Car
TOYOTA
OVERDRIVE RACING
Vehicle
Brand: Toyota
Model: Hilux Overdrive
Chassis: tubular
Engine: 3444.9 cc petrol engine
Power: 375 HP
Weight: 2010 kg
Width: 3300 mm
Preparator: Overdrive Racing
Assistance: Overdrive Racing
Class: Ultimate T1+ FIA
Rankings
2025: 6th
2024: 2nd
2023: 2nd
2022: 3rd
2021 : 4th FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies
2020 : 4th FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies
2016 : 3th FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies
2014 : 3th FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies
2025 : 1st (1 stage win - Overdrive Racing)
2024 : Ab. stage 7 (Overdrive Racing)
2023 : 86th (1 stage win - Overdrive Racing)
2022 : 3th (Overdrive Racing)
2021 : 16th (2 stage wins - Overdrive Racing)
2020 : 4th (Overdrive Racing)
2019 : 7th (Mini X-raid)
2018 : Ab. Stage 8 (Mini X-raid)
2017 : 27th (Mini X-raid)
2016 : 11th (Toyota)
2015 : Ab. Stage 11 (Toyota)
2025 : Ab. stage 5
2024 : 2nd
2023 : 1st
2022 : 17th
2019 : 7th
2016 : 2nd
2015 : 4th
2024 : 5th
2025 : 46th (29th ULT)
2025: 54th (32th ULT)
2024: 4th
2023: 1st
2022: 4th
2021: 2nd
2019: 5th
2016: Ab.
2015: 3rd
2024: 1st Desafio Ruta 40
2023: 3nd Desafio Ruta 40
2023: World Cup Baja championship (2nd), Sonora Rally (2nd , 2 stage wins)
2022: World Cup Baja championship (1st)
2021: Baja Dubai (1st), Baja Sherkiyah (Ab.), Baja Spain (3rd), Baja Hungary (2nd), Baja Poland (2nd), Baja Italy (1st), Kazakhstan Rally (17th), Andalucía Rally (3rd)
2020: Andalucía Rally (3rd)
2019: Qatar Rally (2nd), Silk Way Rally (Ab.), Rally Qassim (1st), Al Alu Neom Rally (1st)
2018: Silk Way Rally (1st), Kazakhstan Rally(1st)
2017: Silk Way Rally (10th), WRC Wales and Sardegna, Kazakhstan Rally (11th)
2016: Qatar Rally (2nd), Sardinia Rally (6th), Silk Way Rally (2nd)
2015: Egypt Rally (2nd), MERC and WRC2 events
2014: Baja Russia (1st), Baja Italia (1st), Egypt Rally (1st), WRC2, ERC and MERC Championships
YAR
- From the prestigious Al Rajhi family, which made its fortune in banking, Yazeed specialises in real estate and catering, in addition to his career as a race car driver, which he began in the WRC before moving to rally-raid.
- It took him 10 years, 11 Dakar participations and also setbacks (three retirements), before finally triumphing last January. During his first participation in 2015, he secured his first stage victory on day 8 in Chile, in a Toyota Hilux, before retiring while in 3rd place. After a stint with Mini (three Dakars between 2017 and 2019), he had to wait until 2022 before finally climbing onto the third step of the Dakar and also W2RC podiums.
- Twice runner-up to Nasser Al Attiyah in the championship (2023-24), the Overdrive Racing team's number one driver was well on his way to breaking the spell in 2025 when he won his first Dakar... on home soil, the icing on the cake.
- The 44-year-old driver enters the 2026 Dakar Rally as the defending champion, but appears to be on the back foot after a nasty accident at the Jordan Baja that kept him out of the cockpit for many months due to two fractured vertebrae. His return to competition has not been particularly reassuring (22nd in Portugal, retirement in Morocco).
Ranking 2026
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