Maxine Wahome Loses Deal With WRC
WRC Safari Rally revealed in a press release that it had disassociated itself from Wahome...
Marvin Chege 
The World Rally Championship (WRC) Safari Rally Kenya on Friday, March 10 cut ties with rally driver Maxine Wahome.
WRC Safari Rally revealed in a press release that it had disassociated itself from Wahome, who is in the global spotlight over the death of her boyfriend, Asad Khan.
The 26-year-old top female rally driver who became the first woman to win the WRC3 rally in Naivasha in June 2022, was locked out of the Young Rally Stars Programme to allow for room to handle the court case.
Maxine Wahome inside a rally car. /THE STAR
“Following the recent legal developments concerning Maxine Wahome, the WRC Safari Rally Kenya has decided to release Maxine from further engagements in the Young Rally Stars program to deal with the legal developments,” read the presser.
The FIA Rally Star Programme is a global initiative that aims to identify, train and develop talented young drivers between 17-27 years. Wahome was included in the programme in June 2022 following her exploits in the 2022 WRC Safari Rally.
Other junior drivers in the Young Rally Stars programme include Jeremy Wahome, McRae Kimathi and Hamza Anwar.
Wahome appeared before Magistrate Bernard Ochoi on Tuesday, March 7 and during the mention of her case, it was revealed that she would be charged with murder.
The prosecution indicated that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) had decided to impose murder charges on her, and further informed the court that she would be arraigned on Wednesday, March 8 to answer murder charges.
She thereafter did not plead to the charge as the court directed that she undergo a mental assessment to ascertain whether she is fit to stand trial.
Justice Lilian Mutende thus ordered to have her detained at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) cells in Kilimani before she is formally charged on March 15, 2023.
The 26-year-old top female rally driver had spent two nights behind bars in December 2022 for allegedly assaulting Asad, who was previously reported to be in hospital under critical condition.
Reports had surfaced later revealing that Asad died from his injuries, but his younger brother Adil said that he was alive, though fighting for his life at the High Dependency Unit (HDU) at the Avenue Hospital in Nairobi following the domestic altercation which saw Wahome arrested.
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