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The Middle East’s premier sports racing car championship, the DHL Gulf Radical Cup, got off to a flying start at the Desert 400 with two Arab drivers taking a win apiece. This was an excellent demonstration of the good progress that local drivers are making in the emerging motor racing arena in the Middle East.

In Race One, Omran Alowais (Alowais Motorsport) from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) made a great start from 4th on the grid to follow Bahraini driver Fahad Al-Musalem (Team 777) into turn one, only to find Al-Musalem running wide. This put Alowais into the lead – a position he was not about to relinquish. Pole sitter Bassam Kronfli (EVO Middle East) was to lose his advantage after suffering a problem with his throttle cable at the start and was to retire after cooking his brakes whilst trying to deal with a throttle stuck in the full-on position! He obviously did a good job with the problem, setting fastest race lap at 1:27.59 on his fourth tour.

This left the field wide open for the other visiting racers from Dubai to make the best of the chaos at the front. So it was experienced Kiwi racer, Blair Cole (Al Nabooda Racing) who moved forward very nicely to pick up extremely valuable points and a trophy after finishing in 3rd place. This fine performance would put his team in the lead of the Championship.

Al-Musalem recovered to pick up the second place DHL Trophy from BIC’s Martin Whitaker, with Al-Owais standing proudly underneath the Emirati flag as he was presented the Winner’s trophy by DHL’s in-house national drag-racing Champion, Ali Aryan.

Race Two in Bahrain for the DHL Gulf Radical Cup provided one of the closest races ever seen in the Middle East’s premier sports racing car championship. This time it was Bahrain’s top sportscar driver, Fahad Al-Musalem (Team 777) who managed to hold on to a very tenuous position at the front of the pack in his Radical SR3 as he was put under enormous pressure from both Omran Alowais (Alowais Motorsport) and from the Canadian driver, Bassam Kronfli (EVO Middle East).

Having won Race One, Alowais was able to make good use of his pole position on the customary rolling start, but immediately found himself under pressure from Al-Musalem who was clearly intent on claiming his first victory in this very competitive series.

Within two laps, Kronfli had moved up from the back of the grid following his DNF in race one and came up behind Alowais and Al-Musalem, clearly intent on getting to the front as soon as possible.

The scene was set for a titanic battle as these three battled and scrapped for the lead, often only inches apart. Alowais was losing out down the straights with too much rear wing, but gained under braking with more downforce. But with the slipstream effect, Al-Musalem was able to slip by and so did Kronfli – and this was how it finished, with the three cars finishing within half a second.

Behind the leaders, several interesting battles were being played out, with John Stanley (Ardentia Search) spinning off the track and taking previous third place man, Blair Cole (Al Nabooda Racing) with him. Stanley rejoined the race to finish fourth. This hotly contested pan-Gulf championship continues on Dubai’s Grand Prix Circuit on 17th November.

This hotly contested pan-Gulf championship continues at Dubai Motorsport Festival on 16th & 17th November alongside the FIA GT3.
Gulf Radical Cup

“Omran Alowais from the UAE won the first race for the Radical sports cars ahead of Bahrain’s Fahad Al Musalam, in Race 2 Al Musalam took the honours ahead of Canada’s Bassam Kronfli but Alowais fought back in Race 3 to take the spoils once again. Track Talk

MP3 Piaggio is a cool tri-scooter, but Yamaha has introduced ‘Tesseract’ in Tokyo Motor Show as a new quad concept. I remember couple of years ago my neighbor had BMW quad bike, but not as cool as this Yamaha. Looks like it came from the movie Transformer…..

Can you spot the difference… An interactive Wallpaper with heat radiation. This will work perfect in my place, the glassing is not so good, and I am sure I will see the heat pattern seeping away from that Alu window frame. This is a great product designed by Shi Yuan entitled ‘design with life’
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Emiratesmac.com has selected me to be part of the MEIFF - Hayah Compitition film jury. I was really excited to be part of this event. Hayah FIlms is basically watching a movie on a small screen. This is the beginning of a huge movie industry to create movies on a small screen. I think just recently the new Harry Potter DVD had included a special edition. Similar to the widescreen DVD’s, this one has an iPod version. Cool huh! No need to de-code it to itunes. So, we are witnessing some major shifts in viewing medias these days, from Youtube to TV mobile phones. The film industry know that there is a big market in this field, and we are hoping to establish a healthy competition to generate some young local talents. more on emiratesmac.com.

Visited CityScape today in Dubai, and I was really impressed with some projects. I have to go back as I have a very limited time today.You have to see this, It is with Nakheel. Amazing video/animation on a huge Dubai city model from 1973 to 2020. Great graphics with very inspiring words from the Nakheel people. Nice workSimple physical model, which is coated with white spray. I like.Typical huge models. This is one of the good site model. I have to be fair, some project were also awful. And this was the silly’est. It is some Golden Gate city. and it looks like from Ali Baba Cartoon. Who is going to pay Millions of $$$ for something that is so fake. Ah!

Designed to invoke the coziness of nanna’s best room, Grandma’s Kitchen is the ultimate example of space efficiency. The unit transforms into a full kitchen complete with a sink, oven, fridge and cooktop to prepare your meals. Then thru a series of slides and latches transforms into a dining area for 4. The great thing about this design is if you don’t feel like cleaning up after a big meal, just push everything back in and close up shop. Out of sight, out of mind - that is until the following morning.

Designer: Melanie Olle & Ilja Oelschlägel