Gordon Wilkins covers the 17th East African Safari Rally

The Safari is the roughest rally of the year. It is run in equatorial heat over roads often deep in mud or blocked by floods and falling stones. This Easter the Safari ran for more than 3,000 miles from Mombasa and the beaches of the Indian Ocean to the Mountains of the Moon on the farthest frontiers of Uganda and the Congo. The event has never been won by a European, and many drivers from Britain - among them Tony Fall, Pat Moss-Carlsson, and John Sprinzel - left the starting ramp in Nairobi last week in an all-out bid to take the top prizes away from East African crews for the first time. This is the story of what happened to them.

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