The Zain Reem international race circuit in Saudi Arabia will play host to the second Saudi Race Festival Thursday. The increasingly popular race venue will duly host the second rounds of the 2010 Zain Lotus Cup and the Saudi Radical Championship. January's opening round of both championships was an unmitigated success with Saudi Arabia's Faher Al-Sharif winning the Zain Lotus Cup Middle East race and Saeed Al-Mouri winning the 1.5-liter Saudi Radical Championship category. The Zain Lotus race will again be held in conjunction with sponsor Saudi Oger. They will support two young Saudi drivers with a view to watching them progress through the sporting discipline. Mosaed Al-Khwayter finished second overall in the Saudi Oger Cup category of the first Lotus race for the sponsoring team behind 16-year-old Prince Mohamed Bin Faisal Bin Abdullah Bin Mohamed. Al-Sharif is likely to defend his overall championship lead for the Big Wheels Team and is certain to face stiff competition from the Bison Reem Team's Prince Mohamed Bin Faisal, Abdullah Al-Quain of the RST Team and representative drivers from Al-Ghassan Motors, the Rahez Racing Team and the likes of Prince Saud Bin Turki Al-Faisal and Saeed Al-Mouri, the winner of the 1.5-liter Saudi Radical Championship category last time out. Prince Mohammed Bin Faisal has a golden future in the sport and his duel for honors with Al-Sharif is likely to be one of the highlights of the day's Zain Lotus Cup race meeting. Al-Mouri is likely to face a fierce challenge from Medhat Sheikh Al-Ard and Raed Abu Zenadh of the Bison Reem Racing Team for honors in the larger-engined Saudi Radical Championship category. Bandar Ali Reza leads the standings after the first round of the 1.3-litre class. “The first Saudi Racing Festival in January was a resounding success and we are delighted to be hosting the second round of both the Lotus and Radical categories Thursday,” said Prince Sultan Bin Bandar Al-Faisal, CEO of the Zain Reem international circuit. The Saudi Speed Festival has received valuable sponsorship from Zain, Toyota, Castrol, Bison energy drink, the Saudi Bin Laden Group of Companies, Al
