Karan sets sights on Rally Zambia after conquering Rwanda

Kenya's rallying star Karan Patel says he’s fully focused on winning the two remaining legs of the African Rally Championship as he chases down Uganda’s Yassin Nasser for the 2023 championship.

Fresh from claiming maximum points in Rwanda, Karan says he and his co-driver Tauseef Khan will be pushing harder to win the remaining Zambia and Tanzania legs to claim the ARC gong.

"The strategy is just push as usual; that's what we do best. The target is always to win; any race we go to our aim is to win, we don't want to finish second. So whichever race we go to is to do our best and fortunately our best for us now allows us to come out on top so we will see how long that lasts; hopefully it does as long as we expect. We have two more rounds to go and we are looking forward to winning them both."

Karan has been quite dominant in the local and continental stage in recent years despite losing the ARC title last season to Zambia’s Leroy Gomes in the final hurdle and he hopes one day he will get the coveted opportunity of squaring it out with the big boys in the World Rally Championship.

"We would want to compete (at the WRC) but not on our own expense; we don't want to do that. But should we have the opportunity to drive in the WRC we would definitely take it but the chances are slim. However as long as we continue to dominate locally and continue to prove to be the best team in the continent we are more than happy to continue to do that."

The championship next head to Zambia on the weekend of October 20-22 with the last leg being hosted in Tanzania in November.