Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou, 26, has won the FIA Middle East Rally Championship Pirelli Star Driver Shoot Out. Georgiou beat Meshari Al-Thafiri (Kuwait), when the two went head-to-head on this week's Dubai International Rally.

Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX driver Georgiou collected more points than Al-Thafiri on the two-day final ...

Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou claimed an emphatic victory in the Pirelli Star Driver competition, held in conjunction with the Dubai International Rally, the final round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship on December 4-5.

"It's obviously a great feeling to seal the Pirelli Star Driver here," said Georgiou ...

Lebanese driver Nicholai Georgiou and Kuwait's Meshari Al-Thafiri will go head-to-head at next weekend's Dubai International Rally to determine the destiny of this year's Pirelli ‘Star Driver' (PSD) Award for the FIA Middle East Rally Championship. The event takes place on December 3-5.

The driver who amasses ...

The 31st Dubai International Rally 2009, the final round of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, brings another first as it will host the Pirelli Star Driver's programme for the Middle East region, according to President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) and Organizing Committee ...

Lebanese driver Nick Georgiou will be hoping to earn maximum points in the Pirelli ‘Star Driver' category of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship during next week's Syrian International Rally.

Georgiou lost out on victory in last year's prestigious competition on a technicality to Cypriot Nicos Thomas, but ...

Four of the five Pirelli Star Driver crews finished the opening event of their 2009 campaign, the Vodafone Rally de Portugal, which ended in the Algarve Stadium, Faro, this afternoon (Sunday). Ten competitors and five Mitsubishi Lancer Evo Xs were revealed to the world’s media on Wednesday afternoon at ...

FIA Vice President and regional rally commissioner, Derek Ledger, has announced a revised format for this year's Pirelli 'Star Driver' competition, following the postponement of the Jordan International Rally and the withdrawal of the Sharqia Rally from the FIA Middle East Rally Championship.

The top two drivers from the ...

The Pirelli Star Driver scheme has been launched for 2009, following its successful inaugural year during which five talented young drivers from around the world won a drive in a series of six of this year’s FIA World Rally Championship events.

The programme is designed to find rallying’s ...

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 ...

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 ...