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 (UAE). Friday, April 6, 2012: Spanish rider, Marc Coma today secured his fourth successive Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge title, and sixth in total, as he safely negotiated the final 287 kilometre leg to finish 9 minutes 33 seconds ahead of fellow countryman Joan Barreda-Bort, with an overall time of 20h 33m 35s. Coma [...]
ABU DHABI (UAE). Friday, April 6, 2012: There was to be no fairytale homecoming for the UAE’s Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei as veteran rally driver Jean-Louis Schlesser wrapped up an historic sixth Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge title by winning today’s final leg. Schlesser’s win means he now holds more Desert Challenge titles than any other driver. Nevertheless, [...]
ABU DHABI (UAE). Thursday, April 5, 2012: After four days of intense competition, both against the desert and each other, the remaining competitors in this year’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge are tantalisingly close to the finish line. Jean-Louis Schlesser, Marc Coma and Obaid Al Kitbe from the UAE will all be dreaming of victory as [...]
ABU DHABI (UAE), Thursday, April 5, 2012: The 2012 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge draws to a close on Friday, April 6, as the international field races north from the Empty Quarter desert and back to the capital for the ceremonial finish next to Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina Yacht Club at 4.30pm. Over five gruelling days, [...]
ABU DHABI (UAE). Sunday, April 1, 2012: Russian Boris Gadasin and Jacek Czachor from Poland set the early pace in the car and bike categories respectively at today’s Super Special Stage of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge. The 103 competitors from 35 nations were flagged off by Sheikh Sultan Bin Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, [...]
ABU DHABI (UAE). Sunday, April 1, 2011: With the world’s top rally drivers and riders now on the ground in Abu Dhabi, preparations are complete for the competitive stages of this year’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, which get underway today (Monday, April 2) with Leg 1 – the Nissan Patrol stage – of the rally. [...]
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 [...]
