The authorities in Bahrain say they are confident the Formula 1 Grand Prix will not be disrupted by protests.
The heavily-guarded race track has been surrounded with layers of security to keep opposition activists away.
Protesters are calling for the race to be cancelled, but the government is determined it will go ahead.
Formula 1's governing body, the FIA, only went ahead with the Grand Prix after the government said it had security under control.
Last year's Bahraini Grand Prix was cancelled after 35 people died during a crackdown on mass demonstrations calling for greater democracy.
The Bahraini government, headed by the al-Khalifa dynasty, had been keen for this year's race to go ahead to prove it had put the 14-month uprising behind them.
According to Press TV, Porsche Supercup Squad MRS has withdrawn from this weekend’s opening rounds of Bahrain’s Formula One Grand Prix 2012, blaming “ongoing unrest” and “security situation” in the sheikdom.
Porsche team leader Karsten Molitor announced in a statement issued on Wednesday, “It is the first time in our team history that we have to cancel a race of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.”
The issue of France's Muslims moved front and center into the presidential campaign with the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, excluding on Saturday any special indulgences for halal meat or separate swimming hours for Muslim women in public pools.The team of Francois Hollande,the Socialist candidate, castigated sarkozy remark "sickening" saying giving foreigners the right to vote in local elections would open the way to halal meat in school canteens and burqa-style bathing suits in public pools.
All of us are waiting for fall downing next domino. Qaddafi can't save himself and him family by killing protest people. He drownings in blood flood of Libyan people. enshaallah taala
Why people of Afghanistan and Iraq must pay reparation for war against terrorism!?
