Video: A Quick Look at the World of MotorSports in the Middle East

There's no doubt that the web and readers alike tend to be more interested in troublemakers and the darker or if you prefer, the more bizarre side of things in general. But as we all know, there are always two sides of a coin and the same goes for gearheads in all four corners of the world, be they in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or in this case, the Middle East.

Carscoop reader Mousub S. wanted to remind us that the Middle East is not only about blinged-up supercars and gun-carrying Honda Accord drifters, which understandably gather a lot of attention, but also about the high-revving world of Motorsports with a video.

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Saudi King Reverses Court's Decision to Lash a Woman for Driving her Car

In a surprising -but certainly welcome- turn of events, Saudi King Abdullah has overturned the sentencing of a young woman to 10 whiplashes for driving her car. The news came from Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel's twitter account.

For those of you wondering, Princess Ameerah is a member of the Saudi royal family through her husband, HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal who is King Abdullah's nephew.

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Saudi Woman Sentenced to 10 Whips for –wait for it- Driving her Car…

We'd hardly call it a reason to celebrated, but earlier this week, many cautiously welcomed Saudi King Abdullah's decision to grant women some rights by allowing them to vote and run in the next municipal elections that are scheduled (but not ensured) for 2015 as a positive move forward for a country that remains an absolute and puritanical monarchy.

Now, less than 48 hours after the King's announcement, a Jeddah court sentenced a Saudi woman to be lashed 10 times with a whip for disobeying the country's prohibition on women driving!

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Video: Middle East Drifting Gone Stumblingly Wrong

Needless to say, for every few successful -or accident free, to be more precise- drifting acts performed on the streets or deserts of the Middle East, there's at least one with a crappy or disastrous ending.

The scene you're about to watch in the short video clip after the break, belongs to the second category as the driver either hit something on the side of road or fell into a hole, sending the car tumbling at a high speed.

Let’s just hope nobody was seriously injured during the incident.

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Jackasses on Wheels and with Guns Terrorize Middle East Drivers [Video]

There's hooning. And then there's criminal hooning. These particular individuals shown in the video after the break no doubt belong to the second category with their idiotically dangerous antics.

Filmed somewhere in the Middle East (possibly in Saudi Arabia if we are to believe the Youtube commentators), the 10-minute long clip primarily focuses on the "achievements" of the driver and passengers of a silver Honda Accord and to a lesser extent, the crew in a Toyota Camry.

As if waving guns and shooting in the air on a public road isn't dumb enough, the wannabe drifters terrorize all the rest of the drivers throwing the Accord in front of passenger cars, trucks and even near a school bus.

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