Nasser Al-Attiyah

Nasser Al-Attiyah

2011 Dakar Rally
Nation:	Qatar
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Sweden 2004
Co-driver:	Matthieu Baumel Giovanni Bernacchini
Team:	Yazeed Racing Citroën Total World Rally Team Barwa Rally Team
Vehicle:	Ford Fiesta RRC Citroën DS3 WRC Škoda Fabia 2000 Subaru Impreza STi
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 73 - - 1
Points:	50
Status: Before Rally 13 of 13, 2015 season
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
First rally:	Rally Argentina 2010
Co-driver:	Giovanni Bernacchini
Team:	Barwa Rally Team
Vehicle:	Ford Fiesta Super 2000
Rallies: Victories: Podiums: WP 3 1 1 6th
Points:	10
Status: After rally 11 of 11, 2011 season

Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah ( Arabic ناصر صالح ناصر عبد الله العطية, DMG Nāṣir Ṣāliḥ Nāṣir ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAṭṭīya ; * December 21, 1970 in Doha ) is a Qatari shooter and rally driver . In 2011 the Qatar won the Dakar Rally car classification together with the German Timo Gottschalk . In 2015 he won again with his French co-driver Matthieu Baumel. In the skeet competition of the 2012 Olympics , Al-Attiyah won the bronze medal on his fifth Olympic participation.

Career

World Rally Championship

Nasser Al-Attiyah has competed in rallies since 1989. In 2004 he took part in the World Rally Championship for the first time. In 2006 he won the production car class (PWRC) and won the Rally Argentina and the Rally Greece . In the following years Al-Attiyah drove sporadically in the World Rally Championship with moderate success. In the 2012 season he started as the third works driver for the Qatar World Rally Team, with a Citroën DS3 WRC , and finished 12th in the overall standings. In the 2013 World Rally Championship he drove for the same team, but now with a Ford Fiesta RS WRC . After a total of five races, he finished 11th overall. His best results were three fifth places.

Nasser Al-Attiyah and Giovanni Bernacchini on the way to the 2014 WRC2 world title

World Champion in the WRC2 class in 2014

Al-Attiyah celebrated the greatest success in his rally career to date in the 2014 WRC2 World Championship when he won the championship. Altogether there were four wins and with 118 points he got 3 points more than his closest competitor Jari Ketomaa . In the WRC class , he was able to drive into the points three times and was credited four points in the overall standings.

Middle East Rally Championship

In 2003 and from 2005 to 2009 he was champion six times in the FIA - Middle East Rally Championship (MERC). In 2011 he won this championship for the seventh time.

Rally raid

In 2008 Nasser Al-Attiyah became World Rally Raid Champion . His co-drivers at the time were Chris Patterson & Tina Thörner . In 2015 & 2016 he was able to repeat this success.

Dakar Rally

Al-Attiyah has participated in the Dakar Rally since 2004 . In 2007 he was able to win a stage in the BMW X3 of the X-Raid team and finished sixth in the overall standings. At the Dakar Rally 2009 he achieved two stage wins with co-driver Tina Thörner , but after the sixth stage he was disqualified while in the lead because he drove a different route than specified to protect his damaged vehicle and missed too many checkpoints.

In the same year, he switched to the Volkswagen Motorsport team. In the Race Touareg 2 , he finished second in both the Silk Road rally and the Rally dos Sertoes . His co-driver was the German Timo Gottschalk .

In 2010 he took part in the ADAC 24-hour race at the Nürburgring for Volkswagen Motorsport with a VW Scirocco GT24 CNG with natural gas drive.

At the 2010 Dakar Rally he finished second, 2:12 minutes behind Carlos Sainz .

At the 2011 Dakar Rally he was first with 49:41 minutes ahead of the South African-German duo Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz .

In 2012 , this time with the Spaniard Lucas Cruz as co-driver, he had to give up on the ninth stage due to technical problems with his Hummer .

