Waldegaar wins rally
NZPA-Reuter Nairobi Sweden’s Bjorn Waldegaard, whose Toyota Celica roared without major fault over 5258 km of some of the world’s roughest roads, won Kenya’s Safari Motor Rally by a slim 11-minute margin. Waldegaard, aged 40, and his Swedish navigator, Hans Thorszelius, checked in at the rally’s finish in Nairobi with a final score of only 122 penalty minutes after five days of coping with deserts, downpours and rocky hill climbs. Rauno Aaltonen, of Finland, driving an Opel Manta
400 with Kenyan co-driver Lofty Drews, took second place with a tally of 133 penalty minutes ahead of the world champion rally driver, Hannu Mikkola, of Finland and his Swedish navigator, Arne Hertz, in an Audi Quattro, with 145 penalty minutes. Third place was enough to give Mikkola the lead in this year’s world rally drivers’ standings with 44 championship points, ahead of the previous leader, Stig Blomqvist, of Sweden who did not finish and is now second with 35.
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