IRC - First all-Middle East team set for IRC

The Intercontinental Rally Challenge will welcome its first full-time team from the Middle East this season when the Skydive Dubai Rally Team embarks on a 10-event campaign with Rashid Al Ketbi and co-driver Khalid Al Kendi.

Starting from SATA Rallye Acores later this month, the Skydive Dubai Rally Team will field a SKODA Fabia S2000 for Al Ketbi, who made his IRC debut on last September’s Canon Mecsek Rallye in Hungary, and finished second overall in last year’s Middle East Rally Championship. Skydive, a skydiving experience centre in Dubai, is an offshoot of the successful Victory powerboat racing team.

In an interview with Sport360º, Al Ketbi said: “The IRC attracts huge media and is very widely televised. We will be competitive but we will not lose sight of our primary goal that is taking Skydive Dubai to a larger audience.”