Celebrity Formula One drivers sent birthday wishes to Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom and the title sponsor of Bahrain Grand Prix since 2004, as the airline’s 60th anniversary approaches on March 24, 2010.
International Formula One heroes such as Fernando Alonso, Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa, Michael Schumacher, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who were in Bahrain for the 2010 Formula1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix on March 12, signed a huge birthday card and presented it to the airline’s management.
The airline said that the occasion bore special significance for both Gulf Air and Formula One as the two entities were born at the same time sixty years ago.
It was on March 24 1950, Gulf Aviation Company, the predecessor to Gulf Air, was officially registered as a private shareholding company by a Scottish aviator, Freddie Bosworth, with funding from a group of Bahraini businessmen to establish the airline as a commercial enterprise.
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