At the same time, Al-Rajhi is a
Rally driver and a two-time FIA World Cup champion in 2021 and 2022, a four-time champion in the local championship, the Saudi Toyota Championship in 2019 and 2022–24, and a winner of the
Dakar Rally. Al-Rajhi has been competing in the
World Rally Championship and other international rally events since 2007 and stopped at the end of 2018. He later started to participate in the cross-country rallies, and his debut at the Dakar Rally was in 2015. In 2007, Al-Rajhi established his own racing team. It was known as the Al-Rajhi Racing Team and later renamed Yazeed Racing Team, where he started his first unofficial competition in the Middle East Rally Championship (MERC), the 2007 Jordan Rally, in order to gain experience so he can formally participate in different rally championships in the future. After that, he scored his first ever points (eighth place) in Greek
2012 Acropolis Rally in the 40th season of the
World Rally Championship (WRC). Nicknamed the Black Horse, Al Rajhi made his WRC debut at the
2008 Rally Argentina with a
Subaru Impreza WRX STI in the
2008 Jordan Rally, as his other WRC appearance of the year. He returned to the top level in 2010, finishing 13th overall on the
Jordan Rally in a
Peugeot 207 S2000. He also contested that year's
Rally d'Italia Sardegna, a round of the
Intercontinental Rally Challenge, but he retired after losing a wheel. In 2011, he contested seven WRC rounds but retired from six of them. He also competed in the
2011 Tour de Corse, finishing 14th. The Saudi won the
Silk Way Rally in 2018. In 2019, Al Rajhi won the first edition of Saudi Desert Rally Championship. Yazeed occupied the top positions in Dakar 2020, with his best finish in fourth place. Moving to the new year, the Saudi motorsport icon left a historical imprint in the second edition of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia after winning two stages in the Dakar Rally 2021 in his Toyota Hilux. He became the first Saudi and Arab to win on home soil in his class and the youngest contestant to win a stage in Dakar that year. In 2025, Yazeed won the
2025 Dakar Rally, becoming the first Saudi to win the Dakar on home soil. == Championship titles ==