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Post by Will on Dec 14, 2008 13:15:51 GMT
The Race of Champions returns today, held in Wembley Stadium in London. Drivers from all motorsport disciplines in 2-man national teams face off in different vehicles, buggies, rally cars, GT's and more. It can be watched online on the Autosport website ;D www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/72446Teams participating: Scandinavia USA Autosport Great Britain F1 Racing Great Britain Ireland France Germany All Stars Lineups: SCA - Ekstrom/Kristensen USA - Foust/Edwards AGB - Button/Priaulx F1GB - Plato/Coulthard IRE - MacHale/Carroll FRA - Loeb/Muller GER - Schumacher/Vettel ALL - Bayliss/Alguersuari Thanks Mixa for the info Starts in the next hour
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Post by Mixa on Dec 14, 2008 13:32:01 GMT
No probs,Will. Clad to help.. Just a shame how a few drivers werent able to take part. Australia was meant to have a team but Webbo isnt able to take part for his reasons so Bayliss teams up in All Stars team with Red Bull junior team driver Alguersuari. Also Foust came to replace Pastrana whats a bit of a shame but hes a funny guy too No Finland this year but Im cheering for Team USA . Here are whos going against who at round1: Nations Cup France vs Scandinavia USA vs Autosport GBR F1 Racing GBR vs All Stars Germany vs Ireland WINNER: TEAM GERMANY (SCHUMACHER-VETTEL) 2ND: TEAM SCANDINAVIA (EKSTRÖM-KRISTENSEN) Race of champions MacHale vs Coulthard Carroll vs Ekström Kristensen vs Schumacher Plato vs Priaulx Foust vs Button Bayliss vs Vettel Alguersuari vs Edwards Muller vs Loeb cars Ford Focus WRC´07 (Stobart Ford name of the cars: Michele Mouton) KTM X-Bow Fiat Abarth 500 RoC Buggy RX150 Buggy/Racer ( It seems that Solution F has been taken off to the list but it was there before)
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Post by Will on Dec 14, 2008 13:35:46 GMT
20 minutes:D
Looking forward to it. Those race line ups look good. Muller vs. Loeb will be interesting.
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Post by Nick McRae on Dec 14, 2008 13:49:52 GMT
I'm sorry, did I just read that right? There is no Team Finland? What a disgrace! I won't be watching, the ROC gets worse every year in my opinion!
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Post by Mixa on Dec 14, 2008 16:40:05 GMT
An excellent nations cup by my mind. Yanks didnt done quite well and for them was a bit disappointed because I was cheering for them. Oh well,atleast Schumi played the game for Germany and Scandinavia didnt won(sry but I hate the DTM Audi squad,them plays so dirty game). Loeb lost to Ekström at Stobart Focus and France was out at the 1st round.
now an hour when invidual comp will start.
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Post by Hurricane on Dec 14, 2008 18:04:12 GMT
Wow! Loeb goes under the barriers in the individual race, and he still wins from his fellow Frenchman Muller in the 1/8 finals. EDIT: Loeb in the final against David Coulthard. EDIT 2: And he goes on to win the Race of Champions Loeb seriously deserves it. I don't think he's the greatest rally drivers ever, I think he's right there at the top of all the rest of motorsport
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Post by Will on Dec 14, 2008 20:36:29 GMT
Loeb wins. I want to see his trophy cabinet.
;D
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Post by Vivski on Dec 15, 2008 10:55:38 GMT
Legend!
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Post by Mixa on Dec 15, 2008 12:53:49 GMT
yup,Loeb won and became champion of the champions. I was quite shocked to see Coulthard on the final and even because of that Loeb deserved to win(atleast he has won a lot of world championships) and WRC proven to be a best series I would have liked to see Carl Edwards on the final after he beaten Schumi at the Abarth 500. We once again saw that Schumi is excellent with the buggies and KTM but have problems with the normal type road cars like Abarth 500. Schumi just cant never win the invidual comp because hes not too great with the slow normal type cars and WRC car might be a problem too. Also the invidual comp was cool because it had some really good races but it was shocking to see all the contenders dropping so early. Schumi dropped Kristensen,Loeb beaten Vettel and Propably the best race in RoC when Priaulx beaten Ekström at the FOCUS .
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Post by Roo on Dec 15, 2008 23:15:34 GMT
Loeb wins. I want to see his trophy cabinet. ;D Cabinet? I understand he is building an extension on his home to put all his trophys in. ;D ;D ;D ;D The cabinet just doesn't cut it anymore. Another win and another trophy for Loeb, all he needs to do now is win the F1 Championship. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Also, the Bettega Memorial Rallysprint was on recently, and Dani Sordo was the victor ahead of Gigi and Petter. Other interesting drivers who were there included: Kris Meeke - Citroen Xsara Francois Duval - Subaru Impreza and none other than: Marcus Gronholm - driving a Ford Focus. I wonder whether he went over to have a chat to the Subaru boys while he was there...
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Post by FordTeamRS on Dec 16, 2008 3:20:56 GMT
Sebastien Loeb driving a Ford Focus WRC. I never thought the day would come
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Post by Nick McRae on Dec 16, 2008 12:13:45 GMT
Another win and another trophy for Loeb, all he needs to do now is win the F1 Championship. I was thinking the other day he could become one of the first drivers in years to win both WRC and F1 champs - it was Bart's comment of him being the most complete driver that got me thinking! I wonder whether he went over to have a chat to the Subaru boys while he was there... He must of said no
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Post by Hurricane on Dec 16, 2008 17:28:07 GMT
Francois Duval - Subaru Impreza Well, last year Duval also competed the memorial in a Subaru Impreza, nothing much happened afterwards. He's just being asked by this Italian Subaru team to drive the memorial.
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Post by Mixa on Dec 16, 2008 18:36:15 GMT
yup thats right.. Meeke in the other hand has been confirmed for IRC already with Peugeot UK and done a really great job with the Xsara example beating up Grönholm and hes Focus WRC 08. Gigi then won him at Bettega by a small margin and gone throught the final. If Im right Atko was meant to take part first but then it was Petter in the end.
Anyway what comes to RoC as Ive told it once again was awesome but Wembley aint so great place. It looked quite empty even when had people,there were hardly any noise except when Edwards dropped off Schumi and the track isnt as good as it was in Stade de France example. Its a shame that RoC is the only happening like this still alive with Bettega memorial. The old superkarts event at Percy and even Percy´s world indoor supercross,I miss them.
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Post by Nick McRae on Dec 17, 2008 19:02:44 GMT
Not a good week for Petter. I read he may of sustained a broken arm at the Bettega Memorial Rallysprint after doing his routine leaning out of the car and slipping out! Bad times for the former champ.
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