GURJIT Dhani will lead the Tanzanian crews of Hari Singh Rally team in the Kenyan Guru Nanak Rally scheduled to rev off this weekend in Soysambu and Naivasha regions. Other members of Hari Singh Rally team are Rajpar Dhani and Ajminder Singh, all competing under Kilimanjaro Motor Sports Club umbrella.
Organisers Kenya Motorsports Federation
confirmed this week that the three brothers are the only Tanzanian
entries in the Kenyan season ender.
Speaking from Moshi shortly before they
departed to Kenya yesterday, Gurjit Dhani said he will compete in his
ultramodern Subaru Impreza GVB15 and will his brother Rajpal.
The third brother, Ajminder Singh Dhani,
will be competing in Subaru Impreza N10. The Dhani siblings will be the
first Tanzanian nationals to grace the Kenya National Rally
Championship this season, after over a decade since Tanzania fielded
seven drivers in the Kenyan round of African Rally Championship (ARC).
The drivers who raided the Kenyan round
in 2006 were Omar Bakhresa, Saleh Balhabou, Ahmed Huwel, Navraj Hans,
Kirit Pandya, Navraj Hans and Pano Calavria. Other foreign drivers who
have participated in the series include Manvir Baryans, Briton navigator
Drew Sturrock, Finn co-driver Pasi Torma and flying Finn Tapio
Laukkanen who has for the last two seasons raced on Kenyan competition
licence.
Clerk of the course Pipi Renu said the
trio are expected to spice up the series, which has been to Kisumu,
twice in Kajiado, Elementaita, Wundanyi, Nanyuki and Eldoret. Meanwhile,
organisers are leaving nothing to chance in as far as safety is
concerned.
In a bid to provide a spectators
friendly set up, organisers of the season-closing event will be running
the event on 100 percentw private land sections.
The event will be flagged off outside
KCB Branch in Naivasha town on November 26 after which cars will head
straight to the designated spectator stage at Aberdare Hills Golf Resort
which will be repeated twice
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