This coming Friday April 13th will be the last chance to see the region’s best young drivers in action as they battle for championship points and trophies in the inaugural season of Formula Gulf 1000. This ATCUAE sanctioned single seater driver development championship provides karters and young racers with experience of open wheel racing at [...]

Dubai Apr 10th, 2012 - The  2011/2012 UAE national circuit racing season comes to an end this weekend (on Friday, 13 April) at Dubai Autodrome, which will host the final rounds for Total UAE Touring Cars , MotorCity UAE Sportbikes and FG1000 – in each category a new champion will be crowned at the end of [...]

Abu Dhabi, 10 April, 2012:  Some of the world’s and the region’s best motorsport racers competed this past Sunday in the Etihad Airways Head2Head Challenge at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Circuit. As the first pan-GCC, multi-disciplinary motorsport challenge, the Etihad Airways Head2Head Challenge saw 13 drivers from 8 countries team up in a battle to [...]

Qatar, Losail,Sat, 7 April 2012-An enthralling first qualifying session of the 2012 MotoGP™ season saw Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing) take pole position for the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, as the Spanish rider beat reigning World Champion Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) to the fastest lap by 0.221s on Saturday evening. Lorenzo’s time of 1’54.634 [...]

Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar,  Day 2- After Casey Stoner had led the first two practice sessions at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, Jorge Lorenzo took control of the final session on Friday to set the best lap in FP3 and raise expectations for an exciting qualifying run on Saturday. The Yamaha Factory Racing rider [...]

Abu Dhabi, 6 April, 2012:  This weekend Aussie V8 Supercar drivers Craig Lowndes and Lee Holdsworth are making a special trip to Abu Dhabi as guests of Yas Marina Circuit. While motorsport will be on the agenda, the champion duo will be in the capital 6-9 April to participate in a bucket list of activities [...]

 BIC, Sakhir – Race fans enjoyed a thrilling finale to Speed Weekend on Saturday at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir, where Batelco drivers Alban Varuttii and Mohammed Mattar each came away triumphant in an eventful fifth round of the WGA Supercars Middle East Championship. Speed Weekend was organised by BIC, “The Home of Motorsport in [...]

Bahrain.  Austrian Clemens Schmid scored a convincing victory in the 12th and final round of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East today while Qatar’s Saadon Al Kuwari celebrated a title success at Bahrain International Circuit. Schmid won by ten seconds from Bandar Alesayi who edged out newly-crowned champion and fellow-Saudi Abdulaziz Al Faisal as [...]

Bahrain.  Austrian Clemens Schmid scored a commanding victory in the penultimate round of the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East at Bahrain International Circuit today. The race became a dress rehearsal for next month’s Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, and Schmid survived an early slip to win by just under ten seconds from Saudi Arabia’s [...]

Dubai. The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East reaches the climax of its third season at Bahrain International Circuit this weekend with a newly-crowned champion Abdulaziz Al Faisal looking to underline his mastery of the one-make series. After clinching his second Porsche GT3 Cup title in three years in Qatar earlier this month, Abdulaziz wants [...]