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Confifi-Silverstone Rally July 26-27 The Confifi Group in collaboration with the Ceylon Motor Sports Club (CMSC) and the Kandy Motor Sports Club (KMSC) has organised the upcoming Confifi-Silverstone Rally on the weekend of 26th and 27th of July, 2003. The Confifi Group Hotels are actively engaged in promotion of sports based tourism and in promoting Beruwela as one of the leading tourist destinations in Sri Lanka into a major attraction for sports based events. The Confifi Group Hotels recently successfully sponsored and organised for the first time in Beruwela the Confifi Beach Derby horse racing, which proved to be a tremendous success, attracting around 10,000 local residents and tourists. The Confifi Group Hotels have also planned to host for the first time in Sri Lanka an international beach volleyball tournament in September 2003. It is intended that teams from all over the world will participate in what is one of the fastest growing sports and now also an Olympic Sport. In keeping with this theme, Confifi Group is also sponsoring this 400 km rally, which will start at the Parliament Grounds in Colombo on July 26 and end after a gruelling and challenging route at Club Palm Garden Resort in Beruwela on Sunday, July 27. In order to attract both the novices and veterans in rallying, it is planned to have several categories comprising of motor cycles, two wheel and four wheel drive cars and for the first time, a trophy for the Best Novice too will be awarded. A spokesman for CMSC, Mr. Yohan Lawrence said that they were currently in the process of plotting the rally route and were planning a challenging route network of roads and conditions to test both the skills of the drivers, and in particular, the navigational abilities of the co-drivers and navigators. In 2002, the same rally organised by the CMSC was jointly won by the teams comprising of Stefan Furkhan, Olitha Gunaratne and Aslam Chatoor and team comprising of Dinesh Senanayake, and Riyaz Sangani. Tariq Hassen was the first runner-up while Falel Nafeez was the second runner-up. The Confifi Group has recently been appointed as the distributors in Sri Lanka for Silverstone Rally and Competition Tyres. |
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