He became famous overnight as the driver who sailed his million dollar Ferrari Enzo into the river, and now Zahir Rana is eager to get back to Targa Newfoundland to put his “little miscalculation” behind him and finish what he calls one of the most amazing motoring events in the [...]
An international roster of competitors and fans will converge on St. John’s on September 9, 2012, for the start of the 11th edition of Targa Newfoundland and the beginning of a new decade for Canada’s longest and toughest motorsport event, organizers here have announced. The annual fall classic will kick [...]
A brace of the world’s most exotic cars are headed for one of the world’s great automobile adventures as five ‘supercars’ make the long trek from Alberta to the start of the 10th annual Targa Newfoundland. The names conjure visions of the greatest sports cars of the century – Ferrari, [...]
The soldiers are coming. Two Canadian Forces combat veterans wounded in battle are gathering their troops and planning their second attack on Canada’s longest and toughest motorsport event, part of an extended campaign to raise funds to help with the rehabilitation of their injured comrades. Corporal Andrew Knisley and Master [...]
A little history, a strong tradition and a big helping of speed will help MINI Canada build on its winning record when a spectacular red MINI Cooper Works Challenge car pulls up to the start of the 10th annual Targa Newfoundland international rally here. It will be the ninth start [...]
A resurgent Chrysler will return to Targa Newfoundland with three hot new cars and a stellar driver line-up lead by one of the company’s top executives, Targa organizers have announced. Chrysler executive Ralph Gilles, a contender in three previous Targa events, will spearhead the assault on the 10th annual September [...]
Targa Newfoundland has issued a challenge to the manufacturers of small sporty cars- and the owners who love them – with a new competition for fuel-efficient, small-displacement cars. The Targa Newfoundland Next Generation Challenge will be a competition-within-a-competition that pits cars of up to 1.6-litres displacement against each other in [...]
The course for the 10th annual Targa Newfoundland motorsports classic is set, and the route promises to be a celebration of a decade of the event’s favourite communities and roads, organizers have announced. The route for the 2011 rally includes 44 closed-road Targa stages and features a mix of long-time [...]
The highly anticipated 10th Anniversary Targa Newfoundland has attracted a record pre-entry with nine months still to go before the start of the annual motorsport classic, organizers have announced. When a special offer to returning competitors concluded last week, more than 50 entries had already been received, organizers said, with [...]
The organizers of Targa Newfoundland are reaching out around the globe to recruit competitors from the first nine years of the event to return to the 10th Anniversary Targa Newfoundland in September of 2011. The event is contacting each of the more than 400 previous competitors in an effort to [...]
Nine years after a young Kia Canada Inc. dipped a tentative toe into Canada’s motorsport waters, the company returns to Canadian motorsports and Targa Newfoundland 2010 with a dramatic new Forte Koup, an ambitious new commitment and a new partner with a big wish. A new 2010 Kia Forte Koup [...]
Two Disabled Canadian Forces Veterans to Compete in Five-Day Event; Objective by Team is to Raise $150,000 for ‘Soldier On Fund’ The fully prepared 2010 Acura TL performance sedan that will carry a team of Canadian Forces veterans injured in the war in Afghanistan on their quest to raise funds [...]
Two good actors best known for playing bad boys will get behind a great cause when Trailer Park Boys principals J. P. Tremblay and Robb Wells turn up at the starting line for the 9th annual Targa Newfoundland on September 12. Tremblay and Wells, who play the characters Julian and [...]
One of the most successful and popular cars and teams to compete in Targa Newfoundland, from one of the event’s most dedicated supporters, will return for 2010 with some unfinished business at the top of the agenda. The brilliant red MINI John Cooper Works Challenge car that debuted in the [...]
Two Canadian soldiers wounded in action in Afghanistan are marshaling supporters and equipment for an assault on Canada’s longest and toughest motorsport event, a campaign they hope will raise funds and awareness for a cause close to their hearts. Master Corporal Jody Mitic and Corporal Andrew Knisley will team up [...]
The council of a town that is arguably more famous in New York City than in Canada has voted to join the Holyrood Stage of the 2010 Targa Newfoundland. The stage will be renamed as the Holyrood Harbour Main Stage. The town council of Harbour Main – representing the communities [...]
Marystown, the home of three of the most popular competitive stages in the annual Targa Newfoundland and the headquarters for the Burin Peninsula leg of the international motorsport event, has confirmed its participation in Targa for the next four years. At its regular meeting the Marystown council approved an agreement [...]
The town council of the town made famous by the traditional Newfoundland folk song “The Ryan’s and the Pitman’s” has decided once again to join the Targa family of communities. Holyrood, a town nestled at the end of a deep bay under its equally famous mountain top cross is welcoming [...]
One of the most popular stages in the history of Targa Newfoundland will return to the September motorsport classic next year, rally organizers have announced. The 4.99-kilometre Targa stage through the Town of Clarenville will cap the critical third day of the competition for the 2010 event. Clarenville town council [...]
They may be separated by miles of ocean, but the islands of Barbados in the southern Caribbean and Newfoundland in Canada have linked hands in a cooperative effort that could see the winner of the keystone motorsports event in each location take part in the other. The agreement between Sol [...]
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