[1] His five victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the competition more than once.

[citation needed] In shooting, Al-Attiyah won the bronze medal in the men's skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

He won the title in 2006,[5] his third year in the championship alongside co-driver Chris Patterson, driving a Subaru Impreza.

For the 2012 season, Al-Attiyah moved to compete in the top division for the Qatar World Rally Team.

In an unprecedented case, he shared the title with Abdullah Al-Rawahi, as the pair had scored the same results across five events.

[9] He finished second in the Rally dos Sertões from Goiânia to Natal in Brazil (24 June-3 July 2009) behind Carlos Sainz of Spain.

[10] In the 2010 Dakar Rally, Al-Attiyah finished second, 2'12" behind Carlos Sainz, the smallest gap in the history of the race.

[18] Ahead of the 2024 campaign, Al-Attiyah would leave Toyota to partner Sébastien Loeb at Prodrive.

[19] Al-Attiyah signed with Abt Cupra XE to race in the 2022 Extreme E Championship, first alongside 2001 Dakar Rally winner Jutta Kleinschmidt[20] and later with Klara Andersson.