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:
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Pilot Nat |
Pos |
Pilot Name |
Car Name |
Total |
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1 |
RL |
RL |
02:58:14:60 | |||
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2 |
RL |
RL |
02:59:11:80 | |||
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3 |
QA |
UK |
03:01:36:00 | |||
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4 |
RL |
RL |
03:09:10:70 | |||
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5 |
UAE |
UAE |
03:10:22:90 | |||
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6 |
RL |
RL |
03:11:51:70 | |||
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7 |
UAE |
UK |
03:11:55:20 | |||
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8 |
UAE |
UAE |
03:11:59:00 |