Fun unlimited at BIC drag strip

Manama : Action is set to intensify at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) this week as the fourth and penultimate round of the 2015/2016 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship takes place in Sakhir starting today and concluding on Friday, as the region’s best drag racers battling it out down BIC’s quarter-mile drag strip.

The strip is a member of the prestigious National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Worldwide Network, allowing BIC to fly its drag racing events under the globally renowned NHRA banner.

This meeting is organised by the Bahrain Drag Racing Club in cooperation with BIC and the Bahrain Motor Federation.

Participants will battle it out in 14 different categories, including 10 for cars and four for motorbikes. The cars categories include the Street 4 and 6, the Outlaw Front-Wheel-Drive (FWD), the Super Street 6-Cylinder, the Outlaw 6-Cylinder, the Street V8, the Super Street V8, the Competition 4.5, the Outlaw 10.5, the Pro Mod and the Index 10.5.

The bikes classes include the Street Bike, Super Street Bike, Pro Bike and the Index Bike 9.5. Racing gets underway tonight and tomorrow with back-to-nights of Test and Tune from 7pm to 11pm. Qualifying will then be held on Thursday, to be followed by all the head-to-head racing on Friday from 4pm onwards on both days.

On the sidelines of all the action will be BIC’s Dragster Xperience – one of the circuit’s most sought-after public activities. Clients get into one of BIC’s three-seater Top Dragsters for a run down the quarter-mile strip in mind-boggling speed, powering from zero to 100kph in just one second.