The top 5 finishers were Jas Mangat, Duncan Mubiru, Arthur Blick, Hassan Alwi and Ronald Sebuguzi. Sodo Aine brough his Pajero home in 7th ahead of Musa Kabega in 8th. The leading 2WD of Otega finished in 9th overall with Katungi (Subaru Impreza GC8) rounding off the top 10. Leila Mayanja finished 11th overall and behind Otega in 2WD but would be consoled with collecting 6 out of 10 stage wins. All 3 subarus from Burundi had retired starting with Sultan Kalula who was on Saturday, unfortunately taken out on transport by a speeding Police car. Zamin Mwananteba with her Ugandan co driver Suzanne Kalema brought his celica home in 14th while Nadir Jawed finished 16th of the 16 cars that finished the rally.
Jas had spent 2014 and 2015 rallying outside Uganda and the
quality of the experience he had gathered showed. Nothing says perfect execution like doing a
stage in 7:22 and repeating it in 7:21, doing another in 20:05 and repeating it
in 20:05, and doing a stage when you are tired on Saturday afternoon in 19:31
and repeating it in the morning on Sunday in 19:34. It is typical not just here but even in the
WRC for drivers to shed massive time on the repeat of a stage. Jas showed that he could get it right on the
first hack.
Hassan was the revelation of the season and he had done it
very early in the year. By sharing stage
wins with Mr. Perfect Execution he showed that bigger things were to come. Duncan also showed class in his first time
with the Evo X posting consistently second fastest times and was never
challenged for the second step of the podium.
If Mangat had seemed untouchable in 2012 and 2013, perhaps in these two
young stars we had the talent and equipment to shake him.
Stage winners
NRC: Jas 7, Hassan 3, Desh 1 (tied with Jas on CS2)
2WD: Leila 6, Otega 4
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