Put brakes on modern motorsport

AS a long-time car nut, can I just draw the public and the Targa organisers’ attention to the Twin-Cam GT Elephant in the room?

The word ‘modern’! Modern cars are too fast and their safety features lull everyone into a false sense of security – and competitiveness. The people who own and enter old/classic cars usually work on them or with the specialists who do.

They wouldn’t even rev the engine too hard because they will have to find the money for the repairs to their own handiwork.

The modern contingent are cash-rich and care-poor.

If they need a new carbon fibre LSD they can fly one in from Stuttgart. They are young and rich and entrepreneurially competitive in everything they do, and it infects the people who are here because of their interest in cars/scenery and hospitality.

They have shedloads of money and if we have to have a state based on flensing the over affluent, run a series at Symmons and Baskerville.

Can we can have a Targa for people who like cars and like Tassie, and not their own egos?

Colin Hutchison

New Norfolk