Roger Feghali took his third straight victory of the 2014 Lebanese Rally Championship season after dominating the 23rd Cedars Rally today despite an early setback that saw him lose a bit of time to his competitors.
Roger’s rally got off to a bad start when he went off track in the opening special stage in Aarjes, and dropped back behind Abdo Feghali, Nicolas Amiouni and Eddy Abou Karam. The Ford Fiesta R5 driver, however, struck back in the second special stage to go second fastest behind Abdo (Evo X), before raising his game even further to win all remaining 10 special stages.
Abdo Feghali drove a consistent rally to finish second overall and first in the Group N class, followed by Eddy Abou Karam who had his hands full in a battle for third place with Nicolas Amiouni, before the latter slowed down on the second loop of stages due to a broken component in his Evo X. Amiouni eventually crossed the finish line in fifth place overall behind Rodrigue Rahi’s Lancer Evo IX.
Robert Aaraj secured the front-wheel drive class win by finishing the event eighth place overall in his Citroen DS3 R3.
Final Results:
01. Roger Feghali, 01h 06min 27.1sec
02. Abdo Feghali, +01min 32.2sec
03. Eddy Abou Karam, +04min 22.0sec
04. Rodrigue Rahi, +04min 52.5sec
05. Nicolas Amiouni, +05min 00.8sec
06. Rabih Ayoub, +05min 37.6sec
07. Emile Abou Karam, +05min 57.5sec
08. Robert Aaraj, +06min 56.3sec
09. Joe Kfoury, +07min 06.7sec
10. Nabil Abdelhak, +09min 30.7sec
11. Hicham Al Abiad, +10min 59.7sec
12. Elie Nehme, +13min 00.2sec
13. Ziad Feghali, 13min 21.6sec
14. Nader Hamze, +25min 22.6sec
15. Hovig Karakozian, +25min 53.5sec
16. Majed Khoury, +30min 51.6sec