Adam Rauf Is Back! The Comeback We Never Ever Saw Coming But Always Hoped For
By Mwambazi Lawrence
And so, like a forgotten verse from a favourite song, he returns…
The man, the lion, the sideways mystery re-emerges from six long years of silence. Fort Portal, prepare your skies, for thunder approaches not from the heavens, but from beneath a Mitsubishi Evo X. He is back to reclaim the stage where he once danced with danger, slid with swagger, and roared with rebellion. Hear it from me, take it from me, tattoo it on your dashboard if you must, because this is straight from the horse’s mouth the original Nsolo Nkambwe, the sideways sliding, gravel-gliding maestro himself Adam Rauf Essa is making a comeback! And not just anywhere, folks. No no no… what better stage to relaunch a rally career than the winding, car-devouring trails of Fort Portal, host of the upcoming UMC Rally, scheduled to raise dust and heart rates from July 22nd to 24th, 2025.
Now, before you fall off your seat or choke on your rolex, let me remind you: we haven’t seen Rauf since 2019, when he last appeared in Fort Portal with Aaron Nsamba navigating in their thunderous ralliart Mitsubishi Evo X. It’s been six long years enough time for a baby to grow teeth, go to nursery, and start saying “Evo X bwaa?” when they hear a turbo spool.
But now, The Evo X Ralliart beast is back in the workshop, getting pampered and prepped like a bride before kwanjula only this bride spits fire, gulps avgas, and screams at 7,000 RPM.
Ladies and gentlemen, the NRC has already been a telenovela. We’re halfway through the 2025 season, and the championship table is tighter than boda traffic at Clock Tower. With Round 5 in Fort Portal fast approaching, the return of Rauf Essa might just be the curveball that flips the script.
We’ve missed that heavy foot. That unapologetic sideways attack. The gravel rooster tails. That moment when you ask yourself, “Did he just enter that corner backwards… on purpose?” Yes. Yes, he did.
This isn’t just a comeback for nostalgia’s sake. No. The UMC Fort Portal Rally is a major turning point a truth serum for the NRC title fight. As it stands, the leaderboard is a boiling pot of ambition, torque, and thin margins. One mistake, one puncture, one rogue cow crossing the stage… and everything changes.
With the rally route cutting through Kyenjojo and Fort Portal, known for their technical sections and slippery descents, it’s the kind of terrain where experience matters and Rauf has it in bucketloads.
And so, as the engines warm and the mountains of Tooro await their echo, a chapter long left unwritten prepares to be inked once more. Adam Rauf Essa, the gravel artist, the silent storm, returns not merely to compete, but to proclaim. He comes not with whispers, but with thunder; not to chase glory, but to remind it who he is. The Evo X will roar again not as a relic of the past, but as a prophecy of the present. And as the dust rises in Fort Portal, so too shall a legend. Rally fans, watch the horizon… for from it, a warrior charges reborn, relentless, Rauf.
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