Khaled Al Mudhaf, Kuwait’s most experienced racing driver, with the countries historic first ever licence #0001, took top honours with his team in first position with the Lamborghini Hurican Super Trofeo EVO.
Over 280 drivers from 33 different nationalities and 80 cars took part in the Dubai 24H motor race this past weekend at Dubai Autodrome Circuit. Starting the race the Leipert Motorsport team from Germany had a clear strategy, to use their drivers to the maximum in a bid to take home the winners trophy, and the team did exactly that. The team scored an overall position of 14th out of 80, amongst all the other classes of cars.
In a race that lasted for a full 24Hours, from Friday 3pm till Saturday 3pm, the race distance covered by the drivers in over 24 hours is equivalent to more kilometres than a Formula 1 driver races in a full season.
Four other drivers made up the team this year joining the Kuwait racing hero, Jake Rattenbury, Marcus Paverud, Frederick Schandorff and Harald Schlotter all of whom drove faultlessly taking it in turns to drive for the 24hour duration.
Khaled has won the Dubai 24H race before in 2014 with Ferrari, and was inducted into their prestigious Ferrari ‘Hall of Fame’ HQ in Italy for his success, a first for Kuwait and Arab history in Motorsports.
Khaled has been carving out a successful racing career since the age of eleven years old, starting out in the deserts of Kuwait in motocross. Khaled owns his own Kuwait based Racing Team called GForce since 2010. He became a young Kuwait Champion at age fourteen and now has progressed to the highest level of competition in circuit racing today with some of the worlds leading brands such as Ferrari, McLaren, Porsche and Lamborghini, competing alongside the worlds most experienced drivers.
“Im so proud to receive this winners trophy for my home country of Kuwait, it’s a very special race here in the Middle East region and one of the biggest races in the world,” commented Khaled.
“I have raced in this event 4 times now and won twice, it’s a great honour. All the top professional drivers come here to race, from all over the world, so the level of competition is very high. To race here takes a lot of hard work and skill, as there are 80 other cars on the track at the same time, and our car escaped without any damage due to the skill we had as a team.”
