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Saturday CarToon: 2013 Dubai 24

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Following the Saudi Falcons at 24 hours of Dubai

Published on Feb 21, 2013

The youngest 24 hour endurance race on the motorsports calendar, the Dubai 24 is growing to become one of the pinnacle events for sports car and touring car racing. Look behind the scenes with the Saudi Falcons at this year's event. Narration provided by John Hindhaugh of Radio Le Mans.

 of The National posted this report on January 9:

DUBAI // This weekend's 24 Hours of Dubai marks the eighth successive year the race has been held and Mohammed ben Sulayem, the president of the UAE Automobile and Touring Club, says it has grown in such a way that it is now second only to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in terms of prestige.

"When it was first done in 2006, it was great to see so much interest, but I remember saying 'I hope it's sustainable'," Ben Sulayem, said yesterday at Dubai Autodrome. "Now when I see it sustaining and growing – and in a healthy way, because you do not want to see a boom and then nothing afterwards – it proves to me the event is something of real quality."

24 Hours event is 'jewel of motorsport in Dubai'  

Larry Chen of SpeedHunters provided a photo essay of the 2013 event.

 

 

 

 

Mike "FossilMedic" Ward

 

 

Posted by on February 23, 2013 • Filed under: Car-Toon, Videos • Tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,

Talk About a Delayed Response!

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THESE FOLKS ARE STILL WAITING for the first-due units to arrive on the scene in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates:

The fire began Tuesday afternoon in this apartment building and burned through the night, destroying all of the 76 apartments.

Emirates Business 24-7 is reporting:

Preliminary reports say there are no casualties, although six people have been confirmed as injured.  The fire, which broke out late yesterday afternoon, raged through the night. A pillar of the tower reportedly exploded and the blaze was fed by wooden cupboards* and strong winds. The civil defence team used cranes to rescue a young Indian woman who was waving from the 13th floor. A helicopter was also used to airlift six of the affected victims, with one woman still in a serious condition in Kuwait hospital.

The 14-story building is more than 20 years old and every floor above the mezzanine level was gutted.  So far, the cause of the fire is unknown, other than it began on the first level of the apartments section of the building.

* Just say “No” to wooden cupboards.

GulfNews has an 8-image photo gallery HERE.
The Khaleej Times has MORE.

Posted by on July 8, 2010 • Filed under: fire, Fires, Videos • Tagged: , ,