Get revved up for the Dubai Motor Festival 2014

Anyone arriving in Dubai via the city’s airport in Terminal 3 will no doubt notice that, on the exit doors before the arrivals hall, there’s an enormous advert for various attractions that either have already been and gone or are yet to happen. Right bang in the centre is one for Dubai Motor Festival 2014. Another week, another festival – so what?

Cars, that’s what, and lots of them. The DMF – as it’s come to be known – started in 2013 and incorporated the city’s biennial motor show along with a whole host of other attractions, including the headline grabbing Grand Car Parade, which featured hundreds of “unique” cars and motorcycles cruising around some of Dubai’s best known landmarks in a convoy led by the police force’s own world-famous fleet. It’s back again this year, with the intention that it’s a firm fixture on the calendar now, either with or without the motor show – the next of which is still a year away.

So what can we expect and, more to the point, will it be worth attending? The good news is that, according to organisers, there will be something to appeal to everyone and the various attractions will take place at different venues and on different dates. Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) announced last week that the festival is to run from November 19 to December 6, kicking off with the Infiniti F1 Showrun. This will be a live demonstration by the Red Bull F1 drivers Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo of the team’s RB7 race car, as well as Infiniti’s Q50 Eau Rouge concept sports saloon, held at Skydive Dubai.

Original article by Kevin Hackett

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Get revved up for the Dubai Motor Festival 2014