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Ian Duncan and Amaar Slatch win Safari Classic in Ford Mustang

A Ford has won the Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic Rally 2009 for the second time in succession. In 2007, it was a Ford Escort from Europe that took the overall victory but now it is the turn of the American breed to win with a car prepared and driven by Kenyan, Ian Duncan. His superiority was almost unchallenged throughout the event though for the first two or three days, it was pretty much neck-and-neck between Duncan in the Mustang and 2007 winner, Björn Waldegård in a Porsche 911 co-driven by the car's owner, Iqbal Sagoo.

Porsche 911s came in strength this year and Gerard Marcy, accompanied this year by Stephane Prevot, was very much the favourite before the start. But a coming-together with a hole in a Tanzanian road on the second day of the rally lost him too much time and, despite setting several fastest times, he was only able to finish fourth. However, there were six Porsche 911s in the top ten finishers with Thomas Flohr, Steve Troman, Jean-Pierre Mondron and Paul-Eric Jarry all finishing strongly with examples of the German marque.

The final place on the podium was taken by a Datsun 260Z driven by Steve Perez, an excellent result for the British driver. Though they were by far the most numerous at the start, Datsuns took a bit of a hammering in the results this year with Graham Alexander's Australian 260Z the only other of the Japanese cars to finish in the top ten. He took sixth place between the Porsches of Flohr and Troman. Rounding out the top ten was a Ford Escort Mk1 driven by Aziz Tejpar - the son of the former competitor on the Safari famous for tackling it with a DAF - who was driving an Ian Freestone prepared car on this his first major event.

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