18.01.07 RPM in Dubai 24 RPM completed its second 24 hour race in the second running of the Toyo Tyres 24 hours of Dubai held over the 10th, 11th and 12th of January. The team travelled to Dubai with a host of front running Radical racers in the form of Nick Foster, John Stanley, Robert Simpson and RPM GT regular Peter Bamford. They also took RPM driver Alex Mortimer as a reserve in case of emergency. The weekend didn't get off to a great start with a water pipe clip breaking immediately at the start of practice stranding the car out on track as driving it back to the pits without enough coolant may have risked damaging the engine. This meant the drivers only got 3 laps each of practice to learn the track before day qualifying. Qualifying saw the RPM car launch its way to 7th on the 80 strong grid which included some 28 Porsches. This was a great boost for the team due to the lack of running they had received so far in the weekend. Night qualifying was to see the RPM car move its way upto 4th overall only trailing Uwe Alzen in GT2 Porsche and the factory Red Bull BMW's of Duller Motorsport. The race was started at 2pm on the Friday afternoon. From the off the RPM car looked competitive holding itself inside the top 10 for the opening 7 hours until an unfortunate bump in the night whilst working its way through traffic saw it lose 90 minutes in the pits being repaired, dropping the car to 59th overall. A sterling effort by the RPM drivers and great pit work by the team over the next 15 1/2 hours saw the car climb its way back to 28th overall. RPM now has unfinished business at the Dubai 24 and will be back! << back to news