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More Supplies
Needed!
Day 4 – Tuesday - Naivasha to
Amboseli
Half way through the toughest
event he’s ever done and after moving up to seventh place on the leaderboard, VK
Vodka Kick Rally driver Steve Perez has officially announced ‘I’m
Knackered…’
The
Chesterfield driver and his co
driver Mike Stuart saw out a gruelling fourth day in the East African Safari
Classic Rally, despite a steady run so as to preserve the fragile rear beam on
their Datsun 206Z which, it is hoped, can be fixed during tomorrow’s rest
day.
In a relatively trouble free day
compared to his previous dramas, the loop south to the overnight halt to
Amboseli, on the Tanzanian border with Kenya and in the foothills of Mount
Kilimanjaro, saw the driver wilting rather than the car:
“I’m knackered and can’t wait for
a day off tomorrow” said the former ANCRO and British Historic Rally Champion.
“One of the stages this morning was 138km long which is longer than a National
rally in the UK!
We’ve been drinking the VK Energy drink like it’s going out of fashion to keep
us going so I’m having to fly some more supplies in to keep us going for the
rest of the week!” concluded Perez.
After tomorrow’s well earned day
of rest and some much-needed attention to the car, the pair will head off into
on the second half of the 4500km rally with a long competitive section from
Amboseli towards Emali before heading south into Tanzania.
Leaderboard after Day Four:
1 Bjorn Waldegard/Mathias
Waldegard, Ford Escort Mk1, 07h 32m31s
2 Stig Blomqvist/Ana Goni,
Ford Escort Mk1, 07h 42m05s
3 Frederic Dor/Didier Breton,
Porsche 911, 07h 44m35s
4 Gerard Marcy/Alain Lopes,
Porsche 911, 07h 59m22s
5 Geoff
Fielding/Preston Ayres, Porsche 911, 08h
17m48s
6 John Lloyd/Adrian Cavenagh,
Datsun 240Z, 08h 19m46s
7 Steve
Perez/Michael Stuart, Datsun 260Z, 08h 29m10s
8 Jonathan Savage/Quentin
Savage, Datsun 260Z, 08h 30m03s
9 Paul Eric-Jarry/Craig
Redelinghuys, Porsche 911, 08h 31m43s
10 Geoff
Bell/Steve Harris, Datsun 180B, 08h
34m15s
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