Tony Quinn still leads the CAMS Australian Targa Championship after finishing third in the Targa Wrest Point in Hobart.
Driving the Darrell Lea 2011 Nissan GT-R with co-driver Naomi Tillett, Quinn finished 1:06 seconds behind Tasmanian Jason White, and 42 seconds clear of Matt Close in the Modern class.
Although pleased with a podium finish Tony says they...
JUNE 10, 2012. Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett put the welfare of another competing crew before their chances of victory in Targa Rotorua today.
The Queensland-based Scot and his Adelaide co-driver stopped to assist Stuart and Bret Scoular after their Subaru Impreza WRX Sti crashed heavily on the first stage of Day 2. Tony and Naomi were following a short distance behind the Scoulars, and...
APRIL 22, 2012. Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett have finished a fighting second overall in the year’s biggest tarmac rally, Targa Tasmania.
Despite giving their all during the five-day, 590km event, the defending champions in their V.I.P. Petfoods Nissan GT-R R35 finished two minutes and 27 seconds behind Jason and John White in their Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo Stradale.
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MARCH 17, 2012. Mechanical failure has forced Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett out of Targa Bambina early on the first day of competition.
Tony and Naomi were on the 11.1km second competitive stage of the two-day New Zealand tarmac rally when their V.I.P. Petfoods Nissan GT-R R35 broke its front differential.
“We were a couple of kays from the end of the stage when we heard...
JANUARY 29, 2012. Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett's Targa Wrest Point challenge has ended on the second competitive stage, after a braking problem put their V.I.P. Petfoods Nissan GT-R R35 off the road.
The 390kW all-wheel drive supercar’s ABS partially failed on the 22.9km Airwalk 1 stage, causing a front brake to lock on the approach to a corner.
"The sensor on the front left...
NOVEMBER 6, 2011. Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett have made a promising start in the 2011-12 Australian Targa Championship with second place in Targa High Country.
Driving V.I.P. Petfoods’ new 2011-spec Nissan GT-R R35, Tony and Naomi finished 10 seconds behind Jason and John White in their Lamborghini Gallardo Super Trofeo Stadale after two days and 188km of tarmac rallying in...
OCTOBER 29, 2011. Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillett are Targa New Zealand’s winningest team after posting their third straight victory in this year’s event.
It was also Tony’s fourth Targa New Zealand win all-up (the other was in 2003, with Keith Wenn co-driving), and gave V.I.P. Petfoods' tarmac rally team the prized trans-Tasman double, having won Australia’s premier tarmac rally,...
JUNE 4, 2011. Tony Quinn’s 2011 Targa Rotorua lasted just a few seconds when his VIP Petfoods Nissan GT-R ground to a halt less than a hundred metres into the first competitive stage.
Tony was one of the fancied runners for the two-day tarmac rally, which is held on closed public roads around the geothermal North Island town, having won in 2009 and finished second in 2010. But...
APRIL 10, 2011. V.I.P. Petfoods owner Tony Quinn and navigator Naomi Tillet have won
Australia's premier tarmac rally, Targa Tasmaniia - for the second time! They first won Targa Tasmania in 2009, and placed third
last year.
Tony and Naomi, in a Nissan GT-R, dominated the gruelling six-day,
500km event, which is held on closed public roads around the
Australian island...