Mitchel van den Brink took the overall and Challenger drivers’ titles by finishing second. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Max Delfino won the race in 5hr 30min 40.5sec, 5min 18.7sec ahead of van den Brink and Bart van Heun.
Mitchel van den Brink secured the 2026 FIA World Baja Cup overall and Challenger drivers’ titles with second place in the Dubai International Baja. He had arrived at the finale needing a strong finish to overtake championship rival Francisco Barreto.
Race winners Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Max Delfino were registered for the separate Middle East Baja Cup, not the World Baja Cup. Van den Brink and navigator Bart van Heun were World Cup entrants; van Heun won the overall navigators’ title after having already secured the Challenger navigators’ crown.
The FIA’s results placed Sergei Remennik and Aleksei Ignatov third in a Taurus T3 Max; they were registered for neither series. Al-Attiyah’s fourth Dubai Baja victory completed a sweep of all four rounds of the 2026 Middle East Baja Cup with Delfino.
Barreto lost his points from the prologue, a short opening test, after officials disqualified him from its results. Video showed that he had not used notes provided by officials. He started the opening desert stage from 29th position. He and navigator Paulo Fiúza recovered on the opening desert stage, but engine problems stopped them early on the final day. Barreto finished second in the championship.
Saood Variawa inherited the prologue win, but technical problems ended his own title challenge on the opening desert stage.
Mansour Al-Helai and navigator Khalid Al-Kendi finished fifth overall, earning enough points to secure the SSV driver and navigator titles. Al-Helai said his engine overheated for 180km and that he drove slowly to reach the finish. He said becoming a world champion had been his dream since childhood.
Larson secured the championship during the Homestead-Miami finale on 8 November, becoming the first consecutive Cup Series champion since Jimmie Johnson in 2010. The race was still underway.
Hedda Hosås and navigator Pol Tibau finished second in the SSV championship and 11th overall in Dubai after Hosås had brake problems on the opening desert stage. A collision on that stage damaged Fernando Alvarez and Xavier Panseri’s Can-Am and ended Alvarez’s bid in the three-way SSV title contest.
Majed Al-Thunayyan and Omar Al-Lahim won the Stock category in Dubai, adding the race victory to the championship title they had already secured.
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Olympiacos and PAOK drew 1–1 in their derby, with Armenia defender Nair Tiknizyan playing all 90 minutes for Olympiacos.
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Paris returned to winning ways after its first domestic league defeat, taking its record to 7–1. Dijon, ASVEL, Nanterre, Roanne, Limoges and Boulazac also won.
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