18/07/2010

TMR WINS EASTERN CREEK 6HR

A dominant 1-2-4 finish has stamped TMR Performance as the team to beat, and the Evo X as the car to drive, in Australian manufacturer and endurance racing by winning the Dial Before You Dig Australian 6 Hour at Eastern Creek Raceway last weekend. The pairing of Stuart Kostera and Warren Luff were the class of the field, qualifying on pole position by 1.2 seconds, setting fastest lap of the race with a 1:44.3 and taking the West-sponsored Evo X to a three lap victory after the gruelling six hour, 195 lap race that covered a total of 766km.

The win also boosts Kostera’s championship hopes, earning him maximum points in round six of the nine-round Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championship.
Under 20 degrees of Sydney sunshine, incredibly there were no safety car periods throughout the entire race, removing a major element of luck from the equation, and ensuring the 25-car, five-class field would race purely on pace and pitstop efficiency; the result further reinforcing the Alan Heaphy-led TMR squad as masters of endurance racing.
 
The TMR Evo X of Inky Tulloch and Steve Jones finished a superb second, with an equally faultless run, despite posting only the fourth-fastest lap of the race, with consistency and clean pit-stops contributing to the impressive result.

 

In third was the TMR-sold Evo X RS of Peter Conroy and Mark Brame, while the second West team car of Glyn Crimp and Matt Cherry finished just off the podium in fourth place, with a total of 190 laps.

 
With the 2010 Bathurst 12 Hour-winning BMW 335i finishing in fifth place, it made the top-four TMR clean sweep even sweeter, and has shown how well the team has rebounded from its minor technical problems that prevented them from winning a third straight Bathurst enduro back in February.
 
Without so much as a single glitch all weekend, the TMR Performance crew is back on top and looking forward to the next event, round seven of the manufacturers championship, which resumes at Queensland’s Morgan Park in one month.

18/07/2010

TMR ON COVER OF TARMAC MAG

TMR Performance stars on the cover of the latest Tarmac magazine, issue #8, with a full feature on its road, tarmac rally and race cars. 

Tarmac mag took the TMR Bathurst Edition, TMR Club Spec, Showroom tarmac rally and West track car to the undulating Bryant Park, at Haunted Hills in Victoria, to see how the four states of modification to the Evo X compare. The rainy day made for some superb photography and with 15 pages on the TMR cars, there is plenty to take in for any TMR or Evo enthusiast. 

For more information, visit http://www.tarmac-mag.com.au

11/05/2010

TMR TOP 10 AT TARGA

After a gruelling 1500km and six days, the TMR Performance cars and crew have finished with a successful program at Targa Tasmania 2010. A Showroom spec TMR Performance Showroom Evo X cracked the top 10 outright, with the team of TMR cars performing strongly throughout the Modern and Showroom classes at Australia’s premier tarmac rally.

Showcasing the TMR Performance Club Spec motorsport package, Dean Evans and Simone Bachmann finished 10th outright in their TMR Hankook Evo X MR Club Spec, proving the speed and reliability of both the car and the new dual clutch SST gearbox. The Club Spec is an entry level performance package for the Evo X, designed to allow easily reversal to a standard road car if required.

"We are absolutely stoked!" explained Evans. "We pushed the Club Spec to its limit, from prologue to the finish. The paddle shift was like driving a WRC car and I just loved it. We had some heat related issues but we eventually learnt how to manage them without losing much time – a huge thanks to the TMR crew for allowing Simone and I to realise a top 10 dream."

Scott Millar and Chris Dean finished 4th in Showroom in their Hyperactive Designs Evo X RS and 20th outright from the field of 273 cars, an impressive result given the high attrition rate. The car suffered a broken turbo on the last day, driving on with no turbo boost, but still managed a top 20 outright.

Max Williams and Bruce Bush ran as high as 19th in Modern, and the majority of the Showroom field was filled with TMR prepared or run Mitsubishi Evolutions.

To enquire about competing in a TMR Evo X at a tarmac rally, contact TMR Performance on (03) 9271 3668.

11/05/2010

TMR WINS AT PHILLIP ISLAND

Stuart Kostera racked up another win for TMR Performance at round two of the 2010 Australian Manufacturers Championship, taking pole position and a race win in his West Surfing Products TMR Evolution X RS.

Held at the Shannons Nationals, with two one-hour feature races, Kostera won the first race by a convincing 39 seconds ahead of the second placed BMW 335i of Gary Holt/Ryan McLeod. Kostera then backed it up with a fifth in race two to take the round win, despite race two tyre issues.

