The list released on Friday also boasts over 30 locals in the support categories led by R5 speedsters Carl 'Flash' Tundo, Onkar Rai, Tejveer Rai, and Karan Patel.
Chager's Mitsubishi EvoX compliant as WRC Safari countdown begins
Kenya Champion Baldev Singh Chager is overly excited with the manner in which his Kabras Sugar Racing stable-mates have fine-tuned his Mitsubishi Evolution X contraption.
The 'Flying Singh' is also glad that his team mechanics have gotten everything pointing in the right direction with just amonth left before the start of the WRC Safari Rally.
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Chager will be returning to the fabled Safari incidentally on his eighth year under Kabras Sugar Racing livery and over two decades since his last WRC in 1998.
Bengi will drive a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X (R4) and will be navigated by Peter Mutuma.
On Thursday,Hamilton said he will support this weekend's social media boycott and called on the social media companies to do more to eradicate online hate.
The Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has offered a Sh100 million sponsorship towards the 2021 World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally that is meant to take place in Naivasha on June 24th to 27th.
In the new set up,Sprint Qualifying will be a race run over 100km and lasting around 25-30 minutes. This will provide a short and fast-paced racing spectacle with drivers racing flat-out from start to finish without the need to pit.
After dominating the African Rally Championships (ARC) Equator Rally over the weekend in Naivasha, Carl 'Flash' Tundo has now shifted his focus to the main event which is the WRC Safari Rally in June at the same venue.
After a high intensity Day One of the ARC Equator Rally held in Naivasha yesterday, Kenya’s Carl ‘Flash’ Tundo of the Minti Motorsport topped the charts after posing an outstanding performance in the competition opener.
The main event was on Friday morning preceded with a 5.40km Qualifying Stage and Shakedown at Loldia.
Daren and his partner have high hopes of using their new Subaru Impreza N10 on the WRC Safari Rally.
They are optimistic that the car will meet requisite FIA requirements well in time for the Safari which returns to the global stage from June 24-27.
Kenyan champion Baldev Singh Chager, rising star Karan Patel, five times ARC Safari Rally winner Carl "Flash" Tundo and South African crew of Guy Botterill/Simon Vacy-Lyle are some of the big names to watch in the event which will traverse Lake Naivasha and Soysambu Conservancy.
Kenyan Rally giant Baldev Chager is hopeful to put up a show and an outstanding performance at the WRC Safari Rally Championship in Hell's Gate Naivasha from 16th to 19th July as he banks on having a home advantage against other foreign drivers in the race.
The WRC Safari Rally that is to be held in Hells Gate Naivasha on June 24th will comprise of 90 vantage media points that will see all action in each and every scenic route captured for all rally fans across the globe to follow from their homes.
Safari CEO Phineas Kimathi remarked that adherence to the Ministry of Health protocols and those set by Appendix S (FIA's COVID-19 Code of Conduct) will mitigate the risks of transmissions that may arise during the staging of the ARC Equator Rally in late April and WRC Safari Rally in June.
The Hells Gate National Park 'Power stage' was picked as the venue to host the Rally simply because it could be well defined as a crowd pulling area with its beautiful attractive scenes
The Equator event, which is part of the FIA African Rally Championship (ARC), was to act as a dry run of the WRC Safari Rally which is slated for June 24-27.