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Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally 2013 Bulletin by Anwar Sidi www.anwarsidiphotography.com

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Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally 2013

Rwanda Past WinnersPast WinnersYear Drivers Car1983 Alain Ambrosino / Daniel Le Saux Renault Alpine1984 Azar Anwar / Farakh Yusuf Datsun 160J1985 Harjit Singh Mangat / Paulo Paganin Peugeot 5041986 Jean Louis La Loux / Luc Verhulst Mazda 3231987 Manjit Sandhu / Jaswinder Sandhu VW Golf1988 Sarbi Rai / Supi Soin Opel Manta 4001989 Satwant Singh / Luc Verhulst VW Golf1990 – 1996 No rally held1997 Satwant Singh / Surinder Thatthi Subaru Impreza1998 No rally held1999 No rally held2000 Charles Muhangi / David Mayanja Subaru Impreza2001 Schalk Burger / Piet Swanepoel Subaru Impreza2002 Johnny Gemmel / Robert Paisley Subaru Impreza2003 Fernando Rueda / Martin Botha Mitsubishi Lan.Evo62004 Rudy Cantanhede / David Israel Mitsubishi Lan.Evo32005 Riyaz Kurji / Sayed Kadri Subaru Impreza2006 Riyaz Kurji / Sayed Kadri Subaru Impreza2007 Conrad Rautenbach/Peter Marsh Subaru Impreza2008 Rudy Cantanhede / David Israel Subaru Impreza N112009 Giancarlo Davite / Sylvia Vindevogel Subaru Impreza N112010 Rudy Cantanhede / David Israel Subaru Impreza N82011 Jean yves2012 Elefter Mitralos /Paganin Paolo Subaru Impreza

Rudy Cantanhede won in 2008 Supi Soin & Sarbi Rai won in 1988

Riaz Kurji-Subaru

Late Riaz Kurji won in 2005 & 2006

2008 winner Giancarlo Davite

Photography by: Anwar Sidi

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Rwanda Automobile Club (RAC) is in full gear preparing on all fronts to ensure that the 2013 Mt. Gorilla Rally scheduled for this weekend is successful after they equipped local officials with Motorsport safety measures.The training was held last week under the FIA Institute funded programmes worldwide and according to RAC chairman Christian Gakwaya, more than 50 marshalls benefited. As previous years, the headquarter of the rally is situated in the lively and historic town of Kigali. Umubano Hotel will be hosting the event HQ and media center. Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally 2013 will be run in accordance with the International Sporting Code (and its Appendices), the General Prescriptions applicable to all FIA Rally Championships, FIA Africa Rally Championship regulations, the RAC Sporting Code that complies with FIA Regulations and the Supplementary Regulations.

It’s all systems go as Ugandan champion Jas Mangat, Jassy Singh of Zambia and African Champion Esssa Mohammed face off in the seventh and penultimate

round of the FIA African Rally Championship 2013.

The event follows a CACMS/FIA Institute Africa Regional meeting held in Gaborone, Botswana on 29/30th August 2013. Also pres-ent during the CACMS event were the FIA President Jean Todt, FIA Institute President Gerard Saillant, FIA Vice-Presidents Moham-med Ben Sulayem (Middle East) and Vice Presiddent Surinder Thatthi (Africa) and WRC Rally Manager Michele Mouton.

Todt and legendary Mouton presented the best ARC Rally Award 2012 to Mr. Ralph Stead, President of the Zimbabwe Motor

Sport Federation for the highest score in the 2012 ARC rallies for the Zimbabwe Challenge Rally.

All in all, there is no gainsaying that the 2013 ARC series has been action-packed and breathtaking; having already traversed Ivory Coast, South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and now Rwanda before culminating in the island republic of Madagascar.

Rwanda is indeed a significant occasion as this may be the setting with which continen-tal title could be sealed-so thrills and spills are guaranteed. If Mangat wins it and Jassy of Rwanda retires, then the Ugandan will have sealed what has eluded him for years.

Mangat was the victor in his home rally in Kampala besides the peerless drive he displayed prior to winning the Puma Energy Rally of Tanzania.

This year’s series is without a doubt one of the closest fought battles in recent times with Subaru driver Essa having to contend with mechanical gremlins in Kampala and Tanza-nia where he rolled his Subaru contraption.

Essa won the ARC class in Safari in Nairobi subsequent to hurried repairs to superficial damages suffered during the Tanzania roll.

Jassy, son of former two times ARC Cham-pion Muna Singh, is lying second thus far but has been left to rue his retirement in Safari.

