FIA Middle East Rally Champioinship

The 35-year-old three-times FIA Middle East rally champion became the first Arab driver in history to win a WRC title when he clinched the 2006 PWRC Championship last season.

He is bidding to win the Middle East title for the fourth time in five years and also won Rally Oman in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and is attempting to win his fourth successive Oman title.

The Qatari started rallying in 1989 and quickly established himself as a talented driver in the Middle East. He won the Qatar National Championship and finished as the first privateer and fourth overall in the 1995 UAE Desert Challenge, before switching his attention to representing the State of Qatar in international skeet shooting. Nasser finished sixth in the Olympics, second in the World Championships and won gold at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. He represented Qatar in Athens in August 2004 and finished fourth (just outside the bronze medal position).

In 2003, the Qatari won rallies in Qatar, Jordan, Oman, Cyprus, Lebanon and Dubai on his way to a maiden Middle East title. In 2004, he finished 10th overall in a Mitsubishi Ralliart Pajero in the grueling Dakar Rally and was lying fourth in 2005 before crashing out in Morocco. This year he finished sixth overall in the Dakar Rally in a BMW X3CC and leads the MERC after winning the recent Qatar Rally. He arrived in Oman directly from competing in the Corona Rally Mexico round of the WRC.

MERC Stats

Debut

Jordan 1989

Results