DUBAI // Three brothers will share one driver’s seat in the Dunlop 24 Hours of Dubai race this weekend.
UAE-based Sami, Ramzi and Nabil Moutran will, for the fifth year, contest their home race in the A3T category at the Dubai Autodrome, at the wheel of their Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing Seat.
Last year they finished third, and the family say they are just happy to compete in the event together.
“This is the fifth consecutive year we’re racing in the Dubai 24 Hours, and it’s now about performing to the best of our ability,” Nabil said.
“But we are a family team and it’s great to share such an amazing experience with the people who you are closest to and care about.”
Sami, the UAE Clio Cup champion, is confident that he, his brothers and Phil Quaife, who is the fourth driver in the line-up, can improve on last year’s effort.
“We are due a win,” he said. “We are quick, of that there is no question. Now we have to be quick and consistent for 24 hours.”
Sami said that he relished driving with his family as he believed it helped to get the best out of all of them.
“It always brings me confidence knowing I am going into a race with the people I trust most in the world,” he said.
“Over the years we have learnt to work together in a pressured environment, with mutual respect. We push each other to be better, at everything we do, and that is a great feeling. All the traits we have learnt at the track and working as a team have benefited us as a family off the track also.”
The Moutrans’ Memac Ogilvy Duel Racing team is one of several with UAE roots who will be racing in the event, which starts on Friday at 2pm.
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