Mohammed Ben Sulayem

Mohammed ben Sulayem or Mohammed bin Sulayem (12 November, 1961 - ) 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 sabbatical 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 a Modified SLR engine, providing the car with over 740 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-performing an Enzo Ferrari.

On April 9, 2009 while demonstrating a Renault R29 F1 car at an exhibition in Dubai, Sulayem lost control of the vehicle under acceleration and crashed into the pit wall, causing extensive damage to the car. He was uninjured in the incident ^[1]

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 Liban: 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

History

ING Renault F1 Roadshow Dubai: 2009 (total failure)

References

^ "Ben Sulayem survives high-speed crash". The national. 2009-04-9. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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[1] "Ben Sulayem survives high-speed crash". The national. 2009-04-9. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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