Thursday, September 10, 2009

Targa Newfoundland Starts This Weekend

The seventh annual Targa Newfoundland begins this Saturday and Targa cars are showing up on the streets around St. Johns today.

I saw a slammed red and white BMW 3-series of the Turks & Caicos Motoring Club on slicks in traffic earlier today.

Just now, outside my window, a trio of vintage Austin Minis with open exhausts (including this one) of the Brick N' Brute team roared up the hill.

Targa Newfoundland runs until September 19 and covers a large chunk of eastern Newfoundland. See a full list of cars and competitors here and the schedule of events is here (pdf).

If you have Google Earth on your 'puter (and you really should!) you can go here and click KMZ files for each stage and leg to see the 2009 routes. Make sure you have Terrain switched on to get the lay of the land.