Mombasa born Peter Horsey will return home to Kenya for this weekend’s KCB S&L Mortgages Rally after spending the last few months competing in Europe as part of his prize for winning the Pirelli Star Drive nomination. 26 year old Peter will be co-driven by Dez Page Morris for the Kajiado based rally.
Peter has recently been competing in such exotic locations as Estonia and Finland and even made his tarmac rallying debut in Germany last month, becoming the first Kenyan to score Production Car World Rally Championship points on tarmac.
Now Peter turns his focus back to gravel. Kajiado was the scene of his fifth overall on this year’s KCB Safari Rally and, whilst Peter enjoys the high speed nature of the roads, he also admits that it will take a few sections to get back in the groove of rallying in Africa. “For the last few months every rally I have done has been on closed roads and so I might be a bit cautious now, knowing that there could be traffic coming the other way,” said Horsey. “The organisers make a good effort to ensure closed roads but due to the high population in these areas inevitably you experience a few scares along the route.”
Peter will use the same silver Civicon backed Mitsubishi Evo 9, nick-named Pesi Pesi, with which he scored his Pirelli Star Drive nomination on last years Mountain Gorilla Rally. This weekends rally counts as the sixth of the eight round Kenyan National Rally Championship, consists of five special stages, including the mammoth 60 kilometre run from Kipeto to Kisaju which will be run twice.
– Credit: Geoff Mayes Media.