The Rogue Rally, it’s ‘the ultimate challenge’ according to the event’s website. An epic battle, pitting the greatest machine’s ever designed against one another over six days and 2 800km where ‘captains of industry’ let loose and their imaginations run free.
It is, in fact, one massive party and an excuse for supercar owners to drive their machinery from Johannesburg to Cape Town, stopping along the way to enjoy the sights our beautiful country has to offer.
Knysna is of course one of those stops. And if there is one thing that comes to mind when Knysna and motorcars are involved, it’s the Knysna Hill Climb, which the Rogue Rally look to recreate for its participants.
This of course draws a crowd. I mean who doesn’t like to watch some very, very expensive machinery put to a proper test.
Unfortunately, motorsport is dangerous – even for spectators – as last week the driver of a yellow Lamborghini Superleggera lost control beyond the finish line of the time trial up Old Cape Road, near Simola Country Estate.
The Lamborghini ploughed into a Toyota Prado and a Mercedes Vito parked on the side of the road. A 48-year old man and his 49-year-old wife were standing near the vehicles and could not move out of the way in time, leaving them in critical condition in a local hospital. Initial reports state the two spectators suffered severed limbs from the impact.
Police spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie said the driver was also injured, received treatment in hospital and was discharged. The names of those involved have not yet been released.
