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East African
Safari Classic Rally
THE LAST RELEASE The
prize giving for the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally
2007 took place on Tuesday morning on the lawn of the Whitesands Hotel
outside Mombasa........MORE DAY NINE - MONDAY : ARUSHA TO MOMBASA There were last minute dramas on the last day of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007 but not enough to change the identity of the winning crew. This was Bjorn and Mathias Waldegård in a Ford Escort RS1600 who .......MORE By A Correspondent The title for the 2007 Kenya
Airways East African Safari Classic Rally is headed for Europe with
Bjorn Waldegaard .......MORE DAY EIGHT - SUNDAY : ARUSHA TO ARUSHA Less drama today in terms of major reversals of fortune among the leading drivers on the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007 but plenty of action, both in and out of the cars. The marathon 154km competitive .......MORE SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE Follow-up from Saturday .......MORE DAY SEVEN - SATURDAY : TAITA TO NGURDOTO LODGE, ARUSHA Problems for ex-World Rally Champion Stig Blomqvist caused a bit of a shake-up on the seventh day of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007........MORE Charities help along route of KQ Classic Rally .......MORE A QUICK UPDATE Day six extras DAY SIX - FRIDAY : AMBOSELI TO TAITA The rain in the night certainly enlivened the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007 and gave the surviving crews a new challenge in their first two sections on Friday. On the first, Bjorn Waldegård, as the overnight leader opening the road for the other cars, .......MORE MORE FROM THE REST DAY Car No. 5 Ian Duncan Ian has decided that he and
his Ford Mustang will not be continuing on the Kenya Airways East
African Safari Classic Rally 2007. "There are ten reasons for
not going .......MORE PUTTING THINGS IN CONTEXT For the interest
of Safari Classic competitors and fans, this is the text of Jerry
Williams' column published yesterday in Motorsport News, a leading
UK weekly motoring newspaper. For those of you who may not know, Britain's
contribution to the FIA World Rally Championship, the Wales Rally
GB, .......MORE DAY FOUR - WEDNESDAY : NAIVASHA TO AMBOSELI The
tussle for victory on the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic
Rally 2007 continues to provide plenty of excitement. Tonight as the
cars pulled in to the Ol Tukai Lodge in Amboseli, Bjorn Waldegård
still led in his Ford Escort but he had suffered a torrid day, breaking
a steering arm on the first .......MORE DAY THREE - Tuesday : NAIVASHA TO NAIVASHA The ever-changing
fortunes of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007
swung in the direction of Bjorn Waldegård's Ford today. The
overnight leader, Gerard Marcy, fastest in the first competitive section
.......MORE DAY THREE - TUESDAY : NEWSFLASH 11:15 After the first section this morning, Gerard Marcy still led the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007 with his Porsche 911. He did fastest time on the section and had widened his lead over Bjorn Waldegård in the Ford .......MORE DAY TWO - MONDAY : NAIROBI TO NAIVASHA It took only ten kilometres
of the first competitive section on Monday morning to change the leader
board of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007.
