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Safari Rally Kenya is back on the WRC Calendar after 19 years in the wilderness!
| DATE | 24 – 27 JUNE 2021 |
On November 1, 2017, the Kenya Government through Gazette Notice Number 181 legalised the WRC Safari Rally Project to return the Safari Back in the WRC by 2020.
In 2018 Kenya formally applied and was granted rights by the WRC Promoter to return to the World Rally Championship since 2002. The Promoter’s Agreement was signed in Paris, France by the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage Peter Kaberia and WRC Promoter Managing Director Oliver Ciesla in the presence of the President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Jean Todt on June 21.
On July 17-19 Kenya hosted a successful FIA Candidate Event.
On September 27 2019 the FIA returned the Safari Rally in the World Rally Championship.
The birth of the world’s toughest rally
The Safari Rally was born as the East African Coronation Rally in 1953 as a motoring event to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of England who was on holiday in Kenya one year earlier when she learnt of the death of her father, King George VI.
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Nairobi, Kenya
