Hot off the press From team Hume

Wednesday August 3rd

Hello From Team Hume

Here we go for the 8th time – preparing to race Targa Newfoundland. You would think we be bored with this event by now! Absolutely not! We are racing the same four cars again this year.

There are more changes in this year’s roster. There are two new to racing faces this year.  Taking charge of car #1334 (the 2006 MINI GP) are Andrew & Ruth Thorogood. They plan to test the mettle of their marriage in September! Car #1333 (the 2013 MINI GP), will be driven by John Hume Sr. and Co-piloted by Christina Kroner. Car #333 will be Co-Driven & Co-Piloted by both Craig MacMullen &  Ron Bartleet

Yes, these two are also sharing both roles.

Centennial College has decided they want to give us four service crew this year. So we are in really good hands as far as mechanics go! And three lucky Centennial students get a real life experience in the pit lane for a week. We are eternally grateful for that effort from the College.

Lastly, we have a new support crew/photographer joining our team this year, Ralph Saulnier. He is no stranger to Targa, having been the “Official” photographer to the event these past many years.

With the required paperwork mostly done now, all hands signed up, we are anticipating our first practice track day at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (Mosport) April 24th.

Toronto event: Hume’s rally team will be hosting the Targa Booth at Motorama 2016 at the International Centre (south east corner of Airport and Derry Roads) Saturday March 12th. Pop in and pay us a visit!

All for now,

John Hume.

Final Results are in!

Hi All,
Final results are in !
JohnJ r Justin Crant 2004 M3 car #9 – 2nd place Modern
Craig MacMullen Nicole Troster 2013 MINI GP – 2nd place GTE
Norm Haas Christina Kroner 2006 MINI GP car #1334 – 3rd place GTE
John Hume Sr Ron Bartleet 2002 M3 car #333 – 5th place Modern

Last day from the Rock

We had reasonable weather today just a tich of drizzle and generally overcast all day. Temp was pleasant, not too cold. High drama for John Jr & Justin in #9, the blue M3 . Their car died and would not restart first thing. They banged a few places on the dash and it finally got going. Then on the transit to the first race it quit again. Garret and Alex to the rescue. Turns out the kill switch solenoid was bad and cut off all power to everything. Garrett to the rescue! He managed to salvage a piece off the mini van he was driving and put it into the M3. Just in time for the boys to make the first race.
So, first race fast and flowing, wand what did Norm and Christina manage to do? Hit a pot hole and get a blow out! Well, that costs them the first three races. They had to wait for the in and out of races one and two to rejoin the group then just missed the third race.
Then… The brakes on my car in the first race decided to develop a severe shimmy. This was a very fast leg with lots of heavy braking required. It was very scary to be braking hard and having the steering wheel vibrate violently in my hands each time.
After the in and out of the first two races. Garrett checked over the car. He discovered a hot spot or two on one front rotor. With his instruction I was able to wear it off on the transit to race number three. At least well enough to finish the day. Shimmy was still there but manageable.
The rest of the day went were well for the team. We have short. Fast town races. Boy were they fun to run Cupids and Brigus. I even managed to run Cupids in less time than required so zeroed it twice!
End of day and end of week provisionally (as final results are not official until this PM) John Jr and Justin in the 2004 M3 placed 2nd in Modern.
Craig and Nicole in the 2013 MINI GP placed 2nd by only about two seconds
And Norm and Christina in the 2006 MINI GP placed 3rd! Remarkable considering they missed three races!
There was one roll over unfortunately. The  old 1965 Ford Mustang took a turn in Whitburn too fast caught the corner and rolled over. Driver and Co-pilot were shaken but not too stirred.
All week a total of eleven  cars suffered broken parts or crashes and all but two got back into the fray. Without Garrett and Alex on our team we would not even have come close to being able to complete this rally this year. And one or two other teams same thing!
Thank you Centennial College from the bottom of my heart.
We will send a post blog once official results are in end of day today.
Thanks all,
John Hume.