The 3rd J&K Bank Mughal motor rally will not run on the Line of Control (LoC) in Gurez valley of Kashmir as the stretch of the road that passes through 14,000-foot-high Kaobal pass is under several feet deep snow and would not be open until mid-August.
Had not that been the case, it would have been a first in the motoring history of the world — a motor rally running between the two countries. However, the Mughal Rally 2012 will set a bar internationally. It will record the longest day ever in motoring history for a mountain rally — with a stretch of 640 kilometres for the Enduro category on Day Two of the event.
The rally was to reach Srinagar on Tuesday afternoon but since the town is under undeclared curfew as tensions heightened following burning of a revered Sufi shrine, its arrival has been delayed by a few hours as a precautionary measure.
Elaborating on how the nature has changed the course of the Mughal Rally, the organisers said that for the first time in the motoring history of the world, a competitive motorsport event would have run “on the LoC between two nations.”