EVO X Wins At Targa Wrest Point
The TMR Evolution X of Scott Millar and Chris Dean have won the TMR 4WD Showroom class at the 2011 Targa Wrest Point tarmac rally in Hobart, second round of the 2011 Australian Targa Championship.
Driving their Hyperactive Designs Evolution X RS, Millar and Dean claimed their second class win since debuting their Evo X, and won by a solid 43 seconds, winning six of the 14 stages of the event, and never finishing lower than third. The crew extended their lead up to a maximum of 1min:13sec after leg one, over last year’s Showroom winner, Tony Warren, in an Evo IX.
Their overall time also ranked them 10th outright on combined class results.
Reinforcing its popularity, nine of the 10 cars entered for the 4WD Showroom class were Mitsubishi Evolutions, all Evo IXs and X.
Finishing in third place in the TMR Showroom class and completing a Mitsubishi podium was Matthew and Melanie Heskin, returning to tarmac rallying after a two year break in an Evolution X RS built and prepared by TMR. The Heskins won three stages and finished 23 seconds off Warren, and a massive 3m:30s ahead of the Subaru STi of Newman/Lewis.
TMR Performance is the naming rights sponsor of the 4WD Showroom class.
Attention now turns to round three of the Australian Tarmac Championship, at Targa Tasmania’s 20th anniversary in early April. Millar and Heskin will return to challenge for the TMR 4WD, while a huge field of TMR cars will return to battle across both the 4WD Showroom and Modern fields.