By Venessa Namusabi
The second round of the National Sprint Championship will run alongside the sixth round of the Mountain Dew national motocross championship in Garuga and will be a precursor to the FIM Africa in Zimbabwe next month.
The event will be honour of the fallen young rider Mary Nalwanga who lost her life on Saturday in training preparing for this event.
The Federation and motorsport fraternity is grieved and a lap of honour will be conducted and special recognition of Fair Play award will be awarded to that competitor who rides safely on the track, according to Omar Mayanja the event manager.
“We are grieved together with the family of Nalwanga. In this event, we shall honour her with a lap of honour, moment of silence and a prize awarded to fair play rider of the day,” Mayanja said.
Scrutineering will be done Saturday at Shell in Kampala, and racing will be on Sunday in Garuga.
Three heats per each class and then rally sprint.
This weekends event will also have tough safety measures observed before, during, and after the event.
The fully equipped ambulance with the qualified medical staff must be present before the practice starts, and also, there must be an exit for the ambulance and regular watering of the track for better visibility on during racing.
The has also been renovated, and riders are expected to race on better track.
Enock Olinga, the clerk of the course, thanked the organisers for upgrading both the motocross and rally tracks.
The event is supported by Shell, Worldwide Movers, Mountain Dew, Rose Foam, and fire safety appliances.
However, it will be a battle of machines as Subaru racers have vowed to beat their proto counterparts.
“My target is to beat all these so-called top racers driving Evos and protos including Sebuguzi, Omar Mayanja come ready for the show down, but you will fall,” Kalule Peter said.
