20.01.2012 - Melbourne, Australia

Ric Shaw Racing - Going the distance: Round 1

January 2012 – After a long sponsorship partnership between local Sennheiser distributor Syntec international & Ric Shaw racing spanning several years, the latest Ric Shaw car to enter the arena is a Mitsubishi Evo X RS built by Ralliart. The Evo that has been peppered by “Ric Shaw Racing”, has taken out victory by winning round 1 of the Australian Tarmac Championship “4 WD Showroom Class” at Targa High Country in Melbourne Australia.

 

Australian Tarmac Championship Stage 1: Targa High Country

Targa High Country is an Australian & International event attracting former world champions and motorsport competitors from both Australia and overseas, a tarmac rally with competitive stages on closed roads for the best touring and competition cars in the world. The event has eight stages each day heading north to Wangaratta in Melbourne via Whitfield, and Eildon via Jamieson. Both days will end with a 20 kilometer stage to the summit of Mt Buller, where the event will be based each night. However, Targa High Country is not a slow motion re-run; it is a genuine "red-blooded" motorsport competition.

Australian Tarmac Championship Stage 2 & 3: Tasmania

The final two stages are held in Tasmania; stage two being the Targa Wrest Point, again being a two day event based out of Hobart each day and the final stage being the Targa Tasmania, being held across Tasmania over several days.
 

The Car:

The latest Ric Shaw car is an Evo X RS by Ralliart and peppered by “Ric Shaw Racing”.

It’s a real light weight turbo 4 WD rocket says Ric Shaw. Although having a standard engine I have re-tuned it to my requirements for optimum performance, additionally I have modified its suspension, fitted race compound tyres and better breaks for enhanced performance.

The Evo is very different to drive in the Targa conditions compared to our RX7, it’s very fast mid corner and quick out of corners. We will only get faster in the Evo with more time at the wheel.
 

The Team: Ric Shaw – James Parish (left)

Since the early 80’s Ric Shaw and racing partner James Parish have been involved in motor racing. Ric owns and operates a specialist motor vehicle tuning, service and enhancement business in Sydney’s inner west building and running his own race vehicles. In the prior three years alone he has achieved:

• 1st outright in Wake Field 300 Enduro 2011
• 3rd in class and category in Targa Tasmania 2011
• 3rd in Wakefield 300 2010
• Competed in Aston Martin Nurburgring 2010
• Competed in 2010 Australian Manufacturers Championship
• 1st in class and category in Targa Tasmania Rally 07,08,09.

James Parish has been involved in Motor Racing in many different fields ranging from Pit Crewing to Team Manager; for the last 12 years he has also indulged his love of cars by being an Assistant Sales Manager at McIntosh of Mosman, a Mercedes –Benz Dealership in Sydney.

In the prior three years alone he has achieved:

• 2009 winning Class and Category in Early Modern in Targa Tasmania.
• 2011 winning Class and Category and 3rd in Early modern Targa Tasmania.
• 2011 winning TMR 4wd Showroom High Country Mount Buller.

The Sennheiser Group, with its headquarters in Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of microphones, headphones and wireless transmission systems. The family-owned company, which was established in 1945, recorded sales of around €468 million in 2010. Sennheiser employs more than 2,100 people worldwide, and has manufacturing plants in Germany, Ireland and the USA. The company is represented worldwide by subsidiaries in France, Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark (Nordic), Russia, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, Japan, China, Canada, Mexico and the USA, as well as by long-term trading partners in many other countries. Also part of the Sennheiser Group are Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin (studio microphones and monitor loudspeakers), and the joint venture Sennheiser Communications A/S (headsets for PCs, offices and call centres).
 
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