The Ivory Coast hosted the 46^th edition of the Bandama Rally (21-23 February) around Yamoussoukro, with 12 gravel stages totalling 2 legs and 273.22 competitive kilometres. Guy Botteril and Simon Vacy-Lyle finished at the top of the FIA African Rally Championship ranking, scoring the maximum 30 points with an advantage of over 6 minutes ahead of the national crew of Farid Daniel Assaf and Henri Estievenart in their Can-Am Maverick X3 (photos: courtesy of Yves Aghouzan Jean Kouakou, Christian Romaric, Guy-michel Kouassi-Lenoir, Beranger Ottokore).