A two-man team of GTA lawyers is racing in this year’s Targa Newfoundland, a week-long, 2,200-kilometre rally across the island running from September 11 to 18. We’re following Dean Novak and Rob Hansen’s journey here at lawandstyle.ca, and posting updates from the racers throughout the week.
You can also check out background info about Dean and Rob’s race team, and donate to their fundraising effort (a friendly competition with a team of racer-bankers to see who can raise the most money.
September 13:
Rob: “Both H1 and H2’s first competitive stages went well. A bit of fishtailing in the rain, but we made our target time. After that, we completed another stage in Conception Harbour right next to the ocean: beautiful vistas, curvy roads, lots of fans and we met our time for this stage too. We also nailed the Marysvale and Osprey Trail stages. Southern Harbour was a blast — lots of ups and downs, blind lefts and rights, and right next to the water (and some houses too). Two Targa cars were lost in this stage — an orange Datsun 240 and a Subaru crashed.
“After a wonderful cod and chips lunch at the local community centre, we made our way back out of Southern Harbour in a competitive stage that was a reverse of the one we came in on. We messed up our rally computer and timers at the start (so we were flying blind) but still managed to make our times. We did well on the rest of the stages for the balance of the day and ended up tied for first. To be perfectly honest, we are tied with another 10 cars — but at least we can say we led Targa for at least one day! Tonight was dinner in Gander with Gabe’s parents who were in town on business. We all agreed that we like his parents better than him.”
Read older updates here.