Unsurprisingly Subaru Canada to compete in seventh Targa Newfoundland

The Targa Newfoundland is in its seventh year and Subaru Canada’s factory team will be campaigning in a WRX STI. An automotive journalist from Montreal, Marc Lachapelle, will be piloting the hot hatchback. His co-driver will be Keith Townsend of Toronto.

Both men are Targa veterans. Lachapelle has competed in the Targa Newfoundland twice, both times placing first in his class. In the 2008 race he was sixth overall. Townsend will also be competing for a third time, having already won his class and the modern division. He has piloted a stock WRX STI to third overall in the 2006 Targa Newfoundland.

President and CEO of Subaru Canada, Katsuhiro Yokoyama, called the race “an outstanding showcase for the power and durability of our high-performance Impreza WRX STI which was bred in the punishing events of the World Rally Championship.”

The Targa Newfoundland will be held from September 13th to the 18th. It is the only Targa type event in North America and one of only three in the world. Staged on 2,200 kms of central and eastern Newfoundland, the race includes 400kms of stages on paved roads which will be closed to the public.

[Source Subaru Canada via CNW]