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2025 Middle East Trophy
The 2025 Middle East Trophy was the third season of the Middle East Trophy, presented by Creventic. The races were contested with GT3-spec cars, GT4-spec cars, sports cars, 24H-Specials, like silhouette cars, TCR Touring Car A TCR Touring Car is a touring car specification, first introduced in 2014 and is now employed by a multitude of series worldwide. All TCR Touring Cars are front-wheel drive cars based on 4 or 5 door production vehicles, and are powered by 1.75 ...s, TCX cars and TC cars. Calendar The 12 Hours of Kuwait was provisionally included in the calendar as the opening round in December of 2024, however it was dropped later, meaning the season started in 2025 with the Dubai 24 Hour. Teams and drivers Race results Bold indicates overall winner. References Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Middle East Trophy 2025 in motorsport 2025 in 24H Series 2025 in Emirati motorsport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 24H Series
The 2025 24H Series powered by Michelin is the eleventh season of the 24H Series with drivers battling for championship points and titles and the sixteenth season since 24H Series#Creventic, Creventic, the organiser and promoter of the series, organised multiple races a year. The races are contested with Group GT3, GT3-spec cars, Group GT4, GT4-spec cars, Sports car racing, sports cars and 24H-Specials, like Silhouette racing car, silhouette cars, TCR Touring Cars, TCX cars and TC cars. Calendar The calendar was released on September 24, 2024, and featured one change with the Circuit Paul Ricard replacing the round at Algarve International Circuit, Portimão. Teams and drivers Race results Bold indicates overall winner. Championship standings GT3 Drivers' Overall † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 60% of the class winner's race distance. GT3 Teams' Overall † – Drivers did not finish the race, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porsche Flat-six Engine
The Porsche flat-six engine series is a line of mechanically similar, naturally aspirated and sometimes turbocharged, Flat-six engine, flat-six boxer engines, produced by Porsche for almost 60 consecutive years, since 1963. The engine is an evolution of the Flat-four engine, flat-four Boxer engine, boxer used in the original Volkswagen Beetle. The flat-six engine is most often associated with their Porsche 911, 911 model, Porsche's flagship rear-engined sports car which has used flat-six engines exclusively since 1963. The engines were Air-cooled engine, air-cooled until 1999, when Porsche started using Water cooling (engines), water-cooled engines. In April 2011, Porsche announced the third generation of the 997 GT3 RS with an enlarged 4.0-litre engine having a power output of . The naturally-aspirated 4.0-litre flat-six engine (the largest engine displacement offered in a street-legal 911) was introduced with their 2011 Porsche 911 GT3#997.2 GT3 RS 4.0, 911 (997) GT3 RS 4. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Sirotkin
Sergey Olegovich Sirotkin ( rus, Серге́й Оле́гович Сиро́ткин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐˈlʲeɡəvʲɪtɕ sʲɪˈrotkʲɪn; born 27 August 1995) is a Russian racing driver, who most recently competed in the 2025 Middle East Trophy for SMP Racing. Sirotkin competed in Formula One in . Born and raised in Moscow, Sirotkin is the son of Oleg Sirotkin, former head of the NIAT in Russia. He began karting aged 12 before graduating to Formula Abarth in 2010, winning the European Championship and finishing runner-up in the Italian Championship the following season. After competing in Italian Formula 3 and Formula Renault 3.5, Sirotkin progressed to the GP2 Series with Rapax in 2015. Sirotkin twice finished third in the GP2 standings with Rapax and ART, taking several wins across his two full seasons in the series. Following this—having already served as a test driver for Sauber—Sirotkin was promoted to reserve driver at Renault in . After impressing at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Petrov
Vitaly Aleksandrovich Petrov ( rus, Вита́лий Алекса́ндрович Петро́в, p=vʲɪˈtalʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtrof; born 8 September 1984) is a Russian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from to . Born and raised in Vyborg, Petrov began his career in rallying, skipping competitive kart racing altogether. Petrov competed for Renault and Caterham in Formula One, becoming the first Russian driver to compete in Formula One at the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix. Widely known as the "Vyborg Rocket" in Russia, Petrov scored his only podium finish at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix. Early career Unlike most top drivers, Petrov did not begin his career in karting, as there was very little motorsport where he lived. He began competing in motorsport in 1998, when he took part in rally sprints and ice races. Afterwards he began competing in the Russian Lada Cup in 2001 and gained as his manager in 2001. He remained in the series for 2002 domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fédération Internationale De L'Automobile
The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; ) is an international organisation with two primary functions surrounding use of the automobile. Its mobility division advocacy, advocates the interests of motoring organisations, the automotive industry and motor car users in the fields of road safety and Traffic, traffic circulation. The sport division is a governing body for many international motorsport championships and disciplines, including Formula One. The FIA was formally established on 20 June 1904. It is headquartered at 8 Place de la Concorde, Paris, with offices in Geneva, Valleiry and London. The FIA consists of 245 member organisations in 149 countries worldwide. Its current president is Mohammed Ben Sulayem. The FIA is generally known by its French name or initials, even in non-French-speaking countries, but is occasionally rendered as International Automobile Federation. Its most prominent role is in the licensing and sanctioning of Formula One, World Rally C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SMP Racing
