Budapest Bamako Car Rally

INDIANS ON THE BUDAPEST-BAMAKO CAR RALLY

Two Indians from Tamilnadu, Aravind B. Kumar and Ejji K. Umamahesh are participating in the second annual BUDAPEST-BAMAKO CAR RALLY. It is an "international adventure car rally" starting from Budapest, (Hungary) and runs through Austria, Italy, Spain, France, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, ending in Bamako (Mali). The rally starts on January 13th 2007.

The two person team, a young entrepreneur and a non-professional rally driver who has participated in the India-Asean Car Rally 2004, have joined together for the purpose of adventure and fun, and to show the world that India does not lag behind in being part of such big international rallies. They will be driving a Nissan Patrol, diesel, 4 wheel drive vehicle. They are doing it on their own cost, without any sponsorship or affiliation to any motor sports organization.

Aravind B Kumar

Ejji Umamahesh

They are very happy to represent India in a rally, not meant for the faint hearted, and being run through the most unimaginable yet exotic, inhospitable, politically volatile and challenging areas on the face of the Earth. The rally is being covered by nearly all the top global print and television media from start to finish. See www.budapestbamako.org for more details

The name of this only Indian team in a rally of more than 100 vehicles, is "CRAZY AUTORICKSHAWS". The name has been carefully chosen to popularize autorickshaws around the world, considering the unprecedented interest the international print and visual media coverage of "The Indian Autorickshaw Challenge 2006" has generated.

The reason is that Aravind and Ejji are the organizers of INDIANARC, "The Indian Autorickshaw Challenge“, a rally by autorickshaws in India, 'An Amazing Race for the Clinically Insane', which proved a huge success with the inaugural run in August 2006. INDIANARC has already scheduled two exciting runs in 2007. See www.indianarc.com for more details.