All hasn’t been well with Davite and his female navigator Sylvia Vindevogel following multiple retirements in Ivory Coast, Kenya and Uganda-but the Kigali based business-man is at pains to make amends before the home crowd.

Africa’s best converge in Rwanda for penultimate Mountain Gorilla

Jas Mangat and Gihan De Silve

Jassy Singh during the Safari Rally

Christian Gakwaya

STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 6 - V POW-ER PEARL OF AFRICA UGANDA RALLYDRIVERS1. Jas MANGAT (UGA) 832. Jassy Singh (ZMB) 663. Mohamed ESSA (ZMB) 504. Giancarlo DAVITE (RWA) 335. Eric PAGES (CIV) 256. Jan HABIG (RSA) 25NAVIGATORS1.Gihan DE SILVA (UGA) 832.David SIHOKA (ZMB) 733.Greg STEAD(ZIM) 504.Sylvia VINDEVOGEL (RW) 365.Chantal PAGES (CIV) 25


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The 2013 edition of the Rwan-da Mountain Gorilla Rally will be competed over three days. The rally will cover

the picturesque scenery of Rwanda and will take competitors and fans to the northern parts of the country. The total distance of the rally will be 600 kms, of which approximately 300 Kms will be competitive. Head-quarter of the rally is situated in the lively and historic town of Kigali and UMUBANO hotel will be hosting the event HQ, and media center.

The official start of the rally will take place at the Gikondo Expo Ground on Friday 20th September; the whole rally runs in surroundings of Kigali town

Leg 1 will have 8 special stages (5 different)

Leg 2 will have 4 special stages (2 different, will be driven 2 times)

The Podium ceremony will be held on Sunday 22nd September afternoon at the Gikondo Expo Ground.

There are a total of 12 Competi-tive Sections which will be re-run over the course of the rally, the lon-gest of which will be 35 Kms and the shortest 2,4 Kms. The competitive sections will be run in groups of 2 or 3.

The competitive sections will be on gravel roads that are open to the

public. However, information will be relayed to the road users to ensure that traffic is kept to a minimum on the days of the event and roads will be closed one hour and 30 min be-fore the first car.

Leg 1A Friday September 20th, 2013

After a ceremonial start, the cars will proceed to a Spectator Stage at the Gahanga quarry Grounds near Kigali. The stage which is ap-proximately 2.5 Km in length will be competed over two runs, in reverse seeding order. The circuit is located on the Bugesera road. This circuit is famous for its attraction of a high number of spectators, who have numbered ever 50,000 at one time.

Leg 1B Saturday September 21st, 2013

The cars, after an overnight rest at the PSF Ground, will head to the rural area around Kigali the Rwanda capital, towards now known com-petitive sections situated in approxi-mately of the Kigali town

Leg 2 Sunday September 22nd, 2013

The cars, after another overnight rest at the PSF Ground, will race around the city center through the famous Nyacyonga sections.

Event Overview

Cristakis Fitidis


Past Winners Of The Event

2002 Gemmel - Paisley Subaru Impreza

2003 Rueda- Botha Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6

2004 Rudy Canthanede – David Israel Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 3

2005 Late Riyaz Kurji - Kadri Subaru Impreza N10

2006 Late Riyaz Kurji - Kadri Subaru Impreza N8

2007 Conrad Rautenbach - Peter Marsh (ZW) Subaru Impreza N10

2008 Rudy Cantanhede – David Israel Subaru Impreza N11

2009 Giancarlo Davite – Sylvia vindevogel Subaru Impreza N11

2010 Rudy Canthanede – David Israel Subaru Impreza N8

2011 Jean yves Subaru Impreza N11

2012 Elefter Mitralos – Paganin Paolo Subaru Imprezan N11

There are a total of 12 Competitive Sections which

will be re-run over the course of the rally, the longest of which will be 35 Kms and the shortest 2,4 Kms. The competitive sections will be run in groups of 2 or 3.


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KCB Rwanda Mountain Go-rilla Rally 2012 lived up to its billing as one of the best run events in the FIA

African Rally Championship series calendar-thanks to the dedicated Team of young organisers comprising Christian Gakwaya and Salim Abdul-gani Fabrice.

As a matter of fact, the team wasn’t only spot-on in executing it’s duties, but surpassed the expectations of many what with the quality they dis-played in the weekend setting.

This particular edition will perhaps go down in the folklore as one of the most successful events. It treated spec-tators to some exhilarating displays. It was encouraging to see picturesque “fast and furious” stages running up and down the mountains.

With Zambian Mohamed Essa and his Zim partner Greg Stead sealing the 2012

ARC championship in Rally Tan-zania, only 17 cars entered the Kigali based tour.

