A report into three deaths during the Targa Tasmania rally earlier this year makes recommendations including dramatic changes to the route and warns the cost of the race will rise significantly.
A report into three deaths during the Targa Tasmania rally earlier this year makes recommendations including dramatic changes to the route and warns the cost of the race will rise significantly.
Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 00.16 EDT
Motorsports Australia will establish a special investigatory tribunal to examine two fatal crashes in which three people died at Targa Tasmania at the weekend.
Veteran competitor Shane Navin, 68, was killed after his 1979 Mazda RX-7 rolled on Friday morning on the Lyell Highway in Tasmania’s remote west. Emergency crews were unable to revive Navin. His co-driver, Glenn Evans, escaped uninjured.
The next day, Leigh Munday, 68, from Hobart, and Queenslander Dennis Neagle, 59, died after their 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS hit a tree at Wattle Grove Road, near Cygnet, in southern Tasmania.
Targa is an annual multi-day rally held in Tasmania, where competitors race across 2,000km of public roadways. This year’s event began on 19 April.
Tributes flooded in for the men who died at the Targa Tasmania motorsport race
Shane Navin, from NSW, died when his car rolled on the Lyell Highway on Friday
Leigh Mundy, from TAS, and QLD co-driver Dennis Neagle were killed Saturday
Their 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS hit a tree in Cygnet, in the south of Tasmania
Mr Mundy walked his daughter down the aisle only months before tragic death