Editing Targa timing (section)

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'''Targa timing''' (not to be confused with [[target timing]]) is a system of timing used in car [[rallying]].<ref name="Lane 2011 p. 522">{{cite book | last=Lane | first=K. | title=Automotive A-Z: Lane's complete dictionary of automotive terms | publisher=Veloce Publishing Limited | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-84584-419-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmDAx9JIzAIC&pg=PT522 | access-date=15 January 2021 | page=522}}</ref> It was invented by John Brown, the [[Clerk of the Course (rallying)|Clerk of the Course]] for the [[Targa Rusticana]], a road rally (named after the Italian [[Targa Florio]]) organised in Wales in the 1960s by [[Oxford University]] Motor Drivers Club. Targa timing became the standard timing method used on rallies for almost 20 years following its invention in 1963. However, it was eventually banned as it became widely abused—the standard method by which organisers could set very high average speeds in a manner that left no permanent record.