BY FRANK KAHEESI- HEAD FMU MEDIA
We dearly needed the ARC points to plan better for the next event, and we are likely to drive our ageing EvoX in the Pearl of Africa rally and pray for rain to fall so as to match the R5s,” joked Mangat.
KARAN Patel wins the 2023 Equator rally and resumes the lead of the African rally championship 2023.
Co-driven by Tauseef Khan in a Ford Fiesta R5, the duo took the lead by three minutes from the last two stages to celebrate their P1 position finish.
Uganda’s Yasin Nasser and Ali Katumba in another Ford Fiesta R5, lovingly nicknamed ‘Nemo’, finished second in two hours,25 minutes,39.6seconds, followed by Kenya’s Jasmeet Chana in third place, as another Ugandan crew of Jas Mangat and Joseph Kamya finished fourth.
Mangat pushed from 12th position to the top four, after surviving a number of mechanical problems on day one.
This places him third on the African championship grid with 21 points, behind Patel and Nasser have 30 and 24 points respectively.
“We dearly needed the ARC points to plan better for the next event, and we likely drive our ageing EvoX in the Pearl of Africa rally and pray for rains to drop so as we match the R5s,” joked Mangat.
The next ARC stop is in Uganda, on the 5-7th of May 2023.
