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Abu Dhabi partners Citroen in WRC
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 05 - 10 - 2012

ABU DHABI – Abu Dhabi has entered into a five-year partnership with multiple World Rally Championship-winning manufacturers, Citroen.
The new three-car Citroen Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team will make its debut in the 2013 World Rally Championship (WRC), with the UAE's Sheikh Khalid Al-Qassimi joining Finland's Mikko Hirvonen and Frenchman Sébastien Loeb in the driver line-up.
Sheikh Khalid, like Hirvonen and his co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen, will contest the full WRC season while the eight-time World Championship-winning crew of Loeb and Daniel Elena will join them in a partial racing program.
The other crew who will replace Loeb and Elena for the rest of the season will be announced by Citroen in due course as the new Citroen Total Abu Dhabi World Rally Team looks forward to the legendary Rallye Monte-Carlo, opening round of the 2013 WRC in January.
Strong Abu Dhabi branding on each of the team's three Citroën DS3 WRCs, and support vehicles, will create the dominant visual impact, emphasizing a new partnership and a commitment from the UAE capital at the pinnacle of world rallying. The five-year agreement with Citroen, which secures the manufacturer's WRC future, has been signed by Abu Dhabi Racing (ADR), a newly established Abu Dhabi-based company working on a number of initiatives designed to bolster the emirate's presence in global motorsport.
Sheikh Khalid, who is the ADR chairman and competed in the WRC from 2007-2011, said: “Naturally, I am delighted to have the chance to return to WRC action, but more importantly this is a unique opportunity to carry the Abu Dhabi brand to a worldwide audience.
“Abu Dhabi is already established as one of the world's premier Formula One destinations, and enjoys massive exposure as a result of the F1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and other events staged at Yas Marina Circuit.
“The Abu Dhabi brand will now be projected more powerfully than ever before in the World Rally Championship by the most successful works team in WRC history, and the partnership with Citroen can lead to many more benefits for Abu Dhabi Racing, and the Emirate as a whole.” — SG


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