F1: King’s driving masterclass – Gulf Digital News

F1: King’s driving masterclass – Gulf Digital News

YOUNG Briton Harry King put on a driving master-class yesterday as he followed up his race one victory on Friday evening with a commanding win in race two of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Middle East at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), writes Adnan SIPRA.

The Porsche Sprint Challenge was one of two support races for the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), which also concluded yesterday. The other supporting race was the WTCR Race of Bahrain, part of the WTCR-FIA World Touring Car Cup which was also held over two days, finishing yesterday.

King, 21, completely dominated proceedings in both races of the first weekend of the 2022-23 Challenge season. But his performance yesterday eclipsed even his outstanding driving effort from the day before as he crossed the finish line comfortably 10.210 seconds ahead of runner-up, Australian Harri Jones.

Israel’s Ariel Levi completed the podium as he came in third, 10.836s behind King.

Belgian Ghislain Cordeel finished in fourth place with Canadian, Bashar Mardini in sixth. Mardini also won the ProAm class.

Bahrain’s Shaikh Salman bin Rashid Al Khalifa placed ninth overall and fourth in the ProAm and finished second behind Saudi Arabia’s Bandar Alesayi amongst