Other rally
TARMAC: Skelta Targa Tasmania day two summary
HARD CHARGING SKELTA SHINES AT TARGA Without doubt the hard charging ways of Queensland driver Ray Vandersee in the Skelta G-Force sports car have been one of the major standouts from day two of Targa Tasmania, as the Toowoomba driver finished ...
Edited: Apr 28, 2006, 12:49 AM
Copy link
Share on Viber
HARD CHARGING SKELTA SHINES AT TARGA
Without doubt the hard charging ways of Queensland driver Ray Vandersee in the Skelta G-Force sports car have been one of the major standouts from day two of Targa Tasmania, as the Toowoomba driver finished the second leg of competition in third position.
It took just two of this morning's stages for Vandersee to leap-frog touring car legend Peter Brock and by the lunch time break he had elevated himself into the top three.
From there he was never headed and now finds himself within striking distance of the leaders, albeit still 56 seconds adrift of outright leader Jim Richards but slowly gaining on second placed Steve Glenney.
"We've had a tremendous day and the Skelta has been solid throughout. There was only the one hiccup on the Weldborough Pass stage earlier this morning where we again came across some loose gravel," said Vandersee.
"That probably cost us a good 10 seconds but we knuckled down for the remainder of the day and came up trumps.
"There's no doubt that the more I drive the Skelta, the better I know the car and can start to fully exploit things to our advantage.
"At the lunch break we made some slight changes to the set up which further improved the handling and that was shown in our consistent stage times.
"Jim and Steve were going fast yesterday and I thought we managed to pick it up a bit ourselves today and were matching pace with them so it holds us well towards tomorrow."
Today's nine stages of Targa Tasmania left from Launceston and headed down the East Coast to Hobart where competitors will spend the night.
Vandersee is sure to be buoyed by the overall performance and is well placed to achieve a best ever result at the International tarmac rally event, in what is the Skelta G-Force's maiden assault.
"Everything's sweet! My navigator Jahmeil is handling the job like a true professional and the crew are really putting in.
"I know this attitude will continue right throughout the week and there's no doubt we'll need a complete team effort to get the job done.
"The pressure will be on tomorrow as I've traditionally struggled on day three of Targa driving my Clubman.
"But that's been due to the general roughness of the surface and I know the Skelta has much better suspension travel and can handle these conditions much better so we should be able to continue our charge."
-skelta-
We want your opinion!
What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?
Take our 5 minute survey.
- The Motorsport.com Team
Read and post comments
Read also :
Share Or Save This Story
Copy link
Share on Viber
Previous article NAmer: Jagged Edge Oregon Trail summary
Next article USRC: Team Deva rally program announced
Top Comments
There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?
View More & Comment
More from
Peter Brock
The major moments that made Holden a motorsport force
Supercars
Supercars
The major moments that made Holden a motorsport force
Perkins to run Brock tribute livery at Sandown
Supercars
Supercars
Sandown
Perkins to run Brock tribute livery at Sandown
McLaughlin won't compare himself to Peter Brock
Supercars
Supercars
McLaughlin won't compare himself to Peter Brock
Latest news
How Aston Martin’s fuel gamble in Monza WEC fell short by just three seconds
WEC
WEC WEC
Monza
15 min
How Aston Martin’s fuel gamble in Monza WEC fell short by just three seconds
Brad Keselowski expects "lots of soul searching" in off-season as he reflects on 2026
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Homestead-Miami
24 min
Brad Keselowski expects "lots of soul searching" in off-season as he reflects on 2026
What's behind Oscar Piastri's split with Mark Webber – and what it means for his F1 career
Formula 1
F1 Formula 1
Sao Paulo GP
39 min
What's behind Oscar Piastri's split with Mark Webber – and what it means for his F1 career
Shane van Gisbergen gets new crew chief for 2027 NASCAR Cup season
NASCAR Cup
NAS NASCAR Cup
Homestead-Miami
46 min
Shane van Gisbergen gets new crew chief for 2027 NASCAR Cup season
Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
You have 2 options:
- Become a subscriber.
- Disable your adblocker.
Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here
Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page
Manage Alerts
Subscribe