Todt inspects Safari Rally Service Park, mourns Maradona as ‘true legend’
International Automobile Federation President Jean Todt, in the company of Sports CS Amina Mohamed, PS Joe Okudo and WRC Safari Rally CEO Phineas Kimathi unveils the plaque to officially commission the World Rally Championship Safari Rally Service Park in Naivasha on November 26, 2020.
The service park, which is 220 by 110 metres in surface - making it the largest in the World Rally Championship (WRC) circuit - has already been tarmacked under the supervision of manager Anthony Gatei
Todt advised the Kenya Motor Sports Federation (KMSC) chairman Phineas Kimathi, who is also the WRC Safari Rally CEO, to use the tarmacked area for karting and drifting races
Todt promised to return to Kenya for the June 24-27 WRC Safari Rally in the company of his wife Michelle Yeoh, whom he called and showed live images of hippos which were grazing from the background at the Naivasha Resort
International Automobile Federation (FIA) President Jean Todt Thursday launched the construction of a VVIP Pavilion at the WRC Safari Rally Service Park in Naivasha at a ceremony where he also mourned Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, who died on Wednesday, as “a true legend.”
Todt said Maradona “will be missed by many” and recalled a moment he had with the fallen legend in Monaco in 2005 where they took photographs alongside seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher.
