Mangat battles Kenyans in the Kisumu Rally

By Johnson Were

Kisumu top 20 Crew entries

ENTRY LIST - KCB KISUMU RALLY

1 8 Onkar Rai/Gareth Dawe (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 2 1 Baldev Chager/Ravi Soni (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2)
 3 99 Tapio Laukkanen/Pasi Torma (Subaru Impreza RC2-R4)
 4 6 Manvir Baryan/Drew Sturrock (Ford Fiesta RC2-R5)
 5 5 Jaspreet Chatthe/Gurdeep Panesar (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 6 4 Rajbir Rai/Timothy Challen (Ford Fiesta RC2-R5)
 7 3 Ian Duncan/Amaar Slatch (Nissan Patrol NAT-SPV)
 8 2 Carl Tundo/Tim Jessop (Proton Neo Satria RC2-S2000)
 9 15 Alastair Cavenagh/Gavin Laurence (Proton Neo Satria RC2-S2000)
 10 9 Raajpal Bharij/Jasneil Ghataure (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 11 95 Jas Mangat/Cedric Buzabo (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-R4)
 12 25 Izhar Mirza/TBA (Mitsubishi Evolution 9 RC2-N4)
 13 14 Tejveer Rai/Zahir Shah (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 14 17 Jasmeet Chana/Ravi Chana (Mitsubishi Evolution 9 RC2-N4)
 15 18 Farhaaz Khan/Riyaz Ismail (Mitsubishi Evolution 9 RC2-N4)
 16 19 Karan Patel/Tauseef Khan (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 17 22 Mahesh Halai/Ketan Halai (Subaru Impreza N12 RC2-N4)
 18 24 Ghalib Hajee/Bharat Pattni (Mitsubishi Evolution 10 RC2-N4)
 19 47 Asad Khan/TBA (Subaru Impreza N10 RC2-N4)​

The Crew of Jas Mangat and Cedric Buzabo will battle top Kenyan rally drivers in the Kisumu rally on Saturday.

Mangat who in 2013 won the Uganda National Rally Championship (NRC) and narrowly missed the Africa rally Championship (ARC) Crown returns to the cockpit after a year.

The Kisumu event will be competitivey as all crews have got the latest machines ranging from the Mitsubishi Evo 10 R4, Evo 10 R5s, Subaru N16 and S2000s.

Buzaabo who makes a return after a period of 5 years told new vision before departure on Thursday that they are set and nothing will stop them from delivering.

"I have navigated for Jas Mangat in 2 rallies in Kenya and NRC for Ronald Ssebuguzi, so this is not going to be a challenge to me only," Buzaabo stated.

The one day event on Saturday in Kisumu has attracted Kenya's top rally crews with the latest powerful machines.