Was flipping through the newspaper today, there was like a 1/2 page brief just to start the drooling happening about Targa Tas...

And WOW MEL IS GOING!!! Not just to watch, MEL IS GOING TO COMPETE!!!

So cool... Like, wow...

So jealous...

I want...

So lucky...

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!!!!

Yes, big congrats to Mel. What an honour

I know of a couple of *nameless* people who are driving again this year who took a rentacar for a 2800km excursion around Tasmania to update pacenotes

Break a leg ! We hope this is a good year for Redwarf Motorsport

Good luck Mel!

that would be a mile stone for me - getting to comete in a taga in the next 10 years - ahhh

Good on you mel !

Ummm, I didn't know that my name was in a newspaper?!! Quick, which one?!

Yes, I am SUPER SUPER excited, and truly lucky to be navigating in Targa. It seems awfully close and I'm getting nervous!!

Thanks for your support guys!!

*takes out pom poms*

Go Datgirl !

Hehe, maybe should clarify - article was like a brief about Targa Tas, no names mentioned or anything... But everytime I think of Targa Tas I think of Mel... Or maybe it's the other way around... And I think I think of Targa Tas all the time. Does that mean I think of Mel all the time?

lol

Mel - will u have a camera on the car at all ? like an on-bord cam?

have 2 get some fottage of u driving !!!!!!!!

No, Mel is Navigating, not Driving. Mel is Le Super Navigator

good luck datgirl

that'd be so much fun

i hear there's going to be a targa qld type of event coming up in july or something...out dalby/carnell way...should be interesting

I WISH I was driving!! but to be able to drive you not only have to pass a set of criteria and qualify but you have to submit an application to be invited to drive!! You car has to be "just so" and of a special sporting marque etc. It's ridiculously competitive even just to get in. They get many entrants from Japan and other countries too. Which is why it is such an honour to be navigating. Peter Brock and Jim Richards are both in our class!!!!!

I'm lucky enough to be in a 1997 Nissan Skyline R33 gtr v-spec N1 sponsored by help.org.au (click on the "racing team" button). John Atherton is my driver and I've only met him once but a really REALLY nice guy who happens to have lots of $$$ but spends his time working on the (non-profit) help.org.au concept.

I'm just really really really really lucky, I'm getting big butterflies just thinking about it again. Anyway, enough of that! I'd just better not stuff up!!!

o0o go datgirl, go datgirl

thats a life time oppertunity !!

YoU Go GiRl !!!!!!

Peter Brock !! Sweet !
Nissan Skyline - thats gota be fun !!
Lots of competion ! - WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wish u the best of luck, ohh 1 day ill get there lol

http://www.targa.org.au/downloads/applicat..._mar30_2004.pdf

Woo Hoo for number 835:

835 Jon Atherton, QLD / Melinda Both, QLD 1997 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec N1

targa tasmania - ohhh thats gota be frase of the month !

god, there are lots of cars ! wow !

i have to go down there and view this 1 year ahh !

Yay also for the following :

905 - Ray Vandersee, QLD / John Allen, QLD - 1999 Westfield Van Demon Clubman

and also, lots of well wishes to these guys for such hard work rebuilding the Giocattolo just in time for Targa!

717 - Adam Kaplan, NSW / David Kaplan, NSW - 1988 Giocattolo Group B

Ray's Westfield (that John navs in) is soooo cool. Mmm for S2000 power and lots of carbon fibre!

Its awesome. John showed me some footage of it chasing down a Porsche and 300ZX at Targa !

S2000 power meant they could go faster than 180 kph on the corners ! 180kph being the limit of the old 6 speed + 20Valve 4A-GE that it used to run.

Mean little beast

But my tip is to watch the Giocattolo

Yeah I'm going for Ray. That Westfield of his is sssssssoooooo fuggin fast its unbelievable. He is in the Westfield club as am i (have a Westfield 4age 20v ready for rego very very soon) and i have seen it at a track day. and HOLY SHIT! So much faster then the other westfields!

One of the stages, 99 bend out of queenstown i think its called, he was faster then jim richards porsche through the stage. Faster then everyone!

So i will be behind Ray all the way!

John Allen showed me some Targa footage and all I can say is its damn cool watching the Westfield overtaking a 300ZX, Porsche etc

Yeah they usually show the footage of targa at Leyburn sprints on the Saturday night at camp. Always a good watch.

Now thats the kinda camp I wanna go on.

Why am I so addicted to driving...?

haha yeah.

Ever been to Leyburn Sprints? Mad weekend we stay right in the pits with Westfield club so Ray and his beast is always a few metres away

Never been to Leyburn

But wanting to make an appearance at the next one.

Still kinda frazzled that I missed the Gatton Sprints a few weeks back

Somebody's off to Targa Tas tomorrow!!

Who could that be?


(........ Yes Mel, there's mean't to be a wheel there.......)

Oh hey look, it's the "breaker sisters"

GOOD LUCK, MEL!!! HAVE A FANTASTIC TIME!!! TAKE LOTS OF PICTURES!!!

Break a leg ! (not literally)

Best of luck Mel, and watch out for that pesky Giocattolo

Rob : OUCH ! Trying out as a 3 wheeler for a bit I see ?

Redwarf YOU are in BIG trubs!!! And no amount of sucking up by saying good luck is going to change that!

But, umm, thanks (I think)

Mel - the best of luck, keep cool and I'm sure everyone in RollaClub is behind you! Have fun and keep safe

P.S: Break a wheel heh

When is Targa Tas on TV?

I got an SMS from the Targa Tart today..... She had just had a photo taken with Jim Richards, and was getting a lift from Parc Ferme to Drivers briefing with Coral Taylor.

I think she maybe enjoying herself..

First stage is tomorrow..

R

LOL @ Targa Tart

Hehe sounds like she would be enjoying herself.

When are you going to do Targa Rob ?

the question is when am i gona stop kicking my parents for not giveing birth to me 10 years earlier Grrr !!!!!!

Ahhh man shes having a hell of a time by the sounds of it... cooool !!!

It is with great sadness that I report that Datgirl and co, in the help.org.au skyline gtr (car 835) have had to retire from Targa with terminal engine failure. Still, she had two and a half days of excessive speed. I'm sure she will give a report when she gets back...

R

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Piccie from Leg 2....

Once a Datsun, always a Datsun...



Poor old GTR

Can I hazard a guess at oil surge problem causing early retirement?

hah hah good one!

Reason for retirement was supplimentry viewing holes in block, followed by short lived BBQ, I believe....

Shit, not good at all

Viewing holes in block are bad mmmkay

I have been told that the most common problem for GTR's is oil surge due to the layout of the sump (one driveshaft for the front tyre actually goes through the sump to save space)

In any case, very sad news