BAHRAIN International Circuit (BIC) announced yesterday that it is trialing the first phase of its new state-of-the-art permanent lighting system at the ongoing Six Hours of Bahrain weekend marking the final round of this year's FIA World Endurance Championship. Once development is fully complete, the track floodlighting will be put into action for Bahrain's first ever Formula One night race in 2014. The permanent lighting system will also be used for the numerous other regional and international Read more [...]

At around 600 pages, few people can claim to have read the whole report by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI), overseen by Cherif Bassiouni and issued on November 23, 2011. But a few of the interesting passages and themes may have been missed, amidst all the political grandstanding from both sides and the gross oversimplifications of Bassiouni's conclusions. The report documents the efforts to clear the Pearl Roundabout area during mid-February; and records that although this was Read more [...]

TOYOTA Racing locked out the front row yesterday for the season-ending Six Hours of Bahrain, which takes place today at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir. Capturing pole position was the number 7 TS030 Hybrid of Alexander Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima. They claimed the leading grid position after registering an average lap time of one minute 42.449 seconds during yesterday's hotly contested qualifying session. The Japanese outfit's second car was nearly just as quick. Driven Read more [...]