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2003 MRF India Rally to be biggest since 1991
Chennai, Nov 24: The 2003 MRF India rally will be the biggest motorsports event in the country since 1991 when the last of the world famous Himalayan Rally was run in the northern parts of the country.
Chennai, Nov 24: The 2003 MRF India rally will be the biggest motorsports event in the country since 1991 when the last of the world famous Himalayan Rally was run in the northern parts of the country.
For the motorsport buffs, there would be plenty of action and sights in store in the MRF India rally. Apart from the powerful APRC vehicles, nine Mitsubishi Lancers (Evolution), a Proton Pert and a Suzuki Ignis Super 1600, two Subaru cars from Malaysia in rally team would be run as the forward vehicles (00 and 0), according to Motorsports Association of India (MAI) president Nazir Hoosein.
As part of the preparations, Paul Willans, the assistant clerk-of-the-course (COC), Rally of Australia, has been conducting training programmes in Pune and Nashik during the past one month, for the Marshalls, who would be manning the rally route, he informed.
''Our intention is to achieve candidate status for the World Rally Championship (WRC) in about three or four years time, and to this end, we want to run the event extremely well,'' Hoossein pointed out.
Bureau Report
For the motorsport buffs, there would be plenty of action and sights in store in the MRF India rally. Apart from the powerful APRC vehicles, nine Mitsubishi Lancers (Evolution), a Proton Pert and a Suzuki Ignis Super 1600, two Subaru cars from Malaysia in rally team would be run as the forward vehicles (00 and 0), according to Motorsports Association of India (MAI) president Nazir Hoosein.
As part of the preparations, Paul Willans, the assistant clerk-of-the-course (COC), Rally of Australia, has been conducting training programmes in Pune and Nashik during the past one month, for the Marshalls, who would be manning the rally route, he informed.
''Our intention is to achieve candidate status for the World Rally Championship (WRC) in about three or four years time, and to this end, we want to run the event extremely well,'' Hoossein pointed out.
Bureau Report