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Albert Michiels and Patrick Deconnick's Porsche 911 ready after testing to be shipped by WEC Lines from Antwerp to Mombasa. This team has considerable expericence of the Safari and have never been better prepared as the car shows. |
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Former Formula 1 driver with Ligier and Prost, Erik Comas putting his Renault Alpine A110 through a through test in France before shipping the car to Kenya next week. The last time the Renault Alpine came to the Safari Rally was in 1974 when the cars suffered from overheating and vey low ground clearance. Erik has built the Alpine to solve these problems and is confident of a good placing in the event with his drivers Michelle De Nora and Charles Fermenich. |
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The Ford Escort Mark 1 of Aziz Tejpar (England) and Kenyan, Andy Nagi ready for shipping to Kenya next week for the 2009 Kenya Airways Safari Classic. Tejpar's father was a former DAF team driver in the old East African Safari rallies in the seventies. |
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Kronos Racing has built two Porsche 911 rally cars for their drivers Jean-Pierre Mondron and Theirry Latre du Bosqueau. Both drivers are from Belgium and the photos show the two cars in their workshops ready for shipping to Kenya. |
Ian Duncan enters KQ Safari Classic
Former Safari Rally winner and multiple Kenya National Rally champion, Ian Duncan
has entered the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 again after the
last attempt in 2007. .........more
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Ian Duncan portrait |
Ford Mustang in action photo |
Comas
Historic Racing workshops in Valence, France. The first gravel specs Renault Alpine
A110 being prepared in the fore ground for the gruelling rally in November 2009.
The cars will run by Erik Comas and his team for the drivers Michelle De Nora
and Charles Ferminch. The Renault Alpine A110 last competed in the 1974 Safari
Rally with drivers Darniche and Chatriot and both cars did not finish the event.
The
43rd entry received for the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally
is from Frederic Daunat and Guy Chriqui in a Citroen DS21. This entry is very
nostalgic for the last time a Citroen DS21 model was in 1962.
Raju Kishinani (left) - Director of EASR and Surinder Thatthi (middle) receving
the contract for the title sponsorship from Mr. Titus Naikuni - MD and CEO of
Kenya Airways.........read more.
The world's greatest classic
rally continues
As entries continued to arrive over the Christmas holiday,
it is evident that the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic may see
an important piece of rally history .....click
here for more
A view of Lake Bogoria, a soda
ash lake in the Great Rift Valley just 50m off the route of the 2009 Classic Safari.
The height of the escarpment is about 700m above the lake. Awesome view, Africa
at its best !
Nick
Mason and Adrian Grinsted from England personally came to Nairobi to hand in their
entry for the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally. Nick and Adrian
brought out their service crew who helps them to build their rally car to give
him an indication of the conditions the car has to be built for. They drove two
section of the 2007 rally route to get an idea. They will be much better prepared
in 2009 for the "Worlds Toughest Classic Rally" Photo Nick Mason and
Adrian Grinsted giving their form to Event Director Surinder Thatthi at a Nairobi
hotel.
The East African Safari Rally
2009 proudly announced the appointment of "the Patron of the Event"
today. He is Mr. DP Marwaha, today aged 84 who was a Class winner in the first
Cornation East African Safari Rally in 1953 (no overall winner was declared in
1953) driving a Czech built Tatra T-600 co-driven by Vic Preston Senior.
So
dominant was the driving of Mr. Marwaha that he was the overall winner the following
two editions in 1954 driving a VW Beetle and in 1955 driving a Ford Zephyr always
still co-driven by Vic Preston Senior. Mr. Marahwa now lives in Iringa, Tanzania
and still drives his own car today!
Above pictured is Mr. DP Marwaha with
the Event Director Surinder Thatthi (on left) and Rally Manager Ashok Bhalla (on
right) in the EASR Offices on 24th November 2008. Click
here to read the full story
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rally route decending the "famous" Mbulu Esscarpment in Tanzania south
of the famous Lake Manyara. This trecherous section was last used in the 1972
East African Safari Rally and will be used again in 2009 after 37 years !! See
more photos of the Route Survey in the Photo Gallery. |
First entries for the 2009
Kenya Airways East African Safari Rally have started to come in.....more
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Bjorn Waldergard can drive a car at speed and jump this high with a broken lower
control arm which is hanging under the car and the wheels are flapping with the
wheel alignment totally out !! This was in the Suswa section on Day 4 of the 2007
Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally in December 2007. |
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