The new season of competition officially revs up in Kuwait next month.
On Thursday May 4th, Sirbb Circuit will host the Red Bull Car Park Drift qualifiers before a selection of Kuwait’s elite drifters contest the national final on Friday.
The competition, which was held for the first time in Lebanon ten years ago, is designed to give amateur enthusiasts a chance to showcase their skills and represent their countries at the regional final in Qatar at the end of 2017.
BMRC will organize this year’s event in partnership with the Public Authority for Youth and Sports, Drag 965, Go Pro, Aqua Eva and Kuwait Times. Regional sponsors also include Falcon Tires, Shop and Ship, and Total.
Last year, Mesyar Abu Shaibah won the national championship and later represented Kuwait at the regional finals held in Oman.
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Indeed, he weighed in with a special performance in the final, which was hosted at the Sultan Qaboos Port course and witnessed the participation of drifters from Qatar, Mauritius, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as Kuwait and Oman.
The top three winners were Omani and the King of Drift title was awarded to Oman’s Haitham Al Hadidi.
10 YEARS OF THRILL
The first edition of the 2008 Red Bull Car Park Drift Competition was held in Lebanon at the parking lot of one of the malls.
For all amateur competitors, the motorsport gathering was the perfect opportunity for drifters to put their skills and abilities under the microscope.
The event also highlighted rally hero Abdo Feghali, who became a legend in this discipline, while Michel Feghali was crowned the first champion of the series overall.
The need for speed.
In the early days of drifting (the 1960s), results were based on the use of manual brakes and special drifting skills.
This was to try and combat rugged and mountainous roads where a group of contestants competed to break records for every distance.
By 1970, drifting had gained widespread popularity as an important part of the prestigious Japan Motor Show.
Each drifter was superior to his predecessors, and the drifters demonstrated their tremendous talent in controlling the car more remarkably every year.
Twenty years later, the motorsport is now contested all over the world.