PARIS: The 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix, which will be held on April 6 at the Sakhir Circuit near Manama, will be staged at night, organisers announced yesterday.
Floodlighting has been installed and will be tested out at this weekend’s final round of the World Endurance
Championship.
The move to a night race in the Gulf state will mark the 10th anniversary of the first Bahrain Grand Prix, won by Michael Schumacher in a Ferrari in 2004, and will also be welcomed by drivers, given the high daytime temperatures in spring.
Bahrain will be Formula One’s second night race - Singapore has been held after dark since its inception in 2008. AFP
