Dubai Motorsport Festival at the Autodrome
DUBAI — Dubai Autodrome will host the Dubai Motorsport Festival at its facility on November 16 and 17, according to a media communique.
A host of mini-events aimed at families will be part and parcel of the race weekend.
Children under 16 will be entitled to free entry accompanied with adult.
Off track entertainment will include: kids activities including trampolines, jumping castles and face painting, live music entertainment, car/motorcycle parades, exhibition boulevard, Food Village, Motorsport Educational Village, Bridgestone F1 Experience & Pit Stop Challenge, taverns with live music and action on the screens, the Red Bull Stunt Team & Flugtag Display, parachute jumpers and fashion parades — a festival in the true sense of the word.
Unlike the previous season, when the running of the Motorcity GT500 was limited to one category of international motorsport, the Dubai Motorsport Festival will host three very different but equally exciting international series and three classes of the burgeoning UAE classes.
The three day programme of events will include the Dubai debut of latest motorsport sensation, the Speedcar Series, which will feature household names such as Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert, Narain Karthikeyan, Stefan Johansson to name a few of the stars who will slug out in the roaring V8s.
A massive grid of the ever popular FIA GT3 European Championship consisting of the worlds most exotic supercars, turned into racers, will star at the Dubai Festival Weekend.
Fans can expect one of the largest and most varied grids of cars including the greatest marques in sports car racing such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Ford GT, Corvette, Porsche, Dodge Viper and Aston Martin.
Adding spice to the proceedings is the fact that the championship will be decided in Dubai as a mere five points separating leaders Kessel Racing Ferrari of Henri Moser, Gilles Vannelet and the Martini Callaway Corvette of Jürgen von Gartzen and Luca Pirri. The highly competitive Formula Campus Renault French Championship will run it’s final round during the weekend.
The series stars young, up and coming drivers single minded drivers on the early path to Formula One.
The young aspirants who in several year’s time could well be household names. Adding spice to proceedings in Dubai is the fact that the HSBC Racing Academy drivers Thani Al Thani, Mohammad Al Abdooli, Khalid Al Mutawaa and Dubai based Courtyard by Marriott driver Ramez Azzam will take on the cream of French racing talent on familiar home territory.
In what is a major fillip for local motorsport the Dubai Motorsport Festival weekend will provide an international stage for UAE national racing by including on the bill races for Saloon Cars, Superbike style motorcycles and the Le Mans style Gulf Radical Cup.
Dubai Autodrome sales & marketing manager Peter Burns said, “We hope to grow the Dubai Motorsport Festival into the premier annual motorsport event in the Middle East outside of the two Formula One events in the region.
“It is going to be more than just another race. Plans are in place to make it a must attend annual social sporting event aimed beyond devoted motor racing fans and the public.”
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Is there another one taking place this year?
Rob, there was on 14/15th Nov., but you probably knew that and only commented to get some Google Juice via the link you left. So ya know in the future commercial links are not permitted AND your was deleted.