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Old 18th June 2008, 21:19   #72 (permalink)
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June 20th 1945
Shekhar Mehta, the only five-time winner of the Safari Rally, was born in Uganda. The most grueling rally race in the world, the Safari originated in 1953 at the behest of the Royal East African Automobile Association. He was born in 1945 to an Indian family of plantation owners in Uganda, and began rallying behind the wheel of a BMW aged 21. In 1972 he and his family fled Idi Amin's regime to Kenya.
Through the most successful period of his career he drove Nissan/Datsun 240Z car.

June 20th 1987
First Junior Go-Kart race was run at the three-quarter-mile cross-country course outside of Easton, Maryland. Racer William Smith won this event in his 50cc Yamaha Green Dragon.

Shekar Mehta
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Nissan 240Z, which is still in the exact state in nissan warehouse in Japan
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