Targa Bambina’s coming to a TV screen near you

11 July, 2015

By now you should all have read the report on this year’s Targa Bambina in the current edition of New Zealand Classic Car magazine — but now you’ve got a chance to check out all the action for yourself as Tales of Targa will be televised on TV3 on Sunday, July 12 at 2.15pm.

If you’ll be out classic racing or rallying on Sunday, don’t forget to set your PVR so you don’t miss the action. In fact, it’d be best to set your recorder to start at 2pm — then you can catch TV3’s coverage of this year’s Otago Classic Rally right before the start of Tales from Targa.  

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Motorsport Flashback: The Temple of Speed

On the banks of the Lambro River is Europe’s largest enclosed park, all 688 hectares of it. Parco di Monza was commissioned by the son of an Austrian empress as a summer retreat in the late 1700s, but it would be for another century and a half before ground was broken on what would become Italy’s famous theatre of speed at the park’s northern end. One hundred years ago on 3 September, less than four months after work started, Autodromo Nazionale di Monza was officially opened and the first race – appropriately, the Italian Grand Prix – was run a week later. Monza was the world’s third purpose-built circuit, after Brooklands and Indianapolis, and was the result of the Milan Automobile Club financing the 3500 workers who created the super-quick, and consequently dangerous, track that made the word ‘Monza’ synonymous for speed.