Jason Plato joins Race of Champions

[m0rk]

Jason Plato will take part in the Race Of Champions this coming weekend. Plato will be competing against top racers such as Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button, David Coulthard, Sebastien Loeb and Mattias Ekstrom and SEAT Sport WTCC champion Yvan Muller.

Read more at SEATCupra.net...

 

[FSiLeonMike]

Plato and Muller, bet there will be some healthy competition there,"new found respect for muller" or not

 

[ZBOYD]

Should be good, I'll be watching with interest its on LIVE on Sky Sports Xtra on Sunday from 1.30pm all afternoon.

 

[ZBOYD]

Updated the article with more information and images courtesy of SEAT Sport

http://www.seatcupra.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1033&Itemid=1

 

[ZBOYD]

Autosport to broadcast RoC LIVE online

For those of you who may not have access to Sky Sports Xtra the Race of Champions will be broadcast live on the Internet thanks to autosport.com.

Autosport.com, in partnership with Freecaster.tv., will broadcast the whole event live, with exclusive commentary by Bruce Jones and John Hindhaugh.

The webcast will go live on autosport.com from 13:50 GMT on Sunday.

It's a great event and well worth watching.

 

[caveo]

Dam this on the same time as the sheffield x-mas meet or id be all over it , but thats what sky+ is for.

 

[wisejason]

Going to see it live. Got tickets for me and my 2 sons - not cheap though at £167 and then £25 for parking. Still can't wait - I'm more excited than they are!!!

But as a side note I can use the drive down bed in my new F1 Asym's.

 

[caveo]

Do you know its only 13 quid by train to london from chesterfield , so you can av a lil drinkypoo's..

 

[wisejason]

Not really a train fan - plus i didn't think to check Chesterfield.

I just stoked that I'll being having some father/son(s) time cause it don't happen that offen with 4 kids.

I'd also plan to pick up some new wheels from another forum member on the way down - but he's never really got moving on the deal.

 

[caveo]

Cool , just thouht id give you the option mate ( as your local )

 

[tris]

Should be a good days tv who is Jason standing in for?

 

[ZBOYD]

He's standing in for no-one from my knowledge, because there was a spare slot alongside David Coulthard anyway. So i think the organisers have been looking for another driver to join in.

 

[lm_gauci]

I'll be there, a nice little suprise from the mrs.

Theres still places avaialable by the look of the drivers list http://www.raceofchampions.com/drivers/

 

[ZBOYD]

LOL Yesterday they only had the F1 Team GB and Autosport Team. Now they have Team Jason Plato.

We'll have to see who they add to the list. Scott Speed has done it in the past for the USA so he's a possible.

Allan McNish might join in with Coulthard or possibly Alastair McRae

Darren Turner or another BTCC driver might join Plato.

These are all my own hypothetical guesses of course.

 

[IainW]

Some nice mistakes there. I think there's only a max of 16 drivers competing, so they need another American driver to fill the one remaining space. Or they could do what they did for Mark Webber's absence and make another AllStars team.

 

[ZBOYD]

US Formula Drift champion Tanner Foust will compete for the USA with NASCAR driver Carl Edwards

American rally driver Travis Pastrana was due to compete but has had to pull out due to injury.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/236445/

 

[tris]

Thats a real shame as he was a real humble but great racer

 

[ZBOYD]

Race of Champions first round draw

Michael Schumacher v Tom Kristensen
Carl Edwards v Jaime Alguersuari
Jenson Button v Tanner Foust
David Coulthard v Gareth MacHale
Andy Priaulx v Jason Plato
Mattias Ekstrom v Adam Carroll
Sebastien Loeb v Yvan Muller
Sebastian Vettel v Troy Bayliss

Should be interesting to watch.

 

[lm_gauci]

Looking forward to this, hopefully its not too cold and wet.

 

[wisejason]

I thought they could close the roof of the stadium - well I hope so?