{"id":133988,"date":"2026-03-12T12:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/2026-wrc-is-finally-here-as-drivers-complete-the-shakedown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:02:58","slug":"2026-wrc-is-finally-here-as-drivers-complete-the-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/2026-wrc-is-finally-here-as-drivers-complete-the-shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WRC is finally here as drivers complete the Shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 WRC Safari Rally is finally here featuring 45 drivers, including 17 from Kenya, who will navigate through 20 stages between today and Sunday, covering a total of 338 km.<\/p>\n<p>This event marks the third leg of the 2026 WRC calendar, following the Rally Monte Carlo in January and Rally Sweden last month.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators will watch the first two competitive stages at Camp Moran 1 from 4 p.m. and Mzabibu 1 from 5:21 p.m today<\/p>\n<p>Loldia was initially set to include a new rough section, but it was removed before the rally began, reducing the overall distance from 350.52 km to 338.34 km.<\/p>\n<p>Rally 1 features 10 foreign drivers from three different manufacturers: Hyundai, Toyota, and Ford.<\/p>\n<p>In Rally 2, 17 drivers are participating, including 7 from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Three drivers will compete in the Rally 3 category, with the remaining participants in National Rally 2 and National Rally 4.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota has dominated the last five WRC Safari Rally editions since 2021, with Kalle Rovanperra and Sebastian Ogier each securing two wins, while Elfyn Evans claimed victory last year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/2026-wrc-is-finally-here-as-drivers-complete-the-shakedown\/\">2026 WRC is finally here as drivers complete the Shakedown<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 WRC Safari Rally is finally here featuring 45 drivers, including 17 from Kenya, who will navigate through 20 stages between today and Sunday, covering a total of 338 km. This event marks the third leg of the 2026 WRC calendar, following the Rally Monte Carlo in January and Rally Sweden last month. Spectators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}