximum allowable speed for Targa competitors is 200 KPH. Trophies are awarded for overall placing in the Touring and Targa events and for placing within
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