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As the National Rally Championship gathers steam, crews are setting sights on how best to achieve their season targets, even more for teams like the crew of Yassin Nasser and Ali Katumba that have already hit the ground running.
As the National Rally Championship gathers steam, crews are setting sights on how best to achieve their season targets, even more for teams like the crew of Yassin Nasser and Ali Katumba that have already hit the ground running.
The Moil-sponsored crew claimed the rally season opener in February in the Mbarara Rally with their newly acquired Ford Fiesta Rally2.
Co-driver Ali Katumba says it’s been a great start which has seen them learn how to use the new car.
“From when we got the new car (In November 2022), we’ve been trying to learn it; we decided that we shall do all the National Rally Championship rounds and the Africa Rally Championship,” Katumba told Pulse Sports.
Katumba stressed that the target is to reclaim the Africa Rally Championship, a feat last achieved in 1999 by Charles Muhangi (RIP) in his famous ‘Ekyitaagururo’ rally car.
“As a team, our goal is to win the Africa Rally Championship because it’s been long (since 1999), so hopefully we bring it back to Uganda, but even if we don’t win it, we shall try again next year,” he noted.
Nasser and Katumba are the only two Ugandan rally crews that earned a podium finish at the Kenya Equator Rally in March.
The Moil crew finished second behind Kenya’s Karen Patel, while Jas Mangat, navigated by Joseph Kamya, came third.
Both Ugandan crews will be hoping to perform better on home soil in the Pearl of Africa Rally to better their chances of competing in the Africa Rally Championship.
The Pearl of Africa rally will be the third event on the Africa Rally Championship calendar, with Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Zambia as the other championships to be raced later in the year.
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