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Message from Joey Ghose,

Chairman of the Board
which I feel is the
New Beginning's… backbone of the Classic
Safari; we will endeavor
Whilst the East African Safari Rally would have been to encourage 1600, 2000
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approaching its 70 anniversary, at EASCR we are and over 3,000cc Classes
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looking at new beginning's! The 10 edition of the East which will make the
African Safari Classic Rally is aimed at taking the rally entrants not only diverse
back to its original status of being 'The World's but also accessible to all
Toughest Rally'… budgets.
When Mike Kirkland invented the Classic version of the We are looking forward
Safari Rally in 2003, the intent was to have 9 days of to a very 'Fresh' classic
rallying through East Africa reliving the fantastic era of event this year with
the 70's to mid-80's whereby numerous factors were numerous 'new' but proven old regulations being
required to win or even finish the rally i.e. reliability, reintroduced which will take the event back to its
stamina, calculated speeds, clear strategy and most original status.
importantly luck! I feel that this spirit eroded over the The impacts of COVID 19 has not spared the event; we
years and the event became an expensive sprint event had to postpone the event last year which had a
not accessible by the private entrant. significant financial impact on us and also on
Our aim is to change this by making the event more numerous entrants. We pray the situation will pass
affordable, more challenging and, most importantly and we can have the next event in late 2023 when we
bring back the fun and adventure spirit to the event. hope to cover all of East Africa.
This can only be achieved by having long endurance Best regards,
type stages and tighter service times.
Another area that was lost is the Class recognition Joey

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