Silk Way Rally Overdrive: Al-Attiyah and Baumel finish second

Nasser Al-Attiyah and Matthieu Baumel © DPPI

Overdrive Racing’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah claimed the third quickest time on the final stage of the Silk Way Rally between Lipetsk and Moscow on Friday and confirmed second overall in the general classification.

The Qatari and French navigator Matthieu Baumel set a time of 58min 02sec on the weather-shortened special and, in so doing, headed for the finish in Red Square 1hr 08min 12sec behind race winner Yazeed Al-Rajhi.

 

Frenchman Matthieu Serradori confirmed third place and former rally leader Harry Hunt confirmed the stage win from Spaniard Joan Roma. Russia’s Sergei Kariakin finished fourth.

« It’s great to reach the finish after our week was beset with several delays and little problems,

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