Tyre issues were in fact the story of the round affecting a number of cars throughout the field. TMR teammate and second fastest qualifier, Inky Tulloch, suffered a front-right tyre blow-out in the first race, but came back strongly to win the second race by two seconds to Lee Castle’s Subaru STi.

In race two, Kostera fought back from his own tyre failure to fifth, while Tulloch’s win equated to him earning third outright for the round.

Kostera also showed the dominance of the TMR Evo X, setting a new lap record in race two with a time of 1m:46.9s. Tulloch’s fastest lap time was also under the previous lap record, with a 1m:47.6s.

The next round of the AMC will turn to an enduro effort on July 18, with the Australian Six Hour at Eastern Creek Raceway.

21/04/2010

TMR Performance scored a convincing 1st place at Round 2 of the 2010 Australian Manufacturers Championship for Production Cars, with a convincing victory against the opposition.

Stuart Kosteras won the round in his West Surfing Products TMR Evolution X RS, with teammate Inky Tulloch second in his TMR Evolution X RS – both cars were the class of the field, dominating the weekend with Kosteras taking victory in both one-hour long feature races and the two effectively racing each other.

After qualifying 1-2 more than a second clear of third, Kosteras won the first race by 50 seconds, but his nearest rival Tulloch suffered a blown engine while leading, one of three cars to suffer the same problem on the day, leading to speculation that poor locally sold and mandated fuel was causing the problems. The Melbourne-based TMR team was called into urgent response and had a new engine in a car, on the ship to Tasmania and in the pits the next morning for Tulloch to challenge in Sunday’s race two. With a revised fuel mix authorised by race officials, Tulloch came back to lead the second one-hour race on Sunday, before the round of pit stops leap-frogged Kosteras into the lead.

Proving the pace and domination of the TMR Evos, both cars lapped the entire field, up to the third placed car of 2010 Bathurst 12 Hour winner Gary Holt’s BMW, both cars lapping almost a second faster than the opposition, and cementing the team and cars’ place as championship contenders.

The Evo X RS is imported solely into Australia by TMR Performance, and is sold for $48,500, before the option of race preparation to each customer’s requirements for circuit racing, gravel or tarmac rally.

The next round of the six-round 2010 Manufacturers Championship is at Phillip Island on May 1-2.

14/02/2010

Bathurst 12 Hour 2010

TMR Australia has been cruelly robbed of a potential three-peat victory at the Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour. Winning the past two events, TMR Australia went into this year’s event with two cars: the two-time winning Pedigree Evo X RS of Rod Salmon/Damian White/Ian Tulloch, and the 2009 runner-up Evo X RS of West Surfing Products car of Glyn Crimp/Stuart Costera and V8 Supercar driver Warren Luff.
Qualifying a solid fourth, under sodden conditions, White moved the #1 car into the lead within the first hour, pushing out a gap of 12 seconds, and throughout the next eight hours, never dropped out of contention, consistently lapping with the kind of pace and consistency that has seen them victorious in the past.

With White struck down with sickness and at times on a saline drip, Salmon and Tulloch did much of the day’s stints while White rested and readied for the final double-stint.
But with a little over three hours remaining, Salmon felt the footwell get extremely hot: the defending champs’ car was struck with track debris cracking the exhaust and blowing super-heated air onto the wiring, effecting the gearshift and with potential brake problems risking safety, team principal Alan Heaphy had no choice but to retire the Pedigree car.
“We were better placed than when we have won the event before, with only three cars on the lead lap and only three hours to go,” sighed Salmon.
The West Evo X had a more tumultuous race: Kosteras made light contact with another competitor exiting the Chase, and was given a drive-through penalty, then shortly after ran wide coming into Forest’s Elbow while overtaking a slower car and made heavy contact with the wall.
The TMR service crew was brought into action and replaced an entire front-left corner on the West car, getting the Evo X back into the race within half an hour and losing just 10 laps, an incredible effort given the extent of damage.
Despite inspired driving by Luff being the fastest car on the track and consistently unlapping themselves, the earlier contact with the concrete had also broken the back of the turbo which developed into a race-ending problem and the car was withdrawn.
TMR Australia will return to Melbourne in readiness for its move into new larger premises, and prepare for its next event, the Lake Mountain Sprint tarmac rally on March 20-21.

03/02/2010

TMR MAINTAINS TARMAC 1-2

Evans and Millar continue top form at Targa Wrest Point.

TMR Australia cars maintain a solid 1-2 in the 2010 Australian Tarmac Championship after last weekend’s Targa Wrest Point, following a stunning duel for the Showroom class win.

