Rally legend Ian Duncan yesterday unveiled a new car, a Group N Mitsubishi Lancer EVOX, ahead of tomorrow’s KCB Safari Rally.
This will see the six-time former national champion run in the ongoing
2015 Kenya National Rally Championship with Liquid Petroleum as his
title sponsors.
What’s more, yesterday’s launch saw the rallying legend, who won the
Safari Rally in 1994, when it counted towards the World Rally Championship, switch from the Nissan Patrol and pick-up that saw
him exit the season-opening Kisumu Rally.
“It looks really good, but then there is a lot of ‘Kenyanisation’ that
needs to be done to the car, things like suspensions, sump-guard and
cooling all need to be sorted. But we are quite excited that this is the
next step from the EVO9 which we have run for four years,” said
Duncan.
“We hope we can get a good result out of the new car. It’s the first
rally so we expect a few teething problems, but hopefully we can get
them sorted. The Safari Rally is a long event so I think it’s going to be
a lot more of an endurance event,” he added.
The KCB Safari, which has reverted to its former identity that once
elicited immense excitement among followers over Easter weekend,
will be flagged off at KICC tomorrow and will be covering some mind-boggling mileage in an event that will traverse five counties including Nairobi, Kiambu, Laikipia, Meru and Machakos.
