TANZANIA’S driver Randeep Singh emerged winner of the 2015 U-track Nane Nane Rally held in remote sections of Monduli District in Arusha over the weekend, concluding Sunday night.Randeep Singh clinched his first rally of the season by winning the latest round of the Tanzanian rally championship with Gurvinder Singh as his co-driver in a Mitsubishi Lancer.
Singh’s victory marked a historic fete in the Tanzania Rally Championship, where all the top three crews came from the same Sikh Community.
Second place was secured by Rajpal Dhani and Sinder Sudle while Rajpal’s brother Gurjit took the third spot driving a similar Subaru Impreza with Kenya’s Shameer Yusuf. Randeep becomes the fourth different winner in as many rounds of the 2015 Tanzania Rally Championship after Gurjit Dhani (Moshi winner); Dharam Pandya (Tanga) or Gerard Miller (FIA Tanzania) left the marks in the last three rounds.
Alastair Cavenagh and Gavin Laurence were the bestplaced Kenyan crew in the fourth place at the wheel of a Porsche 911 after leading the rally briefly.
Fifth was Shafin Khan and Farhaad Mustafa followed by Jayant Shah/Ravi Chana. Kenya’s hopes for outright victory were dashed after Onkar Rai and his navigator Gareth Dawe of Zimbabwe, bowed out of the rally within sight of victory in their Mitsubishi Lancer EVO10.
Similar fate befell Onkar’s brother Tejvir Rai who was also doing well before his Porsche 911 was forced to stop in the stage.
Tejvir was co-driven by Baldev Chager, who has made his name as one of the best rally drivers ever produced in Kenya by winning both the Kenya National Rally Championship and world’s best known Safari Rally.
Chager was at hand to help the young driver understand Danger Notes, which will be used in the KQ Classic Rally where Tejvir will also take part.