What's my Hill line ...
The corner shown below ties the two sections of road shown above. This corner claimed Targa's first retirement - before the event even started!
Mepham/Kenzie provide a textbook illustration.
Cassidy/Carrick are in a full-opposite lock four-wheel drift. Folks, don't try this at home. Driving a WRX doesn't mean you can do this. Notice his lights fool the camera into thinking it is brighter than it is, making this picture dark.
Umm ... angle of attack is good, but we're 15 feet away from the apex, so we're headed 15 feet off the road into the ditch! This is called understeer. This is not good. This is what happens when you let a helicopter distract you. Fortunately, the 944 can be easily induced into lift-throttle oversteer.
A quick downshift in the middle of the corner (the 944 is very forgiving), and its full-throttle on exit, about three feet out from where I should be.
No problem for Lawson/Lawson.
Saxby/Rees smoking. Running tires legal for Targa Tasmania, the available grip and power (and resulting heat) was such that the water is vacuumed off the road surface, giving the steam-effect from all the tires in this photo.
Churchill/Roxbury. The blue light on the dash was a strobe that alternated blue and red. Highly visible, and not allowed. (Forward-facing red lights are reserved for emergency vehicles, and stopped school buses.) He soon turned the light off.
McGeer/Williams, back after a Demonstration Day slip-up. With all-night help from local garages, all they missed was the morning run.
The Wiltshires. Edison was the chaplain for Targa Newfoundland, and led us in prayer many times.
Even with the blown corner, pushing it gave us third-fastest time on the second prologue, 12 seconds behind Saxby/Rees, 1 second behind the Cattlin's, and tied with - the Cassidy/Carrick Subaru. Happy that the speed was there (I was worried I had forgotten how to drive after the first prologue's result), all we needed now was a bearing ...
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