Rashaad Kazi will represent Bahrain at the PlayStation’s Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Challenge Grand Final in Dubai on July 19.

He will be joined with finalists from Riyadh, Khobar, Jeddah, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait city and Cairo at the contest at the Dubai Festival City.

The gamer drove other Bahrain challengers off the track during the regional heat of a month-long Middle East competition to find the best Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Challenge drivers

The Indian won with the lap time of 1.09.604. Bahraini Mohammed Ameen Mohammed was second (1.09.699) and Sayed Abdullah Ahmed, also a Bahraini, (1.10.740) was judged third.

The winners received gift vouchers from Ashraf, the official PlayStation distributor in the Bahrain.

The winner of the Grand Final will win the chance to test drive the Nissan GT-R, a trip for two to Japan, and a GT Racing Pod (including a 40-inch Sony Bravia LCD TV, a PlayStation3 console, and GT5 Prologue game).

With more than 47 million units sold worldwide, the award-winning Gran Turismo franchise for the PlayStation is regarded as the best and most authentic driving simulation ever created due to its true-to-life graphics, physics and real-life cars and tracks. – Trade Arabia News Service