Targa west 2015

[Denver]

Whale is entered. Skids will happen.

Who else is in? Mario brothers? Blaise?

[urabus]

Im away so not entering.

Brendon

[Buckets]

Such speeds.
Many trees.
So scare.

P.S. If you wind up running the whale aground in to in some shrubbery I have dibs on lowballing you for the TTi box !

[magic1]

Such speeds.
Many trees.
So scare.
LF said no

P.S. If you wind up running the whale aground in to in some shrubbery I have dibs on lowballing you for the TTi box !
Fixed, FFS Jon just drive it slowly

[racegtst]

P.S. If you wind up running the whale aground in to in some shrubbery I have dibs on lowballing you for the TTi box !

Beaten

If his lowball falls through, I am next. :p

[200MPH]

Vulture coming out early this season it seems!
So, if not Targa Jon, what then?
May try and enter the Sunday amateurs division at riverside drive, but I understand it's car park spec only this year due to some clowns booking a circus in Langley park at the same time. Pun intentional.
Do want to go see the wroo prologue stage however. Would love a go at that!

[Buckets]

I offered to pay Ross Tapper cash to buy access to run a more open / inclusive event on the city stage through RW prior to the QTW guys rolling in. They run cars like the historics that no pingpingpingping gives a shit about; have no intent of changing and are seem to give no fucks about loosing revenue and audience as a result.

If they allowed non compliant cars to compete I'd be all over doing city stage. They don't and IMO it's their loss both financialy and in terms of the show they can put on.

[tinto]

Agreed.
Steroid class.

[200MPH]

Unbunch your panties lads. Word is the city stage in the morning will not be run by VSCC. So quite possible you get to run the carpark in your not-a-boring-as-batshit-old-banger. I'm guessing a fair few rallysprint regulars may put their hands up, we'll see.

FWIW the past three morning session winners have been a Ralt RT4, dick ward's rotary fiat sports sedan and yours truly. Yeah, no one wants to see slow old crap like that polluting the waterfront of perth...

[Buckets]

Not when there's 458's / Aventadors and a suite of hard tuned cars that would have a good but still "safe" crack around there.

Anyways...

[DISTRBD]

I offered to pay Ross Tapper cash to buy access to run a more open / inclusive event on the city stage through RW prior to the QTW guys rolling in. They run cars like the historics that no pingpingpingping gives a shit about; have no intent of changing and are seem to give no fucks about loosing revenue and audience as a result.

If they allowed non compliant cars to compete I'd be all over doing city stage. They don't and IMO it's their loss both financialy and in terms of the show they can put on.


Targa cars put on the show , could be the reason for Ross not caring for your cash ..

[200MPH]

They had a twin turbo gallardo plus a fezza 288gto twin turbo replica out there in the last year or two! Not exotic enough? Tough crowd to please it would seem. Where are these mythical exotics come Rallysprint time anyways? Yep, exactly.

Anyways, this thread is for grown ups with real targa cars, so I'll let it go back OT now.

[Denver]

Keep the fighting up. It'll make the thread look popular!

[DISTRBD]

Where are these mythical exotics come Rallysprint time anyways? Yep, exactly.


LOL

[JME]

who's the crazy fucker sitting next to you this year nugget?

[Denver]

Same as south west last year. Lachlan Beresford.

[Joe]

They had a twin turbo gallardo plus a fezza 288gto twin turbo replica out there in the last year or two! Not exotic enough? Tough crowd to please it would seem. Where are these mythical exotics come Rallysprint time anyways? Yep, exactly.

Anyways, this thread is for grown ups with real targa cars, so I'll let it go back OT now.
That 288gto abomination is a monumental piece of shit.

[Jmoore]

Vulture coming out early this season it seems!
So, if not Targa Jon, what then?
May try and enter the Sunday amateurs division at riverside drive, but I understand it's car park spec only this year due to some clowns booking a circus in Langley park at the same time. Pun intentional.
Do want to go see the wroo prologue stage however. Would love a go at that!

What is this "Sunday Amateurs Division" ?

Could be keen.

Hoping to run full QTW next year, but with a bub on the way it makes funds quite limited...