In 2013 , Al-Attiyah drove a Demon Jefferies buggy for the newly founded Qatar Red Bull Rally Team , which also signed Carlos Sainz . After winning three stages, he retired in the ninth stage due to an engine failure. In 2015 he won the Dakar Rally with the 'Qatar Red Bull Rally Team'. In 2019 he won the Dakar Rally with the 'Toyota Team'.

Silk road rally

In 2019, he won the car standings at the Silk Road rally and won all stages of the day with his co-driver Mathieu Baumel in a Toyota .

Target shooting

Nasser Al-Attiyah has been taking part in the Olympic Games in clay target shooting in the skeet discipline since 1996 . At the 2004 Olympics , he finished fourth in the jump-off for bronze against Juan Miguel Rodríguez and narrowly missed a medal. At the 2000 Olympic Games, he came in sixth.

At the Asian Games in 2002 he won gold in the team classification. In 2008 he achieved bronze in the individual and again gold in the team classification. In 2012 Nasser secured an Olympic starting place for London 2012 in the skeet at the Asian Championships in Doha and equalized the world record of 150 clay pigeons shot down.

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , he won the bronze medal in the jump-off of the skeet competition against the Russian shooter Valery Shomin. It is the third Olympic medal for Qatar after the bronze medal of Mohamed Suleiman in the 1,500 meter run in athletics at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the bronze medal of his compatriot Said Saif Asaad in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney in weightlifting .

successes

• 2015: 1st overall in the WRC2 World Championship
• 2014: 1st overall in the WRC2 World Championship
• 2006: 1st overall in the PWRC World Championship

Single results

Results WRC

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
2004
	DNS	32	DNF	20th	DNS	DNS	DNS	14th	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	22nd	DNS	13
2005
	DNS	DNS	DNS	16	DNS	18th	16	DNS	17th	DNS	DNS	21st	DNS	DNS	DNS	13
2006
	30th	DNS	10	DNS	DNS	15th	DNS	17th	DNS	DNS	DNS	19th	DNS	DNS	26th	DNS
2007
	DNS	27	DNS	DNF	DNS	DNF	DNS	19th	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	17th	DNS
2008
	DNS	40	DNS	DNF	DNS	DNS	DNF	23	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNF
2009
	DNS	DNS	11	16	8th	9	DSQ	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNF
2010
	DNS	DNF	18th	DNS	13	25th	DNS	29	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS
2011
	DNS	EX	DNS	DNF	11	DNS	16	DNS	16	DNS	DNF	11	DNS
2012
	DNS	21st	6th	4th	9	DNF	DNS	DNS	8th	10	DNF	DNS	DNS
2013
			5	5		5			13			DNF

Results WRC2

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
2014
				1	1	DNF			5	1		1	6th
2015
			1		1	5	DNF		4th	1		3

Results PWRC

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
2004
	7th	DNF	7th	3	DNS	7th	5
2005
	DNS	4th	5	3	1	DNS	3	5
2006
	3	2	1	1	DNS	5	DNS	7th
2007
	7th	DNF	DNF	5	DNS	DNS	3	DNS
2008
	17th	DNF	DNF	10	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNF
2009
	DNS	3	4th	1	1	DNS	DNS	DNF

Results SWRC

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
2010
	DNS	DNF	4th	5	7th	7th	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS
2011
	EX	DNF	4th	6th	DNS	2	DNF	2

Web links

Commons : Nasser Al-Attiyah  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Nasser Al-Attiyah - portrait at the X-Raid team
• Nasser Al-Attiyah in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Al-Attiyah with Citroën cockpit ( Memento from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Rallye-Magazin.de on December 16, 2011)
2. ^ Result of the 2015 FIA Worldcup for Cross Country Rallies
3. ^ Result of the 2016 FIA Worldcup for Cross Country Rallies
4. ↑ Results list of the Dakar 2010
5. ↑ Silk Way Rally: le grand chelem de Nasser al-Attiyah - Rallye-raid - Silk Way. Retrieved October 20, 2019 (French). 
6. ↑ American Hancock wins gold in the skeet. ARD, July 31, 2012, accessed on July 31, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Al-Attiyah takes Olympic bronze in clay pigeon shooting. motorsport-total.com, July 31, 2012, accessed August 2, 2012 .