Targa Trophy Event - 2012 - Accelerations
NOTE West EDITORIAL contributor Coast Nick Roshon Blog For Nick checked again, he had the chance to take part in the recent experience of the Targa Trophy in his hometown of San Diego driving his Audi S4 He's cataloged his experiences below.
I recently had the privilege of attending driving in the Targa Trophy Experience San Diego event, the first Targa Trophy 2014 season courtesy of Lon Mok SoCalEuro SoCalEuro is best known for their organization Big Vee SoCalEuro events we covered before, but the organization also supports the Southern California car scene wider boast active forums, and helps you organize a ton of events that make Southern California scene Euro that it is thanks to Lon to send me on his behalf.
Targa Trophy is a unique experience, unlike any other event in which I took part Many of the drivers that you might have to meet several times before the rally and keep coming back simply because of all the fun they have had before in fact, it seems to continue to grow as the event sold this year with about 150 participating cars.
This particular event begins with a German car festival in HRE office that functions as a mini-show, but also hundreds of cars that simply turn this is where I shot most of my pictures.
There were food trucks, raffles, gifts and even a man of the camera in a giant bunny suit There was a huge amount of cars in this segment, including super rare cars that weren rallying t and simply came to view the car as a classic Mercedes 300 SL.
The rally itself starts shortly after noon, with an exclusive mobile application, enabled by a secret code given to you at registration and useful way directions are intentionally vague sometimes, with part of the objective of find a quicker route to finish closer to the goal time.
The team behind the Targa Trophy is clear to point out that the event is not a driving race organizers during the weekend before and set a target pace, they don t reveal and your goal is to get closer to what rhythm as possible to go too fast can hurt you just as much as going too slow the target rate was set in a Ferrari FF, but leads to a reasonable speed without tickets and moderate traffic drivers should try to not get lost, drive responsibly, but finding smart ways to shave time here and there to get closer to the target rate.
Each car has a co-pilot, I learned quickly was a necessity even with a 3G iPad, two iPhones and an integrated navigation unit, it is difficult to follow the road turn directions while browsing the roads of Poway, Jamul, Chula Vista and all of southern San Diego My friend Brandon took this duty and did a great job keeping us mostly on the road, keeping the pump jams, and most of all laughter and good times rolling the image capture over the pure pleasure ridiculous the perfect event, IMO, it was several hours of driving pleasure.
The gathering includes checkpoints where participants have to do something for the record and prove that they have followed the road, like buying a small fries Carls Jr and make the Targa Trophy logo, or take a picture of fallers you spend Skydiving San Diego in Chula Vista When finished, they use these photos to verify that you actually finished the road, but also adds an element of fun to see what each checkpoint has in store for you taking control of a local Targa Trophy Carls Jr was particularly impressive, with nearly 2 million cars in what was otherwise an obscure burger joint in the middle of nowhere.
My car managed to get lost a few times but mostly we kept and probably the most fun was cruising on highways filled stickered by alien species and German car drivers were responsible and most were there just there to have fun Audizine were several videographers and I'm sure they'll be producing some pictures of this action very soon.
The reader is both challenging and rewarding at the same time, and after about 200 miles covered and nearly a full tank of gas, we're finally at the Hard Rock hotel for the ceremony and raffle prizes, including some great parties participants are free admission to all bars Hard rock and club roof Float, which is a nice bonus indeed, the rooftop bar was full of drivers that I recognized from the event, and excellent way to cap off an amazing player.
Special thanks to the crew of the Targa Trophy that provide a large number of people so that everything arrives and make sure it is both safe and enjoyable for everyone Thanks should also go to the event sponsors HRE Wheels Form Flow MFest, Audizine and Southern California Euro to help make possible more photos of the event event are available in our photo gallery link below this story.
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