Former World Rally Champion, Stig Blomqvist, will drive with the Tuthill Porsche team on this September’s five-day Classic Rally of South Africa.
World Rally Champion of 1984, Stig Blomqvist, will rally a Porsche 911 with Oxfordshire’s Tuthill Porsche team on this September’s five-day Classic Rally of South Africa. A welcome addition to an Escort-dominated entry list for this inaugural South African classic rally, Blomqvists’s challenge comes thirty years after he won the Ivory Coast Rally, en route to the WRC drivers’ championship.
“We’re delighted to announce a second 911 partnering John Lloyd’s Tuthill Porsche for this 2,000-kilometre adventure through a truly epic landscape,” said Richard Tuthill, MD of the renowned classic Porsche specialist, who famously ran seventeen Porsche 911s on last year’s Safari Classic Rally: the largest private rally team ever assembled.
“A second Tuthill Porsche is exciting enough: driven by a former World Rally champion makes it doubly special. Stig showed great pace on last year’s Safari Classic Rally, finishing second overall for Tuthill Porsche after losing the lead due to a puncture on the very last stage. We’re looking forward to supporting the original Stig – a seven-time Swedish Rally winner - over 800 kilometres of stages through the spectacular Mpumalanga District.
“Of course, you don’t have to be a former WRC winner to experience South Africa,” notes Richard Tuthill. “Our cars are built from scratch to please old hands and new boys alike. A virtual novice recently finished fourth overall on the Sydney-London Marathon Rally in a Tuthill 911, such is the confidence inspired by our cars.”
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