Action starts as Kenya seeks WRC comeback

Managing Director World Rally Championship promoter Oliver Ciesla (left) and CS Devolution and Planning Eugene Wamalwa flagoff Kenyan drivers Baldev Chager and Ravi Soni in Mitsubishi Evolution 10, Car number 5 during the African National Rally Championship Round 2 at KICC on March 16, 2018. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

There was colour and glamour as Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Eugene Wamalwa flagged off the 66th edition of the Safari Rally, at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Nairobi, yesterday.

Even as the Government is aggressively pushing for the return of the famous Rally to the prestigious World Rally Championship through its WRC Safari Rally Project after 15 years in the cold, a lot is expected during the three-day event that has seen 36 entries. Kenya was stripped of its WRC status by the International Automobile Federation in 2002.