Race Of Champions 2008.

2008 Line-Up

Germany
Michael Schumacher - 7 times F1 World Champion
Sebastian Vettel - youngest ever F1 GP winner

F1 Racing Britain
David Coulthard - F1 veteran, 13 time race winner
Jason Plato - 2001 BTCC champion

Autosport Britain
Jenson Button - F1 star, 2006 Hungarian GP winner
Andy Priaulx - World Touring Car Champion 2005-07 and 2004 European Touring Car Champion

All-Star
Troy Bayliss - multi World Superbike Champion, MotoGP race winner
Jaime Alguersuari - youngest ever British F3 champion

France
Sebastien Loeb - 5 times World Rally Champion, twice Champion of Champions
Yvan Muller - 2008 World Touring Car Champion, multi-times Andros Trophy winner

Scandanavia
Tom Kristensen - 8 times Le Mans 24 Hours winner, DTM star
Mattias Ekstrom - double DTM champion, double and reigning Champion of Champions

USA
Carl Edwards - 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup runner-up
Tanner Faust - American rally star

Ireland
Adam Carroll - GP2 and A1 race winner
Gareth MacHale - national rally star

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2 UK times, yet no Alan McNish (or Lewis because of contracts)? Fail.
NASCAR Driver, but not the Champion? Fail.
No Travis Pastrana (due to injury) Fail.
Jason Plato. Fail.
No Finnish driver. Fail.
No Aston Martin. Fail.

Quite disappointed in this so far.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2008 09:29AM by DaveEllis.

Shame that Webber had to drop out too. I'm going there so i'll be sure to upload some (fail)pics tonight

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jason plato vs andy priaulx should be funny, a touringcar fail vs a touringcar god :P





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2008 10:55AM by Iceman-Kimi.

what cars will they be using?

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KTM X-bow, and I think Fiat 500 Abarth and the Ford Focus World Rally car, but of those last 2 im not sure, and some other cars.

I went last year, was pretty good fun, damn cold though

Its being shown live on autosport website today if anyone wants to watch

[www.autosport.com]

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Races: 163 - Wins: 23 - Pole Positions: 24 - Fastest Laps: 22
Season 9: Constructors' Champions

yes, its a pity the first aussie team in a while had to be converted to an all-star team. anyway, i'll still support them and germany i suppose

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> what cars will they be using?

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Kimi, so, Massa Fernando Sebastian is faster than you. Can you confirm you understood that message?

LoL, those americans really @#$%& it up now :P

lol @ MS for waiting DC :D

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At least DC made it to lap 2 before crashing :p

Germany won the nations cup after a tie-break between MS and Ekstrom

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Cant believe Seb Loeb won that round after crashing under the barriers!

Ahhh, its always satisfying to see Schumacher lose

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Didn't expect Carl Edwards to knock him out though, guess nascar drivers are better than I thought.

MS admited last year that he has big problems racing closed-wheel cars. It's not a big surprise really. If they used buggies, I'm sure MS would won.

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DC in the final!

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GPGSL career;
Current team: Team ShadowSubaru, Previous teams: MPR, Minardi
starts:100 Wins: 12, Podiums: 34, Fastest Laps: 14, poles: 12 Points: 708
winner of Belgian GP (s1), Australian GP (s1), Canadian GP (S1), Brazilian GP(s4, s5), Hungarian GP(s3), Italian GP(s3), French GP (s5,s7), Monaco GP (s4) and USA GP

With a crash :D
Poor KTM

Final: DC vs. Loeb
Round 1 (buggies): Loeb
Round 2 (KTMs): DC
Round 3 (buggies): Loeb

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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2008 08:09PM by anze89.

Can DC equalize it? Yesss!

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GPGSL career;
Current team: Team ShadowSubaru, Previous teams: MPR, Minardi
starts:100 Wins: 12, Podiums: 34, Fastest Laps: 14, poles: 12 Points: 708
winner of Belgian GP (s1), Australian GP (s1), Canadian GP (S1), Brazilian GP(s4, s5), Hungarian GP(s3), Italian GP(s3), French GP (s5,s7), Monaco GP (s4) and USA GP

Well, Loeb is the winner!






/DC doing donuts which he didn't get to do in Brazil.

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GPGSL career;
Current team: Team ShadowSubaru, Previous teams: MPR, Minardi
starts:100 Wins: 12, Podiums: 34, Fastest Laps: 14, poles: 12 Points: 708
winner of Belgian GP (s1), Australian GP (s1), Canadian GP (S1), Brazilian GP(s4, s5), Hungarian GP(s3), Italian GP(s3), French GP (s5,s7), Monaco GP (s4) and USA GP