Race Of Champions

[erinha]

This year Sebastian Vettel (GER), Nico Hulkenberg (GER), Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) and Felipe Massa (BRA) will be making their appearances in London for 2015 ROC. Other names confirmed so far: Tom Kristensen (DEN), Petter Solberg (NOR), Mick Doohan (AUS), David Coulthard (UK) and Jorge Lorenzo (SPA).
They will be teaming up for Nations' Cup too. I am guessing Vettel-Hulkenberg for Germany, Ricciardo-Doohan for Australia, Massa-Piquet Jr for Brazil, Kristensen-Solberg for Nordic countries.

It's very interesting Massa and Piquet Jr will be teaming up, considering crash gate, though I dunno how their relationship is.... Then again, Alonso was a Ferrari driver for years along with Massa, but you can at least argue he didn't know. Whatever.

Some big names will be there in November. So, might be worth to take a look at it.

Race Of Champions - ROC London November 2015

 

[erinha]

Susie Wolff and David Coulthard will be on Team Scotland. Jason Plato is also confirmed.

 

[Greenlantern101]

Tickets are on sale.

Race of Champions - Weekend Ticket at The Stadium, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Nov 20, 2015

 

[Greenlantern101]

Final from last year. Audi quattro S1 demo about 6 minutes in. Nice.

 

[erinha]

This year Sky Sports F1 will be broadcasting the Race of Champions.
Nations Cup: November 20th, Friday, 7.30pm
Race of Champions: November 21st, Saturday, 3pm.

Detailed information: What is the Race of Champions?

 

[Greenlantern101]

Hopefully they will have their own commentators as the Eurosport ones have been clueless in the past.

 

[gethinceri]

Hopefully it will be worth watching as it's been bollocks in the past.

 

[erinha]

Ricciardo said that he's looking for "redemption" by beating Vettel. So I'm not sure he understands the meaning of the word, or I am missing something....

 

[erinha]

Romain Grosjean seems to be the latest addition to the roster. That's now 5 current Formula 1 drivers.

 

[F1Brits_90]

excited for this race of champions on skyf1 always the highlight of racing year with great entertainment & close racing (which it isnt hard to beat the last 2 races) even more now with 1 of the best fields assembled ive seen since ive been watching this all the way back to stade de france days

 

[F1Brits_90]

Looking forward to this bonus race at the end
Driving legends to compete in karts after Saturday’s Race Of Champions

 

[gethinceri]

It always comes over as a contrived piece of nonsense for me, perhaps because it's a misnomer.

 

[erinha]

Results:
Nations Cup: Team England vs Team Germany: 2-1 (Team England wins).
Race of Champions: Vettel vs Kristensen: 2-1 (Vettel wins).

 

[FB]

Ladies and gentlemen I give you a thread resurrection to rival Lazarus.

The RoC is back this weekend and takes place in the stadium section of the Mexican GP circuit. Some names I know and what would appear to be an Irishman racing for Mexico. If you know what TV channel it will be on let us all know.

Race of Champions: NASCAR ace Suarez to face F1 superstar Vettel

 

[gethinceri]

It's going to be shit.

 

[FB]

That's what I love about you Geth, your great, positive attitude

 

[gethinceri]

I've always found the ROC to be a load of cobblers, and a misnomer that I feel quite insulted by.

 

[F1Brits_90]

It's going to be shit.

can you only get shit channel on sky virgin media & freeview

but i believe its on sky f1

 

[RasputinLives]

Are the Sum Racing all stars having to get in real cars or racing them via sim on the sidelines?

 

[F1Brits_90]

no I believe the sim racers are racing for real