Middle East Rally Championship

The Middle East Rally Championship (official FIA Middle East Rally Championship, abbreviated MERC, English for Middle East Rally Championship ) is a summary of the rules, regulations and conditions under which the homonymous Middle East Rally Championship, an International from automobile federation Fédération de l' automobile ( FIA) set rally series is discharged.

The yearly since 1984 rally series is organized mainly in the countries of the Middle East and the participants are largely inhabitants of this region. The Jordan Rally was in the seasons 2008, 2010 and 2011, both a World Rally Championship race as well as, discharged in the same frame MERC rally. In 2010, organized as a round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge ( IRC) and parallel to the MERC scoring Cyprus Rally victory Nasser Al- Attiyah in both ratings. The 2011 in June takes place run in Cyprus took place outside the IRC.

The Middle East Rally Championship will take place as a series of seven currently MERC rally runs ( as of 2011) in the Arab region and Cyprus. Are permitted for this series rally cars of the Super 2000 class and rally car Group N World Rally Cars are no longer accepted for enrollment since 2003.

List of champions

Rally overall winner

The most successful driver after 168 MERC rallies (Stand by Lebanon Rally 2011).

18 rally drivers have not won a MERC run: Charalambous Thimotheou (CY ), Amjad Farrah ( HKJ ), Andreas Peratikos (CY ), Chris Thomas (CY ), Samir Ghanem (RL), Abdullah Al- Qassimi ( UAE), Abbas Al- Motaiwi (QA), Nasser Khalifa Al- Attiyah ( QA), Hamed Bin Eid Al - Thani (QA), Maurice ' Bagheera ' Senaoui (RL), Tony Georgiou (RL ), Alex Fiorio (I), Piero Liatti (I), Russell Brookes (GB ), Alain Oreille (F), Nizar Shanfari (OM), Nicos Thomas (CY ), Rashed El- Ketbi (UAE).