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Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah wins in Cyprus

Doha, Qatar: Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah celebrated a record-breaking 15th FIA Middle East Rally Championship title with a start-to-finish win in the Cyprus Rally in his Autotek-run Volkswagen Polo GTI R5.
The Qatari duly claimed his 73rd career MERC event success and French co-driver Matthieu Baumel won a fifth regional title and earned the key of the door to a 21st MERC rally win. Al-Attiyah won all four rounds of the series in Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon and Cyprus.
With the news that the final round of the series in Kuwait has been cancelled, the Cyprus event draws the curtain on regional special stage rallying for another year.
Henry Kahy was crowned MERC 3 champion for a second season and Meshari Al-Thefiri won MERC 2 again.