Title: DiRT2
Platform: X360, Playstation 3, PC-DVD
Release Date: September 2009

RACE STARS

Mohammed Ben Sulayem

Mohammed Ben Sulayem is one of the Arab world’s most famous sportsmen. He became involved in motor sports in the early eighties. He went on to win a record 14 FIA Middle East Rally Championship Drivers titles, making him the most successful FIA title holders in the world. This successful career includes 61 international outings in the European, African, Middle East and World Rally Championships (WRC). During his career he drove for Opel, Toyota and Ford. In the 1990s while contesting the WRC he competed against Colin McRae and developed a close friendship with the former World Champion who died in a helicopter crash. From the early nineties Mr. Ben Sulayem was heavily involved in the organisation of the inaugural UAE Desert Challenge Cross Country Rally which quickly grew to become one of the world’s premier cross country events for cars, bikes and trucks.

Mohammed Ben Sulayem is Chairman of the Organising Committee of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship, the Dubai International Rally. He was a founding member of the ACTAC organisation which aims to unite the FIA Clubs of Arabic-speaking territories. He is Vice President to the Executive Board of Directors of the UAE Government Committee for Emirati Motor Sport Affairs. Mr. Ben Sulayem has been involved in the UAE’s signing of the UN Conventions concerning mobility and was also active in the translation process of the conventions into Arabic.

In 2008 he was appointed Vice President of the FIA and a member of the World Motor Sport Council. The FIA is the global sporting authority for motorsport and represents 100 million car owners in almost 200 countries.

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