Oh, what a reminder to me. The rally of its own class. Dubbed as the toughest rally in the world.
50 years on after fast rally cars cruised the East African soil, came to an end in the year 2003.
I miss the cars and the whole rally itself. I remember in the mid nineties, when a car got stuck in the mud, barely 11 km from our town centre. Two men were picked bu one of the escort cars to go and assist pushing the car off the mud.
Innocently, two strong men gave in and went aboard the car. Shock! There were no seatbelts, and the car roamed on at a super speed towards the emergency spot. This was true, because, the whole issue was to get there in time and have car get on with the rally!! I guess it was Bjorn Waldergaard's, or Carlos Sainz or Richard Burns or Tommi Makinnen or Juha Khankunnen or Patrick Njiru's??
Well, the two men narrated the story to other eager men around them after the rescue, and said, they will never get aboard a rally car again! Everyone was eagerly accepting that imagining the super speed of the car. It is just F1 that has never been hosted in Africa, hope sometime. And the audience will be awed and astonished with the magical speed of Ferrari's and the Mclaren's and the renaults!
Always drive safely!
