Rally with Rajans on July 14

MOTOR RALLY: Kandy's famous Motor Rally, 'Rally with Rajans', will go on top gear this year and it is A 'MUST' for thrill seekers and adventurers.

The '91 Rajans of the Dharmaraja College OBU will hold Kandy's very popular 'Rally with Rajans' motor rally for the third consecutive year on July 14, 2012, to coincide with the school's 125th anniversary celebrations.

This year's Rally will begin from the top floor of the Kandy Municipal Council's (KMC) four storied car park near the Kandy City Center shopping complex and will end at Dharmaraja College's swimming pool complex. The first Rally vehicle will leave the KMC car park at 12 noon whilst remaining vehicles will get on track with a gap of two minutes each.

Claiming that 'there is an adventurer living within everybody', the enthusiastic organising body announced that the Rally theme for 2012 is 'Explore the real you' where competitors are expected to find the track highly challenging and arduous, especially in comparison with previous years. 2012's exciting Rally track will exceed 90 kilometres in length, with a gruelling mix of both on road and off road driving.

Furthermore, competitors will not be given a Rally route but will need to navigate their way by referring to a 'special instructions' leaflet in which the majority of information provided will be in time and/or distance units" said a spokesperson.

Female competitors welcome

An equal opportunity event, female competitors and both individual and team competitors are strongly encouraged by the organisers to participate. All Rally drivers and Navigators will be subject to a thorough medical check-up prior to the event and will be briefed on rules and conditions, time and distance calculations and appropriate safety practices to follow. The awards presentation and closing ceremony will take place later in the evening at the Queen's Hotel in Kandy, followed by dinner.

The "Rally with Rajans" motor rally is the only annual motoring event in the Kandy region. First organised in 2010 by the '91 Rajans as a fund raising campaign for their Alma-Mater, Dharmaraja College, Kandy, the event today has a considerable fellowship and enjoys high popularity amongst both professional and amateur rally drivers and sport enthusiasts. The main objective behind this year's Rally is to raise funds for the school's state-of-the-art Language Laboratory, estimated to cost Rs. 4 million.

The rally is one of many fund raising projects towards this end. For further information, please contact Asanka (0772 069 110), Ranjith (0773 373 200) or Manjula (0777 291 486).