Spectator fervour was incredible. The super special alone attracted some 6000 spectators. There was no littering reported and most im-portantly no alcohol consumption at the super special witnessed-kudos to spectators for setting a good prec-edent.

Action-wise, the rally was full of drama. Giancarlo Davite and Sylvia Vindevogel crashed out with a sheared ball joint while leading on SS2.

Cristakis Fitidis wasn’t lucky either as he rolled his Subaru in one of the tricky sections.

Elefter Mitraros and his partner Paolo Paganin in a Subaru Impreza was the winner with a cumulative time of 3.55.14hours followed by Ol-ivier Costa and Didier. Duguese in a similar make on 4.08.80 hours

Mitraros rules as Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally organisers impress


Giancarlo Davite & Sylvia Vindevogel

J.Consta and George Semakula

Elefter Mitraros, 2012 Rwanda Rally winner


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Davite was born on the 28th of No-vember, 1963. He started rallying in 2001. Before then, he did slaloms and hill-climb races but car racing

was deeply-rooted in him for as long as he can remember.

“Since I was a child, racing was my big pas-sion. I was one of the lucky boys who had the opportunity to receive a copy of the Autosprint which is an auto racing magazine from Italy

and since I was 12, I was on all rally routes in the whole of Rwanda with my small instamatic camera to take pictures!”

“Legendary Italian rally drivers like Sandro Munari and Miki Biasion helped to up my pas-sion!” said Giancarlo who lives and works in Rwanda. Gincarlo is an owner and General Manager of a pharmaceutical Company in Kiga-li, Rwanda. He admits candidly that it’s not easy to juggle between work and rallying especially

when one has to traverse the African continent.“It’s not easy I must say. But I have structured

my work by giving more task, duties and re-sponsibilities to my colleagues and employees. And when I’m back from rallies, I work for 12 hours a day even more to catch up.” And asked about the big boys of Kenyan racing, Giancarlo remarked: “Big drivers who know very well their roads in Kenya and are almost obdurant on their soil!”

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GIANCARLO DAVITE AND HIS FEMALE NAVIGATOR SYLVIA VINDEVOGEL HAVE ALWAYS HAD A BURNING AMBITION TO LAY THEIR HANDS ON THE COVETED FIA AFRICAN RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP DIADEM. THIS IS ONE PAINSTAKING MISSION THEY HAVE UNSUCCESSFULLY ENDEAVORED TO CARRY OUT WITH CONSIDER-ABLE PASSION AND SACRIFICE; INCLUDING VALUABLE TIME LOST AT WORK JUST TO SUSTAIN CHALLENGES THAT ENTAIL THEIR FIRST LOVE SPORT.

GIANCARLO’S PAST ACHIEVEMENTS Rwanda National Rally Champion in

2008, 2009 and 2011 Twice runner up of the FIA ARC series

in 2010 and 2012 4 times Rwanda Rally Champion in

2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 Twice winner of the KCB East African

Rally Challenge in 2009 and 2012 Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally in 2010

and 2011: 2nd overall Safari Rally 2004: 7th overall in a Golf Safari Kenya 2010: 2nd overall in ARC,

driving a Subaru Kobil Tanzania 2010: 2nd overall Uganda Pearl 2010: 5th (rally stopped

due to Riaz Kurji’s accident) Zimbabwe Toyota Rally 2011: 3rd overall Zimbabwe Toyota Rally 2012: 4th overall Zambia Puma Energy Rally 2012: Leader

till end of leg 1B but broke down in Leg 2 due to transmission problem.