SMP Racing is a Russian racing team and driver academy mostly known for competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, FIA Formula 2 Championship and FIA Formula 3 Championship with the goal of training and unveiling new talents from Russia. The team was founded in 2013 by Boris Romanovich Rotenberg, Boris Rotenberg, co-founder of the SMP Bank of Russia. History Origins The team was founded in 2012 by the Russian oligarch Boris Rotenberg (businessman), Boris Rotenberg, co-founder of SMP bank and CEO of Russian race car construction company BR Engineering. They first competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship with the goal of supporting new talents from Russia and giving them the chance to compete in international motorsport. Boris Rotenberg Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia on the Boris Rotenberg (businessman), Boris Rotenberg is known as the co-founder of SMP Bank and CEO of the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Wiebelhaus
Finn Wiebelhaus (born 5 March 2006 in Obertshausen) is a German racing driver currently competing in GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and ADAC GT Masters for Haupt Racing Team. Early career A late starter to karting, Wiebelhaus initially took up soccer, playing for the Kickers Oberthausen team until 2019, when he participated in a karting course organized by ADAC Hessen-Thüringen. Racing in karts for three years, Wiebelhaus won the South Germany ADAC Kart Cup in 2021 and 2022, along with further titles in the ADAC Kart Masters and West Germany ADAC Kart Cup, all in X30 Junior. In 2023, Wiebelhaus made his single-seater debut in the FFSA Academy-centrally run 2023 French F4 Championship as one of three representatives of the ADAC Formel Junior Team. Racing in all but one rounds, Wiebelhaus scored a best result of seventh in race three at Magny-Cours and ended the season 22nd in the standings on six points. During 2023, Wiebelhaus also competed on a part-time basis in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Haupt
Hubert Haupt (born 30 April 1969) is a German racing driver, racing team owner, real estate entrepreneur and investor. He competed in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft in 1991 and 1992 for Audi, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters in 2001 for Opel and in 2021 for Mercedes-AMG. In 1999, he achieved the GT2 class victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona. In 2015, 2018 and 2020 he won the 24 Hours of Dubai. In 2020, he founded his own racing team. Career 1989–2000 Haupt began his motorsport career in karting, in which he was active until 1989. In 1990, he switched to touring car racing and drove one season for Opel in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft.Speedsport-Magazine – Internetseite: He then started in 1991 and 1992 as a works driver for the SMS Schmid Motorsport team with the Audi V8 quattro DTM Evo. In 1991, he achieved his greatest DTM success with third place in the second race on the AVUS.DriverDB – Internetseite: In 1993, he drove a Lola T93/20 formula racing c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reema Juffali
Reema Juffali, also spelt either as Reema Al Juffali or Reema Al-Juffali (; born 18 January 1992), is a Saudi Arabian amateur race car driver who competes in the International GT Open with her own team, Theeba Motorsport. She is the first-ever Saudi Arabian woman racing driver, the first Saudi woman to hold a racing license and also the first Saudi woman to win an international motor race. In November 2019, she became the country's first woman racing car driver to take part in an international racing competition in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2022, she was named as one of the BBC's 100 Women – a list of 100 inspiring and influential women from across the world. Early life and education Juffali was born and raised in Jeddah. As a child, she took an interest in cars and sports. Her interest was deemed to be ironic as the country strictly banned women to engage in driving at that time. She completed her primary education at the British International School of Jeddah. Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V8 Engine
A V8 engine is an eight- cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration. Origins The first known V8 was the Antoinette, designed by Léon Levavasseur, and built in 1904 by the French Antoinette company for use in speedboat racing, cars, and later, airplanes. Also in 1904, V8 engines began small-scale production by Renault and Buchet for use in race cars. Design V-angle Most engines use a V-angle (the angle between the two banks of cylinders) of 90 degrees. This angle results in good engine balance, which results in low vibrations. However, the downside is the greater width of the engine compared to those that use a smaller V-angle. V8 engines with a 60-degree V-angle were used in the 1996–1999 Ford Taurus SHO, the 2005–2011 Volvo XC90, and the 2006–2009 Volvo S80. The Ford engine used a 60-degree V-angle because it was based on a V6 engine with a 60-degree V-angle. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes-Benz M156 Engine
The M156 is the first automobile V8 engine designed autonomously by Mercedes-Benz subsidiary Mercedes-AMG, as previous AMG engines have always been based on original Mercedes engines. The engine was designed to be a naturally aspirated racing unit, and is also used in a number of high-performance AMG-badged Mercedes-Benz models. The engine was designed by Bernd Ramler, famed by the design of the Porsche Carrera GT's 5.7-liter V-10 engine. M156 The M156 displaces and shares very little with other Mercedes-Benz engine families like the M155. The bore spacing, block design, and other features are unique to the AMG engine. Although this engine displaces 6.2 litres, it is marketed as the "6.3" to commemorate Mercedes' famed 6.3 L M100 engine, its first production V8. The engine uses a bore and stroke of . When introduced in the 2007 CLK 63 AMG, output was at 6,800 rpm with of torque at 5,200 rpm. For the 2007 CLS 63 and E 63, output was at 6,800 rpm w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
