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The oldest skid pad in the Emirates, and a drift school on it.

Forty minutes north of Dubai on the E11, a motorsport complex built around a skid pad, a drag strip and a rallycross track. Prodrift Academy UAE runs its programme on this surface: four categories across ten levels, from a rookie's first circles and figure-of-eight upward.

Monster Energy, promoting the Emirates Drift Championship, has called it the oldest skid pad in the country. The championship's inaugural season ended here in February 2018, when Sultan Al Qassimi took the first EDC title.

This is the entry point the region lacked for years: a legal place to learn, an instructor beside you, and no traffic coming the other way.