F1: Raffii ends season with fine double – Gulf Digital News

F1: Raffii ends season with fine double – Gulf Digital News

Raed Raffii was crowned back-to-back champion in the BIC 2,000cc Challenge over the weekend.

Raffii clinched his second successive title after winning both races in the 2021-22 season’s seventh and final round, held as part of National Race Day at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir.

Raffii’s double in the championship finale marked his fifth and sixth wins of the 14-race season. He also finished on the podium in every other sprint without any DNFs – making for a fantastic campaign.

The past weekend’s events took place along BIC’s 2.55-kilometre Inner Track. All the action was held under BIC’s bright floodlights, and there was plenty of heated wheel-to-wheel racing from the get-go.

Raffii’s chief title rival Raed Himmo started the round off by topping the Practice timesheet. His best lap was one minute 19.341 seconds in his Honda Civic.

Himmo continued his impressive pace in Qualifying, where he captured pole position for the meeting’s first race after clocking a best lap time of 1:17.901. He narrowly outpaced Raffii for pole by just 1.048 seconds.

At the lights to start Race One, Raffii had the better getaway and headed into the first turn with the lead in his Honda S2000. Pole-sitter Himmo was struggling and was quickly