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Mazda Motorsport celebrated another Showroom win at Targa Tasmania in 2012 and its first Australian Targa Championship victory after Simon Evans Mazda3 MPS crossed the finish line in Hobart more than 26 minutes ahead of his nearest rival.

On his way to securing Mazda Motorsport’s fifth consecutive Showroom title, Evans was the fastest showroom car on all but one of the final stages as he continued to extend his lead over the competition.

This latest victory, along with recent wins at Targa High Country and Targa Wrest Point, means that Evans and co-driver wife Sue have been crowned showroom category winners in the Australian Targa Championship.

After a tough week’s racing, Evans was delighted to have won both titles.

“The week has gone well for us and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome. Both this Targa Tasmania showroom title and the Championship win are reward for the hard work put in by the whole Mazda Motorsport team.”

The Mazda3 MPS also showed in the process that it is more than a match for more powerful and more expensive machinery by finishing an impressive sixth outright and beating the entire field in the second last stage.

And while Mazda Motorsport is understandably delighted with this result, it is also a case of what might have been with the RX-8 SP of Brendan Reeves dropping out due to an electrical failure on the final day while running third outright and with the Hobart podium in sight.

Reeves, partnered by sister Rhianon Smyth, had driven an extremely good rally which had their RX-8 SP as the fastest 2WD car in the event and pressuring genuine supercars such as the Lamborghini Gallardo of Targa winner Jason White and the Nissan GTR of runner-up Tony Quinn in the previous days.

The RX-8 SP of Matt Rickards with co-driver Bernie Webb continued its recovery from time lost in a crash earlier in the rally week and finished in a credible 21st on Modern, moving almost 20 spots up the leaderboard in the last few days of the rally.

Andrew Maclean, with the assistance of co-driver Rod Black, successfully piloted the Mazda2 into fifth in the Showroom category in his first ever Targa Tasmania finishing ahead of a pair of MX-5s in the process.

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