[monk_13]

Same as south west last year. Lachlan Beresford.

Lightest fucker he can find to offset the whales porkiness.

[DISTRBD]

Lightest fucker he can find to offset the whales porkiness.


Offset that issue by removing front bar during the first day :P

[Tre-Cool]

whats the cost for entering targa west these days?

[DISTRBD]

whats the cost for entering targa west these days?

$4000

[Tre-Cool]

fuck, that's redonkulous

[Brockas]

Gold early-entry (before 6/5/15) is $4,350.

Standard entry is $5,350.

Rookie Rally (sat / sun only) is $2,450.

[lachy294]

Offset that issue by removing front bar during the first day :P

We tried to do that on the Sunday morning of TSW last year, just marked the ground and stayed in one piece :p

[DISTRBD]

We tried to do that on the Sunday morning of TSW last year, just marked the ground and stayed in one piece :p

That just proves it's to strong so there for its heavy , I will be sure to have my signage on a non removable section of the car just incase :P

[200MPH]

If they allowed non compliant cars to compete I'd be all over doing city stage. They don't and IMO it's their loss both financialy and in terms of the show they can put on.

So, here is cut and paste from rallysprints.com : "For those who have not entered Quit Targa West but would like to have a blast around the City or Perth Special Stage...stay tuned for details of the Targa City Sprint."

Better get psyched to get your entry in as per above Jon, and also get on the blower to the exotics and hard tuned crew.

[Sensible]

So, here is cut and paste from rallysprints.com : "For those who have not entered Quit Targa West but would like to have a blast around the City or Perth Special Stage...stay tuned for details of the Targa City Sprint."

Better get psyched to get your entry in as per above Jon, and also get on the blower to the exotics and hard tuned crew.

Why do I volunteer to crew for targa? I want to do this sprint

[Buckets]

Better get psyched to get your entry in as per above Jon, and also get on the blower to the exotics and hard tuned crew.

Provided they have sensible rules for the non caged guys I don't see an issue here and as usual I'm not in Perth for the weekend.

I'll still keep an eye on the page and see what they come up with. Given QTW runs in just under 2 months time I hope for their sake the info release and sign up is sorted soon.

[SlamDunk]

There isn't speed limit for non caged guys at motorplex, so I hope they do the same at 'targa city sprint'.

[200MPH]

I doubt there will be an issue with eligibility. Golden rule applies as ever - you bring the gold, you get an entry. I'd figure same deal as applies for rallysprints, based on a couple of points:

1) Run by same people
2) Course will probably by fairly mickey mouse (carpark only), not like a Kwinana rallysprint where you can nudge 200 or more on the straights and not too much slower through the return road sweeper.

But will see the regs soon enough. Meanwhile, mid-year rallysprint entries are now open and I am like Fry gagging for an eyephone on this one!

[SlamDunk]

Not this?

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o580/tianxuco/Targa%20perth_zps9qd4njjy.jpg

[Damo 69]

how do i get in on the city stage?

[Jmoore]

how do i get in on the city stage?

The entry forms aren't out yet. I have been assured they will be out tonight.


There isn't speed limit for non caged guys at motorplex, so I hope they do the same at 'targa city sprint'.

When motorplex is run under Targa West regs (such as for the test and tune session) there is supposed to be a 140km/h (or similar) restriction on non caged cars.

[200MPH]

how do i get in on the city stage?

Well, there's one hard tuned entry!

Yep, map looks good; better than I thought. I'll try for an entry. Gonna be very much oversubscribed I would suggest...

[Greg Rust]

Are the duel red lines the areas where you do a powerskid?

[200MPH]

Are the duel red lines the areas where you do a powerskid?

Last stage of targa, so yes, this is mandatory I believe. For the grown ups at least.

[SlamDunk]

The entry forms aren't out yet. I have been assured they will be out tonight.



When motorplex is run under Targa West regs (such as for the test and tune session) there is supposed to be a 140km/h (or similar) restriction on non caged cars.

130km/h, but that's during trackday session not in the full race session in the arvo.

[Not so swift]

I want in too!

[Greg Rust]

Last stage of targa, so yes, this is mandatory I believe. For the grown ups at least.

