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- NEWS OF FUTURE EVENTS : The Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally finished in Mombasa last Tuesday, December 2nd. Several high-ranking Kenya Airways executives attended the prize giving that night.......more
- Mombasa, midday: Ian Duncan and Amaar Slatch win Safari Classic in Ford Mustang - A Ford has won the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 for the second time in succession. In 2007, it was a Ford Escort from Europe that took the overall victory but now it is the turn of the American breed to win with ..............more
- Taita Hill Lodge, Monday - midday: As the rally office for the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 was getting set up, news came in that Ian Duncan had set fastest time and taken a further four minutes from Björn Waldegård in the first competitive section outside Nairobi at Suswa..............more
- Naivasha, Sunday morning: Last night in the Simba Lodge hotel, a unique presentation took place. Yvonne Mehta, widow of five times Safari winner Shekhar Mehta had brought a solid bronze model of a cheetah inscribed as the Shekhar Mehta Spirit of the Rally Award for presentation to someone whom she considered worthy. ....more
- Naivasha, Saturday midday: If any proof were needed that Africa was unpredictable, when the rally office team arrived at the Sopa Lodge, Naivasha, this morning they discovered that it was raining - bit of a contrast to Amboseli who would dearly love to have ....more
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Amboseli, mid-day: Avid readers of these bulletins will remember that the Ford Escort Mk1 of Jean-Michel Martin and Vincent de Raikem "retired" on the selection stage last Sunday. However, nothing daunted, they decided to continue.......more
- Amboseli, Thursday afternoon: With two fastest times on the three competitive sections held today, Ian Duncan in his Ford Mustang has extended his lead over Björn Waldegård's Porsche 911. Duncan's lead is now just over five ..........more
- Arusha, Wednesday, afternoon: The story of the day centres on the continued fight between the two ex-Safari Rally winners, Ian Duncan and Björn Waldegård. Today, it was Waldegård's turn to fight back taking his Porsche 911 to a win on the first competitive section and removing, at a stroke, a minute and fifty-one...............more
- Arusha, Tuesday afternoon: First a correction. There are two drivers with the surname Ciaraldi driving Ford Escorts in the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 and it was the Escort Mk1 of Giancarlo Ciaraldi and Peter Stone that came ......more
- Arusha, Tuesday lunchtime: One story picked up this morning from those that came in late last night was from the Datsun 1600SSS of Peter Stoehr and
Crispin Sassoon
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- TAITA HILLS MONDAY: At the start of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 outside the Whitesands Hotel in Mombasa this morning, event director, Surinder Thatthi, gave a classic example of multi-tasking.....more
- Mombasa, Sunday evening: The first competition section has run and, with no parc fermé tonight, some of the competitors are back and have work to do on their cars.......more
- Mombasa, Sunday morning: The big event last night was the Welcome Party on the lawn of the Whitesands Sarova Lodge Hotel. The crews and officials were welcomed by Surinder Thatthi, event director who introduced the patron of the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009, D.P.Marwaha.......more
- Mombasa, Saturday evening: The formalities of the last few days are now finished. At the Driver's briefing this evening, the event director, Surinder Thatthi, read out a short list of five competitors ....more
- FACTS AND FIGURES :With a week to go before the ceremonial start beneath the crossed elephants tusks on Moi Avenue .......more
- WORLD CHAMPION WILL COMPETE ON SAFARI : Just last week, a deal was struck whereby the 1979 World Rally Champion, Björn Waldegård, will definitely compete in a ...........more
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- Father and son combination works on strategy to conquer one of the world’s roughest rallies with the........... Preparations for the Kenya Airways East Safari Classic Rally are in top gear with the arrival of several of the ........more
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