Team Mitsubishi Ralliart Australia

Tarmac Rally

TMR MAINTAINS TARMAC 1 - 2

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

Targa Wrest Point 2010

19/01/2010

TMR looking for back to back wins at Targa Wrest Point

With less than ten days till the annual Targa Wrest Point, TMR is in full swing with preparation of the Mitsubishi Evolution X's for the event. Defending champions Scott Millar and Chris Dean will be back to try and secure back to back wins for TMR. While Dean Evans will also be attending with the TMR Club Spec 270kw, with both cars entered in the showroom class. Keep check for more details on the event.

TMR Mt Buller Sprints 2009

19/01/2010

TMR take 1-2 at Mt Buller Sprints December 2009

Mitsubishi Evolutions prepared by TMR Australia have taken out first and second place at last weekend’s 2009 Pacific Hire Mt Buller Sprint.

Held in the Victorian ski town, the Mt Buller Sprint is Australia’s premier tarmac hillclimb event and attracted almost 80 entries from modern to classic.
The event was also the opening round of the 2010 Australian tarmac championship.Over 10 stages of the 16km course, the TMR Australia built Evo X Club Spec of Dean Evans and Simone Bachmann claimed victory in the Showroom class and an impressive 10th outright, while Scott Millar and Chris Dean's Hyperactive Designs Evo X RS finished second in Showroom, completing a TMR 1-2.

Evans’ Club Spec ran the dual-clutch SST gearbox with paddle-shift and ran a best time of 8:56, while Millar's RS manual’s best time of 9:16 kept him in a solid second place.“It took a little time to reprogram my brain and fingers, but I really learned to love the SST gearbox,” explained Evans. “With launch control it’s a rocket off the line every time, and given the immediate shifts, we’re picking up time over the manual with every shift – and at Mt Buller there must be more than 100 of those.”
The Club Spec is an entry level motorsport package for the Evo X that is designed and developed by TMR Australia. The package includes a bolt-in roll-cage, competition springs, TMR muffler and ECU retune from 217kW to 270kW.

Evans and Millar firmed part of a six-car TMR team, competing for honours in different categories.One unfortunate casualty of the event was Glyn Crimp’s West Evo X that crashed on the final day and rolled down a steep embankment. However its structural integrity and TMR roll cage protected the crew and allowed them to walk away unharmed. TMR’s next major event will be the Bathurst 12 Hour in January, where it will attempt to defend its 2007/2009 wins.

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TMR at Targa Wrest Point 09

19/01/2009

TMR EVO X wins showroom Targa Wrest Point 09

TMR Mitsubishi has had a successful Targa Wrest Point 09.  TMR had two cars running with Scott Millar and Chris Dean taking out the victory in Showroom class in their TMR Prepared EVO X RS. Rod Salmon and Samantha Stevens had a very strong finish in their EVO 9 RS ending up 9th outright. Based out of Hobart in Tasmania the event had dry weather and was a joy for all competitors. TMR look forward to coming back in 2010 to defend the title in showroom.

Mt Buller Sprints 08 Shakedown in the EVO X

13/10/2008

TMR Australia recently attended the Mt Buller Sprints on the 1-3 Nov 2008. TMR was supporting the four cars of Scott Millar, John Pollard both Evolution X RS's and the two Evolution 9 RS's of Michael Minshall and Rod Salmon. With the EVO X of Scott Millar and Chris Dean had the cars first event since changing from their Evolution 9 Club Spec. With both the Evolution X's in testing mode we had a positive out come with further development on the Evolution X in the next coming months.
The EVO 9 RS of Rod Salmon and Sam Stevens posting great times up the grueling
17klm run.

      
View the Mt Buller Sprints in the Tarmac Gallery

Targa Tasmania 2008

24/06/2008

EVO9 takes line honours 2008 Targa Tasmania.
The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO9 driven by Steve Glenny and co-driver Bernie Webb dominated the 5 day event from the 1st stage to the last stage, winning by a large margin of 1min 31sec.

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO9’s finished with 3 placings in the outright top 10:

  • 1st  (Steve Glenney & Bernie Webb),
  • 4th (Jaime Vandenberg & Simon Vandenberg) and
  • 9th (Tony Quinn &  Keith Wenn)
  • 1st 4wd showroom with Tony Warren & 2nd Scott Millar & Chris Dean
  • with 6 Mitsubishi Lancer EVO9’s finishing in the top 20 outright positions


TMR is proud to have been involved with all the top placing EVO’s, offering technical support, supply of pre-prepared components and on-event support and would like to congratulate all Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution participants.
With particular thanks and congratulations to our clients:

Scott Millar- 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 GSR (Club Spec)
Alan Evans - 2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 GSR
Barrie Smith - 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo8 MR
Jamie Vandenberg - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Jeff Keyte - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Kim Ledger - 2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Malcolm Klopp - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 GSR
Mark Connolly - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Matt Heskin - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Max Williams - 2007 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Michael Minshall - 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 GSR
Rod Salmon - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Ross Dunkerton - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Simon Jansen - 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo8 RS
Steve Hoinville - 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Tony Quinn - 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS
Tony Warren - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9 RS

Targa Tasmania Gallery Images

2005-07 Tarmac Rally

25/04/2007

2005

Ross Dunkerton winning the Targa West 2005 Tarmac Rally in an Evo 8 which was prepared and owned by TMR. In 2006 TMR built an Evo 9 for Ross to compete in the same event which he also won. Dunkerton went on to win the Novice rally section at the 2007 Targa Tasmania in the same Evo 9. This was a close-fought-out result with local Tarmac pecialist Jamie Vandenberg who was also in an Evo 9.

2006

Team Mitsubishi Ralliart first entered into selected tarmac rally events in 2006 with a Tarmac spec Evo9 driven by Warwick Rooklyn and co-driven by Linda Long.  The first event was Targa Tasmania where at one point Team Mitsubishi Ralliart was leading the event however finishing in 6th outright position (even after a 4 minute tyre replacement penalty) behind some very expensive Porsches and Lamborghini’s.
Team Mitsubishi Ralliart also participated in Rally of Burnie, Porsche Mt Buller Sprint, and Targa West Rally in Perth which we withdrew from with respect for the tragic death of Peter Brock.

2007

Ross Dunkerton winning the Targa West 2005 Tarmac Rally in an Evo 8 which was prepared and owned by TMR. In 2006 TMR built an Evo 9 for Ross to compete in the same event which he also won. Dunkerton went on to win the Novice rally section at the 2007 Targa Tasmania in the same Evo 9. This was a close-fought-out result with local Tarmac specialist Jamie Vandenberg who was also in an Evo 9. In 2007 Team Mitsubishi Ralliart turned their attention to their EVO9 customer base that participated in various Tarmac Rallies, offering car builds, event support, servicing and repairs.
Projects included building a Tarmac-spec Evo9 for Tony Quinn of VIP Pet Foods who participated in Rally Burnie finishing with a credible 3rd outright placing. The same vehicle was prepared for his son Klark for the 2007 Mt Buller Sprint who finished 2nd outright.