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