BIKC to host final two rounds of inaugural Sakhir Rotax MAX karting season this weekend

BIKC to host final two rounds of inaugural Sakhir Rotax MAX karting season this weekend

The third and fourth rounds of the all-new Sakhir Rotax MAX Challenge (SRMC) will wrap up the championship’s inaugural season this weekend at Bahrain International Circuit’s (BIC) world-class karting facility.

Bahrain International Karting Circuit (BIKC) will be the stage for two-action packed days of exciting grassroots racing this Friday and Saturday (Editor’s note: October 22 and 23), with some of the Kingdom’s most prolific karters of different ages and nationalities returning to the track to battle it out along the 1.414-kilometre CIK-FIA track.

This is the first year of the SRMC and it is being held alongside the long-established Bahrain Rotax MAX Challenge (BRMC), which is scheduled to kick off later this 2021/2022 season at BIKC.

Following an exciting opening two rounds held earlier this month, the series is set for more heated action with the inaugural titles in five different race classes on the line.

Luca Houghton has been the star man so far in the SRMC, winning the Junior Max category in both of the first two meetings.

Alexander Christov and Shaikh Ahmed bin Saqer Al Khalifa shared the honours in the Micro MAX class of the first and second rounds, respectively, as did Charlie Goddard and Shaikh Rashid bin Salman Al Khalifa in the Mini MAX.

In the Senior MAX category, Fahad Alkhaled was the winner in round one and Fahad Almuqla in round two.

The season’s third round will take place on Friday followed by the championship finale on Saturday. Both meetings will follow the same schedule of sessions.

Kicking things off will be Qualifying Practice for all classes, starting with the Micro and Mini MAX together at 3pm. The junior competitors will then get out on track at 3.13pm, followed by the seniors at 3.26pm and the DD2 karters at 3.39pm.

The Pre-Finals then get underway at 4pm with the Micro and Mini classes over seven laps. The sessions for the juniors (4.17pm), seniors (4.42pm) and DD2 (5.07pm) follow over 11 laps apiece.

After a break, the Micro and Mini Final over nine laps will flag off at 6pm. The juniors (6.20pm), seniors (6.55pm) and DD2 (7.30pm) Finals are to be held after, set over 15 laps each.