Overnight leader, Bjorn Waldegård, had a rear puncture
.......MORE
Nairobians turn out in large number to view classic cars SLIGHLY under 5000 spectators
who turned up at the Athi River Portland stage were treated to some
exhilarating display of rallying artistry as classic machines entered
Nairobi with much zest and vigor. It was a welcome relief for .......MORE DAY ONE - SUNDAY : MOMBASA TO NAIROBI After the first three stages of the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007, the established flyers are showing the way. Bjorn Waldegård of Sweden in a Ford Escort RS1600 leads Gerard Marcy from Belgium in a Porsche 911 .......MORE MOMBASA MUTTERINGS The Friday evening welcome party for competitors and officials was well attended. Amongst the speakers welcoming them to the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2007 were Surinder Thatthi, Event Director, and Titus Naikuni,.......MORE HOT GOSSIP FROM MOMBASA Mike Stuart, co-driver to Steve
Perez, has never co-driven before. But he does have just a little
rally experience. For instance, he has driven on scores of British
rallies including the RAC Rally during the 1980s and has been on Safari
twelve times for Mitsubishi as mechanic and, more importantly, .......MORE ONE DAY, ONE DAY If adventure is the essence
of long-distance, gruelling events like the Kenya Airways East African
Safari Classic Rally, then at least a couple of the competitors in
this year's event have already had major African adventures outside
motoring. .......MORE AMERICAN ODYSSEY Some
people's itinerary to get to the Kenya Airways East African Safari
Classic Rally looks to be almost as arduous as the rally itself. Tim
Mammen, who was born in Kenya but currently lives and works in the
USA, has set out from Boston to London last night and .......MORE PAST WINNER IS A HERO Mention the East African Safari Rally and it is not long before the name of five times winner of that world famous event, Shekhar Mehta, crops up. Sadly Shekhar died last year, but his presence at the 2003 and 2005 Safari .......MORE RELEASED EARLY For leading UK rallyman, Steve Perez, travelling down to make his debut on the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally was set to be a bit of rush. The reason ? He was competing over this weekend in the Roger Albert Clark Rally with his ......MORE JUST ONE MORE TIME It is quite normal for people to tell you about their new rally car that is just about to make its debut on the world stage. But one car that will be doing the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic......MORE STATISTICALLY SPEAKING For the statistically minded
amongst you, here are some pertinent facts about the Kenya Airways
East African Safari Classic.......MORE WALTZING MATILDA The nice thing about rallying,
especially the classic variety, is how it attracts a wide variety
of competitors with an even wider variety of motives for competing.
The Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic is no exception and
this broad spirit is nowhere better......MORE Click here to view the Mombasa Rally Photos where Iain Freestone and Aslam Khan were testing their classic Rally cars for the EASR.
The lull before the storm
? The Eleventh Hour LAST MINUTE ACTIVITY It would appear that no matter how experienced you may be, even to the point of having been crowned World Rally Champion, a bit of match practice is deemed handy before a major event. This was never truer than for the Kenya Airways East African Safari Rally 2007........MORE Drivers testing in the Guru Nanak Rally
News
from the frontline KQ CLASSIC SAFARI PLANS REACH A CLIMAX With the starting
order list of the 2007 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally
in its place, teams will now embark on their game plans for the event
to start in November. It now sets the ball rolling for majority of the
teams preparing to engage their drivers and mechanics in the marathon
rally later this year. ......MORE
Jumping for joy. Björn Waldegård
has two reasons to be happy.
KQ Safari, recreation of the 1977 East African Safari Nairobi, September 14--The stage is set and it is all systems go for the 59 contestants in the 3rd KQ East African Safari Rally in Kenya and Tanzania. From its humble beginning in 2003, the Safari, now fighting for its deserved place in the Kenya's sporting annuals after the Tusker Safari Sevens and Standard Chartered Nairobi.........MORE 34 years later, Drews looking for another Safari victory Nairobi, September 14---Lofty Drews who grew up in Kenya is a rallying legend by his own right. His reputation as a navigator has no equal in this time and era. His peer group has faded into retirement but Lofty as he is known in rallying circles is still going strong well into his 60s, possessing the strength of a stud and ..........MORE
To be sure that his Datsun 240Z is in top form for the Kenya Airways Safari Classic 2007, John Lloyd has been out in Kenya testing it on typical roads. John Lloyd has participated in both the previous editions of the Classic Safari and is likely to be a strong........MORE True Veterans
Muchemi 59th driver
in the KQ Classic Safari
Nairobi, July 27---Ben Muchemi became the 59th driver to enter the Kenya Airways East Africa Classic Safari yesterday when he handed over his papers to organizers.....MORE
A True Team. Husband and wife team, Paul and Mary-Ellen Kane, have a truly democratic relationship. Not only will they share the experience of the Kenya Airways Safari Classic together, but they will also share the wheel of their Mustang GT 350H......MORE Joginder Singh
is Kenya Airways Safari Classic patron for 2007
It was announced today that Joginder Singh, East African Safari Rally veteran and three times winner of the original rally, has been appointed Patron of the Kenya Airways Safari Classic for 2007. He will be attending the rally in November and will be the figurehead for many of the PR and social activities surrounding it......MORE Joginder
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Lloyd
gets Assurance
Seen
recently on the Tanzanite One Arusha Rally was the Datsun 260Z of Jayant
Shah and Lofty Drews who were using it as an opportunity to try out the
car prior to their participation in the Kenya Airways Safari Classic Rally
in November........
