No Pite Havsbad for 2024 Race of Champions
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After two editions on the snow and ice of Pite Havsbad, the 2024 Race of Champions will have to take place somewhere else due to disputes about the land.
After beating Mick Schumacher in the final, Mattias Ekström is now tied with Sébastien Loeb and Didier Auriol for the most Race of Champions individual tournament victories with five.
For the second straight year, Petter and Oliver Solberg won the Race of Champions’ Nations Cup for Team Norway after beating Team All Stars’ Felipe Drugovich and Thierry Neuville.
2023 Race of Champions: Lucas Blakeley wins eROC, runs it back with Opmeer in Nations Cup
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Lucas Blakeley defeated defending winner Jarno Opmeer in the final to win the 2023 Race of Champions’ eROC World Final. For the second year in a row, the two will team up to form the eROC All Stars in the Nations Cup.
After making its début in the 2022 Race of Champions, Nitro Rallycross’ Group E FC1-X will return to ROC this weekend as one of the vehicles used in the tournaments.
The brackets for the 2023 Race of Champions this weekend, both individual and Nations Cup, are now set.
While his Dakar Rally team-mate Mattias Ekström and rival Sébastien Loeb compete at the Race of Champions, Stéphane Peterhansel will show off his Audi RS Q e-tron E2 in an exhibition there.
Off-road aces Mattias Ekström and Johan Kristoffersson will comprise the Swedish welcoming party for the 2023 Race of Champions.
QEV Technologies’ ZEROID X1, the vehicle of choice for World Rallycross’ RX2e, and Supercar Lites will run next week’s Race of Champions.
Lucas Blakeley, Jarno Opmeer, Martin Palm, Michael Romanidis will head to the 2023 Race of Champions for the eROC World Finals, with the winner and runner-up creating a team that will go against racing’s best in the Nations Cup.
Two weeks after setting Dakar Rally stage records, Sébastien Loeb will hope to break the Race of Champions win record. He will team up with reigning ETCR champion Adrien Tambay to create Team France for the Nations Cup.
As the official off-road vehicle supplier of the Race of Champions, Polaris Sweden will produce the RZR Pro XP side-by-side cars for the 2023 edition, renewing their partnership with the event. Other Polaris vehicles will also be present for track work.
The UrbanRebel Racing Concept, a new electric vehicle designed by CUPRA, will take part at the Race of Champions in 2023.
Longtime rallycross rivals Travis Pastrana and Tanner Foust will team up to represent the United States at the Race of Champions in 2023.
Like in 2019 and 2022, Team Germany will consist of Formula One drivers and close friends Sebastian Vettel and Mick Schumacher. Vettel finished 2nd in the 2022 ROC individual tournament.
Drugovich, Neuville, Rosenqvist to make ROC debuts in 2023, Coulthard and Kristensen return
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Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich, World Rally star Thierry Neuville, and IndyCar’s Felix Rosenqvist will run the Race of Champions for the first time in 2023. Tom Kristensen and David Coulthard make their returns.
Finland is the first team to confirm their 2023 Race of Champions lineup as Valtteri Bottas makes his ROC début alongside Mika Häkkinen.
