2010 Targa Prolouge Hampton Downs

[k-trips]

Targa Tour
The Targa Tour is for people with a special interest car who want to experience driving on spectacular winding closed roads, in an exciting non-competitive atmosphere, without the full safety equipment in their car such as required for the competition vehicles.

The Targa Tour is not a race, but an experience. The tour leader governs top speed and the vehicles travel in convoy through the closed road special stages using the racing lines on both sides of the road.



The Targa Tour travels through the Targa special closed road stages prior to the Targa competition vehicles.

The Targa Tour is for Historic, Classic and Sports Cars, including GT and special interest cars.


Entrants will use the same route books as the Targa competitors, with the instructions being Tulips and Cautions indicating areas of particular concern. It is recomended to fit a Brantz meter to accurately record distances between instructions.

[k-trips]

OK so it is BEFORE the actual Targa and there doesn't seem to be anything about following legal speed limits but you can guarantee the lead car will be someone that drives an MGB that has a slipping clutch and annoying flappy roof...

Non competitive.. meh - furk that..

[llama]

On the Targa Rotorua (where I was in one of the start line timing crews) the targa tour lead car was a hot race kitted 205gti with roll cage and slicks etc and apparently he doesn't hang about (had a quick chat to him, he's fitted 309 beam etc, was an old geezer). They do speeds up to about 150ish from what I've heard but of course they err on the side of caution.

I personally would find it hard to justify the cost (and you have to get up bloody early cos you're onstage before everyone else except the start line crew  ) cos it ain't cheap but there is usually an interesting selection of machinery on display (AC Cobra, Audi RS, Triumphs etc last time).

[Reviled]

Yeh its non competitive but kk youve read into that all wrong bro!!

You get closed roads, you get limited to 200kph from memory (try going 200kph on the roads they choose), and all the dudes are GC's so after the first day or two you figure out where everyone should be in terms of going fast and no one being held up, and from there you just go hard!!

Did it 5 years ago, it was the most awesome thing ive ever done behind the wheel of a car, we did 50% of the tracks first, then half way through one stage we parked up and watched the cars finish the stage, was a mean corner and included a police safety car going over the bank and into a ditch  

So yeah, its non competitive, and not the real thing, but $2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro, in fact, with the difference I could buy my GTi 5 times over!!!

[cammmy]

OK so it is BEFORE the actual Targa and there doesn't seem to be anything about following legal speed limits but you can guarantee the lead car will be someone that drives an MGB that has a slipping clutch and annoying flappy roof...

Non competitive.. meh - furk that..

I guess we will find out when Apex inevitably bitches and moans about it on ES.

$2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro

Is that how much it costs to enter Targa!!!!!!!!! 5-10k? Holy fuck!

[k-trips]

Yeh its non competitive but kk youve read into that all wrong bro!!

You get closed roads, you get limited to 200kph from memory (try going 200kph on the roads they choose), and all the dudes are GC's so after the first day or two you figure out where everyone should be in terms of going fast and no one being held up, and from there you just go hard!!

Did it 5 years ago, it was the most awesome thing ive ever done behind the wheel of a car, we did 50% of the tracks first, then half way through one stage we parked up and watched the cars finish the stage, was a mean corner and included a police safety car going over the bank and into a ditch  

So yeah, its non competitive, and not the real thing, but $2ishk over like $5-10k is quite alot of pennys bro, in fact, with the difference I could buy my GTi 5 times over!!!

I consider myself corrected  - now to go back and edit all the posts so I don't look like a fool.. haha

[CaM]

they dropped alot of the entry prices a year or two ago. was like 10k for 'classic' entry fee for full targa a wee while back. think it's mroe like 203k which isn't too bad. not sure on tour price.

apex will have a whinge. can't wait
keen to do it though.
should take the d. haha

[BigPete]

should take the d. haha

[sexyBerlingo]

yeh theres always sweet ferraris and shit in targa tour going pretty quick. You dont have to have roll cages and other fancy race car shit aswel aye?

[Reviled]

Correct, no cage, no helmet, which in the instance of me and my dad doing it in a soft top triumph spitfire now that I think about it is actually pretty dodgy 

But yeah, most of the boys who enter the proper targa every year reckon you cant do it on less than $20k after paying a team and parts, petrol, tyres, accomodation etc - So the tour is def a cheapo way to get a taste for the real thing!!

[Lord Page]

I worked with a geezer (aircraft engineer who races an Alfa) who did the targa tour one year and yes they did go for it on occasion.  If you got the coin and the right car, do it.

[aerorobnz]

I worked with a geezer (aircraft engineer who races an Alfa) who did the targa tour one year and yes they did go for it on occasion.  If you got the coin and the right car, do it.

I think I know of the guy you mean - he's still got it if it's the guy I'm thinking of.

[BigPete]

Some joker out my way's been taking his Alfa Montreal out heaps lately and it's the bomb.

[cammmy]

Yeah i TXT'd Graham last night to check how they were going

He did say its the most fun he has had in a car , and that they are going at a good pace (Not far off race pace)

Apparently Apex isn't whinging

[llama]

Wait until something falls off his Renault...