The ultimate tarmac rally
Targa Tasmania is considered one of the world’s most challenging tarmac rallies. Mazda Motorsport has used the event as a proving ground for its line up of high-performance production cars since 1993.
The course
The event is held over five days plus a Prologue, travelling 2000kms around Tasmania. The rally starts in Launceston and finishes five days later in Hobart. Prologue sets the event’s pace, seeding the fastest cars at the rear of the field for day one of racing. The competitive course comprises 450kms over 40 closed-road competition stages.
The race
Cars are timed on each Targa stage and each stage has a target base time. Any time accrued over the base time is added to the car’s overall penalty time. The car that clocks the lowest penalty time is the outright winner in each competition.
The categories
Targa Tasmania is made up of four significant competitions; Modern, Classic, 2WD and 4WD Showroom. Mazda Australia will contest the event’s 2WD Showroom competition, which is designed to put near-standard production cars on an equal billing with fully modified race cars. The cars are also vying for outright glory.