Crews Shift Focus To East African Classic Day 6 Of After Rest Day In Nairobi

NAIROBI, Kenya – Classic rally teams have now turned their attention to Day 6 of the East African Classic Rally tomorrow following a rejuvenating rest day in Nairobi on Thursday.

Eugenio Amos starts the second half of the event with an impressive lead of over 18 minutes, showcasing exceptional driving skills over the past four days and securing victories in three stages.  

Rounding up the top five places which happen to be made up of Porsche 911, are defending champion Baldev Chager in second place, 18 minutes 44 seconds, Kris Rosenberger in 4^th followed by Jourdan Serderidis from in 5^th overall.

Mechanics and team managers kept busy inspecting and servicing their cars at the service park located at the Carnivore grounds that was a beehive of activities with teams working round the clock to beat the 6 hours allowed for service.

The action begins at 6am tomorrow morning with a total of 57 cars still in contention as they head out to Amboseli.

Drivers Comments

Baldev Chager

“Circumstance have made it hard yesterday we had a gear box issue then we had this rainstorm caught up with several cars. You couldn’t see 10 meters ahead. But its ok, we are still running, the lead is running away. The pace is picking up and a lot of time. Today we are doing our best we are allowed to have four mechanics around the car and as always where I can help am always available. Am hands on person and always enjoy being around them. We had the gearbox changed and a couple of precautionary changes.”

Kyle Lucas

“It’s been a lot of work and being a privateer makes it even harder. It’s been a journey and when we found the shell somewhere in Eldoret we had to do it over completely to be rally ready. It’s a 1978 car, we had to import a lot of the parts. We have put in a lot into this car. And here we are as privateers, halfway through it and still going.”

Philip Kyriazi

“Today we did a complete check of and very little was left to chance. So basic we have been lucky and we have just done preventative maintenance through the day today.”

Harvey Jutley

“We decided to be with the mechanics and give them moral support as they work on the car. We just changed the gear box nothing else. Looking at the four days the first day was the most difficult

Emile Breittmayer

It really surprising for us because we had not imagined that we would be in this position. It’s a very tough rally and it’s the first time we getting to do this rally. The roads are so difficult, we are used to navigation and pace notes. It’s very difficult but it’s so much fun.”

Jourdan Serdiridis

“I’m discovering a lot of things except Kenya but it’s very different form the WRC. I have had to discover and learn the car and rear wheel drive so I had no expectation and it took me 4 days and also understanding how everyone is performing.”

Rajesh Maini

“Normally we are not up high as we are so it’s a nice feeling and great to finish in fay light. We have been keeping its steady and not damaging the car and got through every stage relatively clean. I think natural attrition you progress upwards.”

Eugenio Amos

“I actually don’t like rest day I prefer staying in the race. I trained a lot at home physically and mentally is well and am feeling good.”

UNOFFICAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER LEG 4

Or N		Drivers			Class	Total
1       8		Eugenio AMOS		Paolo CECI	Cl4		07:41:39.3
2       1		Baldev CHAGER		Gareth DAWE	Cl4		08:00:23.7
3     35		Emile BREITTMAYER		Alexis THOMAS	Cl4		08:09:26.1
4       3		Kris ROSENBERGER		Nicola BLEICHER	Cl4		08:12:40.0
5     10		Jourdan SERDERIDIS		Gregoire MUNSTER	Cl4		08:12:51.0
6     15		Bonamy GRIMES		Martin ROWE	Cl4		08:14:17.1
7       7		Philip KADOORIE		Ryan CHAMPION	Cl4		08:17:04.4
8     22		Andrew SIDDALL		Gary McELHINNEY	Cl4		08:32:39.4
9     34		Rajesh MAINI		Devan BHUNDIA	Cl3		08:39:58.4
10       5		Ian DUNCAN		Jaspal MATHARU	Cl4		08:45:33.4
11     26		Toby WRIGHT		Douglas RUNDGREN	Cl3		08:47:37.0
12     23		Michael HOLMQVIST		Emil AXELSSON	Cl4		08:52:09.4
13     24		Mark BENTLEY		Ed BENTLEY	Cl3		08:54:07.1
14     45		Patrice PERCHE		Julien SAUNIER	Cl4		09:01:04.6
15     12		Anthony NIELSEN		Amaar SLATCH	Cl3		09:04:19.9
16     49		Iain DOBSON		Harry STUBBS	Cl3		09:04:28.2
17     19		David von SCHINKEL		Fredrik VON DER ESCH	Cl4		09:07:51.5
18     50		Josef JOBST		Luis JOBST	Cl4		09:15:41.1
19     41		Geoffrey-PAGE MORRIS		Dez-PAGE MORRIS	Cl4		09:53:16.4
20     51		Joseph HUBER		Yves HUBER	Cl4		09:57:43.0
21     18		Roger SAMUELSSON		Julia SVENSSON	Cl4		10:05:40.7
22     27		Shakeel KHAN		Assad MUGHAL	Cl3		10:12:52.7
23     44		Frederic COMTET		Ludivine MARQUISET	Cl4		10:14:52.7
24     16		Richard ACZEL		Allan HARRYMAN	Cl4		10:26:59.0
25     29		Glen EDMUNDS		Lloyd DESTRO	Cl1		10:28:32.8
26     39		Phillip KYRIAZI		George KYRIAZI	Cl3		10:29:39.0
27       6		Geoff BELL		Tim CHALLEN	Cl4		10:33:04.8
28     38		Malcolm RICH		Adrian CAVENAGH	Cl3		10:59:38.5
29     21		Farhaaz KHAN		Keith HENRIE	Cl3		11:10:05.5
30     63		Vojtech STAJF		Jan BEJVL	Cl4		11:17:18.2
31     36		Olivier BREITTMAYER		Eric FORNEY	Cl4		11:21:47.0
32     40		Kyle LUCAS		Karan SEHMI	Cl3		11:27:50.7
33     46		Pawel MOLGO		Maciej MARTON	Cl4		11:28:57.3
34     11		Evgeny KIREEV		Per GUNNAR ANDERSSON	Cl4		11:33:51.0
35     57		Asad ANWAR		Victor OKUNDI	Cl1		11:41:51.5
36     28		John COYNE		Josh McERLEAN	Cl4		11:59:09.9
37     14		Robert CALDER		Gavin LAURENCE	Cl4		11:59:41.4
38     31		Rommy BAMRAH		Harvey JUTLEY	Cl4		12:06:06.7
39     33		Nish LAKHANI		Teeku PATEL	Cl1		12:08:18.2
40     53		Tim CHESSER		Jack CHESSER	Cl3		13:18:01.0
41	58	Michael KAHLFUSS	Ronald BAUER		Cl1		Cl1	13:18:16.6
42	47	Philippe DUBAERE	Andre LEYH		Cl4		Cl4	13:57:23.9
43	62	Jakub GROCHOLA	Michal JUCEWICZ		Cl4		Cl4	15:01:55.5
44	59	Lola VERLAQUE	Edward VERLAQUE		Cl1		Cl1	15:09:40.3