Stig Blomqvist was one of those heroes, and the 1984 World Rally Champion rejoins the Tuthill Porsche squad for 2015. Safari was the event most feared by our childhood rally heroes and the years since this rally was last part of the WRC calendar have not softened the challenge that it represents. Stig Blomqvist and Stéphane Prevot: A New Partnership Tuthill Porsche is privileged to run the greatest historic rally cars in the world through this glorious wilderness. Maintaining the health and sanity of eighty people on an event spanning two countries in a relatively remote part of planet Earth is a daunting undertaking, but we do it for the epic adventure of marathon rallying, the joy of Safari and the love of Africa. Those left holding the fort back at Wardington in Oxfordshire are still very much part of our effort, helping with last-minute parts and other supplies. Our core team of twenty-five full-time employees expands exponentially to more than eighty people on-event for Safari, with team members flying to Kenya from destinations all over the world. The logistics involved in getting this many cars through 4,000 kilometres of competitive rally stages over nine days of rallying would terrify even the biggest factory rally teams: multiply the average two-car works squad times six – including people, tyres, parts and pitfalls – to get some idea of the scale of this endeavour. The first team members have been in Kenya setting up our base camp since the start of November, with new people arriving daily up to November 17, when the final group of Porsche drivers touches down in Kenya ahead of rally start. Tuthill Porsche has twelve historic 911 rally cars competing on this year’s East African Safari Classic Rally, which starts in Mombasa, Kenya on November 19.
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