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Posted Nov 07 2009, 08:14 AM by John Brooks with 8 comment(s)

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The 2009 edition of The Race of Champions has been run..............the winner, as we all know, was the Audi DTM star, Mattias Ekstrom who shaded out Michael Schumacher in the final. But how had this come about? Both men had fought their way through from the groups to emerge unbeaten before facing each other. So while the Swede celebrates let's wind the clock back and see how the cards were dealt. There were four groups, each with four drivers, who would race each other over two full laps of...
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Posted Nov 05 2009, 03:40 AM by John Brooks with 17 comment(s)

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Yes Roll up, Roll up! It's motorsport's answer to the Circus. Barnum and Bailey on wheels. The 2009 Race of Champions is underway. It shifted venue from dingy North London to The National Stadium, Beijing, better known as "the Bird's Nest" and familiar to all as the home of the 2008 Olympic Games. This amazing facility with a crowd capacity of 80,000 is the largest steel structure on the planet. The Race of Champions has stuck to the traditional format, after a day or two of...
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Posted Nov 05 2009, 02:10 AM by John Brooks with 6 comment(s)

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The picture is worth a thousand words, Mattias Ekstrom has won the Race of Champions for the third time, 2009 joining his successes in 2006 and 2007. In the final he beat Formula One legend Michael Schumacher. Ekstrom and Schumacher had fought their way to the final despatching the likes of Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel along the way. There was a packed crowd at Beijing's "Birds' Nest" stadium despite the wintery conditions. On the night Ekstrom was unstoppable, even by Schumacher...
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Posted Nov 04 2009, 01:03 AM by John Brooks with 29 comment(s)

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The Bird's Nest Stadium, Beijing, is the home of the 2009 Race of Champions. Yesterday there was the traditional opening competition, The Nations' Cup, in which teams of two drivers representing countries or regions slug it out. Almost as traditional was the result...........Germany with Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher teamed up together has now won the competition three times in a row but Team Autosport GB pushed them very hard, Andy Priaulx beating Red Bull's F1 hero Vettel...
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