For those motorsport & petrolhead bods who have been out here for a while and remember ‘Full Throttle’ magazine which was circulating for 12 months, there was a regular column of inane drivel from yours truly, the ‘Northern Ferret’ The idea was a light hearted look at what was going on in and around the [...]

Friday 18th Mar 2011, Dubai Autodrome, Re-creating the ‘Sound of Music’………….With a twist! In 1971, there was a very important birth, no, not mine! That was some ten years previous…Yeah, I know it’s hard to believe… Motorcycle giant, Honda, had just pieced together another CR750 motorcycle. A beast of a bike which produced a staggering (at [...]

Dunlop 24 Hours of Dubai- For six years now, the FIA sanctioned Dubai Autodrome has headed its international motorsport calendar with its very own 24 hour endurance race.  Whilst its provenance is not in the same league as Le Mans or the Nürburgring just yet, it is nevertheless making quite a name for itself. This [...]

JDM Allstars Professional drifting are coming to Dubai, and they mean business. They will form the opening round of the first professional drift event in the Middle East running for three days from December 9-11th. Sixteen of JDM Allstars top pro drivers from Europe have been handpicked and selected for this ‘end of season burnout’. With drivers frustrated at [...]

Oct 8th – Another long hot summer comes to a close as the excitement builds in preparation for the fast approaching race season, but for some, it is never long enough. Procrastination, which seems to be inherent in motorsport at club level, is taking its toll on the majority of teams, including current UAE Touring Car [...]

Team Orange, stars of the “The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift” will return to amaze car fans in the Middle East with their full throttle displays of pure drifting action during Barbican Turbo 2010. Hailing from Fukushima, Japan, Team Orange, are widely considered to be the world’s best drifting team; and are household names [...]

For the past three decades, leaps in bio-mechanical engineering and developments in composite design have allowed various boffins, with a passion for motor sports, to develop safety devices that have proven to dramatically reduce the severity of neck and spinal injuries in event of a crash. Racing professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world [...]

Svetlana is her name and a scraggy metallic bronze 1973 Ford Escort MK1 is what she was. Currently she is in the middle of a longitudinal restoration and metamorphosis into a track orientated race car.  The story so far can be seen here on the Gulf Petrolheads Forum