Held around Hobart over 200km of competitive Targa stages, TMR Lancer Evolution Xs continued their pace-setting form, with the Yokohama Advan Evo X Club Spec of Dean Evans/Simone Bachmann and the Hyperactive Designs Evo X RS of Scott Millar/Chris Dean fighting for the win in the Showroom class.

After an event-long duel with the TMR-built Evo 9 RS of Tony Warren/Natasha Deniese, Evans won six of the 11 stages but eventually finished second in Showroom by just 20 seconds. “We’re stoked with that,” explained Evans, who was running the SST dual-clutch gearbox. “We drove it as hard as we could, and the Club Spec was faultless. The paddle-shift gearbox may not be the first ’box choice for motorsport, but I just love it! We know there’s a lot more potential in the car, so though we just missed the win, we know there’s more speed to come.” Evans/Bachmann finished 13th outright from the entire field of 150 cars, and maintain their lead in the 2010 Australian Tarmac Championship.

Millar/Dean’s Hyperactive Designs Evo X RS finished a solid 3rd in Showroom (22nd outright), after setting a brace of fast times throughout the weekend and finishing almost six minutes ahead of fourth place, the Queensland team holding second in the championship.

Proving the versatility of the Evo X and TMR’s tuning, the Rallimax Evo X of Max Williams/Bruce Bush finished a strong 10th in Modern, also running the dual-clutch SST gearbox.

TMR’s next outing is in two weekends to defend its back-to-back victories at the Bathurst 12 Hour on Feb 12-14, before heading to round three of the ATC at the Lake Mountain Sprint, Victoria, on March 20-21.

Photos by Joel Strickland

08/12/2009

TMR Bathurst Edition Lancer Evolution

In conjunction with Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited, TMR are now releasing the Bathurst Edition Lancer Evolution. This special vehicle has the TMR engine upgrade which produces 247kW of Power and an eye watering 436Nm of Torque making it the most powerful Evolution Lancer ever sold in Australia!

With the success of the Lancer Evolution at Mount Panorama it was only fitting that a car based on the winning formula of the TMR Lancer Evolution production cars be built in the honor of the 1,2 Victory of the 12hr race. What we learn from our Motorsport Program we incorporate into our road car program and with the Lancer Evolution already being a brilliant car, we made changes in just a few key areas. The TMR Hi-flow exhaust system fitted gives the car a unique and sporty note and with the TMR developed progressive rate springs package and black powder coated wheels, it has the equipment to match.

For futher details in the TMR Bathurst Edition Lancer Evolution please contactyour local Ralliart Dealer. Alternately you can call customer assistance on 1300 13 12 11.

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24/07/2009

TMR - RACING TO VICTORY!

TMR ran Rod Salmon in the TMR Built and owned EVO X, as well as debuting our brand new latest spec EVO X production car for Adelaide’s Steve Glenney. It was the first time Glenney has been in an official national motor race and his first time behind the wheel of a TMR prepared race car in race conditions.

We ran 3 practice sessions on Friday 17th July with both the TMR prepared EVO X’s in the top two positions constantly.

Saturday 18th July saw Steve Glenney qualify 0.9sec in front of Rod Salmon, clearing 2.0 seconds in front of 3rd place.Rod Salmon was a comfortable 1.1sec in front of 3rd place.

For race 1, it was TMR filling the two front positions of the grid.Both cars had a good start and by the second corner Steve Glenney had control of the race leading by a convincing margin for the entire race. Rod Salmon was very comfortable in position 2.

Race 2 saw a similar start with both TMR prepared cars on the front row of the grid, and Steve Glenney again led the entire race taking out another 1st position. Rod Salmon had an altercation with Garry Holt in the BMW 335 during race 2 (for which Holt was penalized 10 points) and finished in 4th position.

Race 3 was a handicapped race with both TMR prepared cars having a 46sec handicap from the first cars off the grid, with only 9 laps to make their way to the pointy end of the field. Steve Glenney made his way through traffic easily finishing only 0.5sec behind the leader taking out 2nd place for the race, with Rod Salmon coming home in 6th position.

The overall round win was taken out by Steve Glenney debuting his TMR prepared EVO X, with 2nd place going to Garry Holt in his BMW 335 followed by Mark King in 3rd place in his EVO X. Rod Salmon just missed out on a podium finish for the day in 4th place.

Overall the two TMR prepared EVO X’s stole the limelight of the day with convincing drives by both Steve Glenney and Rod Salmon backed up by the preparation and organization of the TMR team!