*dual
I'd really like to have a go at this. So many years go past watching those guys ham it up on the foreshore.

[200MPH]

Excellent fluffy rust bunny. We can both enter and I'll challenge you to a dual, ooops I mean duel....

In any case sounds like an Antilag affair thus far. Underground hoon club reprazent on the means streets of perf, yo.

Thus far, smart money is on Neil FTW. I'll be trying hard to eat my words on the day, but I think the swift will be perfect for the course.

[Greg Rust]

Sounds excellent mate. I better drop the mufflers.

[Damo 69]

noise restrictions? can i fit a side pipe hha

[200MPH]

Entry form and Regs are up on Targa West webpage. Entries open today - so time to step up.

Who knows if it will revert to being run by VSCC next year, so this is your chance to try it on in the city. Don't hang about if you want to enter is my suggestion.

[Tony]

Hey guys. Was reading the city stage regs and saw that seat belts need to comply to ase35 standard. Am i right to assume that the standard belts in my car are fine?

Entering tonight :)

[Jmoore]

Urgh the Rookie category is very tempting to me - I'm going to have some additional money due to site loading but I can't confirm if I'm going to be in Perth or not for QTW.
I'm not going to have an opportunity like this for the next few years either.

[Not so swift]

smart money is on Neil FTW. I'll be trying hard to eat my words on the day, but I think the swift will be perfect for the course.

LMAO! Well I have just entered so you guys might as well just watch from the sidelines! ha ha. Hopefully Joseph hall is on holiday or something cos he is going to be the one to beat ;-)

But seriously, its going to be a great day. Now all I have to do is get the time off work.

JMoore get in on it. You have to jump at the chance when it arrises.

[SlamDunk]

Jo will pretty much dominate in his calss (1600cc-2000cc) by a light year margin I'd say....

[lachy294]

So the whale passed scrutineering and the final count down is on!
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[Not so swift]

Golden rule applies as ever - you bring the gold, you get an entry.

Aint that the truth. Supp regs say its limited to 60 cars. Then the entry list comes out with 76 names on it!

[Fozzy]

Ill be doing road closures at Wanners/Malaga and Zig Zag dont forget to wave back to me :P

[200MPH]

Tomorrow! Off to see the W'roo stage - should be good viewing from the pits roof. Will be wrestling two happy little kids all arvo, but they'll like it too. I'll tell them they do...that'll work I'm sure.

[Lonewolf]

would have loved to get to wanners tomorrow, alas will be Thurs night/Friday/Sunday for me
Shooting for the TW Social media team so will try and get some of you guys some exposure

[monk_13]

Best of luck to everyone today! Keep the shiny side up!

Will be out in the wife's car doing advance car duties.

https://scontent.fadl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t34.0-12/11846271_10153512659868638_1896077033_n.jpg?oh=043 3ac200b2dc038cffb934720904a0d&oe=55CE65C0

Need to keep reminding myself "I am not competing, I am not competing, I am not......."

[tinto]

Today's videos up from EngineBlockTV on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCl9ue6F-wE


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjSasTuLhno

[Buckets]

I should of gone to Malaga tonight :(

That Barb's stage looks like shit tonnes of fun as well.

[Lonewolf]

Malaga was good, no rain, cool temps
RX7 had an off, shame!
Good to see everyone pushing hard

[TJ]

Mark broke a diff?

[SlamDunk]

yeah, but Race Torque opens at 10pm! haha

[Rb_sil]

Malaga was good, no rain, cool temps
RX7 had an off, shame!
Good to see everyone pushing hard

The White FD ?
Where and what happened ?
If so spewing was hauling arse when i seen it

[volt_bite]

Yeh, it went off at the resource way corner in Malaga!

Great night overall :)

[Sensible]

Mark is back and running this morning afterGrant and Dave opened the workshop to replace the front diff,

Out of the results is a shame as he was sitting second outright after Barbs, just needs to go for stage wins now

[Sensible]

Will White has also just done a diff while sitting in second place

Car is currently on its way to a mates house in the Vines so the GTI service crew can use his hoist to put a new one in

[TJ]

All those 2.3 stroker engines killing diffs

[tinto]

For those of us spectacting at home:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwS1bqoWQJY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVpfI6OCIIk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrvy-FIvhk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U73yhZgVeME


Don't know if this embed will work properly - its an embedded playlist from youtube - should keep updating as the clips arrive.


