Four years back in WRC, Safari Rally has made big strides
President Uhuru Kenyatta with WRC Safari Rally chief executive officer Phineas Kimathi (left) and Sports Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed at Soysambu Competitive Sectionon April 24, 2021 from where the President followed the African Rally Championship Equator Rally’s action.
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This sense of optimism involved the top leadership, led by President Kenyatta with corporates, notably the KCB Bank, Kenya Airways and Toyota Kenya coming forward to support the Safari’s return
The return of the Safari was headline news worldwide even in remote locations, underlying the appeal of the Safari, one of the highly-storied single sporting events in the world since 1953
Several factors, including the weather, favoured the Safari which not only confirmed that it had lost none of its original flavor but was also a very much part of the 21st-century culture social media penetration
Today marks yet another milestone, the fourth anniversary of the return of the iconic Safari Rally to the high-profile Federation Internationale de’ I Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC).
On this day at 11 hours GMT in 2019 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), President Uhuru Kenyatta announced via a live video link direct from the United Nations headquarters in New York where he was attending a heads of state meeting the return of the Safari Rally back to the WRC after an 18-year absence.
