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Juha Kankkunen wants perfect gift from Toyota in battle for rally glory

Juha Kankkunen during the 2014 Helsinki Battle rally on July 27th 2014, at Helsinki, Finland. [AFP]

It is exactly 40 years since Toyota legend and four-time world champion Juha Kankkunen had an emphatic victory in the Safari Rally whose 2025 edition is set to rev off in the lakeside town of Naivasha tomorrow.

Two things stood out in that victory recorded in 1985; he won the Safari Rally, aboard a Toyota Celica TCT, in his debut on Kenyan soil and it was his first ever victory in the World Rally Championship (WRC) series.

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