Roger Feghali victorious in Rally of Lebanon for record-extending 12th time

September 6, 2015 – Roger Feghali has extended his Rally of Lebanon record to 12 victories following a dominant performance that saw him score the fastest time in 12 of the rally’s 13 special stages.

Roger and co-driver Joseph Matar lost 8 seconds to Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah in Friday’s super special stage, but he shaved off 3 seconds from the Dakar winner’s time after Saturday’s opening stage in Blat (SS2). However, Al-Attiyah crashed his Skoda Fabia R5 in the third special stage in Toula, which put Roger in a comfortable position to win the rally.

Driving a Ford Fiesta R5, Roger completed the event more than 6 minutes ahead of his closest pursuer, Nicolas Amiouni (Mitsubishi Evo X), who finished second overall and first in the Group N category.

Tamer Ghandour (Mitsubishi Evo X) completed the podium by finishing third overall and second in Group, while Rodrigue Rahi (Mitsubishi Evo IX) settled for fourth and third in Group N.

The front-wheel drive class victory went to Robert Aaraj (Citroen DS3 R3T), who ended  up fifth overall, ahead of Eddy Abou Karam (Mitsubishi Evo IX). Rony Kanaan and Elie Nehme finished second and third respectively in FWD.

Nassib Nassar won the RC4 class onboard his Peugeot 208 R2, while Majed Khoury (Skoda Fabia R2) finished second in the class.

The young Patrick Njeim was capable of finishing his first ever Rally of Lebanon, taking the RC5 class win onboard the Suzuki Swift Sport.

Provisional final results:

Pos. No. Driver Time Diff. Prev. Diff. First
1 4 Roger FEGHALI  02:28:08.5    00:00.0    00:00.0
2 2 Nicolas AMIOUNI  02:34:17.5 + 06:09.0 + 06:09.0
3 8 Tamer GHANDOUR  02:34:32.6 + 00:15.9 + 06:24.9
4 5 Rodrigue RAHI  02:36:41.5 + 02:08.9 + 08:33.5
5 9 Robert AARAJ  02:47:00.5 + 10:18.9 + 18:52.1
6 24 Emile ABOU KARAM  02:50:03.5 + 03:03.2 + 21:55.3
7 12 Rony KANAAN  02:58:55.6 + 08:52.7 + 30:47.1
8 31 Elie NEHME  02:59:09.5 + 00:13.9 + 31:01.4
9 17 Mishari ALTHAFIRI  03:01:25.5 + 02:16.2 + 33:17.6
10 22 Walid CHLINK  03:03:47.4 + 02:21.9 + 35:38.9
11 35 Nassib NASSAR  03:06:40.7 + 02:53.2 + 38:32.1
12 20 Majed KHOURY  03:07:06.4 + 00:25.9 + 38:57.9
13 33 Joe AZZI  03:07:39.6 + 00:33.1 + 39:31.8
14 30 Pierre WARTANIAN  03:13:15.6 + 05:36.5 + 45:07.1
15 28 Patrick NJEIM  03:15:14.5 + 01:58.9 + 47:05.9
16 6 Henry MASSAAD
 03:23:49.4 + 08:34.9 + 55:40.9

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