Due to the efforts of TMR and their engineering development program of the EVO X, Mitsubishi on 296 points currently leads the Australian Manufactures Championship by a healthy 38 points.

22/02/2009

TMR Win the WPS Bathurst 12 Hour 2009

The new TMR prepared Evolution X RS of R.Salmon/T. Longhurst/D.White have won the Bathurst 12 Hour 2009. The EVO X won the event by 3secs over the West Surfing Products EVO. 

More to come soon.

04/02/2009

Scott Millar and Chris Dean Win Targa Wrest Point Showroom EVO X.

The new TMR EVO X RS wins showroom Targa Wrest Point last weekend, with driver Scott Millar and Navigator Chris Dean from Queensland. The inaugural event held last weekend proved the perfect rally to test the new TMR EVO X RS, with the car performing well. It is the first podium finish for an Mitsubishi EVO X in Australia. The new Evolution X has had a strong start into Tarmac Rally with future development continuing.

20/01/2009

TMR have launched a new supercharger for the Mitsubishi 380.

The TMR 380's success has paved the way for the supercharger to be fitted in any of the Mitsubishi 380 range as an option. TMR will fit and tune the supercharger for unrivalled performance.

09/12/2008

Its nearly time again for the Bathurst 12 hour.

TMR will be conducting testing at Bathurst in the next coming weekends getting ready for the 12 hour. TMR will have a entry this year, so stay tuned.

15/10/2008

New Targa Wrest Point 09.

Targa Wrest Point will be held on weekend of 31st January & 1st February 2009 using the former Targa Tasmania Southern Loop stages including the legendary Oyster Cove, Longley, Woodbridge and Cygnet with both Woodbridge & Cygnet receiving recent major resurfacing work along with Grass Tree Hill. This event has filled fast, better get your entry in, or you just might miss out! TMR will be down in Hobart for the event with a three cars. Scott Millar and Chris Dean will be after another podium in their EVO X RS. Come down and see the action.

13/10/2008

Mt Buller Sprints

TMR will be attending the annual Mt Buller Sprints with up to four cars. The new EVO X will make its debut with Driver Scott Millar and Navigator Chris Dean. Come up to Mt Buller 1st-3rd of November for all the action. 

13/10/2008

TMR in conjunction with Rai Curry from FABRaiCATIONS and in consultation with CAMS, have developed a new concept in roll cage design that offers increased safety for the vehicle occupants, engineering benefits with improvements to the vehicles centre of gravity, weight distribution and chassis rigidity.  In designing this new concept cage the first priority was the driver and co driver protection particularly in the side door and B Pillar areas. The cage which is made from various wall thickness’ of Chrome Moly aircraft specification tubing has a multiple of side intrusion bars that give increased strength if the car was to be involved in a side impact accident.

The design incorporates a pyramid style node at the centre of the B Pillar which is the widest point of the roll cage. In addition a secondary bar has been added to the roof directly above the driver & co-driver head, again to add further protection for the occupants in a side impact or rollover collision. The main hoop has been moved to the rear of the car by some 150mm allowing the co-driver to be positioned lower and further to the rear of the car which aids lowering the centre of gravity and improves chassis weight distribution.  The structure is connected to the chassis at every possible point adding significant strength to the roll cage structure and to chassis rigidity.

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14/07/2008

The first batch of EVO X.       

The all new EVO X RS has arrived in Australia, with Ralliart chief Alan Heaphy just getting the news, when the cars were not expected for another month, so its all good news. The first 6 cars will all be used as tarmac rally cars with all of them sold.

14/07/2008

TMR has launched a new website. We are looking forward to filling it with plenty of new info and images to browse through. Thanks to Hyperactive Designs Next Generation Multimedia for the new website.

18/07/2010

TMR WINS EASTERN CREEK 6HRA dominant 1-2-4 finish has stamped TMR Performance as the team to beat, and the Evo X as the..

18/07/2010

TMR ON COVER OF TARMAC MAGTMR Performance stars on the cover of the latest Tarmac magazine, issue #8, with a full..

11/05/2010

TMR TOP 10 AT TARGA After a gruelling 1500km and six days, the TMR Performance cars and crew have finished with a..

11/05/2010

TMR WINS AT PHILLIP ISLAND Stuart Kostera racked up another win for TMR Performance at round two of the 2010..

21/04/2010

TMR Performance scored a convincing 1st place at Round 2 of the 2010 Australian Manufacturers Championship for..

14/02/2010

Bathurst 12 Hour 2010 TMR Australia has been cruelly robbed of a potential three-peat victory at the Armor All Bathurst..