Dubai Forums Dubai Discussions Dubai General Chat
the message board for Dubai English speaking community
Abu Dhabi Get A Grand Prix
- Reply
See Abu Dhabi has got an F1 grand prix starting 2009. I know Mubadala have links to Ferrari, but would have thought it would be more sensible to have in Dubai, there's more hotels/ infrastructure here to support bigger events. Good news for the UAE though.
- scot1870
- Dubai Expat Helper
- Posts: 421
- Reply
Are you sure they got it? When I was in Abu Dhabi today for the F1 demos the announcers were talking about it as "it would be nice to get" not have.
Hope you're right though, it'd be great for the UAE.
Hope you're right though, it'd be great for the UAE.
- fayz
- Dubai Forums Knight
-
- Posts: 2880
- Location: take a left at the Bebsi interchange, that is the Bebsi interchange
- Reply
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsp ... 327387.stm
With the building of Ferrari World and the like I thought it possible, definitely true (although there are people on here who believe that the BBC can't be a trusted source!)
With the building of Ferrari World and the like I thought it possible, definitely true (although there are people on here who believe that the BBC can't be a trusted source!)
- scot1870
- Dubai Expat Helper
- Posts: 421
- Reply
scot1870 wrote:it would be more sensible to have in Dubai
Dubai went head to head with Bahrain sometime ago...and Bahrain won the honor with better facilities. Would be interesting to have F1 Abu Dhabi circuit in the calendar
- iceman
- Dubai Forums Frequenter
-
- Posts: 136
- Location: Planet called Earth !
look forward to seeing the races here.- fayz
- Dubai Forums Knight
-
- Posts: 2880
- Location: take a left at the Bebsi interchange, that is the Bebsi interchange
- sage & onion
- Dubai Shadow Wolf
-
- Posts: 16338
- Location: Dubai and beyond
- Bleakus
- Dubai Forums Zealot
- Posts: 3227
- Location: moskBa, Dubai
- Reply
scot1870 wrote:See Abu Dhabi has got an F1 grand prix starting 2009. I know Mubadala have links to Ferrari, but would have thought it would be more sensible to have in Dubai, there's more hotels/ infrastructure here to support bigger events. Good news for the UAE though.
Dubai burnt their bridges when Sheikh Maktoum decided to start the A1 grand prix, which was in direct competition with F1.
Great for the UAE though and hopefully Abu Dhabi can put on a good show.
- benwj
- Dubai Master of Thread Hijackers
-
- Posts: 1503
- iceman
- Dubai Forums Frequenter
-
- Posts: 136
- Location: Planet called Earth !
- Jeevan
- Dubai Forums Zealot
-
- Posts: 3711
- Location: Dubai !!
-
- Related topics
- Replies
- Last post
-
- Abu Dhabi grand Prix by coolpista » Nov 02, 2009
- 3
- by london65 |
Nov 02, 2009
-
- Abu Dhabi Grand Prix F1 race by quatroporte » Mar 02, 2009
- 14
- by quatroporte |
Mar 29, 2009
-
- Abu Dhabi Government employees forced to live in Abu Dhabi by Chocoholic » Sep 17, 2012
- 9
- by Chocoholic |
Sep 18, 2012
-
- Abu Dhabi by Smart » Apr 15, 2007
- 10
- by Purple Complex |
Apr 16, 2007
-
- Well done Abu Dhabi by sage & onion » Dec 22, 2009
- 6
- by smoggie |
Dec 22, 2009