Champion Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah is looking forward to winning the Rally Mexico "Sonora"which constitutes the third round of the new World Rally Championship "Raid"which was introduced by the International Automobile Federation last year, and Al-Attiyah finished the world champion in long desert rallies "cross country" The five-time Dakar Rally champion, accompanied by his French navigator Mathieu Baumel, made strong preparations for the Sonora Rally, which will start with an opening stage in the city of Hermosillo today, Sunday. Al-Attiyah, the holder of the title of the first edition of the World Championship, faces strong competition this season from Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, who won the World Rally Championship title nine times previously, who seeks to record his seventh victory in Mexico, and to maintain the lead in the World Cup for Desert Rally Championships this year, and Sebastien Loeb is accompanied by His navigator Fabien Lorquin is at the top of the world championship standings, 16 points ahead of arch-rival Nasser Al-Attiyah, second-placed, who is seeking to take advantage of the Mexico Rally to pounce on the lead. Loeb has won nine stages out of 19 so far in the first two rounds of the World Cup for Desert Rally Championship, which are the Dakar Rally and the Abu Dhabi Desert Rally. In the Mexican rally, Prodrive Hunter cars also compete from the Brazilian X-Rally team, driven by Christian Baumgart and his navigator Alberto Andreotti. , and Marcus Baumgart and his navigator Kleber Sensia.
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