DC and McRae sign up for ROC
Formula 1 veteran David Coulthard and former WRC champion Colin McRae have added their names to a mouthwatering list of entrants for this year's 17th Race Of Champions Nations Cup which takes place in the Stade de France on December 4
Newly-crowned seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher and WRC points leader Sebastian Loeb have already been confirmed for the star-studded show, which pitches drivers and motorcycle riders from all disciplines head-to-head in equal cars.
McRae is a former Champion of Champions at the event while Coulthard will be making his debut. Together they will be supported by Britain's top motorsport magazine to form Autosport Team GB.
"Having watched the event with interest for many years," Coulthard said, "I am very much looking forward to competing against the entry of World class contenders."
McRae added: "This is going to be a even more competitive year than usual for the Race of Champions. The Stade de France should be amazing. This year will be quite different so that will make it a more level playing field than before. It is not really racing and not really rallying. So, unlike previously, the WRC drivers won't necessarily be at an advantage.
"There's a lot of high-profile drivers, the new venue and a new surface. Luckily, being a rally driver, I am used to adapting to changing conditions. DC is great driver, so I am hoping we will be up there. Personally I am hoping to be one of the few drivers to beat Michael this year and certainly the first from outside F1!"
Sweden's DTM Champion Mattias Ekstrom has also been confirmed for the event. It is likely he will be joined on the Swedish team by Indy 500 winner Kenny Brack.
"If I have Kenny with me I am confident Sweden will have a chance of winning the Nations Cup," Ekstrom said. "But the competition will be fierce. I am looking forward to competing against the likes of Colin McRae and Sebastien Loeb. This is going to be an amazing year for the Race of Champions. I am so excited to be part of it."
Michael Schumacher will be joined in the German team by WRC stalwart Armin Schwarz, while Loeb will captain the French team.
Autosport International - Teaser
This Week with Will Buxton: Episode 6
This Week with Will Buxton: Episode 5
This Week with Will Buxton: Episode 3
How to Stay Out of Crashes
The one-time Schumacher rival rebooting his career Down Under
Joey Mawson made waves in the middle of the last decade, beating future Haas Formula 1 driver Mick Schumacher - among other highly-rated talents - to the 2016 German F4 title. A run in F1's feeder GP3 category only caused his career to stall, but now back in Australia Mawson's S5000 title success has set that to rights
The lesson football’s would-be wreckers could learn from racing
OPINION: The greed-driven push for a European Super League that threatened to tear football apart is collapsing at the seams. Motor racing's equivalent, the football-themed Superleague Formula series of 2008-11, was everything that the proposed ESL never could be
The F1 and Indy 'nearly man' that found contentment in Japan
Having had the door to F1 slammed in his face and come within three laps of winning the Indianapolis 500, the collapse of a Peugeot LMP1 shot meant Japan was Bertrand Baguette's last chance of a career. But it's one which he has grasped with both hands
The female all-rounder who arrived "too early"
From Formula 3 to truck racing, Dakar and EuroNASCAR via a winning stint in the DTM, there's not much Ellen Lohr hasn't seen in a stellar racing career that highlights the merit in being a generalist. But she believes her career came too early...
How Radical's latest machines fare on track
The lightweight sportscar manufacturer has not rewritten the rulebook with its latest machines, but the new SR3 XX and SR10 still provide a step forward on its previous successful models
The real-life racing rogues stranger than fiction
The forthcoming Netflix film linking the world of underworld crime and motorsport plays on a theme that isn't exactly new. Over the years, several shady figures have attempted to make it in racing before their dubious dealings caught up with them
How a GP is thriving in a COVID-free territory
The New Zealand Grand Prix's mix of rising talent and big-name stars thrilled the crowds (yes, remember crowds?) assembled for the Toyota Racing Series meeting at Hampton Downs last weekend and left distant observers craving a repeat
How a much-changed Macau GP kept the party going
OPINION: The 67th edition of the Macau Grand Prix might have been a largely muted affair to the outside world without its international influx and star line-ups, another victim to the COVID-19 pandemic, but organisers deserve huge credit for keeping the party going