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[Lonewolf]

Photos from the Malaga night stage are up on my Zenfolio page

http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/p840531465

[fatboy247]

What time should we aim to be at the perth stage tomorrow?

[Denver]

Finally have 5 minutes to get online.

Whale is in theory sitting 4th outright ATM. Reality is I'm at the bottom. Doing it for shits and giggles has its merits. Having an absolute ball. Car has been fairly fault free, nose seal on the diff is weeping and I've now got a cracked front screen. But otherwise it's been bang on!

Bring on Malaga!

[JME]

Fucken knackered, but team wog has found good rhythm which has translated into some decent pace.


Skids!

[hako]

Whale is in theory sitting 4th outright ATM. Reality is I'm at the bottom. Doing it for shits and giggles has its merits. Having an absolute ball. Car has been fairly fault free, nose seal on the diff is weeping and I've now got a cracked front screen. But otherwise it's been bang on!

Best sounding car there I reckon, nice work.

[Juzza34]

Fuck yeah Jme and Denver.

[Greg Rust]

Nice work fellas. Yep fully agree about the porno sound coming from Denvers car.

[Buckets]

Well done to Teamwog very solid result lads. I look forward to the in car vid's

Denver where the fuck are the skid vids pingpingpingping ?

[Lonewolf]

was quite disappointed to see AL members going fast rather than sideways.

In all seriousness, top efforts from all involved - especially the unsung heroes at home and in the service park for the competitors.
2 names on the car but takes a lot more than that to compete in an event like this

[Denver]

It's done. The whale made it the whole way. In time we finished 4th. In reality we finished no where. And loved every second of it. Today was epic. Even with brand new rears for Malaga with a couple of km left I was 4 wheel sliding it as they just cooked that hard. And the city stage was dumb tight but still managed to place inside the top ten on each run.

I'm looking forward to a huge sleep in tomorrow.

Huge thanks to Lauchie for putting his life in my hands the last few days. Bart and southwest brakes for service crewing and some new mu pads. Elec power technologies and asterisk information security services for the financial help. John at John fowler auto sport for his continual help. Sean and Nic plus the entire team at Allstar garage for the tuning and other support they provide. And my gf Jax and Lauchies gf Carley for keeping us fed and liquified all weekend.

Had so many people telling me the car sounded mental out on the courses, it's made it worthwhile.

[viet_boi]

Car definitely sounded mental Denver!, loved it, got the chance to head down to Malaga to watch a few runs.

[mARC]

Missed the Malaga stage though got to see Perth, good day out, with nice cars.

Missed the complete show-and-shine, anyone get pics?

[JME]

Fuck me what a week!

Big ups to AL members Denver, Mark G, Will W for getting through Targa 2015, some seriously mental driving from all involved, you guys are legit loose units.

Team wog made top 10. 9th outright in the little EVO that could. A massive learning experience and all the better for it. Could not ask for a better co-driver. Chuffed.

The lads at Galvsport combined provided flawless support and servicing and guidance, seriously top notch outfit.

[dmanvan]

..........

Had so many people telling me the car sounded mental out on the courses, it's made it worthwhile.

11 month old son loved the noise of the cars apart from a couple of real loud ones in the morning sesh today as well as guess who's......... he has a bit of an earache at the moment and every-time would be standing at the fence loving it....... every now and then a WTF look across his face when certain awesome sounding cars must have given his ears a buzzz......

Great job by the way all the AL drivers / ballasts and teams......

