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Safari Entries Mount
The stimulus of Safari cars on display and the presence of Event Director, Surinder Thatthi, at Autosport International has brought the number of confirmed entries up to twenty with more on the way.

Among the latest additions are Bert Dolk from Holland in a Volvo 122S and Safari regular, Dave Kedward who will be sharing a Ford Escort Mk1 with local preparation expert, Crispin Sassoon. Roddy Sachs who did the event in 2005 with an Alfa Romeo 2000 is returning with a team of three Datsun 180Bs partnered by fellow South Africans, Geoff Bell and Wayne Kieswetter who are driving the other two cars. Australian interest seems to be running high with three entries from Down-Under already and the indications are that there are more competitors ready to make the long journey from the Antipodes to East Africa in November.

Full details of the route outline and night halts will not be available for a while but one major difference for 2007 is that at least three of the night halts will be for two consecutive nights. As well as reducing the number of mornings that competitors have to fully pack their gear, this will make the stops in game lodges much more user-friendly and, if there are friends and family following their progress, much more sociable. Where there is a double halt, the intervening day's route is presented as loop and has enabled much more of the traditional East African Safari Rally territory to be explored both in Kenya and Tanzania. On one of these loops, the rally plans to use roads that have not formed part of a Safari route since the mid-1960s.
As part of the rally organisation, a Rally Fans Tour Safari has been created which for $2,000 takes the participants round the rally, transport Mombasa back to Mombasa, hotels and meals, all included as well as getting you out to the action every day. Details on what it comprises and where to sign up are on the event web site http://www.eastafricansafarirally.com. The man devising the Rally Fans Tour is Mike Kirkland, for two years the Event Director of the Classic Safari, ex-works driver for Nissan on the original Safari, and proprietor of Southern Cross Safaris. It could not be in better hands.
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