Abu Dhabi: Bahrain’s Shaikh Salman bin Rashid Al Khalifa earned a place in history as the first race-winner on the new 5.554km Yas Marina Circuit in a stirring Chevrolet Supercars Middle East Championship season-opener on Saturday. Shaikh Salman bin Rashid took the lead on the second of 10 laps, sweeping past pole-sitter Prince Khalid Al [...]
Abu Dhabi: Rene Rast took his sixth win of the season in the opening Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race at the Yas Marina circuit on Saturday, but it was merely a consolation prize as third place was good enough to confirm Jeroen Bleekemolen’s success in defending his crown as drivers’ champion. Bleekemolen, 28, of the [...]
Abu Dhabi: Lewis Hamilton has dominated qualifying for the 2009 FORMULA 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday evening, taking pole position for the first race at the new Yas Marina circuit after his final lap of 1min 40.948 was more than six-tenths of a second better than the rest of the field. [...]
Abu Dhabi, Yas Marina Circuit: Takatof volunteers participating in the first Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix yesterday successfully completed an extensive series of training exercises, ensuring that they are “in gear’ to welcome tens of thousands of race fans to Yas Marina Circuit this weekend. Takatof, the Volunteer Programme of the Emirates [...]
When Etisalat do things they do them right. As part of the Formula 1 spirit that has engulfed the UAE, in the build-up to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the UAEs number one telephone company came upon a brilliant idea: a competition to give their subscribers and clients an opportunity, of a lifetime, to sample [...]
Launch Major Public Awareness Campaign Abu Dhabi, Yas Marina Circuit (Tuesday 27 October) – Abu Dhabi Motorsport Management, the organizers of the Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, today launched a multi-media public service campaign to maximize race-goers awareness of the travel and transport arrangements that are in place over the race weekend. [...]
Abu Dhabi: Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman, Yas Marina Circuit, Opening Remarks to NYUAD Institute Panel Session: “Completing the Circuit: F1, Yas Island and the Future of Abu Dhabi”During the session, HE Khaldoon Al Mubarak discussed how Yas Marina Circuit is part of a wider programme of infrastructure, activities and commercial opportunities. The below text is [...]
Alex Renner Motors in the UAE GT Championship Alex Renner Motors (ARM) got off to a great start in its attempt to better last year’s excellent results in the UAE Touring Car Championship, with second and third place in the inaugural UAE GT Championship at the Dubai Autodrome. Supporting three teams and six cars in [...]
Abu Dhabi: Yas Marina Circuit: Yas Marina Circuit, the organisers of the inaugural Formula 1™ Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, today announced that the event is sold out, with approximately 50,000 spectators expected on race day. For those motorsport enthusiasts not attending Yas Marina Circuit, in a generous show of support, Bahrain International Circuit [...]
Sheikh Hasher Al Maktoum led NFM Professionals to victory in one of the closest fought Nivea for Men Endurance Challenge 24 hour races ever held at Dubai’s Kartdrome. Starting at 2.15 pm on Friday, for 24 hours they slugged it out with Team Grohe for supremacy. Saturday 2.15 pm, after 24 grueling and tense hours, [...]
