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Today's main photo, showing David Gilliver and Nigel Shellshear's slightly used Ferrari 308 GTB Targa car, comes to us via The Rhythm Section.  Sadly, the Italian classic came to grief on the Pelverata stage of Targa Tasmania's final day for 2021 but, to everyone's huge relief, neither crewman sustained serious injuries and both were reportedly able to walk away from the carnage. Hopefully, the car can be rebuilt.  The shed that broke its fall might be another matter, however, leaving its anonymous owner understandably disgruntled.  Not that he was all that gruntled to start with, mind you; he's quoted in Tasmania's premier budgie cage liner as saying that "the race has always irritated me, to be honest, but not as much as a Targa car actually coming through my shed."  A fair call, probably. For those of you that haven't already seen yesterday's UMPH coverage of the Tarraleah stage of Targa '21, the two images below show what Dave and Nige...

  It is with considerable sadness that I bring you photos of Targa Tasmania's Tarraleah stage, held on Friday the 23rd of April, 2021.  Unfortunately, the preceding stage - Mt Arrowsmith, the tortuously windy section of road that begins the journey from Queenstown on the state's west coast to the capital city of Hobart in the south - saw the devastating loss of Shane Navin, a 68 year old veteran of several Targas, who lost control of his Mazda RX7, coming to rest in a culvert at Double Barrel Creek.  His navigator, Glenn Evans, reportedly only received minor injuries. And now, at the time of writing this article - only one day later - comes the dreadful news that there has been a double fatality with a Porsche 911 crewed by 68 year old Leigh Mundy and his navigator, Dennis Neagle, aged 59, having crashed during today's Cygnet stage.  This has cast an even deeper pall over what was already a marred event.  As a Tasmanian and motorsports fan, I know that I am not ...