Special Features
Super Racing Weekend
Come and Join this Year’s Biggest Motor Sport Event in the Middle east.Calling all Families and motor sport fans to come and witness the Official launch of Dubai Autodrome from the 6th to the 8th of October 2004. One of the biggest and most exciting Championship, the LG Super Racing Weekend is coming to Dubai. More than 70 cars and 3 international Championships, FIA GT, FIA ETCC and Renault V6.
The final two races in the 2004 FIA European Touring Car Championship will be held at Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. The Dubai Autodrome was completed earlier this year; the LG Super Racing Weekend will be the first major International motorsports event held there. Following the working week in the UAE, where Friday is the day of rest, the race ’weekend’ will run from Wednesday to Friday, with short shakedown sessions for the FIA ETCC cars on the Wednesday, free practice and qualifying session on Thursday and the two races on Friday. With the circuit new to all drivers, it should be a very interesting weekend.
Dubai is the first race meeting outside Europe in the history of the FIA European Touring Car Championship. A n appropriate prelude to next year, when the page will turn and the series will become FIA World Touring Car Championship. For the second consecutive season the fight for the Drivers’ title will be decided at the final round. However, unlike last year’s season finale in Monza, when Alfa Romeo’s Gabriele Tarquini beat BMW’s Jörg Müller by one point only, now the title fight is a family affair between three drivers of the German make. During the latest meeting in Oschersleben, the outgoing champion Tarquini saw his hopes of winning another title – re-launched two weeks earlier in Imola – vanishing after only three laps of the first race, when he retired due to a transmission failure that also prevented him from starting the second race.
This left the BMW drivers free to make their own races, with no threat of losing the championship in favour of Alfa Romeo. Andy Priaulx won Race 1, but he was victim of a race accident in the second one; just like Jörg Müller. Thus Dirk Müller was able to score important points, tretching his leading margin in the championship to 12 and 17 points ahead of Priaulx and Jörg. With 20 points still to be awarded, this leaves only theoretical chances to his fellow BMW team-mates. However the weight handicap situation sees Dirk on the maximum of 40 kg, while Priaulx has 20 and Jörg 10; other drivers carrying ballast are Augusto Farfus (30 kg) and Rickard Rydell (10).
Ticketing
Price Range:
General Access: Dhs 50
Terrace/General Access: Dhs 100
Grandstand/Terrace/General Access: Dhs 150
VIP per day: From Dhs 500
Email: marcos@dubaiautodrome.com
Website: http://www.dubaiautodrome.com/lgsr/default.htm
