2010 Race of Champions
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The 2010 Race of Champions
Race of Champions
The Race of Champions is an international motorsport event held at the end of each year, featuring some of the world's best racing and rally drivers...

was the 23rd running of the event, and took place over 27–28 November 2010 at the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It was the first time the event had been held in Germany since 1989, when it was held at the Nürburgring
Nürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...

.

Team Germany won a fourth consecutive Nations Cup with Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...

 and Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....

 defeating Team Britain's Andy Priaulx
Andy Priaulx
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years...

 and Jason Plato
Jason Plato
Timothy Jason Plato is a British racing car driver currently competing in the BTCC for Silverline Chevrolet. He is a two time BTCC champion having previously won the series in 2001 when driving for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the championship 8 times...

 2–1 in the final. In the driver-by-driver Race of Champions itself, Portugal's Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Albuquerque is a Portuguese race car driver, currently driving in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.- Career :...

 defeated multiple World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb is a French rally driver currently driving for the Citroën World Rally Team in the World Rally Championship...

 2–1 in the final.

Participants

Country Drivers 2010 series
   All-Stars Mick Doohan
Michael Doohan
Michael "Mick" Doohan AM is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships. Only Giacomo Agostini with eight and Valentino Rossi with seven have won more.-Biography:Originally from the Gold Coast, near Brisbane, Doohan attended St...

Ex FIM Road Racing
Grand Prix motorcycle racing
Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...

Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...

X Games
X Games
The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the summer of 1995 in Rhode Island....

 / Rally America
2010 Rally America season
The 2010 Rally America season is the sixth season of Rally America. The season consists of 6 rallies and began on January 29, with the Sno* Drift National Rally in Michigan. They will also be hosting 3 rally-cross competitions in the fall at New Jersey Motor Sports Park...

  Benelux
Benelux
The Benelux is an economic union in Western Europe comprising three neighbouring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These countries are located in northwestern Europe between France and Germany...

Bertrand Baguette
Bertrand Baguette
Bertrand Baguette is a Belgian racing driver from Thimister-Clermont. Since 2000, he has competed in various motorsport formulae.-Karting:...

IndyCar Series
2010 IndyCar Series season
The 2010 Izod IndyCar Series season was the 15th season of the IndyCar Series, and the 99th recognized season of top-level American open wheel racing. It was the series' first of six planned seasons under Izod title sponsorship, a multi-million dollar deal which was announced on November 5, 2009...

Jeroen Bleekemolen
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Jeroen Bleekemolen is a Dutch racing driver.In a Chrysler Viper GTS-R he drove in the FIA GT Championship, with great success. He competed in the very competitive German Formula 3 Championship and drove a number of times at the Masters of Formula 3 at Circuit Zandvoort, the unofficial F3 World...

ALMS
2010 American Le Mans Series season
The 2010 American Le Mans Series season was the twelfth season for the International Motor Sports Association's American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón. It was also the first season in which the ALMS used a revised structure for its four classes, as well as the first year in a three...

 & Porsche Supercup
2010 Porsche Supercup season
The 2010 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup season was the 18th Porsche Supercup season. It began on March 13 in Bahrain, and finished on September 12 at Monza, after ten races. Once again, the series was on the support package of the Formula One World Championship at all European rounds except Turkey.The...

Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb is a French rally driver currently driving for the Citroën World Rally Team in the World Rally Championship...

WRC
2010 World Rally Championship season
The 2010 World Rally Championship season was the 38th season of the FIA World Rally Championship. The season consisted of 13 rallies, beginning with Rally Sweden on 11 February and ended Wales Rally GB on 14 November....

Alain Prost
Alain Prost
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...

Andros Trophy
Andros Trophy
The Andros Trophy is the French national Ice Racing championship.-History:The idea of an Ice Racing series first became an idea when professional racer Max Mamers and the owner of the Andros company , Frédéric Gervoson met as rugby fans in 1985...

 / Ex Formula One
Formula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...

Formula One
2010 Formula One season
The 2010 Formula One season was the 61st Formula One season of World Championship motor racing competition. Red Bull Racing won its maiden Constructors' Championship with a one-two finish in Brazil, while Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race...

Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....

Formula One
2010 Formula One season
The 2010 Formula One season was the 61st Formula One season of World Championship motor racing competition. Red Bull Racing won its maiden Constructors' Championship with a one-two finish in Brazil, while Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race...

