After his most impressive FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) performance of the year, BP Ford Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi finished in the top ten to score Championship points at Rally de Portugal as the weekend’s action came to a close amid the roaring crowds of the Algarve Stadium. The 2004 Middle East Rally [...]

Dario Franchitti won his second Indianapolis 500 Mile Race under the yellow caution flag. No matter, the winning milk still tasted just as good. Franchitti, who led 155 of the 200 laps, became the 19th multi-time winner of “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing” and his boss, Chip Ganassi, the first owner to win Indy and NASCAR’s [...]

Abu Dhabi’s Emirati motorsports ace,Sheikh Khalid Al Qassimi, will make his World Rally Championship (WRC) comeback at Rally Portugal this weekend. Al Qassimi’s return to the BP-Ford Abu Dhabi team comes as the record-breaking outfit looks to overturn a five point deficit to lead the Manufacturers’ Championship. Al Qassimi – who has spent the last [...]

Jorge Lorenzo stormed clear of Valentino Rossi to take his second win in a row in Le Mans this afternoon, making it three victories from three races for the Fiat Yamaha Team this year. Rossi overcame a few problems with both his bike and his shoulder to finish second, with Spaniard Andrea Dovizioso third. Rossi started [...]

Michael Krumm and Peter Dumbreck claimed their second podium finish of the weekend, when they drove their Sumo Power GT Nissan GT-R to an excellent third in the Championship race at Brno Circuit, round three of the FIA GT1 World Championship. For team-mates Warren Hughes and Jamie Campbell-Walter it was not the day they were [...]

Bahrain International Circuit held a press conference where the winner of the 2009-10 season of the Chevrolet Supercars ME Championship, Fahad Al Musalam, received his prize of a three day test session in Australia with Australia V8 Supercars team Paul Morris. Al Musalam won the series following a heated season which was full of on [...]

The Dubai Autodrome reverberated to the sound of thunder yesterday evening with not even a cloud in sight or a drop of rain falling. This time the thunder was in the form of scores of Ducati motorcycles as they descended into the  Motor City complex for the opening of the UAE’s latest motorcycle outlet. The iconic Ducati [...]

(10 May)  - Saudi Arabia’s HH Prince Abdulaziz Al Faisal enjoyed a maiden run in an F2 car, having been welcomed to the championship’s main operations centre at Bedford Autodrome by Series Director Jonathan Palmer. Al Faisal began racing in 2007 in Formula BMW Bahrain, where he finished third in his first ever season. He then [...]

They say that a straight line is the quickest way from A to B, but of course, that always assumes that there aren’t two dozen other cars and a few kilometres of race circuit between you and your destination. So in an attempt to re-write that expression to suit their motor racing habit, in the [...]

For those who have followed the 2009/10 UAE Touring Car Championship as I have, you can not fail to notice the ever present and stunning machinery from the DXB Racing Team; with the likes of the Seat Leon, an awesome Viper and the ‘one of a kind’ Mitsubishi Evo, all resplendent in the familiar black & white livery. Battling [...]