Driver: Kevin Fernandes
Co-driver: Devo Jones
Car: TBD
Division: Targa 1
Country: Canada
Cross-Threaded Motorsports takes on Targa Newfoundland
Two long-time friends have teamed up to race the Rock and prove a point about connectivity. Behind the wheel for Cross-Threaded Motorsports will be Kevin Fernandes, Chief Revenue Officer at Dejero, alongside co-driver Devo Jones, a decorated former RCMP officer whose career was built on communications that can’t fail. They are not professional racers. They are making a statement.
They’ve known each other since their university days. Kevin said Targa has long been on their minds.
“Targa Newfoundland had been sitting in the back of my mind for a decade. My friend Devo and I have known each other since university, closer to 30 years now, since we worked together at the campus pub, and cars were always part of what brought us together. Every time we got together, we’d talk about it. We’d seen the highlight videos. We knew it was one of the craziest things you could do with a car. And every time, it stayed on the horizon. Something we’d get to eventually.”
A serious health scare and major surgery prompted Kevin to make it real. “I sat Devo down and told him: we’re modifying my car, we’re doing Targa Newfoundland, and we’re putting Dejero technology in the car too. No more someday.”
Dejero, the global leader in intelligent connectivity for broadcasters, public safety agencies, and mission-critical operations, entered a landmark partnership with Targa Newfoundland as the event’s official connectivity partners for 2026. Together, they will do what no one has done in the rally’s 24-year history: keep every stage of North America’s only tarmac rally connected and stream it live, free, to the world.
“We chose Targa Newfoundland because it’s the hardest possible test. Two thousand kilometres of remote terrain, six days of rallying, zero tolerance for failure,” said Kevin Fernandes. “If it works here, and it will, it works anywhere. That’s not a marketing claim. It’s a proof point.”
Kevin wrote about his motivation to enter Targa in this piece: Hold My Beer: My Road to Targa Newfoundland – Targa Newfoundland
About Dejero
Driven by its vision of reliable connectivity anywhere, Dejero delivers real-time video and networking solutions that provide resilient, uninterrupted internet connectivity for critical communications. Powered by intelligent network aggregation technology, Dejero combines diverse telecommunication networks including 4G/5G cellular, GEO/MEO/LEO satellite, and fixed broadband, to create a software-defined ‘network of networks’ managed in the cloud. The result is enhanced reliability, expanded coverage, and greater bandwidth for its global customers. Founded in 2008, privately-held Dejero is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Learn more at www.dejero.com.