Snorkels are set to make a return to the top tier of the World Rally Championship at next week’s Safari Rally Kenya.
Snorkels were famously adopted by WRC teams in previous editions of the event – prior to its WRC return in 2021 – to help cars navigate through sections of tricky terrain, preventing water and dust from entering the engine. The device made a re-appearance when the Safari Rally returned to the WRC, but regulations prohibited Rally1 cars from using them. However, the FIA has this year altered the regulations to allow the top class to add snorkels to the cars.
“We are right in the middle of the rainy season now so we can expect the places where we had the fesh-fesh in the past could be full of mud, so I don’t know what to expect to be fair, I think it will be new,” Fourmaux told Motorsport.com’s Gravel Notes podcast.
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