This year’s Targa Adelaide tarmac rally has been cancelled, as the event organisers look at their options for future events in and around Adelaide.
Targa Australia director, Mark Perry, said that the decision hadn’t been taken lightly.
“We are hopeful that we can re-invigorate the event for 2015, as without the roads in the Adelaide Hills, there are simply not enough roads of suitable length and challenge outside of this region to run an event worthy of the Targa name,” Perry said in an email to Targa competitors.
“We haven''t taken this decision lightly, but combined with consistently very low entry numbers as competitors continue to choose other Targa events, the following requirements in the council’s events policy has made the event unviable at this point in time;
• A minimum six months’ approval process that includes two months of direct consultation with affected residents
• A minimum of 80% resident approval on closed road sections. 100% approval preferred
• Approval will only be given to each piece of road once in a 15 month period - therefore every two years in our case
“Point three means that signature stages will be lost every second year and there is simply not enough suitable road to run two completely different courses. Not even Tasmania can provide two distinct and different courses,” Perry said.
The first round of the 2014/2015 Australian Targa Championship will now be Victoria's Targa High Country, in November, which this year will be increased to a three-day event for the first time.
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