FIA Middle East Rally Champioinship

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini mastered the conditions and controlled their pace to perfection to secure a comfortable victory in the 2013 Jordan Rally, round three of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), at the Dead Sea on Saturday.

The Qatari duly clinched his ...

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini held a 1min 11.2sec lead in the 2013 Jordan Rally after eight drama-filled special stages in the Dead Sea area on Friday.

The Ford Fiesta RRC driver edged into a tiny lead through the first slippery stage and gradually ...

The 2013 Jordan Rally, round three of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), got underway from Martyrs' Memorial in Al-Hussein Sports City in Amman on Thursday evening.

As teams made their final preparations for the first gravel special stage at Suwayma on Friday morning, the UAE's Sheikh Abdullah ...

The 2013 Jordan Rally, round three of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, gets underway at 5pm from Martyr’s Memorial in Al-Hussein Sports City in Amman on Thursday evening.

A provisional 28 entrants from eight countries will tackle 16 timed special stages and 256.64 competitive kilometres in a ...

Saeed Al-Mouri heads to the start of the Jordan Rally at the Martyr's Memorial in Al-Hussein Sports City on Thursday afternoon as the sole Saudi Arabian driver on the bumper international field.

Al-Mouri is also the only driver in the field to wheel out a Mini Countryman RRC, a ...

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah tops a bumper entry for this weekend's Jordan Rally, round three of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, which starts from the Martyr's Memorial in Al-Hussein Sports City on Thursday evening.

Al-Attiyah is the defending regional champion and will also be hoping to ...

Amman, Jordan: Jordan is preparing to host the third round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship which takes place from May 9-11. The Kingdom has confirmed that the popular event will again be centred around tough tracks in the Jordan Valley, close to the Dead Sea which is the ...

The UAE's Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi believes the battle for the FIA Middle East Rally Championship is far from over after Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah won the Kuwait International Rally today to extend his lead in the 2013 regional series.

Producing an immaculate performance in his Ford Fiesta ...

The UAE's Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi is primed for another great battle with Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah in the Kuwait International Rally tomorrow (Saturday) to decide the second round of this year's FIA Middle East Rally Championship.

At the end of today's first leg on completion ...

The Saudi Arabian Motor Federation (SAMF) has now finalised the dates and route format for the Ha'il International Rally, an FIA-sanctioned cross-country event that will run for nearly 1000 competitive kilometres through the north-central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from March 21st-28th, 2013.

The event is being ...

This year's Sealine Cross-Country Rally, organised by the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), will be fought out over four desert selective sections and will feature a longer route but a shorter timetable. The event is the third round of the 2013 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies and ...

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini emerged triumphant after one of the closest battles in the history of the Qatar International Rally, the traditional opening round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, which finished in Doha on Saturday afternoon.

Driving his Autotek-run Ford Fiesta RRC ...

Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini led a nail-biting 2013 Qatar International Rally, the opening round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, by just 4.8 seconds after six new timed special stages to the west of Doha on Friday.

Driving a Ford Fiesta RRC, the Qatari ...

The brand new Al-Shabhana desert special stage to the west of Doha will get proceedings underway in the 2013 Qatar International Rally on Friday morning.

The opening round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) has strength in depth and top seed Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah will lead 17 other ...

Reconnaissance of the special stages and the exciting new route in the northern Qatar desert is complete and a provisional 18 teams will tackle this weekend's Qatar International Rally. The event is being organised by the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) under the presidency of Nasser Khalifa Al-Attiyah ...