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Nasser Al Attiyah wins the 2019 Rally of Lebanon as he triumphed in the 42nd running of the event, driving a VW Polo R5 alongside French co-driver Mathieu Baumel. Nasser was initially beaten by Lebanese legend Roger Feghali in Friday’s super special stage. Al Attiyah started the second day in excellent form, as he got an advantage of 0.3 seconds on Feghali after the first loop by winning 3 out of 3 stages on Saturday morning. Then, an unfortunate puncture and incident for Roger forced him to withdraw from SS5 in Hboub. This left Nasser in a comfortable lead at the end of Leg 1, and he never looked back after that as he secured the win by more than 6 minutes over second-placed Group N winner Rodrigue Rahi (Mistubishi…