Seven year–old UAE Karting sensation Rashid Al Dhaheri has been nominated for the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Creative Sports Award. 

 

The award honours creative athletes on the local and Arab level, under its three categories - Individual Sports Creativity, Group Sports Creativity and Corporate Sports Creativity. 

 

Al Dhaheri has been nominated in the ‘Local Young Athlete’ category.

 

At the tender age of seven Al Dhaheri is one of the UAE’s hottest young sporting talents, winning over 20 races locally and internationally. He is a sporting ambassador for his country, flying the UAE flag at the highest level international karting competitions.

 

From a very young age Al Dhaheri has dreamed of becoming an F1 driver for Ferrari. He started his karting career when he was four years old, in a red 'Bambino' kart at Al Ain Raceway. He showed early promise and steadily improved his driving style throughout his first season’s racing in local UAE competitions. When Al Dhaheri turned six he started to compete in Karting competitions in Italy. Currently Italy is host to the highest level of Karting competitions anywhere in the world.

 

Al Dhaheri's Father, Dr Ali Obaid Al–Yabhouni, said: "Rashid’s potential and enthusiasm for racing was obvious from an early age. We wanted Rashid to compete at the top levels from an early age and Italy was the obvious choice as it has toughest karting scene anywhere in the world at the moment. I am so proud of him.

 

"Not only is Rashid the only Arab driver competing at the highest levels for his age group but he is also consistently producing results. The numbers speak for themselves, over the last three years Rashid has competed in 51 races, of these he has reached the podium 38 times and 21 of them in first place." - TradeArabia News Service