Race Of Champions 2018

[petesj26]

This weekend the stadium tracked motorsport discipline cross fight returns..... Significantly less F1 stars this year after Pascal Wehrlein nearly decapitated himself and had to miss the start of the season. Anyone else excited?

TV wise SkyF1 will be showing it, eurosport and motorsport.tv usually televise the race too.

www.raceofchampions.com for more

The nations and champions grid draws at out and are as follows.

ROC Nations Cup Draw (Friday 2 February)


Group A

Team GERMANY (Timo Bernhard & René Rast)

Team LATIN AMERICA (Juan Pablo Montoya & Helio Castroneves)

Team MEXICO (Memo Rojas & Abraham Calderon)

Team USA (Ryan Hunter-Reay & Josef Newgarden)



Group B

Team NORDIC (Tom Kristensen & Petter Solberg)

Team GREAT BRITAIN (David Coulthard & Lando Norris)

Team SWEDEN (Johan Kristoffersson & Joel Eriksson)

Team SIM RACING ALL STARS (Rudy van Buren & eROC winner)



Group C

Team SAUDI ARABIA (Yazeed Al-Rajhi & ROC Factor Saudi Arabia winner)

Team UAE (Khaled Al Qubaisi & Khalid Al Qassimi)

Team LEBANON (Karl Massaad & Mansour Chebli)


The winners of each group will progress to the semi-finals, along with the leading runner-up from Groups A and B. The knockout rounds are best-of-three: if scores are tied at 1-1 after the first two heats, the third decisive heat is always contested by the two winning drivers.



Race Of Champions Draw (Saturday 3 February)



Group A

Juan-Pablo MONTOYA (Colombia) reigning ROC Champion of Champions

Helio CASTRONEVES (Brazil) triple Indianapolis 500 winner

Ryan HUNTER-REAY (USA) 2014 Indianapolis 500 winner

Winner of Round 1 between Memo ROJAS and Abraham CALDERON


Group B

Tom KRISTENSEN (Denmark) nine-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner

David COULTHARD (Great Britain) 13-time Formula 1 grand prix winner

Timo BERNHARD (Germany) 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours winner

Winner of Round 1 between Rudy van BUREN and the eROC winner


Group C

Johan KRISTOFFERSSON (Sweden) 2017 FIA World Rallycross Champion

René RAST (Germany) 2017 DTM Champion

Lando NORRIS (Great Britain) 2017 European F3 Champion

Winner of Round 1 between Joel ERIKSSON and fastest driver from Lebanon in ROC Factor Middle East


Group D

Josef NEWGARDEN (USA) 2017 IndyCar Champion

Petter SOLBERG (Norway) double FIA World Rallycross Champion

Yazeed AL-RAJHI (Saudi Arabia) WRC2 rally winner

Winner of Round 1 between fastest driver from UAE in ROC Factor Middle East

and ROC Factor Saudi Arabia winner


The top two from each group will progress to the quarter-finals. Then it’s a straight knockout tournament all the way to the best-of-three Grand Final, in which the ROC Champion of Champions will be crowned.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

Good to see some familiar names up there like Sonik who is on my Steam friends list. Hopefully this eSports thing continues to grow with more big brands embracing it.

Looking good for the eROC team, two sim racing beasts (Rudy and Enzo) represent and both seem excellent in the real world too.

Hopefully they both get chance to race in real as both seem to have top drawer talent, will be good if Rudy gets to do a F1 test in the future. Enzo I expected to dominate the sim racing side which he managed but what was more impressive is how green he seems to be to race cars yet how well he did. Hopefully this opens up some opportunities for him to race in real. I remember asking him for a AC setup many years ago now and he actually was kind enough to send it to me so respect. IIRC he has been playing GT SPORT recently, remember when his PSN was REsuperG back in the day. IIRC I managed to finish ahead of him at least once on TTs so gives me hope...

Been a while since I last watched ROC, quite excited this time around. Hopefully UK or eROC team win.