Race of Champions

vectra

Draw for RoC announced
13/12/2008
The draw for the first round of the Race of Champions heats has been
made at Wembley Stadium, revealing the first match-ups of the event.
The 16 ROC drivers will face off against each other in a knock-out competition to find out who is the 'Champion of Champions' today
(Sunday, Dec 14).
The opening round heats will be as follows:

Gareth MacHale v David Coulthard

Adam Carroll v Mattias Ekstrom

Tom Kristensen v Michael Schumacher

Jason Plato v Andy Priaulx

Tanner Foust v Jenson Button

Troy Bayliss v Sebastian Vettel

Jaime Alguersuari v Carl Edwards

Yvan Muller v Sebastien Loeb

Eight times Le Mans winner Kristensen drew seven times Formula 1 World
Champion in one of the tastiest races of the first round,
while new boy Adam Carroll drew reigning ROC champion, Mattias Ekstrom.

There are a couple of inter-nation ties in the first round,
with BTCC ace JasonPlato squaring up against three times World Touring Car Champion, Andy Priaulx.

Meanwhile, the two Team France team-mates, Muller and Loeb, will face off too.
The Race of Champions gets underway at 5.30pm today, following the ROC
Nations Cup.
Tickets will be available on the gate at Wembley Stadium.
Full LIVE coverage of the event will also be available HERE

Sunday’s timetable is as follows:

All times GMT

13.00-14.15 Displays

13.55-14.15 Hoy vs Hamilton "Man vs Machine" Challenge

14.30-16.30 The ROC Nations Cup

16.35-17.15 Displays

16.35-16.50 Lewis Hamilton in his title winning McLaren

16.55-17.15 X-Fighters Freestyle show

17.30-19.30 The Race of Champions

h3000

I would love to see MacHale do well.

FrostyJack

FIIIIIIXXXXXXX , Ireland get stung with Team Germany, Team GB get motor bike racers? Love this event. Pity Hamilton didn't race Hoy on the bike, would have been interesting, but at least we got to see his family again, I was getting withdrawal symptoms

Davey Devil

FrostyJack wrote: »

Pity Hamilton didn't race Hoy on the bike, would have been interesting, but at least we got to see his family again, I was getting withdrawal symptoms

Why didn't it go ahead?

EDIT:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/7782521.stm

vectra

So much for the 7 times wc :rolleyes:

zeris

Yeah, going out against a NASCAR driver. It didn't even look like he made any mistakes.

He did win the Nations Cup with Vettel earlier though.

EvilMonkey

How come Hamilton wasn't in the main races would McLaren not let him out to play? DC cant stop crashing! :pac:

nikimere

EvilMonkey wrote: »

How come Hamilton wasn't in the main races would McLaren not let him out to play? DC cant stop crashing! :pac:

I would say probably because he was at BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

Cookie_Monster

So who won then?

And how on earth was Coulthard allowed into that, when has he even been a champion, he struggles not to crash most of the time:D

h3000

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

So who won then?

EDIT: www.raceofchampions.com/tag

Cookie_Monster

h3000 wrote: »

www.raceofchampions.com

Thanks and fixed

EvilMonkey

nikimere wrote: »

I would say probably because he was at BBC Sports Personality of the Year.

It was over at 19:30 he could have easily have done both.

h3000

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Thanks and fixed

oops:)

Thanks

HPT

Had a busy Sunday and missed the whole thing! :rolleyes:
I would have watched it online if I could.

Does anyone know if/when it will be shown on TV?

zeris

It is still available (all of it) to watch on Freecaster.

The tax man

It's also on Sky Sports 2 at 1.30am tonight.
Program info on the epg has it down as action from Stade de France,as stars including Michael Schumacher and Colin McRae race side by side. I thinks that's slightly wrong some how.:D:D

Listings for SS2 on the net have the correct info though.

HPT

Thanks guys

Biro

It was an entertaining event for sure. Lewis's McLaren SLR sounds awesome, but he tip-toed around. His appearance was pointless. The McLaren F1 car sounds better than the Red Bull F1 car.
Loeb is a savage driver for sure. Ekstrom beat him in the WRC car however!!
The track was too slippy, and it's much too tight to get proper racing done though. Still, that's my third ROC and probably not my last! They could do with less entertainment and more racing though.

the hunter

it was a good day out but it was freezing .. the track was very small .

FrostyJack

Would have been better if Tony Jardine wasn't there talking rubbish like "Schumacher..... flawed Champion", though Georgie Thompson made up for him They missed the start of 2 Irish races by being in Studio and showing replays. Great show though, roll on next year, hopefully will be able to go over to it. Hopefully Hamilton will turn up instead of going to "Personality" of the year awards.

Kali

the hunter wrote: »

it was a good day out but it was freezing .. the track was very small .

Took a few hours for my knees to defrost.. man it was cold.
Great day was had, seeing Terry Grant do a lap on 2 wheels was excellent, tho there could have been less donuts and more x-fighters imo. Pity the Irish drivers didn't progress, but up against Germany in the Nations cup wasn't helpful
Final was excellent, glad it went to three races, Coulthard put up a great show... and not just in the final, his limp over the line earlier in the day in a severely damaged KTM was fantastic spectator stuff.
The few shots that I've managed to put up so far are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kbyrne/sets/72157611264532628/