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motor sports grew up with him rallying from the day I was born. We have always had a rally car in the yard and his enthusiasm rubbed off on me,” Tundo said. . “Driving on the farm helps you to read the road better. On gravel roads, you get to understand how to tackle rougher and more intricate sections. You also get to know what a car can take on the rough. Also when it is wet, we have had much more experience driving on wet roads than those who live in town,” said Tundo. He recalls with nostalgia the last moments when he won the 2004 Safari Rall y edition at the Jadini Beach Hotel in the south Coast. “It is not magic - if you throw all these combination of reasons together along with a deep passion for rallying and winning, you are bound to come up with a very competitive driver,” Tundo explains. Rory Green’s Subaru Impreza, then christened ‘The Fl ying Sausage’ reigned terror to local drivers. Timau based agricultural engineer, Peirs Daykin has won the navigators’ title twice while sitting with Rose. Lee Rose who l eant the ropes at a tender age in Narok says: “Farmers do a lot of driving on gravel roads due to the nature of their business. I started riding bikes when I was 11 and even won the national motocross championship twice in succession in the early 80s. The feat earned me the motors sportsman of the year award around the same time,” Rose said. The late Shekh ar Mehta perfected his driving skills at their family’s sugar plantation farm in Jinja, Uganda and was untouchable by the time he had migrated from Uganda to Kenya in 1973. His re l o c a t i o n was occasioned by a decision by former Ugandan dictator the late Idi Amin to kick out all people of Asian origin out of the country. However, the relocation turned out to be a blessing in disguis