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Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, Argentina’s Lucio Alvarez and Saudi Arabia’s Yazeed Al Rajhi are all challenging for FIA World Cup championship points and will drive three of the current specification Toyotas at the Rally of Morocco, round four of the 2021 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.
Al Attiyah and French co-driver Matthieu Baumel won the Andalucia round of the series in Spain and currently trail series leader Denis Krotov by just half a point.
The Qatari and Baumel have won the Moroccan event on five occasions (2014-2018) and know that another success in North Africa would seriously boost their title challenge before the series reaches its conclusion in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia at the end of the year.
Alvarez is joint third in the title race with Sweden’s Matthias Ekström and trails Al-Attiyah by just two points.
A career-best victory for the Argentine in Kazakhstan in June catapulted him into contention and he again teams up with Spanish co-driver Armand Monleón in Morocco.
Al Rajhi is classified in sixth place in the standings, albeit just eight points off the lead, and the Saudi and Ulster co-driver Michael Orr know full well that a podium finish in Morocco would give them an excellent chance of moving into contention for the title before the two remaining Gulf-based events in November and December.
Overdrive Racing will also oversee a pair of Red Bull Off-Road Junior Racing Team OT3s for America’s Seth Quintero and Spain’s Cristina Gutierrez in the FIA T3 category and a pair of 2022-specification OT3 T3+ machines for Spanish drivers, Santiago Navarro and Gael Queralt.
Overdrive Racing faces one of its busiest and most important week’s of the motor sporting calendar when it runs six Toyota Hiluxes and oversees four OT3s
The Zagora-based event will be fought out over a Qualifying stage and five demanding desert selective sections and starts on October 8 with the final stage and finishing ceremony set for Wednesday, October 13th.