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A long life but still sad.

 

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Ah that is sad, a lovely gentleman...

 

https://www.tradinggarage.com/products/1990-fsm-niki-yamaha-r1-engine

This looks like it would be some fun!!

 

Been for sale for at least a birthday and a half.
I remember putting it up in Miscellaneous a loong time ago....and yep looks like gangs of fun,bloody gearstick is bigger than the car.

 

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Evan Farrall:

Formula Ford:

Fa Class winner & outright 3rd

Winton Historics May 24 & 25 2025

 

My Morgan sounds a bit like that.

 

Now that is one weird sounding Ford.

 

A real 206SP would never catch a GT40 in period. Just like all the e-types they have which beat 250GTO's.

Goodwood is sadly just a Hollywood show.

 

So bitter

 

Or perhaps the GT40 is genuine and because the 206 isn't,the 206 driver is caning the coit out of it and the GT40 driver isn't.

 

Looked like a real one to me. Just an inspired drive and possibly not top-class opposition.

 

I'd still go and watch

 

No matter how much you cane it, 200hp isn't going to overtake 450hp. It's hotrod racing, not historic.

 

Ok thanx.

 

No surprises there, really.
Driver error and speed blamed for spate of Tasmanian rally deaths

 

Yep saw that,still has me buggered how Mundy f**ked up though.
Of all of those blokes he should have known the road and his brand of car better than any.

 

The Porsche should not have been allowed entry to a (relatively rough surface) tarmac event; seems unfair to the guy who ended up in the creek though - if the following car had responded to the SOS page, he may have been saved.

 

I believe the SOS was not received by Control due to the terrain. Passing crews had a brief SOS signal, but could see no accident due to the car being down an embankment in the creek.

 

Mundy had vast experience of just about every type of hot 911 version produced,either by the factory or otherwise.
From Motorsport Memorial:

Mundy also competed in a number of Australian Porsche Cup races, and some Tasmanian circuit racing. After time away from the sport due to ill health he returned to Targa competition for the first time in over twenty years in 2021, having completed the Targa High Country and the Adelaide Rally co-driven by Neagle, prior to entering Targa Tasmania.

 

Dennis Neagle, who was navigating for Mundy, was a friend of mine, and had navigated for me previously in Targa. A couple of days before the accident Dennis posted a video on FB of a near miss they had, I forget whether it was the Mt Roland or Cethana stage (same road). In that incident the car nearly speared off the road when it reacted badly to a bump. For whatever reason, he then pulled that clip down. He had commented to me that the car was "badly setup and not well sorted"

What is not really mentioned in the coroners report is that jump on Cygnet always has been a magnet for photos and videos over the years, and they have featured in various publicity shots and promos etc. Every competitor knows they will get shots there. Some, like me, chose to back off appropriately, but others go for the glory shot. So I suspect that may have been a factor. I think the organisers (and competitors) emphasis on those jumps has to take some blame, the tarmac rally cars are just not set up for that. There have been similar near misses in the past, I think from memory someone in a porsche blew a tyre on a high speed jump on Rianna and ended up rolling into a field

I find it staggering that Mundy was competing, after having just been released from hospital where he was treated as an inpatient for a psychiatric illness.

All the deaths were tragic. I still think of Dennis often, he was a quiet, caring man who was completely devoted to his partner