25 Hours Go Kart Race
If you pass by the Ice Skating ring parking lot in Kuwait City you will notice the huge parking lot has turned into a race track. This Thursday there will be a 25 hour Go Kart race in the parking lot. It will be the third year this race has been held.
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Nov 1, 2006
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22 Comments, add your own...
1. mohammed | November 1st, 2006 at 12:40 am
Nice one man..many fun stuff are hapenin back home..hope they do the same stuff here..they dont even have sushi for dam sake!! and they call us third world!
2. moocherx | November 1st, 2006 at 6:38 am
where will spectators be able to park….? ;-)
3. Marzouq | November 1st, 2006 at 6:47 am
Hmmm.. I was thinking if I could take the bike around that, but I dont think I would be able to..
4. Fonzy | November 1st, 2006 at 9:15 am
what??? no more ice skating? that place has been there since ages…
5. moocherx | November 1st, 2006 at 9:55 am
It’s still there Fonzy… or at least, it was last weekend. It looks like the car park is temporarily going to be used for this event. To be fair, it’s one HUGE car park.
6. evolution | November 1st, 2006 at 9:57 am
So what if you want to participate?
7. Mark | November 1st, 2006 at 9:59 am
no they demolished the iceskating ring, turned it into a karting track lol
building still there, parking in front of it still there. but the really huge parking lot on the side of it has TEMPORARILY been made into a karting track.
marzouq, if there was sand on the track and you had a dirt bike you could then ride around the track. at the moment the turns are too tight for a regular bike.
8. Mark | November 1st, 2006 at 10:05 am
evolution this is not a go pay 1KD to take a go kart around the track. its like a championship, 25 hours non stop. you think you could last 25 hours? lol
9. moocherx | November 1st, 2006 at 10:27 am
no way! i totally planned to go ice-skating. what a pain.
10. evolution | November 1st, 2006 at 10:55 am
Yea! I can do that for 25 hours!
11. Marzouq | November 1st, 2006 at 11:50 am
ahahaha moocherx! I havent been to the rink in over 10 years! hehehe
12. e_alawadhi | November 1st, 2006 at 12:07 pm
This race is like a mini Daytona 500 car racing (http://www.daytona500.com/)
For this year go kart winner is going to race next in Bahrain.
My brother is a driver in Kinko’s team :) so I will be there tomorrow cheering.
The guys in q8 are doing excellent job but there is no appreciation for all kind of auto racing in the Arabic Society, like any sport it is based on massive physical and mental strength. in auto racing we are talking about days of time duration not like soccer. Who did not hear about Paris-Dakar?????
For example, the fox desert rally team; their driver took the 2nd place and the 3rd place in UAE Desert Challenge 2002 – ATV category. On their expensive they flew all the way to the States where they got their gears from. This team received a huge media coverage by the European press because it was their first international race and they are in their early 20s; But unfourtgentaly they received a minimal coverage in the q8i media. Since then they are still looking for sponsor and no luck, racing is one of the most expensive sports out there.
13. KtheKuwaiti | November 1st, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Someone needs to make a bigger track for cars .. driving to bahrain is a drag.
14. lfc-Q8 | November 1st, 2006 at 12:58 pm
this race is only for big corperate teams i.e. mtc, wataniya, kac, batelco.
and winners or losers they go all over the GCC kuwait bahrain dubai oman
this is the 3rd year
for me the best time to go down there when its late as they will be racing for 25 hrs so around midnight it should be fun as they will have a DJ going on with some cool music all day and night :)
15. Toxy | November 1st, 2006 at 1:41 pm
What do you mean motor sports are not appreciated in Kuwait?
We have one of the biggest and finest circuits in the middle east with some of the world’s finest drivers parading up and down it…..Google it…. El Gulf Roado Classico 24/365.
Regarding this racing thing. I think I went last year. It was pretty good (assuming I went)….It was like 5am and after a long hard night of partying….. ;)
16. Pink Moon | November 2nd, 2006 at 2:50 am
I will be racing tomorrow for the Karting Angels team, it’s the only all-girl team. The race is not just for big corporate teams cause we aren’t corporate. Anyone can enter if you can pay for the entrance fee (1,800 KD)and get the suits, helmets,etc. That’s why they reccomend you get a sponsor so they can pay for everything but you don’t have to.
Come support us tomorrow!
17. fa6ma | November 3rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
hey mark,
its me again!! i’m soo happy i’m going to the race today (inshallah) my cuzin is one of the go kart drivers, he’s on the kinko’s team!!
18. fa6ma | November 3rd, 2006 at 12:21 am
e_alawadhi??
do i know u?? i guesss i do!! tell yah tomorrow when i see yah!! its soo weird!! what are the odds?? yah its me fa6ma ur cuz!!!
20. Princess | November 7th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Hi, I’m looking for pictures of the race.
21. arnold | November 9th, 2006 at 12:25 am
do u have any risults
22. yastoor | March 14th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
i am a very good in gokart driving and i will come in formula 1 can you give me favour to me for formula1 plz reply me as soon as possible
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