The owner of the host track, Bahrain International Circuit, said that the race should be trouble-free.

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The owner of the host track, Bahrain International Circuit, said that the race should be trouble-free, although an opposition group has called for a week of demonstrations ahead of the event.

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It helps that the race itself will be free of the blistering-fast pacemakers who are otherwise so prevalent on the world marathon circuit.

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