A return to a longer and more traditional Safari Rally Kenya round of the World Rally Championship is being pushed by Kenya President William Samoei Ruto.
The Safari Rally is renowned as the most gruelling event on the WRC schedule testing drivers and teams to the absolute limit. The event returned to the WRC calendar in 2021 after a 19-year hiatus but in a much shorter format. This year’s edition, operated by a new Kenyan organiser, will be contested over four days with crews covering 367.76 kilometres of timed stages.
Introducing a variety of endurance and sprint rallies to the championship featured as part of the FIA’s vision for the future of top-level rallying, which was released last month. Former WRC team boss David Richards, a member of the FIA’s working group, which is behind a raft of proposals to improve the WRC, told media that the world motorsport governing body is “open-minded” when it comes to the format of future events.
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