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- Saudi’s Dania Akeel and her navigator, Senegal’s Syndiely Wade, finished third on Thursday and sit second in the table
YANBU: Iraq’s Saz Gullani and her co-driver, Annie Seel of Sweden, won the third stage of the Rally Jameel on Thursday from Umluj to Yanbu city to rack up 1,181.282 points for the Kurdistan team.
Gullani and Seel are now in seventh place in the overall standings, with 3361.043 points, ahead of Friday’s fourth and final stage.
Now competing in her second Rally Jameel event, Gullani said at a press conference in Yanbu after the race: “It was a difficult and challenging stage but this is the nature of any rally. We knew it was going to be a tough rally but we prepared well for it.”
She added: “Hope we keep our pace as high as it was in the third stage in order to gain more points and win the final stage.”
Seel said: “Oh yeah. Super happy. That was really cool.”
Poland’s Ewelina Chlebowska and her German co-driver Hanna Riehle came in second, with 1,190.870 points, and currently lead the overall standings with a total of 3,428.603.
Saudi Arabia’s racer Dania Akeel and her navigator, Senegal’s Syndiely Wade, came third with 1,183.509 points, and maintain their second place in the overall standings with 3,412.907.
The fourth and final stage of the rally begins on Friday morning, heading to King Abdullah Economic City in Rabigh.
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