Yazeed Al-Rajhi

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Yazeed Bin Mohammad Al Rajhi (; born March 1, 1979) is a Saudi rally driver.

Biography

Yazeed Racing started competing in the Middle East Championship on an unofficial basis in 2007, at the Jordan Rally (on Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX with Saleh Al-Abdullali as first co-driver). The goal was for the team to gain some experience, in order to take part officially later in different championships. The experience has been beneficial, as evidenced by the subsequent results, both in local, regional and international championships. This team is the only one in Saudi Arabia that combines both car and motorcycle, officially competing in the WRC World Rally Championship since 2012.

Al-Rajhi played two WRC events in 2008 (Argentina and Jordan).

He took French rider Matthieu Baumel as co-driver in 2009, becoming official driver of the Belgian team Kronos Racing and taking part in some Intercontinental Rally Challenge events, while remaining faithful to the Middle Eastern Championship (MERC).

He reached a good level in 2010, finishing at the Jordan Rally with a Peugeot 207 S2000. He also took part in the rally in Sardinia that year, a round of the IRC, but he had to stop after losing a wheel.

In 2011 he played seven WRC rounds, but dropped in six of them. He also participated in the IRC event in Corsica, finishing in the general ranking.

In 2012 with his co-driver Michael Orr* who had been present since 2011 and who had succeeded Frenchman Baumel that year, at the time incorporated for three seasons, he took part in the World Rally Championship in the Super 2000 category (S-WRC, production) with a Ford Fiesta RRC provided by M-Sport. He finished eighth in the general rankings at the Acropolis (his best result in the world), which then did not count at the S-WRC, placing his first points (4) in the championship.

In 2013, he returned to a WRC campaign with Michael Orr, this time in the new WRC-2 category and still on Ford Fiesta RRC. He started the season with a win at the rally in Sweden in WRC-2, ranking also brilliantly in the general standings of this rally, allowing him to score his first point in the world for this season. In addition, he again took part in the Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), marking his first points in the Qatar rally, again won this year by Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah.

In 2014, he splits his time between WRC-2 and MERC programs during the last two-thirds of the season. The feat arrives at the European Continental Championship in September, where he beats the pawn with his RR5 to riders from Breen, Kajetanowicz or Al-Attiyah. But He also won earlier in the season the Baja de Russia Northern Forest in mid-February, the Baja d'Italie in mid-March, as well as the Pharaohs Rally in mid-May, three events organised in the