Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’, is bringing back the region’s biggest and most competitive drag racing series this week for another action-packed campaign that will be lighting up the strip. The first of five rounds in the 2024/2025 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship takes place this Tuesday to Friday, November 19-22, in Sakhir, with top drag racing teams and drivers from around the world set to compete. They will be going head-to-head along BIC’s world-class quarter-mile drag strip – part of the Worldwide Network of the U.S.-based National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). The championship, which is sanctioned by the NHRA, is being organised and run by BIC in cooperation with the Bahrain Motor Federation and Bahrain Drag Racing Commission. The competing drag racers will be battling in their respective classes for glory and all-important championship points. At the end of the season, each category will crown their champion, who will get to take home a prestigious ‘Wally Trophy’ – awarded only to title winners of NHRA events. The ‘Wally’ is drag racing’s most prestigious accolade. It has been named after NHRA founder Wally Parks, and has been handed out since the 1969 NHRA season […]