Gary Meenaghan

She has raced in the Middle East Rally Championship for more than two decades, yet Edith Weiss still seeks acceptance, writes Gary Meenaghan from Kuwait City.

Nasser Al Attiyah, the 10-time Middle East Rally champion, won his fifth Kuwait International Rally yesterday to break Mohammed ben Sulayem’s record and move Qatar level with the UAE in terms of total Middle East Rally Championship (Merc) race victories.

Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi quite literally got lost in the clouds. The Emirati driver, competing on Day 1 of the Kuwait International Rally, approached a jump midway through the third stage yesterday, took to the air and found himself enveloped in a blanket of disorienting dust.

The Gulf War may have officially ended in February 1991, but if you look with a keen enough eye, the scars are still visible. In motorsport, the aftermath is visible, too.

The Middle East Rally Championship reconvenes this weekend in Kuwait, with Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi intent on emulating his achievements of 2010, finishing atop the podium and usurping title rival Nasser Al Attiyah in the championship standings.

Ahead of the start to the 2015 Formula One season on Sunday at the Australian Grand Prix, Gary Meenaghan details the storylines he expects to dominate the year.

'Our victories have turned into draws and because of that we have slipped down the league a little bit,' West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce tells The National's Gary Meenaghan, but, 'to finish sixth ... would be beyond a major achievement'.

Dubai-based Jake Shipton, 21, of Great Britain, sat down to speak with Gary Meenaghan about his past, his present and his plans for the future.

The UAE’s first professional boxer is set to return to the ring next month after a three-year break and is hoping to show enough promise to warrant a lucrative place on the undercard of Amir Khan’s next fight.

World men's No 1 Novak Djokovic beat Tomas Berdych 6-0 5-7 6-4 at the Dubai Championships on Friday to set up a dream final with Roger Federer.

After dispatching Sergiy Stakhovsky, Berdych will now face world No 1 Novak Djokovic in Friday’s semi-finals in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, writes Gary Meenaghan.

Earlier in the evening, Roger Federer secured safe passage to the semi-finals at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships when Richard Gasquet retired, citing a back injury, reports Gary Meenaghan.

The smell of gasoline and burning rubber will fill the air at Yas Marina Circuit when the second round of the Yas Super Street Challenge begins at the capital’s purpose-built drag strip.