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Well we made it to Manukau safely and with no real problems with the car.
We stayed with the Kibble family last night at their Taupo home. Huge thank you to Harvey and Sherry Kibble for their hospitality.
We arrived here at the Silver Oaks, Quality Inn Manukau mid afternoon and set about doing final preparation. We set up the HD video system (Huge thanks to Dave Davenport for lending us his system) fitted the Dunlop race tyres, radio system and tried to setup some type of speed control system. The computer that's fitted to the car can control so many functions it's scary. But it seemed to stump us when it came to limiting speed. We just couldn't find the right settings.
The Evo will accelerate to 200kph in a very short time and if we go over this speed we will be penalised severely. The car is fitted with a GPS system by Targa control and they can monitor our speed and position at all times. It's vital that we do not exceed the imposed limit, but at the same time we need to get as close to it as possible.
The final seeding list has been set, We are 18th car on the road in the Modern class. This will change each day depending on our results.
Check out http://www.targa.co.nz/ for details of positions etc during the event. http://targa.co.nz/Results_937.aspx should give you live results.
Meanwhile I've published some pics of the team on day zero on facebook. Follow this link to view them.
Tomorrow we have documentation and Prologue. Prologue is a single stage of approx 10km's. It doesn't count towards the final results, but it helps with seeding. Monday is the first day of proper competition.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload some video of our prologue stage tomorrow.
Till then... Ron
We stayed with the Kibble family last night at their Taupo home. Huge thank you to Harvey and Sherry Kibble for their hospitality.
We arrived here at the Silver Oaks, Quality Inn Manukau mid afternoon and set about doing final preparation. We set up the HD video system (Huge thanks to Dave Davenport for lending us his system) fitted the Dunlop race tyres, radio system and tried to setup some type of speed control system. The computer that's fitted to the car can control so many functions it's scary. But it seemed to stump us when it came to limiting speed. We just couldn't find the right settings.
The Evo will accelerate to 200kph in a very short time and if we go over this speed we will be penalised severely. The car is fitted with a GPS system by Targa control and they can monitor our speed and position at all times. It's vital that we do not exceed the imposed limit, but at the same time we need to get as close to it as possible.
The final seeding list has been set, We are 18th car on the road in the Modern class. This will change each day depending on our results.
Check out http://www.targa.co.nz/ for details of positions etc during the event. http://targa.co.nz/Results_937.aspx should give you live results.
Meanwhile I've published some pics of the team on day zero on facebook. Follow this link to view them.
Tomorrow we have documentation and Prologue. Prologue is a single stage of approx 10km's. It doesn't count towards the final results, but it helps with seeding. Monday is the first day of proper competition.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload some video of our prologue stage tomorrow.
Till then... Ron
What a stunning day of weather. We drove up on Friday night to Taupo and this morning we were greeted by a chilly sunbathed morning. The ride up to Auckland was straightforward and the Labour weekend traffic didn’t hold us up.
I’m looking forward to getting into the first special stage. Still yet to have a full speed ride in Ron’s Evo but from what I’ve seen of his driving, I have no doubt I’ll be in for an exciting ride.
We’re just settling down for the evening now with a bit of beer induced relaxation. Well, the others are anyway. The car and service vehicles are just sitting outside all locked up and I’m happy we’re heading into the Targa without any stressful issues.
Victor
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