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Old 2006-12-15, 04:21 PM   #1
Nick Koan
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Default 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/
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