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BIC all set for season-opening Race Day in 2024/2025 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship
BIC all set for season-opening Race Day in 2024/2025 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship
The action and intensity are set to hot up on Friday (22 November) as the opening Race Day in the 2024/2025 season of the Bahrain Drag Racing Championship lights up the strip at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir.
More than 200 participants – including 140 cars and over 60 bikes – from around the world have been competing over three days from Tuesday to Thursday in Test and Tune and Qualifying.
The stage is now set for the heated eliminations, which will be the culmination of the first of five rounds in the new national campaign.
Leading drag racers and their crews from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Lebanon, Palestine, Canada, and the US have flocked to ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’ to be a part of the region’s biggest and most competitive drag racing series this week.
They have been going head-to-head along BIC’s world-class quarter-mile drag strip – part of the NHRA Worldwide Network of the U.S.-based National Hot Rod Association (NHRA).
The drag racers are battling it out in 14 categories for both cars and motorbikes. The cars classes include the Index 7.5, Pro 29.5 V8, Outlaw 4 Cylinder, Outlaw 6 Cylinder, Index 10.00, Index 9.00, Index 8.50, Competition 4.5, and Pro Mod; while the motorbike classes are Pro Street Bike, Street Fight 9.5, Index 8.5 Bike, Outlaw Bike, and Street Fight.
The championship, which is sanctioned by the NHRA, is being organised and run by BIC in cooperation with the Bahrain Motor Federation and Bahrain Drag Racing Commission.
Friday’s Race Day programme is scheduled to get underway at 4pm and continue well into the night.
Those wishing to attend the meeting and enjoy the high-octane drag racing action can purchase tickets at BD3 apiece for BIC’s Beyon Grandstand. Tickets can be bought online at bahraingp.com, by calling the BIC Hotline on +973-17450000, or at the gate.
The drag racers are competing at BIC for glory, bragging rights, and all-important championship points. At the end of the season, each category will crown their champion, who will get to take home a prestigious ‘Wally Trophy’ – awarded only to title winners of NHRA events.
The ‘Wally’ is drag racing’s most prestigious accolade. It has been named after NHRA founder Wally Parks, and has been handed out since the 1969 NHRA season in the US.
Also available to fans attending on Friday is the Dragster Experience – BIC’s most adrenaline-pumping passenger activity.
Known as ‘the Fastest Ride on Earth’, this offers fans the chance to get a taste of pure speed as they are taken from zero to 100kph in just one second while in the cockpit of a 10,500cc Top Dragster. It can be enjoyed individually or by two passengers at a time.
The Dragster Experience is available at BD44 for a first passenger, while a second passenger can join for half the price.
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