World class drivers on Race4Change Safari Classic

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Race4Change.org – the philanthropic organization racing this year’s East African Safari Classic Rally to promote the economic empowerment of women in Africa – recently announced the first three drivers supporting its 2011 campaign.

Leading the Race4Change charge is Bjorn Waldegard, motorsport’s first-ever World Rally Champion and five time winner of the historic event : four times on Safari Rally and once on Safari Classic. As with their first Classic Safari victory in 2007, Mathias Waldegard will co-drive for his father.

Backing Bjorn will be X-Games legend and NASCAR superhero, Travis Pastrana.

Travis; Competing in the East African Safari Rally is something I have always dreamt of doing. With the help of Race4Change, I will finally be able to realize my ambition. Supporting such an ambitious cause makes this event all the more special. I can’t wait to get to Africa in November with Race4Change.

Third man on the list is Patrick Njiru, former WRC driver and local hero. Driving for Subaru on the 1994 Safari Rally, Njiru crossed the line in fourth, one place ahead of Richard Burns in similar machinery and winning Group N in the process. Patrick has completed the car killing Safari an impressive seven times.

Classic Safari is the ultimate rally challenge, said Steven Funk, the Canadian Philanthropist underwriting the Race4Change. The bigger Race4Change goal: to promote the economic empowerment of women in Africa, using this epic event to reach the widest possible audience, is no walk in the park either. By rally end, our entire team will have pushed itself to the limit, but what else is life for?

Renowned rally experts, Tuthill Porsche of Oxfordshire, England, are supplying the cars and on-event support.

Steven; Driving our cars the full distance, exposing them to as many engaged spectators as possible, with our story attracting support and donations on the race4change.org website is key part of the campaign. Our partnership with Tuthills couldn’t be more important.

With world class drivers and world class cars, a Race4Change victory at the Safari Classic is not outside the realms of possibility, but it all comes down to your definition of winning. Crossing the line faster the rest is one of them: changing the lives of thousands, even hundreds of thousands is another.

The East African Safari Classic is a biennial event that starts from the Kenyan coast, taking crews through thousands of kilometers into Tanzania and back to the Kenyan Coast over a period of a fortnight. Only cars made before 1975 are eligible to compete.

The Race4Change Safari Classic team will attack in four identical Porsche 911’s.

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