Wahome wins Machakos Rally as KNRC season kicks off

Jeremiah
Wahome won this season’s opening leg of the Kenya National Rally Championship
after edging a class field in Machakos on Sunday.

Wahome
navigated by Victor Okundi edged fellow FIA young star McRae Kimathi by
7.04mins to win his first ever major national championship event.

Kimathi, who
entered the local rally this year after a stint in the Junior World Rally
Championship last season, showed glimpses of brilliance as he brought home his
Ford Fiesta in second place.

Jasmeet
Chana, driving his usual Mitsubishi Evolution 10, completed the podium places
in third.

It was a good
outing for the Ford Fiesta as Yassin Nasser finished fourth, with former
Two-wheel KNRC champion Eric Bengi rounding the top five finishers in his
Mitsubishi Evolution 10.

Subaru
Impreza’s Kush Patel and Rajveer Thethy took 6th and 7th place respectively,
with Rashminder Barbra winning the Classic category being the only entrant.

In the
Two-wheel category, Daren Miranda got the season off to a great start as she
brought home her Subaru Impreza in the first position.

Rio Smith
closed the top ten as the opening leg set early pace for the season.

With this
year’s relaxation of rules, more categories were added to the season including
Rally2, Rally 3 and KNRC Junior Championship.

Group S
car’s scope was expanded and new Group S Plus class introduced.