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Monday, October 31, 2005

4x4 Motor Sport Challenge in Zambia Safari

About 15 drivers last weekend participated in the Zambia Motor Sport Association (ZMSA) 4x4 challenge. This was the fifth and final event of this year’s national 4x4 calendar. The venue will was at Fringilla Farms in Chisamba near Lusaka on Saturday October 28, 2005.

Commissioner Fred Anderson said the two-day TrenTyre-sponsored event would draw not less than 15 drivers from both the Copperbelt and the Midlands of Zambia. The Lusaka Motor Club (LMC) chairman said he was pleased with the response from some business houses and drivers who had made the championship possible.

Some of the drivers who featured were Omega Simatanga in a Mitsubishi short wheel base, Jimmy Crause (Mahindra), Adriaan Naude (Ford twin-cab) and Gary Shiel (Isuzu single-cab). Adriaan and Gary were both from TrenTyre.

Others were the Action Auto trio of Joseph Felemenga (Isuzu double-cab), Ashish Patel, Jimmy Dons (Maruti) and ZMSA vice-president Raju Saran.

Other motor rally shows for the year were the annual Zim-Zam (Zimbabwe- Zambia) Challenge held at Monze town in Southern Province and the Action Auto Siavonga 4x4 Challenge, held two months ago at Siavonga. Siavonga is Zambia’s newest safari town located on the lakeshore of Lake Kariba. When completed 1959 Lake Kariba was the largest man-made lake in Africa.

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