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Al-Qassimi set for Qatar Rally
NEIL PERKINS
UAE's Sheikh Abdullah Al Published in The Saudi Gazette on 29 - 01 - 2011

Qassimi has acquired the Ford Fiesta S2000 that Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah drove on several rounds of last year's FIA Middle East Rally Championship and will drive it in next week's Qatar International Rally. The opening round of the 2011 regional series takes place on Feb. 3-5.
The former regional Group N champion and winner of the 2000 UAE International Rally is one of the most experienced competitors on the Middle East rally scene and is excited about the prospect of switching to the car that Al-Attiyah used to win last year's events in Syria, Cyprus and Dubai.
Al-Qassimi's car will be run by Ken Skidmore's Autotek Motorsport operation and the Emirati again teams up with English co-driver Steve Lancaster, the winner of the Qatar International Rally in 2003. “We carried out a short test with Abdullah in Sharjah during the first weekend of January and all went very well,” enthused Skidmore.
Meanwhile, defending regional champion Misfer Al-Marri has also confirmed that he will run a QMMF-backed Skoda Fabia S2000 on the Qatar International Rally. The Doha driver won the series last year in a Subaru Impreza and has been piecing together his 2011 programme in recent weeks.
The Austrian Baumschlager Rally Racing (BRR) team will run the Skoda and Al-Marri again teams up with Italian co-driver Nicola Arena.
Sheikh Khalid Al-Qassimi, the 2004 FIA Middle East rally champion, will not be trying to win back his title this season.
The Abu Dhabi driver is already confirmed to drive a Ford Fiesta RS WRC in the FIA World Rally Championship with Ulster co-driver Michael Orr.
Swiss female driver Edith Weiss has entered the 2011 Qatar International Rally. __

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