Official Mazda "Targa" mini-site launched
Mazda launched their official Targa Tasmania mini-site today.
Click here to visit: Mazda in Targa 2009
You'll find daily reports, loads of pictures and videos. Mazda have two Mazda 3 MPS and a RX8-SP competing at this years event.
Targa Tasmania is considered one of the world’s most challenging tarmac rallies. Mazda Motorsport has used the event as a proving ground for its line up of high-performance production cars since 1993.
The event is held over five days plus a Prologue, travelling 2000kms around Tasmania. The rally starts in Launceston and finishes five days later in Hobart. Prologue sets the event’s pace, seeding the fastest cars at the rear of the field for day one of racing. The competitive course comprises 450kms over 40 closed-road competition stages.
Cars are timed on each Targa stage and each stage has a target base time. Any time accrued over the base time is added to the car’s overall penalty time. The car that clocks the lowest penalty time is the outright winner in each competition.
Targa Tasmania is made up of three competitions; Modern Outright, Classic Outright and Showroom. Mazda Motorsport's twin Mazda3 MPS rally cars will contest the event’s Showroom competition while the Mazda RX-8 SP will contest the Modern Outright. All three cars are vying for outright glory.
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Source: Mazda AustraliaThis week Mazda Australia will launch its most potent assault on the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally in a decade and rally fans across the globe can track the Mazda Team at www.mazda.com.au/targa
Mazda has readied two Mazda3 MPS showroom rally cars and a turbocharged Mazda RX-8 SP for the 2000km Targa Tasmania road rally that starts in Launceston on Tuesday April 28 and finishes five days later in Hobart on Sunday May 3.
Piloting the twin Mazda3 MPS showroom-spec rally cars is resident Mazda driver Rick Bates and young gun Brendan Reeves. Defending Targa champion Steve Glenney will debut the Mazda RX-8 SP.
The Mazda website will be updated every evening with a daily race report, the latest video footage, team voice grabs and images of both cars from that day’s racing.
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Targa Tasmania comprises 465km competitive kilometres spread across 40 tight and twisting closed-road stages and is widely recognised as one of the world’s toughest tarmac rallies.