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Carl Tundo

Kenyan rally driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2939004 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carl "Flash" Tundo (born 11 December 1973 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan rally driver. He is a five times winner of the Safari Rally. In 2009, it was a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, making Tundo the first and only Kenyan winner of an IRC round. His co-driver has been Tim Jessop since 2002.

Tundo is the son of Kenyan rally driver Frank Tundo.

Tundo competed twice in the WRC Safari Rally, in 2002 and in 2021.

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The public source identifies “Carl Tundo” as kenyan rally driver. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Carl, Tundo and Kenyan.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 2009, 2002, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-12-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Carl, Tundo and Kenyan providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2939004. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1973, 2009, 2002 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carl Tundo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.