toddy was a good friend of my brothers they used to go out racing all the time
If i recall the year before he took out horsepower heros he came 2nd, but that day
he had problems with an air leak in one of the manifolds causing him to only get
about 70% of its potential. Not bad considering he only just lost.
If only the meet was better ran he might be still alive. At the end of the track i
think they had it completely barracaded off with concrete.If they had not of done that
i think he would still be here.That car was built so well, it was set up not only for horsepower it was also set up for cuircut so it handled like a dream.that is why i
think if the barriers hadn't closed off the rest of the track he probably wouldn't have
paniced and taken the corner.


RIP Toddy (The Judge) ..the legend lives on

ok,,,well,,,First things first--->CAMS are renounded for this sort of thing, you can bet your left testicle that they`ll do other stuff similar to this in the next few years to all sorts of other classes & categorys too,,,a bit like F1 & the ,so called """taming down""" of their speeds & grip factors to slow down the pace, For "safety reasons" only a few years ago,,, only to find that all the teams have "Up`ed" the anty & gone faster anyways,,, think back to the good old days of Group "B" rallying,,,yeah!!!, those were the days, fire breathing 4x4 full house forest weapons that were starting to become spectator missiles, they stoped them & now the WRC cars are faster than them.

I can only assume that my Targa Tassie car will still be legal, with a few slight mods, but maybe not my new car i`ll look into it further as i`m not going to change anything "major" just to appease the likes of CAMS,,,just like Octagon says, 40% of the field might just pull out of the event.

& Toddy Wilkes & his twin turbo Chook-lotto,,,well,,,sad story, i know heaps of guys that knew him well,,,i personally didn`t meet the guy, but he obviously knew his stuff & had a strong passion for it all,,,just that the organisers of the even in question, """SHOULD""" have known better than to have a finish line blocked with a wall of concrete, before i actually saw the footage of the crash, i knew what was about to occur,,,stupid waste of a brilliant life,,,Dam i wish there were more people with quallity foresight to run motorsport events, accidents like this would never have happened, sad,,,very F`ken sad!!!

But,,,i don`t believe that Todds crash had anything to do with CAMS`s decision to slow down the """Targa Tassie""" cars , i reckon it`s to do with the absolute carnage/damage/crash & burn/Kaos & lost of life that is often the case in Targa Tassie Rallys nearly every event,,,people go into the event thinking that they are bullet proof & that everything is so well organised & that they are all safe & sound,,,well,,,tell that to the people who are now dead or maimed from major stacks at Targa, & usually the result of """OVER DRIVING""" more than over powered cars,,,simple as that!!!!!!!! Thems the facts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It`s a very dangerous event,,,that place can bite & bite real hard,,,i even hit the mountain on Mt Arrowsmith stage myself,,,at about 140kms per hour, very lucky to escape with barely a scratch on the car,,,totally amazing!!!, but it was also the result of me over driving trying to overtake a red Mazda RX7 that i`d been chasing down for over 15mins at well over 100mph most of the way,,,awsome experience i can tell you,,,& very glad to have experienced it,,,F`ken AWSOME <I`m still buzzing from it!!!!!!!!...but it`s all to easy to become """Velocitized""" (accustomed to huge speeds & not realize how tight, off camber/bumpy & wet the very next corner could be)

so,,,there you go,,,i do believe that CAMS & other motorsport governing bodys will continue to change the rules to keep safety factors as a major priority (it`s called "Common Sense"), i do believe that there will be nothing we can do about it, but go with the flow, & i do blieve that Todds crash is basically just one of the instances that have caused the review of these rules right across the board, but not directly related to the Targa Tassie rules change, they are un-to themselves there, allways have been & allways will be,,,all the tarmac Targa rallys will soon have equalised rules & regs, right across the board sooner or later,,,Targa NZ will become the same as Targa Tassie in relation to these rule changes i`m sure.

hope i havn`t bored you all to sleep

dribble over, now get back to work

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

hmmm
So i saw that strange type of car today at Targa, while i was 'Post Chief' and i had no idea what it was.

Some of the roads driven in Targa Tasmania are completely insane (im sure same for all rallys, but i know the roads a small bit,) I honestly cant believe what they do and get away with it.
Just a few kays up the road i think last year, in a rally, Rally Tas maybe, a bloke was killed when his Torana (nav he was) hit a tree. On a road i know well, and i cant imagine how fast he would have been going, but i cant describe it is absolutely incredible.

They are trying to slow Targa down already. Today, i was on a sweep through with the safety commader dudem and they have a straight, and on that long straight they had a chichane? And i said what the hell is the point of that - Slow them down Obviously. I asked him also about the info in this article. They will have the competitors cut down cause they will set times to meet, that only the super fast cars and drivers can achieve so that they dont have the old and busted and best cars trying to hammer themselves to more than what there car can handle, so they wont bother coming.

But i dont know
Its a bloody good race thats what i know.
Gee it is dangerous also.

Good luck to whoever will do it, and youd better cause its fun

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