Kigali, July 13 -- Team Duran Racing's ace rally duo of Hyderabad's Naveen Puligilla and co-driver Musa Sherif of Kasaragod produced a stunning performance to win the ARC3 class in the 2026 Rwanda Mountain Gorilla Rally, the third round of the FIA African Rally Championship (ARC), which concluded here late on Sunday night.

Apart from winning the ARC3 category, the Hyderabad-Kasaragod pair punched well above their weight in their Ford Fiesta Rally3, prepared and serviced by MRU Motorsport Africa, to finish an impressive fourth overall, competing against several more powerful Rally2 cars in a field of 17 entries from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Denmark and India, according to a press release.

"These gravel stages a...