Ogier went head-to-head with team-mates Elfyn Evans and Kalle Rovanperä to be crowned world champion at the brand-new season-ending event, which proved incredibly demanding with its combination of soft and sandy desert tracks and rough and rocky mountain roads as well as high temperatures.
A significant road cleaning effect on the loose surface meant the trio were unusually not a factor in the fight for the rally win, and they would also be among the drivers to lose time from the high risk of punctures on the abrasive stages.
Evans had led the standings by three points over Ogier coming into the event, but had to stop and change a tyre on Friday morning, conceding 1m40s. However, Ogier also dropped time with a loss of tyre pressure in the afternoon, and was just two positions ahead of Evans and thus effectively one point in front going into the final day, when 10 bonus points were additionally on offer for the fastest drivers across the day and the rally-ending Power Stage.
Just 0.1s separated Ogier and Evans in the morning's opening stage but the subsequent and penultimate Asfan test - the longest of the rally at 33.28 kilometres - would prove pivotal. Ogier went 7.9s faster than Evans and then found himself promoted to third overall as other drivers hit problems, with four places now between him and Evans.
Evans gave his all in the rally-ending Power Stage, setting the fastest time by 7.2s, but Ogier managed to stay ahead in the Super Saturday classification and win that by 0.8s as well as securing his 10th podium from 11 starts this season, which has included six rally wins.
Ogier equals the record of fellow Frenchman Sébastien Loeb in winning a ninth title, and does so four years after claiming his last championship and stepping away from full-time competition. This is his third title with TGR-WRT, and the first championship for Landais.
It is the sixth time in seven years that a TGR-WRT crew has been crowned world champions, and the fourth time in five years that the team has swept all three championships, having already clinched the manufacturers' crown in October's Central European Rally. In total, it is the 10th drivers' title achieved at the wheel of a Toyota: a joint record with Lancia.
Finishing as championship runners-up, Evans and Martin built an excellent season on unrivalled consistency, placing inside the top six on all 14 rallies, and taking two wins and six other podiums along the way.
Rovanperä and co-driver Jonne Halttunen had an outside chance of winning a third world title, needing to overturn a 24-point deficit in the final round. Their chances took a hit already on Thursday morning when they sustained tyre damage, but they recovered well to enter the final day fifth, just 0.2s in front of Ogier.
On his last day of WRC competition before he makes a groundbreaking switch to single-seater circuit racing with the support of TGR next year, Rovanperä looked to be in trademark 'full send' mode, only to sustain tyre damage in the wild penultimate test, leaving him seventh at the finish.
Sami Pajari completed his first full season of Rally1 competition with perhaps his strongest performance to-date. Fresh from a maiden podium on the previous round in Japan, he took two stage wins on Thursday and was part of a close fight for the lead until he had to stop and change a tyre on Friday afternoon, losing two minutes. He and co-driver Marko Salminen fought back on the final day, moving from seventh to fourth overall.
Takamoto Katsuta came into the final day in third position after a largely trouble-free run. Attempting to fend off Adrien Fourmaux (Hyundai), he rolled in the penultimate stage but managed to reach the finish in fifth.
Already crowned WRC2 champions, Oliver Solberg and Elliott Edmondson finished as the leading Rally2 crew for the ninth time this season (and fifth rally in succession) in their GR Yaris Rally2 run by Printsport. The pair will step up to be part of TGR-WRT's Rally1 line-up in 2026.