Dubai Autodrome host 24-hour race

DUBAI ? The Dubai Autodrome is hosting the first 24-hour race in the Middle East on its 5.39 km FIA certified track. Almost 70 cars are participating in the race. Based on well known street cars, they are easy recognisable for the public. The field consists of many different marques such as Alfa Romeo, Porsche, BMW, SEAT, Renault, Honda, Ford, Subaru and Mazda.

The free practice started on Wednesday with a night session while qualifying took place on yesterday morning. The qualifying session lasted 90 minutes and it became clear that Duller Motorsport are the favourites for the overall win in the first Dubai 24h-race. The team entered two BMW E46 GTR for the race and both cars did very well and qualified on the front row of the starting grid.

The second row is occupied by an all Porsche GT3 line-up with Swedish Hubert Bergh Motorsport in third ahead of the Lammertink Team. The BMW?s and Porches?s will battle for the win as they the top five rows in qualifying.
Schubert Motors 2 BMW E46 320i may cause an upset as they recorded the third fastest time in the night practice session on Wednesday but could only manage ninth position in qualifying. The diesel class is headed by the German 2.4 Alfa 147 of Altenburger Destillerie. Though the Alfa is running in its own above 2000cc D2-diesel class. In the 1600cc category ?D1-diesel class? Schubert 120d qualified a staggering eight seconds ahead of the next car in class, the Altenburger Alfa GT and Maxicars Seat Leon Tdi.