Bangladeshi Motor Sport Trainees get key Lesson on Dubais World Cup Stage
Dubai:Motor sport in Bangladesh could be still in its infancy, but the development process will certainly collect speed on the World Cup phase in Dubai following week.
A team of 28 student volunteers from the Vehicle Association of Bangladesh (AAB) will certainly gain important experience on the staging of a top-class cross country rally throughout the Dubai International Baja powered by Nissan and AW Rostamani.
The occasion is the second round of this year's FIA World Cup for Cross Nation Rallies for cars and buggies and the opening round of the FIM Bajas World Cup for bikes and quads, and for the young Bangladeshi site visitors it represents a crucial action in their automobile racing education.
" We are really delighted to be holding a group from the AAB and look forward to revealing them exactly what it takes to present a rally at the top level," said Mohammed Ben Sulayem, President of the Car and Touring Club for the UAE and Emirates Automobile Racing Federation, the rally organisers.
" Volunteers play an important duty in motor sport, and our purpose is that they will certainly return to Bangladesh with a good deal of fresh knowledge and experience which could be put to good usage in order to help develop the sporting activity there."
Three years ago Sulayem, the FIA Vice President for sport, sent out a team from the ATCUAE's training and education division, the Motorsport Knowledge Institute (MKI), to Dhaka to advise AAB authorities on key elements of rally organisation and various other grass roots motor sport activities.
The ATCUAE team was led by Ronan Morgan who is Clerk of the Training Course for the Dubai International Baja powered by Nissan and AW Rostamani, happening from 8-10 March place under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai
The ATCUAE, which represents automobile racing's world regulating body, the FIA, set up the MKI to deliver motor sport training worldwide after being granted Regional Training Service provider status by the FIA Institute in 2012.
The Dubai International Baja gets under method with a 5pm ceremonial start on Thursday March 8 at
Dubai Autodrome, the new Rally HQ.
The 2nd edition of the event sends a powerful line-up of cars and trucks, buggies, bikes and quads right into action over a requiring 174 km unique phase running through the significant Al Qudra desert terrain on Friday, March 9, and Saturday, March 10.
Captions:
1. ATCUAE President Mohammed Ben Sulayem: looking forward to showing the visiting group from Bangladesh what it takes to stage a rally at the top level
2.ATCUAE specialists in Dhaka instructing officials from the Automobile Association of Bangladesh.
