After the 2022 Safari Rally Kenya shakedown yesterday proved, the only event on the African continent should provide incredible high-speed stages through the unforgiving savannah biome. Here is what to expect.
Back for a second time this year since its 19 year hiatus ended in the 2021 season, fans of the World Rally Championship can look forward to the iconic scenery adjacent to the Serengeti and home to wildlife filled landscape.
The Safari Rally poses one of the toughest challenges in motorsport as crews tackle the gruelling high-speed and unforgiving gravel roads sprawled across Kenya’s iconic wildlife-filled savannah.
The 2022 Safari Rally Kenya will be contested over 19 stages that span 363,44 km of competitive mileage across four days. Much of the route has been changed from last years running in the east African region with Friday’s Geothermal and Sunday’s Narasha tests brand new additions to the sanctioned event.
Yesterday; Wednesday the 22nd of June hosted teams for a shakedown while the next four days will have all competitors pushing through the gruelling landscape.
Stage 1 Super Special Kasarani (23 June)
Stage 2 – Stage 7 (24 June)
Stage 8 – Stage 13 (25 June)
Stage 14 – Stage 19 (26 June)
Kalle Rovanperä of Toyota extended his championship lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by a margin of 55 points from Portugal and will hope to continue his winning streak from Sweden and Croatia too. Neuville who has fared well in the planes of Africa before suffered ill fate after a rear suspension issue saw his win fleet from his grasp.
Follow live timing on the WRC website.
French motorsport icon and nine-time World Champion Sébastien Loeb will be contending the 2022 Safari Rally Kenya, the second time he has taken to the east African biomes in his career with the first being for Citroen in 2002 before the event began its sub 2 decade hiatus.
