Great news the Renault Sport Spider has arrived safely into Australia and the team have been offically accepted as competitors in 2007 Targa Tasmania.

Also on other Targa news there will be for the first time in the history of Australian tarmac rallying, the international tarmac classic Targa Tasmania has introduced a special night stage to the 2007 event which will start from the gates of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens in Hobart. Running up the hill past Government House and finishing at the Hobart Athletics Centre, the new 1.4 kilometre Botanical Gardens Targa Stage is one of the many exciting changes that Event Director Mark Perry has instigated for next year's staging of the tarmac event from April 17 - 22. Commencing at 6.00pm, large flood lights will light the way for an expected field of 250-plus Targa Tasmania vehicles as they make their way up the winding climb of the closed-road stage, which was once the site of Hobart's Historic Hillclimb back in the 1940s and 50s.

Also in other great news Targa Tasmania event organiser Octagon has been granted permission by the West Tamar Council to run a street stage through the historic Tasmanian mining town of Beaconsfield in 2007. For the first time in the fifteen year history of the event the small Northern Tasmanian town, sporting a population of just over 1000 people, will host the newest stage to be added to the 2007 Targa Tasmania course which officially starts from Launceston's Country Club on Tuesday April 17. Targa Tasmania participants will tour past the iconic gold mine on the way to start the stage which will then take in the town's streetscape, which is located 46 kilometres north-west of Launceston. Mayor of the West Tamar Council Barry Easther says the new Beaconsfield Targa Stage is a plus for Tasmania's northern municipality and agrees that it will bring a high concentration of visitors to the small town.