Jason Plato
Jason Plato
Timothy Jason Plato is a British racing car driver currently competing in the BTCC for Silverline Chevrolet. He is a two time BTCC champion having previously won the series in 2001 when driving for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the championship 8 times...

BTCC
2010 British Touring Car Championship season
The 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 53rd British Touring Car Championship season. It began at Thruxton Circuit on April 4 and finished after 30 races over ten events at Brands Hatch on October 10....

Andy Priaulx
Andy Priaulx
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years...

WTCC
2010 World Touring Car Championship season
The 2010 World Touring Car Championship season was the seventh season of the FIA World Touring Car Championship, and the sixth since its 2005 return. It began with the Race of Brazil at Curitiba on March 7 and ended with the Guia Race of Macau at the Guia Circuit on November 21, after twenty-two...

   Nordic
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus....

Formula One
2010 Formula One season
The 2010 Formula One season was the 61st Formula One season of World Championship motor racing competition. Red Bull Racing won its maiden Constructors' Championship with a one-two finish in Brazil, while Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race...

Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen is a Danish racing driver. He has won many championships in auto racing but his most famous achievement is being the only person to win the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, six of which were consecutive...

Le Mans Series
2010 Le Mans Series season
The 2010 Le Mans Series season was the seventh season of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Le Mans Series. It featured five events between 11 April and 12 September 2010. For the first time in 2010, Formula Le Mans cars were run in a fifth class in the series, running alongside Le Mans Prototype cars...

Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Albuquerque is a Portuguese race car driver, currently driving in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.- Career :...

Italian GT
Italian GT Championship
The Italian GT Championship is an Italian sports car series founded in 2003 and organized by the Automobile Club d'Italia and the Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana . It replaced a previous supercar-based championship which ran from 1992 until 2002 when it was folded due to a lack of...

 & Superstars Series
2010 Superstars Series season
The 2010 Superstars Series season is the seventh year of the Superstars Series, an Italian based touring car racing series, and the fourth year of the International Superstars Series. The season began at Monza on March 28, and finish at Kyalami on November 28, after 10 rounds...

Álvaro Parente
Álvaro Parente
Álvaro Parente is a Portuguese racecar driver. Parente's father was also a race driver.-Early career:After winning the Karting European Junior Championship in 1998, Parente made his debut in auto racing in 2001 at the age of 16, driving in the Spanish F3 Championship...

Superleague Formula
2010 Superleague Formula season
The 2010 Superleague Formula season was the third Superleague Formula championship. The series was rebranded "Superleague Formula by Sonangol", due to a two-year deal that began in the previous season...

 & Spanish GT
Spanish GT Championship
The Spanish GT Championship is a Spanish auto racing series founded in 1999 and organised by the GT Sport Organización. The series runs multiple classes of grand tourer cars in events around Spain and Portugal...

Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards
Carl Michael Edwards, II is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #99 Fastenal/Aflac Ford Fusion in the Sprint Cup Series and the #60 Ford in the Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing...

NASCAR
2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
The 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season was the 62nd season of professional stock car racing in the United States. Beginning at Daytona International Speedway, the season included 36 races and two exhibition races. The season concluded with the 2010 Ford 400 at Homestead Miami Speedway...

Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana
Travis Alan Pastrana is an American motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. He runs a show called Nitro Circus with some of his friends...

X Games
X Games
The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on action sports. The inaugural X Games was held in the summer of 1995 in Rhode Island....

 / Rally America
2010 Rally America season
The 2010 Rally America season is the sixth season of Rally America. The season consists of 6 rallies and began on January 29, with the Sno* Drift National Rally in Michigan. They will also be hosting 3 rally-cross competitions in the fall at New Jersey Motor Sports Park...


Cars


* Audi R8 LMS

* Porsche 911 GT3 Cup

* Volkswagen Scirocco

* ROC Car

* KTM X-Bow

* FJ-Racecar

* ROC 2-seater

* Solution F Prototype

* RX 150

Group A

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1 6 4 2 2:22.3759
2 6 3 3 2:22.1913
3    Nordic
Nordic countries
The Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...

