Breaking Headline

ALBAWABA - Gaza's militia leader, Yasser Abu Shabab, was killed in the Gaza Strip, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Thursday. According to Israeli media, Yasser Abu Shabab was killed at ...

Roger Feghali won the two brothers dual and Red Bull driver second.

Published July 4th, 2006 - 07:01 GMT
Al Bawaba
Al Bawaba

The Lebanese driver Roger Feghali and his co-pilot Nabil Njeim won the 29th International Rally of Lebanon for the fourth time and the third consecutive year. He became the best driver in the history of the Lebanese Rally equally with the UAE driver Mohamed Ben Soulayem in the number of titles. Red Bull driver Abdo Feghali, and his co pilot Joseph Matar won the second place. Abdo was chasing his brother Roger like his shadow during all the SS of the Rally trying to compete for the first place especially that he won the first two SS with the beginning of the third day of the Rally. As for the champion of the Middle-East rallies, the Qatarian Nasser al Attiyeh, he won the third place after four consecutives success in the championship of this season.

 

The last day of the rally started yesterday (Sunday) as it ended on Saturday with the advance of Roger Feghali after winning the SS10. as for

Abdo Feghali known by his fans as Dado, he did a great job in the SS11 being in advance of Roger within one second and in the SS12 with a difference of 2.2secds on Doumit bou Doumit, who won the third place and 3.2 seconds as a difference on Roger who came third on this SS. Roger in the SS13 advanced the Red Bull driver with a distance of 6.8 seconds which is a good difference. Therefore, he was taking this advantage and trying to take the first place without slowing down.

As for Abdo, despite the fact that he was 37seconds late from the leader of the SS in the middle of the day and being far away from Attiyah with a great advantage of 3mins. Abdo didn't give up at all and without slowing down to ensure the second place, he continued his chase to take advantage of any mistake performed by Roger and therefore winning the first place. As for Nasser Attiyeh, he seemed to be satisfied with his third place using his points in his success in the Middle-East championship. But the Qatari champion assured that his participation was for the sake of winning considering he is familiar with the Lebanese rally.

 

At 6 oclock PM, Beirut time, all the winning cars entered ATCL under the applause of the public and the cheering for the double Lebanese success. The trophies were distributed to the winners in ATCL.

 

 

 

Classification of the first 10 drivers 2 stages before the end of the rally:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pilot Nat

Pos

Pilot Name

Car Name

Total

1

Roger FEGHALI

RL

Nabil NJEIM

RL

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX

02:58:14:60

2

Abdo FEGHALI

RL

Joseph MATAR

RL

Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

02:59:11:80

3

Nasser AL -ATTIYAH

QA

Chris PATTERSON

UK

Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

03:01:36:00

4

Rodrigue RAHI

RL

Georges NADER

RL

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII

03:09:10:70

5

Suhail AL MAKTOUM

UAE

Wael MURJAN

UAE

Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

03:10:22:90

6

Doumit BOU DOUMIT

RL

Louai SAKR

RL

Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VIII

03:11:51:70

7

Khalid AL- QASSIMI

UAE

Nick BEECH

UK

Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

03:11:55:20

8

Shk.Abdulla AL QASSIMI

UAE

Gaby KHOURY

UAE

Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

03:11:59:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subscribe

Sign up to our newsletter for exclusive updates and enhanced content