Drivers that will take part in this year’s edition of Mbarara City rally, have today reached in Mbarara City ahead of the competition.

The event organised by MPU Motor club in conjunction with Mbarara City Rally Club (MCRC), saw 39 crews that registered to take part, all reach in Mbarara and went through a car scrutineering exercise at BMA petrol station in Mbarara City, with the drivers with unwanted writings on their cars, being forced to remove them before being checked.

Top drivers Jas Mangat, Ronald Ssebuguzi, Ponsiano Lwakata, Jonas Kansiime, Yassin Nasser, Baylon Rugomoka in addition to home boys Didas Matsiko and Christopher Bebanza Kateera, all had their cars checked for tomorrow’s event.

There were worries the event would not take place following last week’s police storming of the FMU extra ordinary assembly in Kampala and stopping it, but MPU president Daniel Bogere explained that all has been settled with the securing of the speed lift and all needed to organise a rally.

A Traffic Police Officer And Other Scrutineering Offcials Check Through One Of The Driver's Car

“The event is on as earlier scheduled and although we have had hiccups here and there, but they have well been handled that we secured all the  nstruments including the speed lift, from the ministry of works and transport,” Bogere said.

Adding, “All the drivers that registered to take part are here including the elite drivers Jas Mangat, Ronald Ssebuguzi, Yassin Nasser, Ponsiano Lwakataka, mention them and are all ready to take on each other in this competition,”

Tomorrow Saturday, the drivers will go into competition proper with the early morning two sections before the super special stage at Booma Grounds in Mbarara City.

For the first time the super special stage will be done on a tarmac which the organisers say it is a good challenge to watch.

The organisers have also staked cash prizes for the first three overall winners, trophies to the first three winners in all the categories and then certificates to every driver that will take part in the event.