Moses Matovu, a Muganda and arguably one of the top co-drivers in Africa, will team up with young Zambian talent Mohammed Essa for the forthcoming Zambia International Rally, the penultimate round of the 2010 African Rally Championship.

Matovu, who recently stepped down from a World Rally Championship seat with Peter Horsey due to work commitments, will now call the notes for 21 year old Essa for an event that they both know well. Essa is a double National Rally Champion in his Subaru Impreza N11 and after narrowly missing the win on this event 12 months ago the young talent will be gunning for overall honours.

Moses is looking forward to being back in action; it’s been a long time since WRC Rally Portugal, my last event, but I’ve always enjoyed Zambia and it’ll be good to challenge for a good result! Mohammed is a proven package and so it should be a good weekend!

The 2010 Zambia International Rally is the fifth round of the FIA African Rally Championship and consists of three days of high octane rallying action around Lusaka. The rally begins with a popular super special stage in the heart of the capital on Friday. From there the competitors face a number of challenging sections around the Chisamba region for the next two days before returning to Lusaka for the ceremonial finish on Sunday afternoon.

For more information on the rally please visit www.motorsport.co.zm

International rallying co-driver Moses Matovu narrowly missed out on a podium finish on last weekend’s Toyota Zimbabwe Challenge Rally when he co-drove fellow Ugandan Emmanuel Katto to fifth overall and fourth registered driver in the three day long event.

The lead up to this, the final round of the 2009 FIA African Rally Championship, was not ideal, with Moses having to lend a hand to ensure the Tommi Makinen Rallying prepared Subaru Impreza N14 was ready to rally, and thus the team missed out on the opportunity to recce the special stages. This put Emmanuel and Moses on a back foot and when the car suffered with suspension problems the team focused on securing a finish, rather than challenging for the win.

On Sunday morning Moses even took the wheel of the 300 bhp Subaru for two stages and was pleased to set times comparable with rallying legend Katto on roads he had never seen before!

The Zimbabwe Challenge Rally certainly lives up to its name every year. And 2009 was no exception. We struggled with setup issues and weren’t helped by having to borrow pace notes which were in a different format to our own. The gesture by the other competitors for offering us their personal notes was fantastic and I thank everyone for all of their assistance.

We ended the rally tantalisingly close to securing our third podium finish of the season but at least we scored another finish which helped both Emmanuel and I take third in the title race.

Whilst the 2009 FIA African Rally Championship might now be over Moses still has a busy period ahead of him. The popular Ugandan will travel to Rwanda on 18 September to call notes for rising Kenyan driver Peter Horsey in a Mitsubishi Evo 9. The KCB Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally sees the young talents from across Africa go head to head for the Pirelli Star Drive, a fully funded drive in six WRC rounds in 2010!

Final FIA African Rally Championship co-drivers points

Phil Archenoul  42 points

David Shioka                31

Moses Matovu          22

For more on the team please visit www.emkarally.com

For more on the African Rally Championship visit www.africanrallychampionship.com