Abu Dhabi, UAE, 29 January 2011: Following the success of last year’s Yas Pro Drag Racing Series, organizers have announced that the series will return to Yas Marina Circuit for a second season. The season will consist of four rounds commencing in March, and running through until May. With a full count of cars, the [...]
Nov 14th 2011 – Bahrain International Circuit, ‘The Home of Motorsport in theMiddle East’, hosts the second round of the National Racing Festival this upcoming weekend in Sakhir. The three-day event, starting on Thursday night (November 17, 2011) and concluding on Saturday (November 19, 2011), will feature the much-anticipated opening round of the Western Gulf [...]
Bahrain International Circuit, ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’, is all geared up for another three days of rip-roaring racing action, as the third and penultimate round of the 2010/2011 Bahrain National Drag Racing Championship takes place from Wednesday to Friday. The Sakhir race track’s recently renovated quarter-mile drag strip is expected to [...]
Abu Dhabi, 1 May 2011: The Yas Drag Racing Centre’s first-ever Pro Drag Racing series ended at Yas Marina Circuit on Friday night with seven champions being crowned. Between the championship win and prize money already paid out for each of the four rounds, the winners and runners-up shared a total payout of AED 1.4 [...]
Top drag racers compete for AED 1.4 million at Yas Marina Circuit Abu Dhabi, 25 April, 2011: The fourth and final round of Yas Marina Circuit’s Pro Drag Racing Series will finish with a fury of racing at the Yas Drag Racing Centre this weekend (28 and 29 April). Fifty-five professional drivers and riders will [...]
Abu Dhabi, 6 March 2011 – Hot Rod Fuller triumphed over FIA World Champion Urs Erbacher in the battle of the Top Fuel giants at the Yas Drag Racing Festival on Saturday…More
Abu Dhabi, 6 March 2011 – Hot Rod Fuller triumphed over FIA World Champion Urs Erbacher in the battle of the Top Fuel giants at the Yas Drag Racing Festival on Saturday. Fuller beat the Swiss driver in two out of three runs in the elimination round to clinch victory, despite having to abort his final [...]
Abu Dhabi, 5th March 2011 – Hot Rod Fuller achieved a new UAE record at the Yas Drag Racing Festival on Friday March 4, hitting a terminal speed of 507.81 km/h in front of a 4,000-strong crowd. He covered the standing-start 1,000 feet (302 metres) in 3.9 seconds in his 8,000-horsepower dragster, to loud applause [...]
Abu Dhabi, 1 March 2011 – Acclaimed UAE-based rock band Juliana Down will head the list of off-track entertainment at this weekend’s Yas Drag Racing Festival, where on-track action will feature a battle of Top Fuel champions and a jet-engined Funny Car demonstration. Other entertainment at the Yas Drag Racing Centre will include fire dancers, [...]
Abu Dhabi, 5 February 2011 – The sound and fury of 8,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragsters will split the air again in the UAE when the FIA World Champion Urs Erbacher races resident NHRA star Rod Fuller at the Yas Drag Racing Festival on 4-5 March. Other attractions for the Drag Festival will include demonstration runs [...]
