"Bill Caswell" (billcaswell)
09/14/2016 at 16:15 • Filed to: None
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"Bill Caswell" (billcaswell)
09/14/2016 at 16:15 • Filed to: None | 5
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Targa Newfoundland started this week! Its such a cool event. You have to put your race car on a boat for 16hrs to get to the island for 5 full days of racing. I competed back in 2012 with Horst Reinhardt in a perfectly prepared E46M3 by VR Performance. Tons of cars crashed out and a fair amount broke. One E46 M3 even landed on top of a well with all four wheels hanging in the air.
We managed to keep it together and finished 2nd behind Andrew Comrie Pickard in a ridiculously cool evo. I’ve never really seen good in-car footage from the event so here are some of our stage from 2012. Thought you might enjoy them as there’s nothing like this in North America. Especially the sub division stage where you get to rip through a neighborhood.
The phone ringing at the beginning of the stages is me calling Mike Spinelli and leaving our stage notes on his voicemail for fun! I need to find the stage where he actually answered and I was trying to talk to him while Horst read notes. Its pretty ridiculous. Our intercom had bluetooth so I paired it to my phone and hit send as we started the stage. Nothing like leaving awesome, obnoxious voicemails for friends.
Subdivision stage:
This is a faster more flowing stage.
Roadster Man
> Bill Caswell
09/14/2016 at 16:20 |
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Gosh that neighborhood section looks so sketchy with the puddles everywhere. Nice driving!
EL_ULY
> Bill Caswell
09/14/2016 at 16:25 |
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oh man that is literally civilization lol. Damn sun was in my eyes lol :]
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Bill Caswell
> Roadster Man
09/14/2016 at 16:26 |
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Thanks! Maybe worse were the metal drainage things at a lot of the apex’s. I went over and checked out the stage the night before and made my own notes using blocks and intersections. We only had one quick pass through at night, so they sort of sucked but I had watched this stage on speedvision so many times and always saw competitors getting lost and making mistakes. We had zero penalties at that point and were tied for first so no way I was losing that because I got confused where the road went! So I was less worried about making the notes for speed, more for not getting lost.
Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> Bill Caswell
09/15/2016 at 10:52 |
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One of my life goals is to enter this, even at one of the less competitive classes.
I haven’t raced before in my life, even though I live close to Mosport. I should do that first.
Thanks for sharing some footages!