2022 Race of Champions

It's this weekend at Pite Havsbad in Piteå, northern Sweden. As you can expect, the racetrack has snow and ice.

Teams:

* Germany: Mick Schumacher / Sebastian Vettel
* France: Sébastien Loeb / Didier Auriol (!)
* United Kingdom: David Coulthard / Jamie Chadwick
* Finland: Mika Hakkinen / Valtteri Bottas
* Nordic: Tom Kristensen / Johan Kristoffersson
* Norway: Petter Solberg / Oliver Solberg
* Sweden: Mattias Ekström / Timmy Hansen
* United States: Jimmie Johnson / Colton Herta
* Latin America: Hélio Castroneves / Benito Guerra Jr
* eROC All Stars (to be decided today)

Cars:

* OMSE FC1-X (1000 hp)
* OMSE Supercar Lites (330 hp, 1050 kg)
* OMSE RX2e (335 hp, 1290 kg)
* Polaris Pro XP (180 hp, 815 kg)
* Porsche Cayman 718 GT4 (425 hp, 1455 kg)

A short clip https://www.svt.se/sport/motorsport/...e-of-champions

You should be able to watch it live here: https://www.svtplay.se/motor-race-of-champions

Valtteri Bottas is not there ...

Terrific to see Didier back in action!

Have watched it basically every year and will again. Fun event with great drivers.

Great news is that Estonian broadcaster is showing it.

I was surprised they had originally planed to drive in the ocean, never heard of it anywhere in Norway.
Don't know if it's normal in the Gulf of Bothnia?

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Originally Posted by SubaruNorway

I was surprised they had originally planed to drive in the ocean, never heard of it anywhere in Norway.
Don't know if it's normal in the Gulf of Bothnia?

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Normal winters you have roads on the ice in the Gulf of Bothnia so it is quite normal to drive a car on the ice there. The water is not particularly salty so it freezes quite easily.

Schumacher on fire so far in teams classification

The rally drivers should have a advantage I guess, they know how to drive on these conditions

Predicting a Loeb victory tomorrow in individual

Very poor performances from Vettel

I really want to see the 1000hp eléctric car in this event. When are they going to race it?
https://www.facebook.com/23337232800...2246016165229/

Oliver and Petter Solberg win the ROC nations cup for Norway!

Oliver was very impressive.

Also USA really surprised, especially Johnsson and Schumacher was also quite impressive winning all his events that he competed.

Cant for tomorrows individual races.

any links to recorded material? was away on icy track day, missed ROC, but had loads of fun for myself :)

all race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d3K...b_channel=RACE

That Nitro RX car looks so fun, can't wait for season to start.

Loeb vs Oliver
https://twitter.com/RaceOfChampions/...04168925540352

Loeb vs Ekstrom
https://twitter.com/fernischumi/stat...15503734333445

Loeb wins ROC final and against Vettel 3 - 1 after he slided wide and lost a chunk of seconds in 3rd heat in final.

id like to see Ott competing at it in the future with the different cars. I think he would have done quite well this year on this slippery ice conditions

Maestro!

The Goat is just the Goat!

Rather sure that Kalle will be hard to beat if he will compete one day in ROC. He has driven all kind of machines all his life.

It was a shame that Finland´s representatives were Häkkinen & Kimiläinen. No any chances to succeed knowing how much driving talent would have been available.

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Originally Posted by Kenneth

That Nitro RX car looks so fun, can't wait for season to start.

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They had to borrow tires from someone's SUV because of track conditions so apparently the car was racing with only 500hp. They lost a presentation race to the Quattro but I also loved seeing the new FC1X in action. Im having a good feeling about it. Nitro guys were around inviting Vettel for one of the races in Europe (probably Sweden)

lol watch Hansen what he did
https://twitter.com/Timmy_Hansen/sta...80784452182025