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LUSAIL
Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah continued his relentless charge towards a seventh victory in nine seasons at the Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally (MQCCR) with another dominant performance on the 340.28km selective section through Qatar’s southern and western deserts on Tuesday.
The Qatari and French navigator Matthieu Baumel were like a pair of greyhounds out of the blocks and continued to edge away from their closest rivals, the gap on the day’s stage exacerbated by the fact that Yazeed Al-Rajhi and Michael Orr started the special 15 minutes behind them on the road.
Attiyah guided his Toyota Gazoo Hilux to a stage time of 3hr 28min 30sec and that was sufficient to see his outright advantage increase to 1hr 21min 18sec over his teammate.
Attiyah said: “Jakub (Przygonski) was pushing but he doesn’t have anything to lose. We did a good job from start-to-finish. Some place, we have been careful to find the road. Everything disappears from the wind. We are quite happy. We win again today. It was more sandy today. We will see tomorrow.”
Austin Jones started the day with a 19-minute advantage in the T3 category and was running second on the road in his South Racing Can-Am Maverick X3. But the American ground to a halt north of the Inland Sea after an unfortunate collision with the rear of Al-Rajhi’s Toyota, when he tried to reverse after being stuck on a dune.
The T3 sustained a broken trailing arm and substantial rear end damage as a result and Jones and Brazilian co-driver Gustavo Gugelmin were forced to make emergency repairs with ratchet straps with a resultant loss of around 45 minutes. They eventually stopped again close to the finish when the repair unravelled and were frantically trying to make a second repair to enable them to reach the stage end.
Poland’s Jakub Przygonski and German navigator Timo Gottschalk recovered strongly from a miserable second day and the second fastest time behind Attiyah enabled the hard-charging Pole to move up to the final podium position in the third of the Overdrive Toyotas.
Hungarian driver Balazs Szalay guided his powerful Opel Grandland X to ninth and fourth in T1 but Mohammed al Meer was unable to continue.
A fierce battle raged in T3 behind Jones. Saleh al Saif, Ahmed al Kuwari, Kees Koolen, Mubarak al Hajri, Fedor Vorobyev and Khalid al Mohannadi were locked in a six-way tussle for the stage win.
Kuwari snatched the stage win from Hajri by 2min 47sec and moved up to second in the category, 7min 28sec behind Khalid al Mohannadi who suffered a late belt scare before slowing to ensure that he finished.
A delighted Kuwari said: “A fantastic stage. I love this stage. We did well on this day last year. It was a very similar one to this. The third day has always been our best day. We always seem to pick up towards the end. We climb and climb and never start hot and get hotter…”Manateq QCCR Day 3 results2020 Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally – positions on SS3:
1. Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 28min 30sec
2. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 31min 41sec
3. Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)/Michael Orr (GBR) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 36min 21sec
4. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 4hr 15min 43sec
5. Mubarak al Hajri (QAT)/Laurent Lichtleuchter (FRA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 4hr 18min 30sec
6. Fedor Vorobyev (RUS)/Kirill Shubin (RUS) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 4hr 27min 05sec
2020 Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally – overall positions after SS3 (unofficial @15.22hrs):
1. Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 8hr 27min 46sec
2. Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)/Michael Orr (GBR) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 9hr 49min 04sec
3. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 10hr 31min 23sec
4. Khalid al Mohannadi (QAT)/Sébastien Delaunay (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 Turbo (T3) 11hr 04min 01sec
5. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 11hr 11min 29sec
6. Saleh Al Saif (SAU)/Ali Hassan Obaid (ARE) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 11hr 28min 43sec
7. Fedor Vorobyev (RUS)/Kirill Shubin (RUS) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 11hr 36min 05sec
8. Kees Koolen (NLD)/Serge Bruynkens (BEL) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 11hr 40min 25sec
9. Balazs Szalay (HUN)/Laszlo Bunnozci (HUN) Opel Grandland X 12ht 12min 15sec
10. Aleksey Shmotov (RUS)/Andrey Rudnitski (RUS) Can-Am Maverick (T3) 13hr 33min 51sec
2020 Manateq Qatar National Baja – round 2 result (unofficial):
1. Saleh Al Saif (SAU)/Ali Hassan Obaid (ARE) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 51min 00sec
2. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 54min 20sec
3. Mubarak al Hajri (QAT)/Laurent Lichtleuchter (FRA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 58min 54sec
4. Khalid al Mohannadi (QAT)/Sebastien Delaunay (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 Turbo (T3) 1hr 59min 58sec
5. Mohammed al Meer (QAT)/Alexey Kuzmich (RUS) Chevrolet Buggy 2hr 09min 23sec
6. Camelia Liparoti (ITA)/Angelo Montico (ITA) Yamaha YZX 1000 R (T4) 2hr 10min 20sec
7. Jarman Jaralla (QAT)/Feras Allouh (QAT) Nissan Patrol (T1) 2hr 12min 18sec
8. Hamed bin Eid al Thani (QAT)/Stéphane Duplé (FRA) Sierra GMC (T2) 2hr 14min 50sec
9. Abdulaziz Al-Basheer (KWT)/Abdulaziz Al-Mahrouz (KWT) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 2hr 15min 12sec
10. Rashed al Mohannadi (QAT)/Pedro Santos (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 2hr 17min 19sec
LUSAIL
Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah continued his relentless charge towards a seventh victory in nine seasons at the Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally (MQCCR) with another dominant performance on the 340.28km selective section through Qatar’s southern and western deserts on Tuesday.
