{"id":197291,"date":"2025-05-03T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-organisers-2025-wrc-safari-rally-attracted-record-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:01:21","slug":"kenya-organisers-2025-wrc-safari-rally-attracted-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-organisers-2025-wrc-safari-rally-attracted-record-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Organisers &#8211; 2025 WRC Safari Rally Attracted Record Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The 2025 WRC Safari Rally attracted over 400,000 people, the biggest attendance since the event returned to the global championship calendar in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Speaking on Wednesday, Safari Rally CEO, Charles Gacheru also announced that preparations for the 2026 event were already underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;From the FIA reports, we can see that we had huge viewership for this rally, 400 percent more impressions, 53 percent more engagements; the data is telling us the public is responding to what we are doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020442.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The 2025 WRC Safari Rally attracted over 400,000 people, the biggest attendance since the event returned to the global championship calendar in 2021. Speaking on Wednesday, Safari Rally CEO, Charles Gacheru also announced that preparations for the 2026 event were already underway. &#8220;From the FIA reports, we can see that we had huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,21715,4688,430,257,8967,18731,8976,5267,13988,254,19271],"class_list":["post-197291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attracted","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-numbers","tag-organisers","tag-rally","tag-record","tag-safari","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wrc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}