ARTICLE ISSUED BY:  JOSEPH M. MWANGALA

BRIEF ON THE 2ND ROUND HELD ON 2ND/3RD JUNE, 2012 IN UGANDA.

The 2nd round of the FIM Africa Central Africa Challenge took place on the weekend of the 2nd/3rd June, 2012 at the Uganda Motorsports Arena track – Busiika, Uganda.  This round saw the participation of 59 riders – 19 from Kenya and 40 from Uganda.  The entry list also had 2 female riders, Esther Mwangala in the 50cc class and Sharifa Nansereka in the 65cc class.

For the first time round, Uganda’s effort to build for the future of motocross saw the dream start to materialize when Uganda swept all the junior motocross categories.  Uganda dominated the junior categories by taking all the top 3, top 2  and 1st position of the MX 50, MX 65 and MX 85 classes respectively.   Kenya retained its dominance in the senior classes by taking the first 2 positions in each of the Mx 125 and MX 2 classes while in the MX 1 class Kenya took the first but Uganda took the 2nd and 3rd position.

For the first time in the organization of motocross in Uganda, the organizers of the event provided a standby chopper  to airlift a rider in case of an emergency.  Luckily enough, because no major incident occurred,  the chopper never had to airlift anybody.

The event was sponsored by Farm Engineering Industries Ltd – the title sponsor,  Blue Sky International, Yamatec Ltd, International Air Ambulance, Safe Solutions Ltd, All Seasons Events Ltd, and Photogenix (U) Ltd.

50cc

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

55    Fortune Sentamu    Uganda    1st

112    Joshua Mwangala    Uganda    2nd

120    Ben Nsumba    Uganda    3rd

65cc

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

22    Ali Omar    Uganda    1st

99    Alistair Blick    Uganda    2nd

21    Rolf Kihara    Kenya    3rd

85cc

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

98    Fatuh Kiggundu    Uganda    1st

239    Walter Kuria    Kenya    2nd

999    Waweru Ngugi    Kenya    3rd

Mx 125

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

90    Apollo Mbuki    Kenya    1st

188    Rohan Gandhi    Kenya    2nd

22    Chris Prinsloo    Uganda    3rd

Mx 2

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

55    Tutu Maina    Kenya    1st

15    Ivan Guya    Kenya    2nd

1    Yannick Duyck    Uganda    3rd

Mx 1

Bike Number    Names    Country    Position

96    Shivam Vinayak    Kenya    1st

777    Maxime Van Pee    Uganda    2nd

99    Arthur Blick    Uganda    3rd