Nasser Al-Attiyah performs on the second stage of the Qatar Cross Country Rally, Ad-Dauha on April 19, 2017.

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Rally Raid

See Nasser Al-Attiyah get his season back on track

Watch the Qatari ace winning his home race to underline those credentials as the desert’s top racer.

By Tim Sturtridge

1 min readPublished on 04/23/2017 · 8:53 PM UTC

Nasser Al-Attiyah was on form all week in Qatar

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Qatar Cross Country Rally 2017 Highlights

Watch the world’s best desert racers doing their thing in Qatar.

Watch Nasser and Sam put their sand racing skills to the test at the Qatar Cross Country Rally in the video above.

Nasser crashed out of the points in Abu Dhabi earlier this month so returned to racing with a real hunger to get “back on track”.

“We stayed focused all week on getting the job done,” Al-Attiyah told RedBull.com after the race. “We suffered a big crash in Abu Dhabi so we needed to make sure we got the win here so we could get our season back on track.”

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