{"id":20431,"date":"2011-05-12T17:06:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20431"},"modified":"2015-10-13T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T15:26:35","slug":"targa-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/features\/targa-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Targa Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Images \u00a9 Copyright Edge Photographics, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>It felt a little like the end of the world. The road ran straight though the blackened earth and charred tree stumps left on the bleak, high moorland by wildfires. But there was no chance of reignition; the sky was a leaden grey and sent whips of wind and rain across the black-and-white landscape.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the end of the world, but it is very nearly the end of the earth: Tasmania, home to some of the world\u2019s greatest driving roads, made great not least by their unworldly setting. And the car seemed utterly appropriate: a Porsche 911 GTS. In white with its black detailing \u2013 wheels, exhaust tips \u2013 it fitted right into the stark monochrome scene. And I\u2019ve always thought that when the apocalypse does come, the Porsche\u2019s insuperable mechanical toughness means that only cockroaches and the 911 will remain.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20455\" title=\"Temco George Town Prologue, Targa Tasmania, 5th April 2011\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-665x444.jpg 665w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_100-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTell us the history of the 911,\u201d said the editor, \u201cand its importance to car culture.\u201d In 800 words? I nearly declined the commission. You need a three-volume opus to attempt that; not a short article. The 911 has such longevity, so many iterations and so many devotees that any attempt to summarize it is going to have to play very fast and loose with history, and is guaranteed to invoke someone\u2019s ire.<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019d just got back from the Targa Tasmania, where I\u2019d had a graphic demonstration of the three reasons why this decades-old, wilfully idiosyncratic design has become one of the very few cars that deserves the \u2018icon\u2019 status that lazy motoring journalists like to apply to lesser models that have been with us for mere minutes by comparison with the 911\u2019s near half-century.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20436\" title=\"Walter Rohl pushes...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-667x444.jpg 667w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_Pushes-572x380.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Targa Tasmania, if you\u2019re not familiar with it, is an annual five-day, 1200-mile road rally and crash-fest. The rules are pretty loose. There are lots of categories, but the most important are the awards for the fastest classic and modern car. Your car needs to have been on sale at some point and in some form; you need safety kit and are fairly free to tune it. For an entry fee of around \u00a33500 you get to drive flat-out over closed sections of the island\u2019s stupendous roads, with everything from dizzying series of cambered switchbacks running up the sides of mountains to terrifying 170mph straights over the blackened moors.<\/p>\n<p>So, those three reasons. First, the toughness. In the classic section, Rex Broadbent won for the fifth time in a row in his \u201974 RS. Rex rarely races; his technique is to start slow and break himself in gently, and allow the front-running vintage Aussie muscle cars with hundreds more horsepower to break, while he relies on the 911\u2019s reliability to win. He says that between Targas he just changes the pads and wipes the car over.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20435\" title=\"Even 911's squat road-sucking sometimes fails at the Targa Tassy...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-665x444.jpg 665w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Air_2-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Not that Rex isn\u2019t quick; by day four he was blistering. But he wasn\u2019t as fast as double World Rally Champion Walter Rohrl, who was competing in the 1981 911SC he drove in that year\u2019s San Remo rally. Rohrl \u2013 the driver\u2019s driver, one of the most versatile and naturally gifted ever to compete \u2013 was busy demonstrating Reason Two.<\/p>\n<p>With the engine at the back, the 911\u2019s endless list of race and rally wins have been victories over physics as much as the competition. But that\u2019s part of the appeal. Modern 911s are a whole lot more predictable than the early cars, but you still need to be good to drive one quickly.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20444\" title=\"Walter cocks a leg on the limit....\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-624x415.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-667x444.jpg 667w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohrl_3-572x380.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>You\u2019ll never be as good as Walter, who just looked 20 per cent faster than everyone else through the bends and the rain despite a museum-piece car without the modern modifications of its \u2018classic\u2019 rivals. But you\u2019ll want to try; unlike almost-sentient modern sports cars like the Nissan GT-R, the 911 doesn\u2019t reduce the driver to the slowest, stupidest link in the chain, and it at least helps with about the best brakes and steering and gearchange you\u2019ll find.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20445\" title=\"The Rohrl 911 SC did a job onr the more modern aspirants...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-665x444.jpg 665w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Rohl_1-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Reason Three was in the Targa\u2019s modern section. I was pretty pleased to be chasing the race in the 402bhp, wide-bodied, rear-drive GTS, which we thought might be the final version (and one of the best) of this generation of 911 before the new one arrives, probably at the Frankfurt show in September.<\/p>\n<p>But no. Porsche has managed to fit two more new derivatives into the few months between the GTS appearing, and the start of the Targa Tasmania. Aussie racing legend Jim Richards is 63 and has won the Bathurst 1000 seven times and the Targa eight, and is racing one of those two new cars, the insane 620bhp GT2 RS. Six hundred and twenty horsepower. In a 911 with number plates, which you can (in theory) wander into a Porsche dealership and buy.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20438\" title=\"Six decades of dinkum Porsche's celebrated appropriately...\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60.jpg\" width=\"3400\" height=\"2267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60.jpg 3400w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-278x185.jpg 278w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-251x167.jpg 251w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-526x350.jpg 526w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-665x444.jpg 665w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Aussie_60-572x381.jpg 572w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3400px) 100vw, 3400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>That reason? That the 911 is a triumph of development over design, and it\u2019s astonishing how much performance Porsche continues to pull from an unpromising basic concept. Once, it worried that its odd-looking rear engined sports car might have run its race, and it commissioned the front-engined 928 as a replacement. The 928 was a fine car, but the 911 kept getting better. Porsche won\u2019t make that mistake again, and the new 911 it reveals later this year will just be another development of the same simple theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Oliver chases Walter Rohrl around Tassie in a 911 GTS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1779,6],"tags":[183,2007],"class_list":["post-20431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-features","tag-motorsport","tag-porsche"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Targa Tasmania | Influx Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ben Oliver looks at Porsche&#039;s influence in the 1200-mile road rally in Tasmania. 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