DOHA (Qatar): Qatar Motorsports Academy (QMA) will shortly be launching its own karting training academy to groom its next line of riders and drivers.
“We’re going to start a Karting Academy in the next couple of months. The Karting Academy will be a very good platform to develop drivers from a really young age,” QMA Manager Amro Al Hamad told KHEL UPDATES on the sidelines of the National Sprint championship recently.
He added that most of the work on establishing the new training facility at Lusail has been completed and it will become operation in the coming months.
The plan to start a Karting Academy is with a view to groom and train future riders and drivers in mind.
“The Karting Academy will hopefully help us find the next Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (three-time Dakar Champion) or Khalid Al Suwaidi and Abdulaziz Al Kuwari. If in the past, our concentration was more on the present riders and drivers, from now on we will have future in mind,” said Al Hamad, who is also the Executive Director of Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation.
Al Hamad, a top-notch driver himself from 2006 to 2016, said that QMA is focused on training the drivers and riders for
greater challenges.
“QMA is really concerned about the development of younger riders and drivers. In the last two years, QMA has been
working only for motorbike riders and drivers and now we’ve extended this to karting as well,” added Al Hamad.
A lot of effort has gone in behind the starting of the new Karting Academy.
“In the next month or so, you will see a whole new image at Qatar Motorsports Academy. We’ve changed the whole methodology of training and a lot of time has been invested by the team at the Losail Circuit Sports Club to devise the training methodology. We are on the right path. It’s just a matter of time until we get everything in the right direction,” added Al Hamad.
