It’s World Endurance Championship race week in Bahrain!

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

It’s race week! The days are dwindling down to the biggest endurance racing spectacle in the region, set to by hosted by Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) this weekend on 11 and 12 November.

The Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain will be taking “The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East” by storm with many of the world’s top teams and drivers battling it out in some of the most iconic prototypes and sportscars.

The event marks the season-ending round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) on its landmark 10th anniversary season.

Tickets continue to be available and fans are urged to purchase theirs today so as not to miss out on another extra special occasion at BIC.

Tickets cost just BD5 for adults and BD2.5 for kids for the twoday weekend programme.

They can be purchased online at bahraingp.com or by calling the BIC Hotline on +973-17450000.

The Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain will feature a packed 37-car grid with competition in four race categories.

They will be competing in bumper-to-bumper action from day to night around BIC’s 5.412-kilometre track, making for a brilliant spectacle that flags off under the afternoon sun and then wraps up under the stars while being brilliantly lit by BIC’s state-of-the-art floodlights.

There will also be plenty of racing in support of the WEC, including the WTCR Race of Bahrain, part of the 2022 WTCR-FIA World Touring Car Cup, and the Porsche Sprint Challenge Middle East.

The WTCR Race of Bahrain will mark the inaugural appearance for the championship in the Kingdom and in the region, and it will also be the first time that it will be taking to the track alongside the FIA WEC—making for an exciting double-header of sportscar and touring car racing.

The Porsche Sprint Challenge Middle East is the region’s premier one-make series that is based at BIC, and it will feature a highly talented field of the Middle East’s best gentleman racers.

They will be suiting up to drive in identical Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport cars.

To complement the racing on the track, BIC has lined up an incredible series of off-track entertainment throughout the race weekend.

These include incredible stunt shows, a classic car show, a kids’ zone and many other amazing attractions for the whole family.

The Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain’s significance goes beyond the racing entertainment.

This year, BIC will be implementing a ground-breaking new Green Ticket project, which will set the benchmark for a number of initiatives in areas of sustainability.

This very special initiative is being done in cooperation with The Oil and Gas Holding Company ‘nogaholding’ and The Government of Bahrain.

A proportion of the ticket price, together with an amount matched by nogaholding, will be donated to a local environmental project in cooperation with the Government.

This particular fund will finance the planting of mangroves in Bahrain, and meaningfully contribute to Bahrain’s commitment to quadruple mangrove coverage in The Kingdom by 2035.

For more information on the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain or other BIC events and activities, visit bahraingp.com or call the BIC Hotline on +973-17450000.