First and foremost, thank you to our sponsors.
You are the best and make it all worth while.
Suchan McQuaid Financial Planning Partners Inc.
We at Hume Media Inc. were very pleased to be able to hand over to MS Society a cheque for $24,600!
The cars have rolled across the finish line and the 2013 Targa Newfoundland race has come to a close. The champaign bottles have been popped and amply poured all over the winning drivers and copilots of Hume Team!
Sadly John Sr. and Justin Crant, car #1888, won the Puffin Award for first car wreck of the race. A dubious honour to carry around for the next year to be sure.
John Jr. and Ron Bartleet, car #9, captured a silver plate for making all their Targa times.
Our three podium placed cars won the Jerry Churchill Team Award for teams of three nominated entries from any combination of divisions, all cars registered in the same country.
Justin Crant, not able to race as co-pilot in the wrecked #1888 moved on to the critical job of service crew for our M3 team in car #9. Justin also assisted other competitors who needed service help. He was so good at it, (without him the M3 we discovered, surely would have had a catastrophic suspension failure during a race). Justin won the Best Service Crew Award.
So, despite ruining one fine automobile, we still managed to win eight awards.
Anyone interested in buying a slightly used but winning racer (a 2011 BMW 335is) contact John Hume.
A heart felt thanks to our video and service crew members. Michael Engel, Calvin Williams and Rein Raamat. They took excellent care of the racing crews, shot some incredible video, wrote some magnificent script, narrated the same and uploaded to YouTube daily. An almost impossible feat!
Check out www.targanewfoundlandnews.com and you will see for yourself.
Saturday, September 21, 2013. A table load of trophies earned by The team.
Friday, September 20, 2013. Taking a break between races.
Friday, September 20, 2013. Hanging out in Harbour Mill before the second race of the day.
Friday, September 20, 2013. Peter Bartlett and Bridget ‎Picco. Car 1984 in their Porche 944 Turbo. No injuries except for their pride.
Thursday, September 19, 2013. Team Hume at Garnish.
Thursday, September 19, 2013. Baby did well today and deserves this pampering.
Thursday, September 19, 2013. Ready for the first race in Boat Harbour.
As per their position in the race standings, Craig McMullen and Justin Russell in the Mini Countryman in first place to date then Jon Riddell and Briar de Lang with their BMW in second place.
Thursday, September 19, 2013. Thursday morning and Briar is still smiling!
Thursday, September 19, 2013. Boat Harbour community centre.
Sunday, September 15, 2013. One down… but three still up and running.
Saturday, September 14, 2013. All four of Hume Team’s cars arrived safely in St. John’s.
Well the cars have rolled across the finish line and the 2013 Targa Newfoundland race has come to a close. The champaign bottles have been popped open and amply poured all over the three winning Hume teams.
Despite John Sr and Justin Crant’s nasty meeting with the tree and fence last Sunday, the team as a whole wound up raking in the lion’s share of awards this Saturday at the closing ceremony and banquet.
1) Sadly John Sr.and Justin Crant won the Puffin Award for first car wreck of the race. A dubious honor to carry around for the next year to be sure.
2) John Jr and Ron Bartleet won a silver plate for making all their targa times.
3) John Jr and Ron Bartleet also placed 2nd in the modern division and 2nd overall in the Targa division.
5) Jon and Briar finished 1st overall in GT.
7) We entered our three winning cars as a 3 car team before the race started, and so won the Jerry Churchill Team Award.
8) Justin Crant, now not able to race in the ruined 335is, moved on to the critical job of service crew for our 2nd place M3. And he assisted other competitors who needed service help. He was so good at it, (without him the M3 we discovered, surely would have had a catastrophic suspension failure during a race). Justin won the Best Service Crew award.
So despite ruining one fine automobile, we still managed to win 8 awards.
Anyone interested in buying a 2011 BMW 335is – As Is – contact John Hume.
And heart felt thanks to our film and service crew members. Michael Engel, Calvin Williams and Rein Raamat. They took excellent care of the racing crews, shot some incredible film, wrote some great script and uploaded to you tube daily. An almost impossible feat.
Thank you again all donors and supporters. You are the best.
Thursday was a great day for rallying. Lots of sun mixed with cloud and wind and temperatures hovering around 15 C.
No accidents today to speak of. A few close calls though.
John Jr and Ron B. in car #9 hold a solid second place standing in Modern Division as of end of day. They have one of the three quickest cars here at this event this year to be sure.
Meantime in GT class Craig and Justin car #1333 are two seconds up on Jon and Briar car #1135. These two are neck and neck in this race. It is anyone’s guess as to who will finish on top. The third place car has too many penalty seconds accumulated already to be a real threat.
Friday will be a tense day in GT class.
Wednesday was another rock em sock em crash bang kind of day here.
The Provincial Works Dept here decided to replace the TCP #1 as we had to transit to our first race of the day. As a result many competitor’s tires became retreaded with a thick layer of fresh tar. As a result many on the first race of the day had minimal traction and drove off the course or crashed.
However, John Jr and Ron in their M3 #9 are doing very well. They managed to keep it on the road and are near the top in their division. Same can be said for Jon and Briar in # 1135 and Craig and Justin in # 1333 both sit at the top of the GT class.
The last two races of the day through Clarenville went off on time and were a blast to watch.