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The penultimate round of the 2023 Kenya National Rally Championship gets underway at this weekend’s prestigious Guru Nanak Rally (November 4-5) – and this year’s edition boasts a suitably star-studded entry.

Newly-crowned champion Jasmeet Chana tops the entries in his championship-winning Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X and will be joined in the cockpit by his elder brother Ravi Chana.
Also in the Guru Nanak mix is legendary Ian Duncan who has won the Guru Nanak a record 12 times. Duncan will pilot a Nissan 280Z classic car navigated by Jaspal Matharu.

The rally- sponsored by CFAO Motors (formerly Toyota Kenya) – has also attracted talented youngsters including Neel Gohil who is entered in the second-tier club man category. 

Gohil- son of retired rally driver Sushil Gohil- will be making his debut in the training event which is run alongside the main KNRC.

Former multiple KNRC navigators’ champion Piers Daykin is entered in the classic category.
Daykin won Guru Nanak twice navigating Lee Rose in a Mitsubishi and will be returning to the bucket seat of his car this time in the driver’s seat.

Tariq Malik will navigate Daykin in a Datsun 280Z that he will be testing for this year’s East African Safari Classic Rally later in the year.

Samman Vohra, winner of last month’s KNRC7 KMSC Rally, returns with a Skoda Fabia Rally 2 car, and there are entries too for youngster Rajveer Thethy in a Subaru, Nikhil Sachania in a hand-controlled Evolution X and  Jose Sardinha (Mitsubishi Pajero SPV).

The fabled rally, which is one of the oldest on the calendar, gets underway from the Service Park in Elementeita.

A total of four stages will be repeated to make up scintillating seven speed tests of which Soysambu and Sleeping Warrior will be repeated twice and Mbweha thrice.

The third run of the Mbweha stage (the last stage on the itinerary) will serve at the Power Stage where the three fastest drivers will be awarded bonus points on the KNRC points table.

“The event is an exciting run on the WRC Safari route and will run entirely on private land,” Clerk of the Course Qahir Rahim revealed.

Event Director Onkar Kalsi, on his part, promised competitors a spectacle in the Great Rift Valley.