The Qatari and French navigator Matthieu Baumel were like a pair of greyhounds out of the blocks and continued to edge away from their closest rivals, the gap on the day’s stage exacerbated by the fact that Yazeed Al-Rajhi and Michael Orr started the special 15 minutes behind them on the road.
Attiyah guided his Toyota Gazoo Hilux to a stage time of 3hr 28min 30sec and that was sufficient to see his outright advantage increase to 1hr 21min 18sec over his teammate.
Attiyah said: “Jakub (Przygonski) was pushing but he doesn’t have anything to lose. We did a good job from start-to-finish. Some place, we have been careful to find the road. Everything disappears from the wind. We are quite happy. We win again today. It was more sandy today. We will see tomorrow.”
Austin Jones started the day with a 19-minute advantage in the T3 category and was running second on the road in his South Racing Can-Am Maverick X3. But the American ground to a halt north of the Inland Sea after an unfortunate collision with the rear of Al-Rajhi’s Toyota, when he tried to reverse after being stuck on a dune.
The T3 sustained a broken trailing arm and substantial rear end damage as a result and Jones and Brazilian co-driver Gustavo Gugelmin were forced to make emergency repairs with ratchet straps with a resultant loss of around 45 minutes. They eventually stopped again close to the finish when the repair unravelled and were frantically trying to make a second repair to enable them to reach the stage end.
Poland’s Jakub Przygonski and German navigator Timo Gottschalk recovered strongly from a miserable second day and the second fastest time behind Attiyah enabled the hard-charging Pole to move up to the final podium position in the third of the Overdrive Toyotas.
Hungarian driver Balazs Szalay guided his powerful Opel Grandland X to ninth and fourth in T1 but Mohammed al Meer was unable to continue.
A fierce battle raged in T3 behind Jones. Saleh al Saif, Ahmed al Kuwari, Kees Koolen, Mubarak al Hajri, Fedor Vorobyev and Khalid al Mohannadi were locked in a six-way tussle for the stage win.
Kuwari snatched the stage win from Hajri by 2min 47sec and moved up to second in the category, 7min 28sec behind Khalid al Mohannadi who suffered a late belt scare before slowing to ensure that he finished.
A delighted Kuwari said: “A fantastic stage. I love this stage. We did well on this day last year. It was a very similar one to this. The third day has always been our best day. We always seem to pick up towards the end. We climb and climb and never start hot and get hotter…”Manateq QCCR Day 3 results2020 Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally – positions on SS3:
1. Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 28min 30sec
2. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 31min 41sec
3. Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)/Michael Orr (GBR) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 3hr 36min 21sec
4. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 4hr 15min 43sec
5. Mubarak al Hajri (QAT)/Laurent Lichtleuchter (FRA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 4hr 18min 30sec
6. Fedor Vorobyev (RUS)/Kirill Shubin (RUS) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 4hr 27min 05sec
2020 Manateq Qatar Cross-Country Rally – overall positions after SS3 (unofficial @15.22hrs):
1. Nasser bin Saleh al Attiyah (QAT)/Matthieu Baumel (FRA) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 8hr 27min 46sec
2. Yazeed Al Rajhi (SAU)/Michael Orr (GBR) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 9hr 49min 04sec
3. Jakub Przygonski (POL)/Timo Gottschalk (DEU) Toyota Hilux Overdrive 10hr 31min 23sec
4. Khalid al Mohannadi (QAT)/Sébastien Delaunay (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 Turbo (T3) 11hr 04min 01sec
5. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 11hr 11min 29sec
6. Saleh Al Saif (SAU)/Ali Hassan Obaid (ARE) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 11hr 28min 43sec
7. Fedor Vorobyev (RUS)/Kirill Shubin (RUS) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 11hr 36min 05sec
8. Kees Koolen (NLD)/Serge Bruynkens (BEL) OT3 by Overdrive (T3) 11hr 40min 25sec
9. Balazs Szalay (HUN)/Laszlo Bunnozci (HUN) Opel Grandland X 12ht 12min 15sec
10. Aleksey Shmotov (RUS)/Andrey Rudnitski (RUS) Can-Am Maverick (T3) 13hr 33min 51sec
2020 Manateq Qatar National Baja – round 2 result (unofficial):
1. Saleh Al Saif (SAU)/Ali Hassan Obaid (ARE) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 51min 00sec
2. Ahmed al Kuwari (QAT)/Manuel Lucchese (ITA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 54min 20sec
3. Mubarak al Hajri (QAT)/Laurent Lichtleuchter (FRA) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 1hr 58min 54sec
4. Khalid al Mohannadi (QAT)/Sebastien Delaunay (FRA) Polaris RZR 1000 Turbo (T3) 1hr 59min 58sec
5. Mohammed al Meer (QAT)/Alexey Kuzmich (RUS) Chevrolet Buggy 2hr 09min 23sec
6. Camelia Liparoti (ITA)/Angelo Montico (ITA) Yamaha YZX 1000 R (T4) 2hr 10min 20sec
7. Jarman Jaralla (QAT)/Feras Allouh (QAT) Nissan Patrol (T1) 2hr 12min 18sec
8. Hamed bin Eid al Thani (QAT)/Stéphane Duplé (FRA) Sierra GMC (T2) 2hr 14min 50sec
9. Abdulaziz Al-Basheer (KWT)/Abdulaziz Al-Mahrouz (KWT) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 2hr 15min 12sec
10. Rashed al Mohannadi (QAT)/Pedro Santos (PRT) Can-Am Maverick X3 (T3) 2hr 17min 19sec
