{"id":1017,"date":"2023-09-24T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2023-09-24T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:56:34","slug":"kenyas-anwar-takes-on-the-role-of-sweeping-mt-gorilla-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Anwar takes on the role of sweeping Mt. Gorilla Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frank Kaheesi-\u00a0FMU\u00a0media\u00a0Head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FRESH and breathy from the WRC Rally of Grece, Kenya&#8217;s Hamza Anwar decided to draw the 1st position to sweep the stages on leg 1 of the Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally, as the fifth ARC round gets underway on Saturday morning.<br>Anwar co-driven by Din Adnan in a Mitsubishi EvoX gladly took on the role in a bid to enjoy the wide and fast Rwandan roads. At the start draw held at Kigali Convention Centre after the day&#8217;s qualifier run, Anwar promised to make lines in the stages for others to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-06.05.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-06.05.28.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-06.05.28-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-06.05.28-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-09-24-at-06.05.28-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><cite>&#8220;I prefer going first on the road, and am going to put mark-up lines for chasers,&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I prefer going first on the road, and am going to put mark-up lines for chasers,&#8221; bossed Anwar.<br>Like Anwar, other ARC contenders seemed internally boiling after Karan Patel posted the fastest qualifier times, giving them a test of what they should expect in long stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>&#8220;I Am ultimately here for a win,&#8221; <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/201.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/201.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/201-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/201-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/201-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>&#8220;I Am ultimately here for a win,&#8221; said Patel.<br>Ugandan top contenders at the event, Jas Mangat and Yasin Nasser, sounded cautious about how they are planning to take on the three-day event, in mind the crucial points desired from the event for their ARC title hopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fifth African Rally championship round rolled off at KCC with a pompous ceremony start and cultural performances from Rwandese cultural groups.<br>Saturday opens with three stage runs, these include the event&#8217;s shortest stage of Gako1(8.3km), Gasenyi1(19.8km) and Nemba1(10km), after refuelling, they are repeated before the day&#8217;s first service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After they will go for the event&#8217;s longest stage, Ruhuha1(24.07km), there will be a regroup and then service before it repeats to end the day.<br>Overnight Parc ferme will be at La Palisse Hotel in Nyamata, Eastern province of the capital Kigali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Kaheesi-\u00a0FMU\u00a0media\u00a0Head FRESH and breathy from the WRC Rally of Grece, Kenya&#8217;s Hamza Anwar decided to draw the 1st position to sweep the stages on leg 1 of the Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally, as the fifth ARC round gets underway on Saturday morning.Anwar co-driven by Din Adnan in a Mitsubishi EvoX gladly took on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanrallychampionship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}