Tundo in search of flying start: Chager and company keen on maintaining top form

Carl Tundo in his Mitsubishi Evo10 in a past event. The Top Fry sponsored driver will take part in the forthcoming rally. [Standard Sports]

Tundo and Jessop in search of flying start in Ngong race

Veteran driver Duncan maintains slim two-point lead as rally heads to Ngong.

Rally drivers are not leaving anything to chance ahead of the next round of the Kenya National Rally Championships.

With the 2017 season almost coming to an end, there is little room for error.

The Kenya Motor Sports Club event, to be staged on November 12 in the outskirts of the Ngong Hills, will be the penultimate round of the current series.

The Top Fry-sponsored crew of Carl Tundo and his navigator, Tim Jessop, will be beaming with excitement as they look for their second consecutive victory of the 2017 KNRC after winning the recent Guru Nanak Rally in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10.

Though teammates under the respective Kabras and Top Fry banners, Baldev Chager and Ravi Soni (Mitsubishi Evo10), Onkar Rai and Gareth Dave (Skoda Fabia), and Tejvir Rai and Zahir Shah (Mitsubishi Evo10)? will also be keen on maintaining their good form following their commendable results in the Bulgaria Balkan Rally recently, before their impressive Guru Nanak Rally performance.

The KMSC rally will start in Kajiado at 8am and end at Lisa Farm, where the first car will be expected at 2pm. The total distance will be 158km of which 129km will be competitive distance divided into five sections.

The longest stage will be 44.90km while the shortest will be 16km. Two stages (Kenjoro 16km) and (Lisa Farm 45km) will be done twice while the 37km Andy Corner/Iposat will be tackled once.

Ian Duncan, who finished fourth in the Guru Nanak Rally, maintains a slim lead of two points over Tundo.

Chager, the former national champion, is third on the series in his Kabras-sponsored Lancer, while Rai brothers Onkar (Menegai Oil) and Tejvir (Kabras) are eighth and 12th in Skoda and Lancer.

Following his first win of the current season, Tundo is now second in the overall standings of the 2017 Kenya National Rally Championships series.

Duncan is on 87 followed by Tundo 85, Chager 79, Karan Patel 69, Manvir Baryan 68, and Tapio Laukkanen 63.

?Tundo bagged his fourth win of the Guru Nanak Rally after clinching the latest round of the 2017 Kenya National Rally championships.

A maximum of 50 points are available in the last two rounds.