Newfoundland Targa starts
The 5th Annual Targa Newfoundland starts tomorrow (Monday). It is the only Targa in North America and gives the chance for many drivers to match their skills against others in their class.
According to Wikipedia:
Targa timing (sometimes also called target timing) is a system of timing used in car rallying. It was invented by John Brown, the Clerk of the Course for the Targa Rusticana, a road rally that used to be run in the United Kingdom in the 1960s (named after the famous Targa Florio). Targa timing became the standard timing method used on rallies for almost 20 years following its invention in 1963….
According to the Targa Newfoundland website:
The event allows the owners of historic, classic and modern sporting motor vehicles to drive them the way they were designed to be driven. In the event each vehicle competes against itself on a handicap basis as well as against other vehicles. The competition is for Targa plates which every competitor can win. There is no prize money.
The vehicles and crews compete on public roads in transit sections which follow all of the rules of the road and “Targa” or speed sections which are held on roads closed to the general public. The Targa sections represent about 25% or the total course.
The Targa Newfoundland was founded in 2002 …..
He and I had done the 2001 Targa Tasmania; on the ferry boat back to the Australian mainland, we got to wondering if such an event could ever be done in North America.
We passed the idea on to Bob Giannou, who had run Formula Atlantic races through the streets of St. John’s in the mid-1970s. When he took the concept to the then premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Roger Grimes, even the ever-optimistic Giannou must have wondered if the idea would fly.After all, having fully race-prepped cars careening down public roads — in town as well as out in the boonies — sounds like a recipe for disaster. Not to mention a field day for lawyers.But in dozens of years of competition in similar events in Australia and New Zealand, the safety record has been remarkable: not a single spectator or official has been injured, although a competitor died in Tasmania years ago.Grimes knew that tourism was one area where Newfoundland could use a boost, and a world-class motorsport event involving smaller communities hard hit by various economic woes might just be the ticket.
It’s Targa time and the driving is fine – Toronto Star
You can read more history of Targa Newfoundland here.
Here is the finish of the 2004 Targa Newfoundland
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