Is Saudi Arabia smiling at her son Yazid Al-Rajhi to win the Dakar Rally 2020?

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If you are looking for the big and international names to compete for the title of the 2020 Dakar Rally in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, you will not need to go search further, as the Saudi driver Yazid Al Rajhi holds the Saudis hopes to shine in the 42nd edition of the global event.

Al-Rajhi will enter the competitions this year, enjoying a clear advantage over the previous versions, as he will enter the competitions "in his backyard", if true, given his wide knowledge of the Kingdom's lands and its harsh terrain.

Nor should the influence of the audience factor who will be strongly present to encourage the local hero towards global radiance be ignored.

 

In parallel, Al-Rajhi is entering the new year’s battle, after intense preparations and unyielding preparations that paid off by achieving the title of the Saudi Desert Rally Championship this year.

The interesting thing is that some of these rallies were established in areas from which the Dakar Rally tracks will pass.

The Saudi will compete in the most successful rally on board the most successful car in recent years, a Toyota "Hilux" company accompanied by the ancient team Overdrive.

Al-Rajhi has become a familiar face in the competitions presented in Dakar in recent years, as if we go back a little, he attended his first participation during the 2015 version of the event, and at that time he managed to win the stage was the first for Toyota, which confirms the close link that he brings to the Toyota car For a long time.

 

As for the best results in terms of the final arrangement of the rally, it came in the 2019 edition when it ranked seventh in the rally's latest visit to the South American continent, despite the fact that he used it in a mini car.

Yazid said: “I have been fond of all forms of motorsport since I was a child, and the Dakar Rally has occupied a special place in my heart as it centered on adventure. I dreamed of participating in it one day. I compete with the best drivers, and at the same time face natural conditions and yourself. "

 

He added: “I was glad that I finished the Dakar Rally 2019 in Peru among the first ten. Certainly we faced many difficulties and made mistakes but were able to achieve a good result, and certainly I am very pleased to see the Dakar Rally being held in my country, and I think it will be one of the best copies of the Dakar in history".

Then he continued: "It will be difficult since he will go through many terrain in the Kingdom, with a great variety. I am now among the candidates to win it, as I have run on the same tracks in the Saudi Desert Rally Championship and during the preparations for the Dakar Rally, so I fully realize what we will face, which increases "My confidence in the car. The High Day Rally was full of excitement and we performed well. We did everything we could to win, especially since we faced a problem with one of the tire locks on our first day, and surely winning the rally would be our only goal."On his return to sitting behind the Toyota steering wheel in the 2020 version, Al-Rajhi was supposed to cooperate with a new navigator, the German Dirk von Tsefitz, who had previously worked with South African Geniel de Villiers, but the German suffered a serious accident that forced him to be absent, which prompted Al-Rajhi to use the Russian, Constantine Gilstov.