[Sensible]

Having both Will and Mark in the Gti service was awesome and slightly scary at the same time, watching them both trade stage times and wondering if they would finish unscathed

You couldn't get two polar opposite people though, Will has redbull to clam down and is full on at all hours of the day and Mark just looks like nothing can phase him

Crewing for 7 cars over the weekend was a hard slog but to see all cars finish was a huge achievement with all the dramas that we encountered over the weekend

Mark - centre diff on Thursday night
Will - centre diff on Friday
Simon - head gasket in the Capri on Saturday and hitting a kerb destroying a rim
Bill - fuel rail and injectors coming loose on Racecourse 1 and then getting a broken windscreen following JME on Bullsbrook long
Girls car - rear diff on the second last corner of the event

[200MPH]

Well done to all who got through the event and the sleepless crews getting them through. Wasn't many that had a clean run it seems. Couldn't believe the ladies in the evo made it by 'that much'!

[TJ]

Got down to Riverside drive in the arvo.

Between everything, the last car thing I had been to was Racecars 2014 - saddening.

Reminded me how much I loved cars. Great to see some faces, and to see people out there having a blast.

Denver, car sounds mental. Needed more fogging riverside on the last run.

Jme/Joesac, well done on a safe weekend

So many Evo's breaking this weekend - a sign of people turning them up too hard to be competitive?

[DISTRBD]

Denver, car sounds mental. Needed more fogging riverside on the last run.

Yea was expecting more from Denver on that run but was great too see it finish in the " Top 5 " :P ..



So many Evo's breaking this weekend - a sign of people turning them up too hard to be competitive?

Yet the Mighty Datsun with the wrecker spec 26 rolling a N1 oil pump went the distance :P

1 stage where Denver had a little moment and Will caught up you can see where Will would pull him in through the sweeping bends , realise how well Denver drove tha pants of the big girl and to top it off we had 0 issues , fuel , check wheel nuts and empty catch can ...

[Denver]

N1. Jun. same same.

Now to make I mean locate some homologation papers to prove its a legal car :D


If only!

[Byah!]

Went to Langley to check it out. That little fiat was mental!!!!

[DISTRBD]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mszdEkh3De4/T5zi45E-vZI/AAAAAAAACU8/BDZDp-pADD4/s1600/R33GTR+4+DOOR+AUTECH+SEDAN2.jpg




Now to make I mean locate some homologation papers to prove its a legal car :D




33 sedan from factory with a 26 ;)

[Lonewolf]

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5671/20460559370_9df3b3d0b3_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xb2Ht1)JME recieving medal (https://flic.kr/p/xb2Ht1) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

Will post up some more of members as i get around to culling/editing the 5000 odd images from the weekend
Also have some of the City Sprinters too.

[bertocchi]

what a weekend. I had a great time being apart of the GTi service team.
Firstly congratulations to all competitors, I hope you had a great time just as I did.
and thanks to the QTW officials, you all do an epic job.

I was focused mainly on Marks evo, which kept us busy when he came into service. so stoked that he & steph finished the rally.
as said above in the thread; on Thursday in Malaga service Mark said he had a diff noise, we didn't have a oil pump to do a diff oil change. he headed out for the next stage while I went to chase down a pump for when he gets back, it was too late. soon after heading into stage we got that dreaded message that he's stationary. that saw us tow the car to Race Tourque Engineering. where they built a Frankenstein centre diff out of other diffs they had in the shop and we're back on the road for day 2.

Day 2 saw the usual maintenance on Marks car, he was happy, I was happy. ..but later that night it saw 4 of us crew putting a centre diff in Will Whites evo. after my lack of sleep on Friday night; I can't believe how Mark pedalled his car on Friday being up all night at Race Tourque on Thursday night/Friday morning.

Saturday & Sunday was full on, & Marks car ran mint. ...sadly that wasn't the case for the rest of the team. luckily the Capri still ran into 2nd place in their category after Saturday. and alike the girls limped the evo home after destroying the rear diff to take 1st in challenge. what an experience.

+ thanks to Denver for making me weak at the knees everytime you're on the noise. so epic.

[SlamDunk]

Hats off to you and crew!

