The Lumina CSV heat is back at the Dubai Autodrome
The clock’s ticking as another round of tough competition and intense heat
creeps up on the Dubai Autodrome from the 24th to 26th January.
Under the Chevrolet Motorsport sponsorship banner, the fourth round of the
Lumina CSV Middle East Championship will be hitting the Grand Racing festival
this month.
Fans will get to see all 19 drivers battle it out on the tarmac for a grand
prize which could see one lucky winner spend a day trial and testing a V8
supercar alongside the Gary Rogers Motorsport team. The BIC will cover all
travel and accommodation expenses in Australia, where they will get the chance
to participate in the Australian V8 Supercar Championship should they give a top
performance.
The Championship first kicked off at the BIC, where the first round of the
Lumina CSV sidelined the V8 “Desert 400” round last November, whilst the Dubai
Autodrome hosted rounds two and three. Over these last six racers the
championship has already seen fierce competition between three key drivers
including Saudi Abdul Aziz Al Yaeesh (won three races), Bahrain’s Fahad Al
Musalam (won two racers) and defending champion Tarek ElGammal who has one race
under his belt.
Topping the results so far is Bahraini Fahad Al Musalam, driving for the Lechner
Racing Bahrain team and currently carrying 113 points. Saudi Abdul Aziz Al
Yaeesh follows behind with 96 points and to complete the top three is Bahrain’s
Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa with 67 points.
The Championship has also seen one woman’s participation, Emirati Marwa Al Eifa,
as well as participants from all across the world including Bahrain, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, Austria, Australia, France and Holland.
Each round consists of free-trials, qualifiers and two races. The qualifiers
determine where drivers start on the grid in the first race, whilst the first
race result determines the grid line-up for the second race. First place
receives 20 points, whilst second gets 18, third receives 16 and so on until
sixth place gets 10 points and the remaining positions receive one.
The Championship winner is determined by adding up their best 10 race results.
The owner of the fastest lap for every race receives one additional point, as
does first place in each round.
The last two rounds will find the Championship back on Bahraini soils, at the
BIC, with the last round taking place alongside the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
from the 4th to the 6th of April, 2008.
The positions so far:
1. Fahad Al Musalam 113 points
2. Abdul Aziz Al Yaeesh 96 points
3. Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa 67 points
4. Ahmed Hamada 65 points
5. Raed Raffii 58 points
6. Fahad Hizam 50 points
7. Tarek ElGammal 50 points
8. Fawaz Al Gosaibi 47 points
9. Adel Shaji 46 points
10. Raed Charawi 40 points
11. Bandar Al Silmy 37 points
12. Helmut Fleischmann 34 points
13. Jacques Levet 30 points
14. Husam Al-Saleh 27 points
15. Marwa Al Eifa 14 points
16. Sherif Al Sakkaf 14 points
17. Christophe Mariot 12 points
18. Jaap W. Vaandrager 6 points
Team order following the third round:
1. Lechner Racing Bahrain 110 points
2. UMA Motorsports P1 – AFR 106 points
3. Peak Performance 67 points
4. AFI 64 points
5. ERT 62 points
6. RFC Team 54 points
7. Castrol Racing Team 49 points
8. Al Gosaibi Travel Team 47 points
9. National Motors 46 points
10. Team France 42 points
11. Balubaid Racing Team 37 points
