Targa Tasmania - 2011

[BlueMPS]

Targa Tasmania starts tomorrow.

I thought this thread could be to track the event.

The factory Mazda team will have 3 cars completing this year.

A gen 2 MPS (with a better colour scheme than last year) driven by Brendan Reeves.

and 2 RX8 SP's driven by Jamie Vanderberg and Steve Glenney

The offical targa website is here

Targa Tasmania Home

and Mazda's here

Mazda Australia Zoom-Zoom - Targa Tasmania

And Luke from Mazda explaining the event

[luke 3mps]

love targa tazzie.. I was looking into competing, depending on what class its like $10k but you need experience which i dont have.. + the car to spec

[BlueMPS]

[SarcasticOne]

heh, when will they bring the RX8 SP into production???

[bd581]

When they win

[BlueMPS]

First full day.

MPS3 first in Showroom in front of a skoda and a lot of Mazda MX5's.

RX8 SP - Steve Glenney is up there in third overall unformulately van der Berg appears to be down in 16th.

[SarcasticOne]

When they win

doing decently so far
love the output of the rx8 sp tho
215kw and 345NM, sounds like a good car
have a feeling it might be tuned for a better mid-range than top end tho... as all rotary dyno's i've seen with 300+NM have had ~240-250 kw
example: http://www.performancedesign.com.au/...DynoMetric.pdf

[Grajy]

doing decently so far
love the output of the rx8 sp tho
215kw and 345NM, sounds like a good car
have a feeling it might be tuned for a better mid-range than top end tho... as all rotary dyno's i've seen with 300+NM have had ~240-250 kw
example: http://www.performancedesign.com.au/...DynoMetric.pdf

A rotary producing torque???

[SarcasticOne]

A rotary producing torque???

that one is a supercharger equiped RX8 just as a FYI
fudging a bit of numbers, if they are keeping the 9000rpm redline in the RX8, the car cant be making more than 230NM @ 9000rpm
the maximum rpm they can be making 345NM at (whilst keeping it at 215kw) is 6000 rpm
wonder if we ask nicely if they'll give us dyno graphs

---------- Post added at 12:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:19 PM ----------

number fudging/experimenting done using this:
http://www.ozmpsclub.com/forum/dyno-...tml#post143811

[BlueMPS]

Mazda does a good job with these but if anyone has Lukes number can you tell him to get out there on the road even it is a cross from him (in the studio) to himself (on the ground).