The 'Limo Crossing" at the Mina Seyahi on The Dubai Marina. can you spot the limo in the background trying to make a turn? The Emerates/Dubai Duty Free Power Boats Grand Prix was held. Class 1 World Champions Nader Bin Hendi and Arif Al Zafeen of the FAZZA team won the race.
Surprisingly the crowd was not what one would expect for such an event and the entrance being free of charge to the public. But my family and I had a great treat to the one of a kind event on such a pleasent day in Dubai.
I was more thrilled by the sound of the power boats than anything else as it was a roar of raw power of man and machine.... And there goes the Abu Dhabi Boys!! They tried ...but they could not keep up with the Fazza Kids.
The Dubai Marina Bay area is a state of the art facility harboring such collection of yatchs from all over the world. 15 years ago there was only a scattered number of fishing villages and small harbours along this coastal stretch...now...Walla! Its like there is no more room to squeeze in another dhow.
The Power Boats getting ready to head out to the starting point for the racing event of the day.
Someday when you look back you can always say, I was there when it all happened...the birth of a City by the sea...a bunch of castles built on sand the Las Vegas of the Gulf States, the Tampa Bay of the Emerates.
It is a parking lot for the rich and famous and they come from all corners of the world to be where it is happening...in the shifting sands of time.
Yeah! I wish it was mine too, but Idont think I can even afford a tyre off this thing.
The mushroom of sky scrapers growing out of the sand of what once used to be the desert is fueld by the black gold the lay beneath the ground. It took the creative imagination and the will to carry it out for this skyline to come into being.
It is an illusion of grandiour but it is a symbol of material wealth for symbolizes the triumph of the human endeavour to create a thing of beauty and power, it is a Ferrari!!
Yep, my kind of vehicle, big and strong and red in color, says it all. Keep your distance and mind your own business, the road is mine.
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