This past Friday was open track at the Kuwait Motor Town circuit and while the previous open tracks started early morning, this one started in the afternoon because the weather is a lot hotter. This meant that we would be racing in the evening which I had heard from friends was freaky because of the lack of proper lights and after trying it out myself, yeah it’s definitely freaky.
Not only is the track poorly lit, but there were corners and places on the track that barely had any lighting on them! I was driving with my high beams on but obviously that wasn’t enough. My only previous experience with night racing was in Bahrain, but their track is properly lit up at night. Just to compare the difference, the video on top is from this past Friday at the KMT circuit, while the one below is from Bahrain last year.
A huge difference as you can see. But, on the bright side, I did hear they will be adding more lights on the track this summer when it closes down for maintenance. Hopefully they’ll be as bright as the Bahrain circuit ones.
8 replies on “Night Racing at Kuwait Motor Town”
WTF !! Those seem to be normal street lamps in KMT !!
Yeah I think they are
“on the bright side, I did hear they will be adding more lights”
Is there pun tag which shows all posts with puns?
Ha! Didn’t even plan that one
Nurburgring 24hr vibes lol
That’s scary. Did you try fueling your car there? How was the fueling experience? And do you know what grade of fuel do they sell?
So last track day I filled up fuel at the track at the station they had set up at the end of the pit lane with 98 fuel. This weekend’s track day we were told there would be a choice of 95 or 98.
So when I was running out of fuel i passed by the fuel station at the end of the pit lane and they’re like oh no, you can only fill up 95 because all the 98 fuel was reserved by McLaren for their event the next day.
Since I was running on fumes, I had them fill me up with 1KD worth of 95 octane and then drove all the way to the Oula fuel station 15 minutes away and filled up 98 there. Got there with like 10L of fuel left in the car.
So wasn’t a good experience this weekend.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.