Archive for ‘September, 2011’

ALMS: Al Masaood looks to end season on a high at Petit Le Mans

ALMS: Al Masaood looks to end season on a high at Petit Le Mans

September 29th, 2011- UAE-based Oryx Racing is gearing up for this Saturday’s final round of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), the Petit Le Mans, a grueling 10 hour challenge at the famous Road Atlanta circuit. But the team, racing in a Mazda Lola Coupé, will need to call on all the experience gained in [...]

UAE TC: Mouhritsa Racing announce driver lineup and Gulf Petrochem as new team sponsors

UAE TC: Mouhritsa Racing announce driver lineup and Gulf Petrochem as new team sponsors

Dubai 26 September 2011- Greek racing team Mouhritsa Racing have today confirmed they will return to compete in the 2011-2012 UAE Touring Car Championship, partnering with new sponsors, Gulf Petrochem. This season the team will campaign both UAE racing circuits of Dubai Autodrome and Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Contesting to win Class 1, Class [...]

UAE: Dubai Autodrome launches new season and introduces new Chairman Ali Fardan Al Fardan

UAE: Dubai Autodrome launches new season and introduces new Chairman Ali Fardan Al Fardan

Sep.29 (Dubai) The curtain raiser for the 2011/2012 UAE National Racing season took place at Dubai Autodrome under the guise of the Media & Test Day, which included a press conference featuring Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the Automobile & Touring Club of the UAE and Vice-President of the FIA, along with Dubai Autodrome’s newly [...]

MotoGP: Motegi primed and ready for MotoGP action

MotoGP: Motegi primed and ready for MotoGP action

After plenty of build-up the Grand Prix of Japan takes place at the Motegi circuit this weekend and on Thursday the traditional pre-GP press conference took place with a quintet of MotoGP riders in attendance. Championship leader Casey Stoner was scheduled to be present at the press conference but the Repsol Honda rider was unable [...]

Formula Gulf: UAEs first single seater racing series announces its International driver lineup

Formula Gulf: UAEs first single seater racing series announces its International driver lineup

The UAE’s first junior single seater racing series, Formula Gulf 1000 (FG1000), gets underway in earnest this October, with some of the hottest Emirati and expat talent set to battle it out for the most prestigious junior motorsport title in the Middle East. The fourteen-race programme, which will run under the auspices of the Automobile [...]

F1: Vodafone street event gives India a taste of F1 with Lewis Hamilton

F1: Vodafone street event gives India a taste of F1 with Lewis Hamilton

An incredible 40,000 Indian fans got a thrilling taste of Formula 1 action today when Lewis Hamilton drove his 2008 world championship-winning MP4-23 through Bangalore. There were amazing scenes as the huge crowd of fans and Vodafone customers gathered at Nice Road in the city to see and hear Formula 1 close up in advance [...]

Dakar Rally: Emirati teams enter the gruelling Dakar Rally on two and four wheels

Dakar Rally: Emirati teams enter the gruelling Dakar Rally on two and four wheels

Sep 25th 2011 - At a press conference hosted today by the Automobile and Touring Club of the UAE (ATCUAE) in Dubai, Emirati’s Abdulla Al Heraiz, Khalid Al-Kendi, and Mohamed Al Balooshi announced their intensions today to take on the world’s most notorious off road race, the Dakar Rally. The event will take place in Peru, [...]

24hr: Schubert Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3 wins 24H of Barcelona

24hr: Schubert Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3 wins 24H of Barcelona

BARCELONA September 25th, 2011 – Following its victory in the Dunlop 24H Dubai in January and second place in the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps at the end of July, the German Need for Speed-Team Schubert has won the 24H Barcelona. With their BMW Z4 GT3. The #2 car, with  Swedes Edward Sandström and Lars Stugemo, [...]

FIA GT: SRO announces 2012 plans for ‘GT World Championship’ based on GT3 regulations

FIA GT: SRO announces 2012 plans for ‘GT World Championship’ based on GT3 regulations

Sep 24th Brussels – A meeting held in Brussels yesterday, between current, returning and prospective GT1 team owners, as well as the FIA and Championship organiser SRO, saw the 2012 FIA GT World project take a significant step towards the ultimate goal of bringing together ten teams, representing ten different brands, with two cars each. [...]

Karting: Dubai Kartdrome opens the season with evening sprint races

Karting: Dubai Kartdrome opens the season with evening sprint races

24 September 2011 - If Friday at the Kartdrome is anything to go by, we are in for a bumper season of kart racing in 2011/2012. There were big fields in the heat of the Dubai night with a number of new drivers making their débuts and out to impress, alongside seasoned drivers who in turn wanted [...]

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