Wataniya Palestine Telecom exclusive sponsors of The Wataniya Mobile Car Rally

This Friday, Wataniya Palestine was the exclusive sponsor of the “Wataniya Mobile Car Rally”, the 5th and final round of the 2007 Palestinian car rally season. The rally is organized by the Palestinian Motor Sports and Motorcycle Federation and is held under the auspices of the PLC representative Dr. Saeb Erekat. The final round took place in Jericho at the grounds of the Palestinian Commercial Services Company near the King Hussein Bridge.

Around 3000 spectators attended the daylong event in which 37 drivers, including one female driver, from all districts in the West Bank participated.  All drivers had two chances to complete the rally circuit and the top 10 fastest drivers had an additional round to decide on the winner

At the end of the day the winner of the rally was Wissam Razouq from Jerusalem with the fastest time of 1 minute and 28 seconds.  Second place went to George Saadeh from Bethlehem and third place to Jamal Toufaha from Nablus.

The rally was followed by an awards ceremony that was attended by the Mayor of Jericho, Mr. Hassan Saleh, representative of the Jericho police, Captain Odai Harfoush and representatives from Wataniya Palestine and the Federation of Motor Sports.

At the ceremony the PR Manager of Wataniya Palestine, Maxim Sansour, thanked the municipality of Jericho, the Police, the Federation of Motor Sports and all the drivers for putting together an exciting and very well organized event. He also expressed the company’s hopes to continue to support this very popular sport in 2008.
 

Nov 25,2007