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Targa West Rally

In 2021 the highly anticipated Targa West Rally commenced for the 17th time in Perth, WA. For those that don’t know, the Targa West Rally is a four-day tarmac racing event which happens every year.

TracPlus was proud to sponsor the ‘Green Machine’ team who entered with an electric Tesla Model 3.

AT A GLANCE

Here’s all the good stuff

THE CHALLENGE

Needed accurate real-time tracking to ensure optimum pit stops

The Green Team identified before racing that their Tesla's horsepower began to drop when it's battery went below 80%. In response to this they planned to use mobile charging units to keep the battery topped up over 80%. This demanded accurate, high ping tracking

ABOUT TARGA WEST RALLY

Founded: 2005

Location: Perth, Western Australia

INTRODUCTION

The Targa West Rally has been an ongoing event since 2005. 2021 was the first year an electric vehicle had been entered. With their Model 3 Tesla, 'The Green Team' intended to make history.

The Tesla not only came 1st on the four day event in its class (165 kmh speed limited class) - but on the final day, the Tesla blitzed every other car in all classes by coming 1st in each and every stage of the Perth stages (beating a Mitsubishi, Ford, Honda, and even a Porsche 911).

How is this possible, you ask? … Well, we’re proud to say it came down to the help of TracPlus and the RockAIR device to help coordinate their team's Tesla race car locations & optimise it's charging assets.

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Other trackers would have been too slow and inefficient, but RockAIR's 15 second reporting time intervals gave us the advantage we needed.

Rally Tracking Coordinator, Team Green Machine Peter McMullen
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BIG PICTURE

How the Green Team used TracPlus

The team had the one rally car and four roaming charging trucks with high speed DC chargers (that moved stage to stage to charge the rally car), making a team of 15 to ensure they won.

This image to the left shows all the assets running around to pre-locate at each stage in order to top up the rally car.

The team ran calculations that showed the Tesla Model 3 lost horsepower when it’s state of charge falls below 80%. To prevent this, the crew made a deliberate effort to use mobile DC chargers to top up the Tesla in quick ten minute bursts to keep the charge above 80%.

Utilising the technology of TracPlus and the RockAIR device, the crew could reliably track the car in real-time and ensure their charging pit stops were as speedy and efficient as possible.

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