It was the first since the series was elevated to the International category status by the FIA. V8 Supercars director of international business Adam Firthhas confirmed discussions have commenced with venues in a News Ltd report that alsospeculated circuits in both New York and California were possibilities.
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Beginning in 2006 Australian V8 Supercars raced at the BIC with the event known as the Desert 400.
Second v8 supercar race for the middle east. The Australian V8 Supercar series has announced plans to race at Austins Circuit of The Americas starting in 2013. The search for a second race to run the week before or afterthe Austin 400 in the Americas is underway. V8 Supercars bound for Bahrain Just months after its debut in China Australias premier motorsport category announced it will next year hold a race in the Middle East.
Theres no doubt about it Prodrive Racing Australia is the team to beat in the 2015 V8 Supercars Championship at the moment. A Dubai deal would mean a return to the Middle East the category having staged four races at Bahrain International Circuit and three at Yas Marina in Abu Dhabi the last in 2012. V8 Supercars has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a second race in Asia in 2017 although with which circuit or city has not yet been revealed.
The second half of the race will use a rolling start and no refueling is allowed in either halves of the race. Thats nothing like what they get in Australia but its a pretty good crowd in the Middle East where motorsport in general is in its infancy Mr Whitaker said. We are looking at more races here Firth told NewsLtd.
First held in 2006 the Desert 400 was only the second V8 Supercar championship event to be held outside Australia and New Zealand following a single event at the Shanghai International Circuit in China in 2005. The Bahrain event was originally held in November as one of the final rounds in the seasons calendar. In November 2010 the series was granted international status by the FIA for the 2011 season allowing the series to race at up to six international venues each year.
V8 Supercars set to reveal new naming-rights sponsor Middle East race in 2017. A NEW naming-rights sponsor will add thrust to V8 Supercars racing from July as the touring. Next weekend the V8 field will be heading to Sydney Motorsport Park and hoping that the factory Ford teams record of a single victory at the venue by Mark Winterbottom in 2008 when the venue was known as Eastern Creek stays that way.
The 2010 Yas V8 400 was a motor race for the Australian sedan-based V8 SupercarsIt was the first race of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship SeriesIt was held on the weekend of February 1820 on Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi United Arab EmiratesIt was the first time V8 Supercar visited the circuit and only the fourth time V8 Supercar had visited the Middle-East having three times. Since then Prodrive has competed in rallying touring cars Le Mans sports cars rallycross Formula One and V8 Supercars winning five World Rally Championships for Subaru with Richards also briefly running the Benetton F1 team and helping to take BAR Honda to second in the F1 World Championship behind Ferrari in 2004 with Jenson Button. The Sundays races will feature two independent 120 km races both without refueling.
The news comes after V8 Supercars last year announced plans for a new race in Asia for 2017 at a yet-to-be-completed facility. The 2010 V8 Supercars Championship kicked off overseas the YAS V8 400 in Abu Dhabi the first of two flyaway events in the Middle East to start the season. In Bahrain crowds for the V8 Supercars race weekend have been more modest than in Australia peaking at 16600 last year.
The championship began on 10 February in the Middle East at Abu Dhabis Yas Marina Circuit and. It was the fifteenth V8 Supercar Championship Series and the fifteenth series in which V8 Supercars contested the premier Australian touring car title. The series Middle East expansion continued in 2010 with a second round held at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi.
The 2010 Desert 400 was the second event of the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship SeriesIt was held on the weekend of February 2527 on Bahrain International Circuit in Manama BahrainThis was first time the event was held since 2008 and for the first time the V8 Supercars used the full Grand Prix Circuit as used for the Bahrain Grand Prix rather than the previously Paddock Circuit the. It will join the revived Formula 1 United States Grand Prix as well as a round of the MotoGP World Championship meaning that Texas will soon be boasting some of the best racing on the planet. V8 Supercars has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a second race in Asia in 2017 although with which circuit or city has not yet been revealed.
The inclusion of a second race in the Middle East will mean the series best-attended event the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in the middle of March drops back to become round three of an expanded 15-round 2010 championship. Symmons Plains Barbagallo Hidden Valley Queensland Raceway Winton and Phillip Island. The date marked the squads first race as a Holden team celebrating the occasion by not only taking pole position and the race victory but doing so with an emphatic team 1-2.
The 2004 Grand Prix was the first held in the Middle East. Wheels understands that the Bahrain race scheduled for November 7 this year will be now cancelled and replaced by a round at a local East Coast venue which wont be Eastern Creek Raceway. Holden Racing Teams Todd Kelly will sport a new livery for the V8 Supercar championships second annual trip to Bahrain after being chosen to carry Chevrolet colours rather than his usual Holden.
Two days after announcing a deal with the KL. Six races of the total 16 will be run in the 6060 Super Sprint Format.
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