Al Attiyah excluded in Greece

Winner of the Production category WRC in Greece at the beginning of June, Nasser Al-Attiyah was excluded from the official final ranking of this event following a meeting held in Jyväskylä, the day before the departure of the rally from Finland.

The engine of the Subaru Impreza group N prepared by Prodrive was the subject of a complete check by the FIA ​​technical commissioners who detected excessive machining on the crankshaft.

If the Barwa Rally Team which enters the car and the Al-Attiyah/Bernacchini crew are not held responsible, unlike the Prodrive company which considers that it has carried out proper preparation in relation to the homologation form, the panel of Commissioners found the technical non-compliance.

As a result, the Portuguese Armindo Araujo finds himself at the top of the general classification with six points ahead of the Qatari.