[Lonewolf]

Whiteman park morning stage pics are up #makeapurchase

If you know competitors please refer them to the link, hard to get exposure to them beyond those i know

http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/p257916470

Couple of AL members

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5632/20678641471_1a59d59645_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xvirFe)DSC09000 (https://flic.kr/p/xvirFe) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5702/20678614481_c635f263b2_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xviiDT)DSC08979 (https://flic.kr/p/xviiDT) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/20483888648_a9a26c3bee_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xd6hrW)DSC09071 (https://flic.kr/p/xd6hrW) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

and some randoms that i liked

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5702/20485144469_9d922c8b87_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xdcHL2)DSC08986 (https://flic.kr/p/xdcHL2) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5746/20483875860_155d98a159_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xd6dDs)DSC08751 (https://flic.kr/p/xd6dDs) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

[confuzion]

Great pics mate!!

[Saint_23]

Our event was almost over before it began.
The turbo seized first thing Thursday morning before the start.

We made it to ASG, found a replacement from Doug at STechnic, fitted it, a quick road tune for the Motec and on our way to Forrest Place.
If we didn’t make the start line, that was it, rally over. We made our start time with 1 minute to spare.
We were on a high having made it to the start.

We took off on the first stage at Wanneroo, only for the car to suddenly die after 300m.

We were at a loss as to why. We withdrew from Day 1, got it back to ASG on a flatbed. We discovered that a bolt that seals a hole for O2
sensor in the dump pipe off the back of the turbo had come out, and that resulted in hot exhaust gas being blown out directly onto the
main wiring loom of the car, which it promptly melted.

So, fix the hole with new bolt, strip, solder and rewrap the wiring, attempt to start. Nothing. The Motec was fried. This looked to be rally over,
but amazingly after some phonecalls and much hope, we actually found the exact one we needed that someone was willing to lend us for the
weekend. So we go a hold of it, installed, another retune at 11pm and we were up and running and able to re-enter on Day 2.
Day 2 went well although I felt like shit all day, we set some good times on long stages, and the car behaved very well.

Day 3 we started off well, again the car was quick and working well. I couple of miss-timed pacenotes from me gave us a couple of hairy
moments, but didn’t result in any damage. Then unfortunately in the afternoon, the car began feeling sluggish. So at a refuel we double check
the bolt that cause our issue on Thursday again and found it was coming out, and nothing we did was going to make it stay in place. BUGGER.
We weren't prepared to risk ruining another ECU, especially as it was borrowed. So we withdrew from the remaining 4 stages of the Saturday,
got the car home, pulled out the offending piece of pipe, put the bolt in place and proceed to weld it in place for eternity.
Finished up putting it all back together about 1am.

Re-entered Day 4. Malaga and Perth City stages went really well, we had a blast and managed to cross the finish line with smiles on our faces.
It wasn’t the weekend we wanted, but we made it to the end.

Best part was seeing my kids beaming faces as we crossed under the finishers archway and got our finishers medal.
Now to start preparing for next year. Major big-ups to Sean, Nick, Kiwi and Doug for getting us back out there.

[MGR]

Lasted all of 2.5 stages before the normally harmonious relationship between crown wheel and pinion came to an end. I probably could've continued to the end of stage and tried to complete the final night stage at a doddle pace, then taken the car out of parc ferme overnight to repair and just copped 30 second penalty. But I didn't want to risk opening the casing in the process and dumping oil all over the place. Couldn't live with myself if somebody came off on my oil. Still stoked to finished and learnt a lot over the four days. Blair and Dan in my crew did an awesome job all weekend and big thanks to Race Torque for sorting the diff on Thursday night.


So many Evo's breaking this weekend - a sign of people turning them up too hard to be competitive?

Can only speak for myself but my diff had been in the car for years and probably should've been replaced earlier, simple as that. But compromises are made when the budget is stretched and new transfer cases are expensive.


https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5785/20483888648_a9a26c3bee_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xd6hrW)DSC09071 (https://flic.kr/p/xd6hrW) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

Ugh. Nice line Mark, way to use all the road. SMH.

[DISTRBD]

Nice ..



https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5632/20678641471_1a59d59645_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xvirFe)DSC09000 (https://flic.kr/p/xvirFe) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/)

[ALEX.]

Congrats to all finishers and thanks to all officials and volunteers!

