With around 60% of the field at this year’s Targa High Country using Smoothline it’s no surprise that the winners of most competitions were using their Stage Notes. When Smoothline’s Bernie Webb presented at the Targa Experience information sessions it was obvious though that their primary focus was anything but outright speed. Bernie’s presentation centred [...]
Smoothline was today announced as the official Stage Note supplier to the Australian Targa Championship. This move by Octagon Australia will see Smoothline notes for each event available through Octagon’s customer console. Combined with other advancements being rolling out for the 2013 season, this partnership will surely build Smoothline’s reputation as a supplier of premium [...]
The Australian Tarmac Rally Championship returned to its longest standing location this weekend, the iconic Lake Mountain. A regular calendar feature for many years; the single-stage alpine event’s flowing, technical road is a drawcard for many competitors, while others crave the easy-paced après-race scene. This year’s event left many competitors smiling, most likely due to [...]
With the 2012 Australian Rally Champions already crowned on the previous Coffs Coast round, Rally Victoria provided a taste of things to come for the 2013 two-wheel-drive Australian Rally Championship, while waving a fond farewell to the dynamic and speedy 4WD category. It was a Honda one-two at the pointy end of the new category, [...]
The second round of the four-strong Australian Targa Championship series, Targa High Country, has been won by Queenslander Tony Quinn and co-driver Naomi Tillett in their Nissan R35 GTR; the pair emerging unscathed after many of tarmac rally’s big names and competitive cars succumbed to the fast, winding alpine roads. The Whites, who have won [...]
Last weekend saw the inaugural running of the 300km Snowy River Sprint, the latest offering from boutique events company Mountain Motorsports. Set in the rolling countryside of the Snowy River valley in Victoria’s south-east, the enjoyable but deceptively technical event was always going to attract attention. The scene was set for the weekend with patchy [...]
The Lamborghini of local favourites Jason and John White has made a clean sweep of the Australian Targa Championship with an outright victory at the series’ toughest and most iconic event, Targa Tasmania, on April 17 – 22. The six-day, five-leg event is renowned for inclement weather and unpredictable results, and this year put man [...]
Last weekend’s WA Quit Forest Rally saw Smoothline’s Steve Glenney and Bernie Webb each take victory in seperate sections of the event. The RallySchool Junior Challenge (RSJC) is a breeding ground for the next generation of rally stars in the Australian Rally Championship (ARC) and young South Australian Dan Day has become the latest round [...]
The inaugural Mt. Baw Baw Sprint was run last weekend, with crews encountering treacherous conditions in Victoria’s Alpine Region. Wet weather and unreliable grip levels were the order of the event, conducted on the steepest road in Australia. Footage from the event’s final stage shows an incredible 2-3 inches of water flowing down the road [...]
The Lamborghini of Jason and John White has again topped the scoreboards at the Targa Wrest Point rally, held on the tarmac roads south of Hobart, Tasmania on January 28 – 29. The second round of the Australian Targa Championship saw 130 cars and crews fight for honours in both modern and classic categories, with [...]
