MERC – number of wins (drivers)
Previous rally winners (232)
1. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT) 83 (84 MERC)
2. Mohammed Ben Sulayem (UAE) 60
3. Roger Feghali (LEB) 16
4. Saeed Al-Hajri (QAT) 11
5. Khalid Al-Qassimi (UAE) 8
6. Andreas Tsouloftas (CYP) 4
6. Yazeed Al-Rajhi (KSA) 4
8. Abdullah Bakhashab (KSA) 3
8. Abdullah Al-Rawahi (OMN) 3
8. *Björn Waldegård (SWE) 3
8. Jean-Pierre Nasrallah (LEB) 3
11. Suhail bin Maktoum (UAE) 2
11. Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei (UAE) 2
11. Michel Saleh (LEB) 2
11. Khalid Al-Suwaidi (QAT) 2
16. 27 drivers have won one round of the MERC:
Charalambous Thimotheou (CYP), Amjad Farrah (JOR), Andreas Peratikos (CYP), Chris Thomas (CYP), Samir Ghanem (LEB), Abdullah Al-Qassimi (UAE), Abbas Al-Motaiwi (QAT), Nasser Khalifa Al-Attiyah (QAT), Hamed Bin Eid Al-Thani (QAT), Maurice ‘Bagheera’ Senaoui (LEB), Tony Georgiou (LEB), Alex Fiorio (ITA), Piero Liatti (ITA), *Russell Brookes (GBR), Alain Oreille (FRA), Nizar Shanfari (OMN), Nicos Thomas (CYP), Rashid Al-Ketbi (UAE), Nicolas Amiouni (LEB), Tamer Ghandour (LEB), Alexey Lukyanuk (RUS), Rashed Al-Naimi (QAT), Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari (QAT), Simos Galatariotis (CYP), Alexandros Tsouloftas (CYP), Vojtĕch Štajf (CZE) and Pierre-Louis Loubet (FRA).
Milestone winners
1st winner – Qatar 1984 – Saeed Al-Hajri (QAT)
50th winner – Jordan 1994 – Mohammed Ben Sulayem (UAE)
100th winner – Lebanon 2002 – Jean-Pierre Nasrallah (LEB)
150th winner – Kuwait 2009 – Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (QAT)
200th winner – Cyprus 2016 – Alexey Lukyanuk (RUS)
Chris Thomas and Nicos Thomas were the first father and son to win a round of the MERC.
Andreas Tsouloftas (4) and Alexandros Tsouloftas (1) were the second father and son to win a round of the MERC.
*Bjorn Waldegard (29/08/2014), Russell Brookes (30/10/2019) and Hamed bin Eid Al-Thani (31/10/2020) are now deceased.