The team had less than 24 hours to arrange offloading, handling and delivery of over 150 tons of race cars and equipment that was flown in especially for the event on 2 Silkway 747 freighters. The race takes place on 4 km of down town streets stretching along the Caspian Sea. The word on the street was that Bernie Eccelstone was also there to finalise discussions on the upcoming F1 race scheduled for 2016.