Tayseer closes in on title

AMMAN — Mohammed Tayseer on Friday was crowned champion of the second round of the Speed Test Championship “Kumho Speed Test” after beating 73 drivers from Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan at the Royal Automobile Club of Jordan.

Tayseer is heading the championship points list after two wins.

Tayseer clocked best time of 1m34.95s in his Mitsubishi EVO 6, followed by Salem Taimeh (1m37.64s) in his BMW and Jad Nabas (1m39.49s) in his Toyota.

Lebanon’s Alen Nofal settled in the fourth place with 1m39.63s in his Renault and Atef Awad came in fifth place with 1m39.82s in his Subaru.

Meanwhile, Yasmeen Majed won the best women Cup and Imad Hanaia won the best Porsche Team driver.

Tayseer expressed his happiness after the event thanking the pressure from his opponents for his win.

“It was a tough round and if it was not for the pressure of my opponents I would not have focused more and won the event. I had really stubborn opponents and we all fought well for the victory. I am happy to see more than 70 drivers in the event who have the best skills and experience,” he said.

Othman Naseef, Jordan Motorsport CEO, stressed on the number of women drivers who took part in the event.

“We had nine women drivers in the event and this is a record number and we are really excited that this participation did really happen. We thank all those who worked on this support especially KIA Jordan which supported two female drivers with two cars,” he said.

“We are working on encouraging more female drivers to join this sports and so far I think we have succeeded a bit but we still have more work to do,” he added.

For the women, Majed came first, followed by Marina Habaybeh, in second place, and Manal Khateeb in third place.