For those who are new to this forum, or for those who are interested in Targa NFLD: Check out: Targa Newfoundland - It's About the Drive There are a number of MINI's in the fold this year! We wish them all the very best and encourage them to keep the SHINEY side up!!! Also, lets hope Jim Kenzie can bring us home another title this year! Division: Targa Driver: Brian Jarvis - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Co-Driver: Daphne Sleigh - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Division: Targa Driver: Doug Mepham - Bellville, Ontario, Canada Co-Driver: John Solecki - Pickering, Ontario, Canada Division: Targa Driver: Jim Kenzie - Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Co-Driver: Brian Bourbonniere - Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada Division: Targa Driver: Donald Sawyer - Presque Isle, Maine, United States Co-Driver: Brian Whyte Division: Grand Touring Driver: John Hume Jr. Co-Driver: Ron Bartleet
It's Targa Newfoundland time again, outstanding! I'd love to drive the Targa...never will, but I'd sure like to. I get the feeling it gets under your skin the first time you do it and (assuming you can afford it) you go back year after year.
The Grand Touring class is the way to go if you want to really enjoy the area with no real pressure to actually "race". Definitely on my bucket list !!
MINI returns to 2010 Targa Newfoundland MINI returns to 2010 Targa Newfoundland. Jim Kenzie, Brian Bourbonniere and MINI Challenge race car reunite for run at 2010 Targa medals. Richmond Hill. MINI Canada returns to the ninth annual Targa Newfoundland rally with the MINI Challenge race car, driven by automotive journalist Jim Kenzie of Milton Ontario and co-driven by Brian Bourbonniere of Halifax Nova Scotia. The five-day performance rally, conducted on regular roads closed off to the public, begins Monday, September 13 in St. John’s. MINI has been an integral part of Targa Newfoundland since 2003, when Kenzie, a co-founder of the event, and fellow auto journalist Gabriel Gelinas of Montreal Quebec, piloted a MINI Cooper S in the MINI brand’s first foray into long-distance rallying. In 2004 the team switched to a MINI Cooper S John Cooper Works edition, with Kenzie joined by another Quebec journalist, Carl Nadeau. Due to illness, Nadeau was replaced after the first few stages by Bourbonniere, a four-time Nova Scotia rally champion navigator. This team has been together ever since, racking up two Open division wins and several podium finishes in one of the most gruelling motorsports events in the world. Last year, the JCW was replaced by the MINI Challenge car, which normally competes in one-marque circuit racing series in Europe and Australia. It was the Challenge car’s first attempt at road rallying. 2007 and 2009 Canadian Touring Car Champions, Team Octane Motorsport will manage MINI Canada’s effort in Newfoundland this year. A new rally-style suspension and Yokohama ADVAN tires are expected to cope better with the bumpy and rain-soaked roads that are part and parcel of the Targa Newfoundland experience. In the mid 60’s the Classic Mini dominated the rally scene capturing championship titles in the 1964, 1965, and 1967 Monte Carlo Rally. MINI has recently announced that they will be back in the World Rally Championship with the soon to be introduced MINI Countryman.
Good stuff and good luck!!! The new suspension should make the Challenge car very competitive this year and not only eat up the bumps but the competition as well!
UPDATE Way Motor Works is here in Canada. Today one of our customers called and really needed help. So here we are 8hrs later at the Targa going to put a MINI back together tomorrow. So watch out I hope to get some pics and updates up as soon as I can.
I took a bunch yesterday. I'll try to get the pics up soon. FYI the MINI Challenge car is leading the Open class
Yes the Challenge car did GREAT. I saw him jump it on the last day and it almost became a pile of metal, but he saved it.
Here's a few pics Here's the MINI I installed the clutch in: Oops! Something you don't see every day.