Kajetan Kajetanwicz took the leadership of the WRC 2 Category in the WRC Safari Rally Kenya .
The Polish ace, switching to a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 after years campaigning Škoda machinery, moved to the top of the leaderboard when early pacesetter Oliver Solberg hit trouble on the second run through Camp Moran.
Solberg, joint WRC2 championship coming into the weekend, had looked untouchable in the morning. He carved out a 40.3sec advantage before disaster struck – beaching his Yaris in a deep bed of fesh-fesh and retiring for the day.
Kajetanowicz, despite nursing a puncture earlier in the leg, kept his cool to pick up the pieces and end the day 10.2sec clear of Gus Greensmith.
“It is exactly as tough or even tougher than we predicted,” said Kajetanowicz. “There are many stones and we had a puncture on one of the stages – fortunately with just seven kilometres to go on this long, over 30-kilometre test.
By Bernard Okumu
