Wearing tyres, hot brakes and slippery roads.

Targa Tasmania is not called the ultimate tarmac rally for nothing. Trying to complete 5 days of competitive racing stages all over Tasmania on one set of tyres can be a big ask. Especially when it started raining hard as we headed down to the wild west coast at the end of day 4. The final stage was between Queenstown & Strahan, 33kms of twists, turns and rain. I walked into the stage and and found a good spot looking down on the cars for a nice tight pan in the gloom. Once the 999 sweep car had gone through I followed to shoot the Mazda cars servicing at Strahan.

So we have cars being driven fast with wearing tyres, hot brakes and slippery roads. Not a good combination. As I drove through the stage there was a Nissan GTR totalled in a big spin, a Porsche Carrera up in the trees, the remains of something else all over the road which somehow had managed to continue and then to cap it off the 999 sweep car on the final corner of the stage with it's back end caved in. They are supposed to be the responsible ones! Fortunately all drivers and navigators were fine.