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This is one of the most popular events on the British Virgin Islands’ social calendar, and is a chance for the whole community to come together in a week of races and entertainment. The event usually kicks off on the Monday evening with a welcome party at Nanny Cay Marina where registration for the Sailing Festival takes place. Three days of destination cruising and racing follows before the main three-day regatta properly gets underway on the Friday. The first BVI Spring Regatta took place in 1972 and remains an integral part of island life.

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Are you one of the millions of people worldwide that love auto racing? Satisfy your need for speed at an exciting NASCAR, Champ Car, IRL or Formula 1 event with one of our popular Auto Racing ticket packages. One of the fastest growing and most exciting sports events in the world, auto racing is one of the most sought after experienes in the World.The first thing you’ll notice as you enter the factory and gaze at the huge map at the entrance is that the facility is impressively autonomous. Each Ferrari is crafted here from beginning to end, and a total of 3,700 cars are produced here every year. Ferrari could potentially make many more than that, but they wish to keep production low to ensure the brand’s exclusivity.

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Bahrain, a group of 33 islands, with an area of 707 square kilometres, is situated in the Arabian Gulf, off the east coast of Saudi Arabia. Bahrain is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Middle East with over two million tourists a year.The capital, Manama, on the main island, boasts excellent hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, an intriguing souq (bazaar) and all the other facilities visitors need for a great holiday.

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The United Arab Emirates is well placed on the world map of international sport by hosting some of the most prestigious sporting events in the world. The infrastructure and facilities are world-class and has marked the UAE as the sporting capital of the Middle East. The 2006-2007 racing season began in November with the Winter Racing Challenge, the 2007 Dubai International Racing Carnival starts on 18th January and the season culminates with the world’s richest race, the Dubai World Cup, sponsored by Emirates Airline on Saturday 31st March 2007. Along with the Dubai World Cup, there are a further five Thoroughbred Group races and a Group One for Purebred Arabians, ensuring the day is one of the most significant in global Thoroughbred horse racing. The Carnival, which last year attracted over 200 horses from 14 countries, runs over 10 meetings at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse. In addition to the racing, the Dubai Racing Club will be organising a number of glamorous social occasions, including the ever popular Fillies & Fashions.

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As we learned from a post on MobileTopSoft, all the folks in Netherlands will have an opportunity to plan their daily journeys easier, if they are customers of Vodafone and use TomTom navigation services.

TomTom and Vodafone Netherlands are planning to jointly develop and introduce a technology that according to them will revolutionise the way people plan their daily journeys. The solution is planned to be available from the second half of 2007.

This development will see TomTom’s technology convert anonymous, raw GSM signaling data supplied by Vodafone Netherlands’ network into accurate, real-time, information on the speed and direction of cars traveling throughout the road network of the Netherlands. The technology has been tested and proven on a regional scale and this will be the world’s first nationwide, commercial deployment.

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