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Race of Champions - 2006

Its this weekend in Paris. If you have HDNet on Charter Digital, you can watch it live tomorrow at 8am-12pm. I'll have to see if I still get that channel or not. Otherwise, we can all wait to watch ESPN2 coverage -- which is not the race, but a behind the scenes thing -- on February 17th. Supposedly Eurosport.com will be showing stuff live as well.

The US team was to be Travis Pastrana and Jimmy Johnson. Then Johnson broke his wrist in a golfing kart accident and was to be replaced by Scott Speed. Speed injured himself in a wreck at Jerez during F1 testing yesterday. With little time left to find a suitable second driver, Travis' co-driver just announced on NASIOC that Pastrana will actually be doing double duty and driving as both drivers.

Brittan is also not without incident. Jenson Button was scheduled to be a driver along with Andy Priaulx, but he injured himself in a karting accident and is to be replaced by BTCC driver James Thompson.

The teams are:
Team Playstation France - SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS, SEBASTIEN LOEB
Team Auto Hebdo France - YVAN MULLER, STEPHANE PETERHANSEL
Team F1 Racing Scotland - DAVID COULTHARD, COLIN MCRAE
Team Finland - HEIKKI KOVALAINEN, MARCUS GRONHOLM
Team Scandinavia - TOM KRISTENSEN, MATTIAS EKSTROM
Team Germany - BERND SCHNEIDER, ARMIN SCHWARZ
Team Autosport England - JAMES THOMPSON, ANDY PRIAULX
Team Spain - JOAN "Nani" ROMA, DANIEL SORDO
Team USA - TRAVIS PASTRANA

And the cars that will be raced:
ROC Car
Aston Martin Rally GT
Citroen WRC
Porsche 911 GT3 Road Challenge
Renault Mégane Trophy

More info: http://www.raceofchampions.com/

There is talk of having Kurt Bush to team up with Travis. I'm probably behind on my news and totally wrong.

Can we get somebody with Charter to put a tape in and record the event please.

Yeah, Bush was lined up from what I've read, but he still couldn't get out there in time.

Travis' co-driver for Rally America (who is an active Nasioc member) posted that Travis is scheduled for double duty and that Bush isn't going to make it.

Where has Yvan Muller been racing this season??? I hate that guy.

Also, James Thomson is a bad ass, he's had some amazing drives in BTCC this year, in that hot new Seat.

Muller has been in the WTCC for Seat.

Nice.
Muller is a great driver, I just hate his attitude.

Yeah, he's a prick. His rivalry with Jason Plato makes me laugh, and for that reason I was a little sad to see them not race against each other.

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Pastrana took it to the last round in the Nations Cup running double duty. Lost out to the Finnish Team of Heikki Kovalainen and Marcus Gronholm. He actually beat Gronholm in rally portion in a Xsara (Gronholm stalled on the launch), but lost to Kovalainen in both a Menage Trophy Car and the ROC buggy.

Pastrana in the Race of Champions won the first round, and lost the second to Loeb who went on to the final round and lost to Mattias Ekstrom.

[url=http://www.masrallye.com/campeones/naciones.asp]Nations Cup Final Standings[/url]
[url=http://www.masrallye.com/campeones/campeones.asp]Race of Champions Final Standings[/url]

MATTIAS EKSTROM FTW!! He beat LOEB in his own car!!

After watching Mathias Ekstrom in DTM for the past few years, I'd have to say that guy has some real talent, DTM is a great series and all, but I'm surprised we haven't seen him in any other series.