Team: Hume Media - Targa Newfoundland

Driver: John Hume

Co-driver: Katelyn Hume

Car: 2021 MINI GP

Division: Grand Touring

Country: Canada

Multiple Targa winner returns for 2026

*John Hume and his granddaughter Katelyn will share driving duties in this 2021 MINI GP. (Photo: Ralph Saulnier)*

Three-time winners of the Grand Touring division of Targa Newfoundland, Team Hume Media from Ontario return to the Rock this fall for another run and they are feeling competitive again this year.

Team owner John Hume, a long-time supporter and sponsor of the rally, first competed in Targa 17 years ago. He’s run it 12 times since and placed on the podium seven times in two divisions. He and co-drivers Craig MacMullen and Christina Kroner won the Grand Touring Division three times, in 2012, 2014 and 2017. In 2023, he shared his 2013 MINI GP with pro racer Randy Pobst and co-driver MacMullen, where they won again in Targa 1.

*John Hume’ and granddaughter Katelyn ran Tour together last year. Team Hume has won GT three times and Targa 1 once over 16 years. (Photo: Ralph Saulnier)*

“I’ve been running Targa since 2009 in Grand Touring and Targa 1,” said Hume. “This island is so beautiful, I ended up building a house in Brigus on the ocean.”

Last fall, Hume and his granddaughter, Katelyn, ran in Targa Tour, sharing driving and co-driving duties in the 2021 MINI GP, which is #2072 of 3,000 built in 2020. This year they’re back in competitive mode.

*John and co-driver Craig MacMullen celebrating in 2014. (Photo: Ralph Saulnier)*

*Christina Kroner and John Hume on the way to victory in GT in 2017. (Photo: Ralph Saulnier)*

John is the president of Hume Media Inc., which he founded in 1988. Starting out as a small two-person copy shop, it has grown to become a full-service print and digital media company. Hume Media has documented the Targa experience many times with the most recent video, Return to Targa Newfoundland 2023.