On Tuesday, November 23 Kenya Motor Sports Federation (KMSF) national appeals board convened a meeting at their offices to discuss various appeals brought before them.
The meeting outcome was harsh to some and good to others as various drivers were accused of breaching the competition rules.
The Appeal Board confirmed that Carl Tundo and Tim Jessop had breached article 11.13 of the National Competition Rules.
Also at fault was the crews of Car No. 9 of Jasmeet Chana and Ravi Chana who were found to have breached articles 12.1.1 (a) and (c) of the 2021 FIA International Sporting Code.
The Crews of Car No. 1 of Baldev Chagar and Ravi Soni had breached article 11.11(b) of the National Competition Rules.
“The Appeals Board Decided to disqualify Crews of Car No. 1 of Baldev Chagar / Ravi Soni, Car No. 3 of Carl Tundo / Tim Jessop and Car No. 9 of Jasmeet Chana / Ravi Chana from the results of KCB Nanyuki Rally KNRC 7/2021,” the board noted.
The Appeals Board further confirmed that the Crew of Arrow Racing of Car No. 23 of Aakif Virani / Azhar Bhatti too had breached Section C Appendix 1.1.4 of the National Competition Rules.
The Appeals Board decided to issue a warning to the Competitor Arrow Racing of Aakif Virani and Azhar Bhatti Car No. 23 and a fine of Kshs. 150,000 being applied with suspension of sentence, subject to no further breach of a similar nature for the period to December 2022.
“The National Championship Table and Results of KCB Nanyuki Rally KNRC 7/2021 have been amended accordingly,” the board pointed out.
Baldev, Flash, Jasmeet have their results disqualified from Nanyuki Rally. This means that Virani gets a maiden KNRC win.
Carl Tundo and Tim Jessop, clocked 1:50:52.5 to win the seventh leg of the Kenya National Rally Championships (KNRC) in Nanyuki back in October.
According to the technical team incharge of timing, tracking and running controls of most of the rallys happening in Kenya the system that was used to track the malpractices has been there for a while.
“The system has been in Kenya for the last five years, we brought it throughout club the riff and rally motor sports club in 2016 as at that time we had a lot of the competitors complained that timings were being doctored for personal gain and after that we got the system,” Harry Sagu noted.
The system is based on GPS together with the tag heuer as a tracker is installed in the rally cars and it picks real time as the vehicle moves and relays the time to the system.