Kuala Lumpur

Welcome to the tiger rally blog.

Our apologies for not writing till now. The rally is going well and there has been plenty going on, although nothing major to report. Today I will try to catch up with the last 5 days of travel. First I’ll make some introductions- 35 cars and 10 support crew.

The cars are listed on the tiger rally website at www.tigerrally.co.uk and the crew consists of John Brigden and Conrad Birch, event organisers, Olivia Lacey and Julia Jones on logistics, Simon Skelton, Steve and Charlie Yabbsley, mechanics with Dr. David Powell multitasking on mechanics and medicine at times and Dr. Rebecca Hall as the other doctor.. Also we have Jaime Turner back as official rally photographer.

The participants are an interesting bunch. Many are veterans of ROARR rallies in India, others have completed adventurous classic car rallies in Africa as well as several who have completed the epic Peking - Paris route.

The event started in Kuala Lumpur… the cars were unloaded from their containers at the famous Sepang racetrack under the guidance of our colleagues from Velocity who did a fine job in arranging the Malaysian aspects of the rally. A few cars were able to sneak in a lap round the enormous Formula 1 course in true style. Those not driving were making the most of the shopping opportunities and the happy hour cocktails on the enigmatic floor 24 of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. At least the virus ridden Webber/ Milton family had the benefit of a 27th floor room overlooking the incredible twin Petronas towers from their sick bed. Happy to report they are now in fine fettle.


From the hotel the cars paraded through the Golden triangle of KL to the KL Menara Tower, the 4th tallest building in the world as they proudly proclaim. The KL Tower put on a fine spread for us and the flag off was soon after 10.40am for the first stage into the cooler hills of Malaysia. It was a real thrill to see all the cars together leaving from such a dramatic landmark.