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Yazeed bin Mohammed Al-Rajhi , the reigning World Rally Champion and a well-known figure in the racing world, has topped the podium of Dakar Rally, becoming the first Saudi driver to accomplish so in the race's history.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi , the Saudi champion, claimed third place in the top category of the 2022 Dakar Rally Championship, using a Toyota Hilux that’s built by a professional rally raid team, overdrive Racing.
Actually, this isn’t the only accomplishment of Al-Rajhi; he previously won the World Cup for Cross Country Rally Baja in the top T1 category.
Al-Rajhi, accompanied by his Irish assistant, Michael Orr, covered a distance of more than 8,000 kilometers in the 44th edition of Dakar Rally, which was hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the third time in a row, and the distance was divided into 12 stages over a period of 14 days, in a journey that began in Hail and ended in Jeddah, passing through Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, which embraced the day of rest.
The first stage of the 2022 Dakar Rally was a challenging one for all drivers, particularly in terms of navigation, due to that, the Al-Rajihi team lost some time while trying to overcome those difficulties in the road, which ended them up being in the ninth place. but later on, the duo's perseverance and determination allowed them to win the fourth stage.
stage after another, and after following a new strategy that enabled them to race from behind with deliberate tactical steps; The team managed to reach third place in the general standings in the second week of the Dakar rally race.
Thus, Yazeed Al-Rajhi, a well-known businessman and worldwide rally racer, is the first Saudi driver to reach the podium in the world's longest and most difficult Dakar Rally, and his triumph is regarded as a tremendous and historic achievement for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It’s worth mentioning that this Rally is considered the eighth Dakar Rally that Yazeed Al-Rajhi has competed in since 2015.
The Saudi motorsport representative Yazeed Al Rajhi dedicated this historic achievement to the wise Saudi Arabia leadership, thanking them for the tremendous support for the sports field in the Saudi Arabia Kingdom receive from the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and his Crown Prince, Prince Muhammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, and he also thanked them for their tremendous efforts in organizing the world's greatest rally for the third time in a row in the Kingdom, and their eagerness to provide the best possible.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi had also expressed his gratitude to Abdul Latif Jameel Motors Group for their ongoing support of the Yazeed Racing Team, particularly during the Dakar Rally, the world's longest and most challenging rally.
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