Chris Beerens and myself, Alex Butler — yes, wow, my username is actually my name. How novel — finished up in 7th outright in car 29 after a fun game of "your turn, my turn" with Graeme Furness & Michael Lloyd. We traded stage times throughout the rally and Chris & I went into the final Perth stages a couple of seconds ahead.
Furness pushed a couple secs ahead of us on the first run. "Time to remove the spare tyre." I joked to Chris. Then we did it.
Graeme looked at us and had a chuckle. Two minutes later he took his out.
It was obviously going to make near no difference but it was about having a laugh, as we had with so many people over the event. We pipped him by 3 secs in the end.

We also picked up 1st Team due to a combined Matty O'Neil & Mandy Lister 2nd outright, Brett Morse & Rodney Ng in 5th, and ourselves in 7th.

A really fun 4 days. 10/10. Would do again… with me behind the wheel of my own car next year.

ps: picture is of last corner, last stage. That's close enough, thanks.
pps: top marks to Flood motorsport. Very professional service team.

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Picture: CMR Photographic https://www.facebook.com/cmrphotographic?fref=ts
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[Tre-Cool]

Nice ..is that plate supposed to be TOSA backwards?

as in what a tosser? if so.. hahaha

[Saint_23]

ASOT = A State of Trance

[Lonewolf]

Kalamunda Zigzag stage photos are up

http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/p668271099

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5622/20505235418_cbc176f0c9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xeYG6G)DSC09911 (https://flic.kr/p/xeYG6G) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5773/20506484949_6a8f7ab371_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xf66xk)DSC09585 (https://flic.kr/p/xf66xk) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/769/20666923266_698da0bdf8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xugogd)DSC00039 (https://flic.kr/p/xugogd) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

[Lonewolf]

Whiteman park afternoon and service park gallery is up

http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/p925409815

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/653/20099609703_2498c46e73_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/wC8KGT)Mustang Targawest 2015 (https://flic.kr/p/wC8KGT) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5745/20727389051_d9ff13a5d8_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xzBhCK)911 Targawest 2015 (https://flic.kr/p/xzBhCK) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5685/20720566085_cb01c174da_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xz1jpp)Perana Targawest 2015 (https://flic.kr/p/xz1jpp) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5636/20711281522_ecbcfa936e_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xybJqJ)Job done (https://flic.kr/p/xybJqJ) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

[DISTRBD]

is that plate supposed to be TOSA backwards?

as in what a tosser? if so.. hahaha

Sadly NO it isn't TOSA backwards :/


ASOT = A State of Trance


Any one get a pic of Car 24 and its high tech headlight ?

[Lonewolf]

Any one get a pic of Car 24 and its high tech headlight ?


hahahaha is that a torch?

[DISTRBD]

hahahaha is that a torch?

LOL yep :P

http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/p925409815/h53fc33c8#h53fc33c8

[MGR]

Little late to the party with this but I threw together a video of some bits from the 4 days.

<iframe width="853" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TsizbIMy54Q?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsizbIMy54Q

[Evilteddy]

HAHAHAHHA Good to see Steph gave you some sarcastic attitude!

[200MPH]

Yeah gold outtake at the end!

Also loving Steph's occasional sharp remarks...

[SimonR32]

"What curb"

Sounds like GT6 racing haha

[MGR]

HAHAHAHHA Good to see Steph gave you some sarcastic attitude!

4 days straight. Should have had the camera running the whole time.

[Lonewolf]

haha love the video, nice commentary to go with the driving.

My entire gallery, circa 1200 photos are done and available here:
http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/f616953763

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5769/20911724282_afa18d40c9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xRU45o)R34 GTR (https://flic.kr/p/xRU45o) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

[Sensible]

haha love the video, nice commentary to go with the driving.

My entire gallery, circa 1200 photos are done and available here:
http://photosbyblakeparry.zenfolio.com/f616953763

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5769/20911724282_afa18d40c9_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/xRU45o)R34 GTR (https://flic.kr/p/xRU45o) by Blake Parry (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakeparry/), on Flickr

Bruce destroys one of those Vspec front lips in every targa event in that car

[HotAe92]

Great vid Mark. Looks like you guys had a ball. Steph has some serious balls!!!

[tinto]

Great video, and amazing photos Blake.
You guys sell Targa well.