N° DRIVER - CO-DRIVER NAT. VEHICLE CLASS ARC1 DAVITEGIANCARLO RWA SUBARU IMPREZA N11 3 V VINDEVOGEL SYLVIA RWA 3 FITIDIS CHRISTAKIS EAU SUBARU IMPREZA N12 3 V ERIC NZAMWITA EAU 4 MURENGEZI JOHNNY RWA SUBARU IMPREZA N4 S NKUBITOEGIDE RWA 5 MANGAT JAS EAK SUBARU IMPREZA N12 2 V GIHAN DA SILVA EAK 6 MITRAROS ELEFTER RWA SUBARU IMPREZA N10 3 PAGANIN PAOLO RWA 7 KWIZERA CLAUDE RWA SUBARU IMPREZA N10 3 PHILLIPE VDH RWA 12 MUNGYEREZA EDSON EAU SUBARU IMPREZA N4 S MUSIIME ERNEST EAU 13 OTEGA ISMAEL EAU RUNX 2WD KITINGI EDIJARD EAU 14 SEMPEBWA ABDU EAU SUBARU IMPREZA N11 3 WAMALA FRANCIS EAU 16 MUGISHA PATRICK EAU MITSUBISHI LANCER EVO 8 S LUGOLOOBI ARTHUR EAU 17 KANSIIME JONAS EAU SUBARU IMPREZA N10 3 BONGOLE JOSEPH EAU 18 MAYAKA FELEKENI RWA MITSUBISHI LANCER EVO 3 S MUREMBA IDRISSA RWA 19 WAMPAMBA FRED EAU SUBARU IMPREZA N10 3 OLIN ENOCH EAU 20 ABBAS MOHAMED BRD CELICA S MERALI MAZAHIR BRD 21 JANVIER MUTUGA RWA PEUGOT 205 S JULES UWIMANA RWA 22 SEMANA GENESE RWA PEUGOT 205 S HAKIZIMANA JACQUES RWA 23 CYATANGABO ANGE RWA GOLF S NTIRUSHWA HELGA RWA 24 SHIRI HELEN EAK SUBARU N4 S MIONKI TUTA EAK 25 KIWEEWA PATRICK EAU RUNX 2WD MUGISHA SAMUEL EAU 26 BUKENYA ABAAS EAU RUNX 2WD KATUMBA ALI EAU 27 MAYANJA OMAR EAU RUNX 2WD SSENYANGE LEON EAU 28 JASSY SINGH ZMB SUBARU N10 3 DAVID SIHOKA ZMB

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RWANDA MOUNTAIN GORILLA RALLY 2013ITINERARYStart LEG 1A FRIDAY 21 September 2013TC LOCATION First Car DueStart Parc - PSF GIKONDO 13.45CEREMONIAL START RALLY 14.00CS1 QUARRY SUPER STAGE 15.43CS2 QUARRY SUPER STAGE 16:46TC 2D Parc Fermé IN - PSF GIKONDO 17:52Overnight Parc Fermé PSF GIKONDOLEG 1A Totals 31.60KMTIMING - ITINERARYSATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2013Start LEG 1BTC LOCATION First Car DueTC 2E overnight PARC FERME OUT 08:00TC 2F Service IN 08:03 TC 2G Service OUT 08:13TC 3 MUHANDA 1 08:38CS 3 MUHANDA1 - RULI 1 08:41TC 4 BUSORO 1 09:21CS 4 BUSORO 1 - MUHONDO 1 09:24TC4A Regroup IN - PSF GIKONDO 10:39TC 4B Regroup OUT - Service IN 10:49TC 4C Service OUT 11:09TC 5 MUHANDA 2 11:34CS 5 MUHANDA2 - RULI 2 11:37TC 6 BUSORO 2 12:17CS 6 BUSORO 2- MUHONDO 2 12:20TC 6A Regroup IN - PSF GIKONDO 13:35TC 6B Regroup OUT - Service IN 13:45TC 6C Service OUT 14:05TC 7 MUKOTO 1 14:50CS 7 MUKOTO 1 - RUSASA 1 14:53TC 8 KAJEVUBA 1 15:33CS 8 KAJEVUBA 1- NDUBA 1 15:36TC 8A TECHNICAL Zone IN- PSF GIKONDO 16:21 TC 8B TECHNICAL Zone OUT - Service IN 16:24TC 8C Service OUT 17:00TC 8D Parc Fermé IN - PSF GIKONDO 17:12LEG 1B TOTALS All cars must be returned to Parc Fermé not later than

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SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2013Start LEG 2TC LOCATION First Car DueTC 8E PARC Ferme OUT - PSF GIKONDO 08:30TC 8F Service IN 08:33TC 8G Service OUT 08:48TC 9 MUKOTO 09:33CS 9 MUKOTO 2- RUSASA2 09:36TC 10 KAJEVUBA 10:16CS 10 KAJEVUBA 2- NDUBA2 10:19TC 10A

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Service OUT 11:34

TC 11 MUKOTO 12:19CS 11 MUKOTO 3 -RUSASA 3 12:22TC 12 KAJEVUBA 13:02CS 12 KAJEVUBA 3- NDUBA 3 13:05TC 12A

TECHNICAL Zone IN 13:50

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TECHNICAL Zone OUT -Service IN 13:53

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Service OUT - Podium PSF GIKONDO 14:03

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Parc Fermé FINAL - PSF GIKONDO 14:06

TOTAL DISTANCES OF THE RALLYCS Liaison Total *%

Leg 1A - 2 CS 4.60 27.00 31.60 1.60Leg 1B - 6 CS 174.60 171.90 346.50 2.17Leg 2 - 4 CS 101.60 136.80 238.40 36.18Total - 12 CS 280.80 335.70 616.50


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