6 3 3 2:23.2136
4 6 2 4 2:23.7699

Team 1 Score Team 2
  France 1–1    Nordic
Alain Prost 1:11.8307 Heikki Kovalainen 1:10.9713
Sébastien Loeb 1:10.3606 Tom Kristensen 1:12.2423
  Great Britain 1–1   Portugal
Jason Plato 1:11.9223 Álvaro Parente 1:10.8405
Andy Priaulx 1:10.4536 Filipe Albuquerque 1:12.9294
  France 0–2   Great Britain
Alain Prost 1:18.1618 Jason Plato 1:15.6128
Sébastien Loeb 1:15.7884 Andy Priaulx 1:13.8095


Team 1 Score Team 2
   Nordic 1–1   Portugal
Heikki Kovalainen 1:14.7066 Álvaro Parente 1:15.6223
Tom Kristensen 1:13.4820 Filipe Albuquerque 1:13.1479
  France 2–0   Portugal
Alain Prost 1:14.0018 Álvaro Parente DNF
Sébastien Loeb 1:13.5254 Filipe Albuquerque 1:14.3921
   Nordic 1–1   Great Britain
Heikki Kovalainen 1:11.6949 Jason Plato 1:12.7642
Tom Kristensen 1:14.0499 Andy Priaulx 1:12.9157

Group B

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1   Benelux
Benelux
The Benelux is an economic union in Western Europe comprising three neighbouring countries, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. These countries are located in northwestern Europe between France and Germany...

6 4 2 2:26.0601
2 6 3 3 2:24.8746
3    All-Stars 6 3 3 2:25.5769
4 6 2 4 2:26.2579

Team 1 Score Team 2
  Germany 1–1   United States
Michael Schumacher 1:13.2931 Carl Edwards 1:16.1596
Sebastian Vettel 1:14.5010 Travis Pastrana 1:14.3588
   All-Stars 0–2   Benelux
Mick Doohan 1:15.4307 Bertrand Baguette 1:14.6927
Tanner Foust 1:15.3806 Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:15.3400
  Germany 1–1   Benelux
Michael Schumacher 1:14.6622 Bertrand Baguette 1:12.8820
Sebastian Vettel 1:13.2710 Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:14.8923


Team 1 Score Team 2
   All-Stars 2–0   United States
Mick Doohan 1:13.7260 Carl Edwards 1:14.4291
Tanner Foust 1:15.4174 Travis Pastrana 1:17.0747
  Germany 1–1    All-Stars
Michael Schumacher 1:12.8815 Mick Doohan 1:15.4533
Sebastian Vettel 1:11.9931 Tanner Foust 1:11.8509
  United States 1–1   Benelux
Carl Edwards 1:14.9945 Bertrand Baguette 1:13.5070
Travis Pastrana 1:11.8288 Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:13.1781

Knockout stages

Group A

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1   Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb
Sébastien Loeb is a French rally driver currently driving for the Citroën World Rally Team in the World Rally Championship...

3 3 0 1:09.6723
2   Bertrand Baguette
Bertrand Baguette
Bertrand Baguette is a Belgian racing driver from Thimister-Clermont. Since 2000, he has competed in various motorsport formulae.-Karting:...

3 2 1 1:11.2396
3   Jeroen Bleekemolen
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Jeroen Bleekemolen is a Dutch racing driver.In a Chrysler Viper GTS-R he drove in the FIA GT Championship, with great success. He competed in the very competitive German Formula 3 Championship and drove a number of times at the Masters of Formula 3 at Circuit Zandvoort, the unofficial F3 World...

3 1 2 1:14.6367
4   Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus....

3 0 3 1:10.7743

Driver 1 Time 1 Driver 2 Time 2
  Sébastien Loeb 1:10.6248   Heikki Kovalainen 1:10.7743
  Bertrand Baguette 1:14.1540   Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:14.6367
  Sébastien Loeb 1:09.6723   Bertrand Baguette 1:11.2396
  Sébastien Loeb 1:14.1456   Jeroen Bleekemolen 1:15.6355
  Heikki Kovalainen Withdrew   Jeroen Bleekemolen Default
  Heikki Kovalainen Withdrew   Bertrand Baguette Default


Group B

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1   Andy Priaulx
Andy Priaulx
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. He is a European Touring Car Championship champion, three times World Touring Car Championship champion and the only FIA Touring Car champion to win an International level championship for four consecutive years...

