Qatari sportsman

N*er Salih N*er Abdullah Al-Attiyah (Arabic: ناصر صالح ناصر عبدالله العطية:: nāṣr ṣāliḥ nāṣr ʿabdullāh al-ʿaṭṭīyah; born 21 December 1970 in Doha) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He was the 2006 Production World Rally Champion, 2014 and 2015 WRC-2 champion, a 16 time Middle East Rally Champion, five times winner of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and a quadruple (2011, 2015, 2019, 2022) Dakar Rally winner. His four victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the compe*ion more than once.

In shooting, Al-Attiyah won the bronze medal in the men's skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Rallying
  • 1.2 Cross-country rally
  • 1.3 Extreme E
  • 1.4 Shooting
• 2 Career results
  • 2.1 WRC results
    • 2.1.1 PWRC results
    • 2.1.2 SWRC results
    • 2.1.3 WRC-2 Results
    • 2.1.4 ERC results
  • 2.2 Dakar Rally results
  • 2.3 Complete World Touring Car Championship results
  • 2.4 Complete World Rally-Raid Championship results
  • 2.5 Complete Extreme E results
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Rallying

Al-Attiyah has competed in the Middle East Rally Championship since 2003, having claimed 65 race wins and 13 *les. He drove a Subaru Impreza until 2009 and a Ford Fiesta since 2010, except in 2012 when he drove Peugeot 207 in two rounds, and in 2016 when he drove a Škoda Fabia.

Al-Attiyah also competed at the Production World Rally Championship from 2004 to 2009. He won the *le in 2006, his third year in the championship alongside co-driver Chris Patterson, driving a Subaru Impreza. He gained the championship lead after finishing second in the PWRC cl* in the Rally Mexico and afterwards won the following two rounds, Rally Argentina and Acropolis Rally. He also finished runner-up in 2005 and third in 2009. He scored his first points during the 2009 season, finishing eighth overall in the Rally Argentina.

In 2010 and 2011, Al-Attiyah drove in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship for the Barwa Rally Team, cl*ifying seventh overall in both years. For the 2012 season, Al-Attiyah moved to compete in the top division for the Qatar World Rally Team. He secured a career-best fourth place at the Rally de Portugal. In 2013 he switched to a Ford Fiesta WRC. He finished fifth overall at three races, and ranked 11th in the final standings.

Al-Attiyah stepped back to the WRC-2 in 2014. Driving a Ford Fiesta RRC, he scored four wins and won the championship. In 2015 he defended the championship with three wins.

Cross-country rally

Al-Attiyah debuted at the Dakar Rally in 2004 with Mitsubishi, finishing 10th overall. He entered the next three editions with an X-Raid BMW, finishing sixth in 2007.

After winning the 2008 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup in a BMW, he took part alongside Swedish female co-driver Tina Thörner in the 2009 Dakar Rally in Argentina. He was among the frontrunners until he got disqualified on 8 January 2009 after he had missed 9 checkpoints, the rules stating that 4 missed checkpoints are the maximum. He finished second in the Rally dos Sertões from Goiânia to Natal in Brazil (24 June-3 July 2009) behind Carlos Sainz of Spain.

In the 2010 Dakar Rally, Al-Attiyah finished second, 2'12" behind Carlos Sainz, the smallest gap in the history of the race. On 15 January 2011, Al-Attiyah won the legendary Dakar race ahead of fellow Volkswagen drivers Sainz and Giniel de Villiers, making him the only Arab to ever win the difficult race.

The driver claimed the 2015 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup with five wins and the 2015 Dakar Rally, driving a Mini All4 Racing X-Raid, and the 2016 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup for Toyota with six wins.

In 2019 Al-Attiah won Silk Way Rally driving Toyota Hilux for the Toyota Gazoo Racing team. He also won the 2019 Dakar Rally.

In 2022 he won the 2022 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, making him the only Arab to win the Dakar rally on Arab soil, ahead of 9 time World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb (co-driver Fabian Lurquin).

Extreme E

Al-Attiyah signed for Abt Cupra XE alongside 2001 Dakar Rally Winner Jutta Kleinschmidt to race in the 2022 Extreme E Championship.

Shooting

N*er Al-Attiyah (left) posing for a picture with Mutaz Essa Barshim after winning bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics

In shooting, Al-Attiyah came in fourth place in the 2004 Olympic Games in clay pigeon shooting and 15th overall in the 2008 Olympic Games, missing out on qualification for the final round by 2 points. In the 2012 Olympic Games he won the bronze medal after a shoot-off against Valeriy Shomin.

Career results

WRC results

PWRC results

Al-Attiyah drives a Subaru Impreza WRX STI at the 2006 Acropolis Rally

SWRC results

Al-Attiyah drives a Ford Fiesta S2000 at the 2010 Rally Finland

WRC-2 Results

ERC results

Dakar Rally results

Al-Attiyah's Hilux from 2017

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete World Rally-Raid Championship results

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* Season still in progress.

Complete Extreme E results

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* Season still in progress.

References

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et:al. "N*er Al-Attiya". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
• Profile on ewrc-results.com

Other drivers: Tamara Molinaro (Xite Energy Racing), Hedda Hosås (Veloce Racing)
Championship reserve drivers: Tamara Molinaro, Hedda Hosås, Timo Scheider, Romain Dumas