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Mohammed Ben Sulayem is a UAE champion rally driver who lives in Dubai. He has won more FIA regional championships, and more international rallies, than any other racer in history. His premier event has been the FIA Middle-East Rally Championship. Since first winning in 1986, he has gone on to win the event 14 times, never having been defeated. He took a sabatical from racing after his 2002 season.

Sulayem is President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) and as such has been appointed by the FIA and FIM as the official representative to oversee all motorsports events in UAE. He is also Chairman of the Organising Committee for the UAE Desert Challenge, a race that he launched in 1991. The event has since become the final round of the FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup.

As the owner of Ben Sulayem Performance, he and his team have been noted for creating super-high performance modifications to a variety of sports and luxury cars. In 2005, he received press in motorsports' circles for having a Mercedes SLK 55 AMG modified to accept an SLR engine, providing the car with over 625 hp and 1200Nm (885 lbf·ft) of torque. The modified SLK has a higher top speed (350 km/h estimated) than the production SLR due to differences in weight and was noted for a video depicting it out-performaing an Enzo Ferrari.

Win History

Middle-East Rally - 14-time Champion: 1986-91,1994, 1996-2002
UAE International Rally: 1996-9, 2001
Bahrain International Rally: 2000-2
Qatar International Rally: 1988, 1990-91, 1996-8, 2000-2
Jordan International Rally: 1984, 1987-8, 1990, 1994, 1996-2002
Rally du Libon: 1987, 1997-9
Syrian International Rally: 2000-2
Dubai International Rally: 1985-8, 1991-5, 1997-2002
Oman International Rally: 1986-7, 1990-1, 1994, 1998
Kuwait International Rally: 1985, 1988-9, 1996
Saudi International Rally: 2000

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-'''Mohammed Ben Sulayem''' is a [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]] champion rally driver who lives in [[Dubai]].  Sulayem is president of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE and as such has been appointed by the [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] and [[Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme|FIM]] as the official representative to oversee all [[Auto racing|motorsports]] events in UAE.
+'''Mohammed Ben Sulayem''' is a [[United Arab Emirates|UAE]] champion [[Rallying|rally]] driver who lives in [[Dubai]].  He has won more [[Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile|FIA]] regional championships, and more international rallies, than any other racer in history.  His premier event has been the FIA Middle-East Rally Championship.  Since first winning in 1986, he has gone on to win the event 14 times, never having been defeated.  He took a sabatical from racing after his 2002 season.
+Sulayem is President of the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) and as such has been appointed by the FIA and [[Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme|FIM]] as the official representative to oversee all [[Auto racing|motorsports]] events in UAE.  He is also Chairman of the Organising Committee for the UAE Desert Challenge, a race that he launched in 1991.  The event has since become the final round of the FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup.
 As the owner of Ben Sulayem Performance, he and his team have been noted for creating super-high performance modifications to a variety of sports and luxury cars.  In 2005, he received press in motorsports' circles for having a [[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]] [[Mercedes-Benz SLK-Class|SLK 55 AMG]] modified to accept an [[Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren|SLR]] engine, providing the car with over 625 [[Horsepower|hp]] and  1200Nm (885 lbf·ft) of [[torque]].  The modified SLK has a higher top speed (350 km/h estimated) than the production SLR due to differences in weight and was noted for a video depicting it out-performaing an [[Ferrari Enzo Ferrari|Enzo Ferrari]].
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 *Oman International Rally: 1986-7, 1990-1, 1994, 1998
 *Kuwait International Rally: 1985, 1988-9, 1996
-*Saudi Internation Rally: 2000
+*Saudi International Rally: 2000
 ===External Links===
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 *[http://www.mohammedbensulayem.com/ Mohammad Ben Sulayem]
 *[http://www.atcuae.org/index.html Automobile and Touring Club for UAE]
+*[http://www.uaedesertchallenge.com/uaedesertchallenge/index.asp UAE Desert Challenge]
 *[http://www.bspturbo.com/index.htm Ben Sulayem Performance]
 *[http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/custom-carshot-rods/more-on-the-slrpowered-mercedes-slk-out-of-the-mouths-of-mechanics-122019.php Jalopnik ''More on the SLR-Powered Mercedes SLK: Out of the Mouths of Mechanics'']