3 3 0 1:12.0706
2   Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen is a Danish racing driver. He has won many championships in auto racing but his most famous achievement is being the only person to win the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans eight times, six of which were consecutive...

3 2 1 1:13.2770
3   Mick Doohan
Michael Doohan
Michael "Mick" Doohan AM is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racing World Champion, who won five consecutive 500 cc World Championships. Only Giacomo Agostini with eight and Valentino Rossi with seven have won more.-Biography:Originally from the Gold Coast, near Brisbane, Doohan attended St...

3 1 2 1:14.5662
4   Travis Pastrana
Travis Pastrana
Travis Alan Pastrana is an American motorsports competitor and stunt performer who has won championships and X Games gold medals in several events, including supercross, motocross, freestyle motocross, and rally racing. He runs a show called Nitro Circus with some of his friends...

3 0 3 1:13.3010

Driver 1 Time 1 Driver 2 Time 2
  Tom Kristensen 1:13.7677   Andy Priaulx 1:13.5398
  Mick Doohan 1:14.5662   Travis Pastrana 1:22.5878
  Tom Kristensen 1:13.2770   Travis Pastrana 1:13.3010
  Andy Priaulx 1:12.0706   Mick Doohan 1:14.9119
  Tom Kristensen 1:19.7356   Mick Doohan 1:28.1468
  Andy Priaulx 1:15.2130   Travis Pastrana 1:20.2790


Group C

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1   Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Albuquerque
Filipe Miguel Delgadinho Albuquerque is a Portuguese race car driver, currently driving in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.- Career :...

3 3 0 1:12.3105
2   Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....

3 2 1 1:10.8390
3   Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust
Tanner Foust is a professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host. He competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack and rallycross with multiple podium placements and national championships. He is a co-host on the American version of the motoring television series, Top...

3 1 2 1:13.5534
4   Carl Edwards
Carl Edwards
Carl Michael Edwards, II is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #99 Fastenal/Aflac Ford Fusion in the Sprint Cup Series and the #60 Ford in the Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing...

3 0 3 1:14.1612

Driver 1 Time 1 Driver 2 Time 2
  Sebastian Vettel 1:10.8390   Carl Edwards 1:16.6754
  Tanner Foust 1:23.3822   Filipe Albuquerque 1:12.3105
  Sebastian Vettel 1:11.5282   Tanner Foust 1:13.8784
  Carl Edwards 1:14.1612   Filipe Albuquerque 1:13.3267
  Sebastian Vettel 1:18.3874   Filipe Albuquerque 1:18.1602
  Tanner Foust 1:13.5534   Carl Edwards 1:15.6288


Group D

Pos Team Races W L Best Time
1   Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...

3 3 0 1:11.5972
2   Álvaro Parente
Álvaro Parente
Álvaro Parente is a Portuguese racecar driver. Parente's father was also a race driver.-Early career:After winning the Karting European Junior Championship in 1998, Parente made his debut in auto racing in 2001 at the age of 16, driving in the Spanish F3 Championship...

3 2 1 1:13.2014
3   Alain Prost
Alain Prost
Alain Marie Pascal Prost, OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur is a French racing driver. A four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion, Prost has won more titles than any driver except for Juan Manuel Fangio , and Michael Schumacher . From 1987 until 2001 Prost held the record for most Grand Prix...

3 1 2 1:12.9327
4   Jason Plato
Jason Plato
Timothy Jason Plato is a British racing car driver currently competing in the BTCC for Silverline Chevrolet. He is a two time BTCC champion having previously won the series in 2001 when driving for Vauxhall and 2010 for Silverline Chevrolet. He has finished in the top 3 in the championship 8 times...

3 0 3 1:13.6447

Driver 1 Time 1 Driver 2 Time 2
  Michael Schumacher 1:11.6091   Alain Prost 1:12.9327
  Jason Plato 1:13.6447   Álvaro Parente 1:13.2014
  Michael Schumacher 1:11.5972   Álvaro Parente DNF
  Alain Prost 1:16.2842   Jason Plato 1:17.4685
  Michael Schumacher 1:16.6905   Jason Plato 1:17.6316
  Alain Prost 1:32.9223   Álvaro Parente 1:20.5168

Knockout stages

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