FIA Middle East Rally Champioinship

The Jordan Rally will be switched to October 29-31st after the FIA World Council rubber stamped a request to change due to the Jordan visit of Pope Benedict XVI on the same weekend as originally planned.

The Vatican last night confirmed the pontiff would visit the Kingdom's Baptism Site ...

Dear friends and colleagues,

The FIA World Motor Sport Council yesterday formally approved the postponement of the MERC Jordan Rally which will now be held of 29/31 October 2009 instead of in May as originally scheduled.

The Jordan Rally will no longer be one of the qualifying rounds for ...

Kuwait's Meshari Al-Thafiri is the early leader of the exciting Middle East section of the Pirelli 'Star Driver' competition, which is being run in conjunction with rounds of the 2009 Middle East Rally Championship.

The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX driver overcame intercooler and turbo boost problems to clinch the ...

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and his new Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini clinched a start-to-finish victory in the Kuwait International Rally on Saturday. Al-Attiyah duly celebrated his 31st regional rally victory - on the 150th event in the 26-year history of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship - and Bernacchini won his ...

Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and his new Italian co-driver Giovanni Bernacchini held an unofficial 1m 30s lead after the first seven special stages of the Kuwait International Rally on Friday. The Subaru driver was impressed with the accuracy of his new co-driver's pace note reading and was fastest ...

Kuwait Motor Sports Club (KMSC) president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Dawood Al-Sabah flagged the 30-strong entry away from the start of the 2009 Kuwait International Rally at the Kuwait Towers on Thursday afternoon. The ceremony marked an emotional return to the championship for Kuwait's flagship motor sport event after an absence ...

The 2009 Kuwait International Rally, round two of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, got underway under the Kuwait Towers in Kuwait City on Thursday afternoon, marking the country's return to hosting an international motor sport event after 13 years in the rallying wilderness.

Cars were scheduled to be ...

The FIA and Pirelli have joined forces to usher in a new era of World Rally Championship-based young driver competition, with the arrival of the inaugural Pirelli Star Driver programme. The season-long scheme starts with its first official engagement in Scotland this week.

A year ago, the FIA and Pirelli ...

The State of Kuwait roars back into the international motor sporting spotlight on Thursday afternoon (tomorrow) with the ceremonial start and opening super special stage of the Kuwait International Rally, the second round of the 2009 FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC).

Absent from the prestigious regional rally series since ...

Kuwaiti rally drivers have offered their full support to the country's return to the FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) for the first time since 1996, with no less than 10 teams set to tackle the event on March 5th-7th.

Officials at the Kuwait Motor Sports Club (KMSC) are ...