Manama : Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), ‘The Home of Motorsport in the Middle East’, hosts this week the second round of the 2025/2026 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship in Sakhir. The region’s biggest and most competitive drag racing series returns with plenty of high-intensity action along BIC’s quarter-mile drag strip from Tuesday to Friday, December 23-26.
The meeting follows a thrilling season-opener held last month, which attracted nearly 200 competitors from Bahrain and across the region.
The top drag racing teams and drivers will once again be going head-to-head along BIC’s world-class quarter-mile drag strip, part of the NHRA Worldwide Network of the US-based National Hot Rod Association (NHRA).
The championship, which is sanctioned by the NHRA, is being organised and run by BIC in cooperation with the Bahrain Motor Federation, the Bahrain Drag Racing Commission, and the Bahrain Motorcycle Commission.
The competing drag racers will be battling in their respective competition categories to crown the champions at the end of the campaign, each of whom will take home a prestigious ‘Wally Trophy’, awarded only to title winners of NHRA events worldwide. The ‘Wally’ is drag racing’s most prestigious accolade. Named after NHRA founder Wally Parks, it has been handed out since the 1969 NHRA season in the US.
This week’s events get underway with just a single night of Test and Tune on Tuesday from 6 pm to 12 midnight. Qualifying will then be held on Wednesday, which will set the elimination ladders for the races on Thursday and Friday. Action on all those days is scheduled to be held from 4 pm onwards.
Fans looking to attend the round can watch the excitement unfold on the strip from the Start Line Grandstand or from BIC’s Beyon Grandstand. Tickets for the Start Line Grandstand are BD5 apiece, while tickets for the Beyon Grandstand for Test and Tune are BD2 each, and for qualifying and race days are BD3 per person.
Tickets can be purchased online at bahraingp.com, by calling the BIC Hotline on +973-17450000, or at the gate.
There are 13 classes in this season’s Bahrain Drag Racing Championship. They include the Index 10.0, Index 9.0, Index 8.5, Outlaw 6, Index 7.5, Pro 29.5 V8, Comp 4.5, Outlaw 4, and Pro Mod for cars; and Street Fight 9.5, Index 8.5, Pro Street, and Outlaw for motorbikes.
The 2025/2026 calendar of the Bahrain Drag Racing Championship features five rounds. Following this week’s events, rounds three and four will take place on back-to-back weekends from January 6-9, 2026, and January 13-16, 2026, while the grand finale is set for March 3-6, 2026.
For more information on the 2025/2026 Bahrain Drag Racing Championship or other events and experiences at BIC, visit bahraingp.com, call the BIC Hotline, or follow the circuit’s official social media channels.
