Filipe Albuquerque Delivered a thrilling performance to eclipse Thurs 15 superstars of motorsport and Win the Race of Champions at his first Attempt is an exciting afternoon in Dusseldorf.
In front of a packed arena ESPRIT the Portuguese driver overcame World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb 2-1 in the best of the Three Grand Final is the Specially Constructed parallel track Thurs earn the title of Champion of Champions.
Following Team Germany's win last night in the ROC Nations Cup, The Race of Champions pitted 16 of the Biggest names in motorsport Against Each Other in a head to head combat in a Variety of Different cars.
ROC South Europe winner Albuquerque's Route to the final Took him over the past Formula One World Champion Sebastian Vettel in a very tight semi-final Following his quarter-final triumph against fellow Portuguese driver Alvaro Parente.
Loeb takeing the Grand Final courtesy of a quarter-final win over eight-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen Followed by Victory Against Would touring car star Andy Priaulx in the Powerful Audi R8 LMS.
In Another quarter-final, an epic clash saw home favorites, and F1 Rivals, Vettel and Schumacher clash in the KTM X-Bows with victory going to the younger German by just over half a second.
Priaulx, the BMW World Touring Car driver, beat Bertrand Baguette in on the other last eight tie.
EARLIER today, the action Began with a bang in the round-robin group stage, Which featured four groups of four drivers fighting it out for the Right to line up in the knock-out Quarter Finals.
In the very first race of the day, Heikki Kovalainen suffered a huge accident on the Chequered Flag "when his Audi R8 LMS ploughed through the Barriers Concrete and hit the wall hard.
The Formula 1 driver escaped injury Bout Needed a precautionary visit to a local hospital for Checks Which prevented him Taking Any Further part, resulting in his and Jeroen Bleekemolen's elimination from Group A, as Loeb and Baguette progressed.
Group B saw motor cycling hero Mick Doohan miss out along with Travis Pastrana, the WHO suffered a stall, a last corner Defeat and a spin in his Three races while Priaulx won all races and Three Went through with Kristensen.
It was too close in Group C, M and Albuquerque Vettel'm guessing the top two spots, Knocking out FrontRunner NASCAR, Carl Edwards and X-Games gold medal list Travis Foust.
The final group of the first round featured an incredible Combined 1911 Formula 1 World Championships and Schumacher beat Alain Prost by just over a second in a Closely fought contest in the ROC Car.
Schumacher won all Three Races in First Round with Parente going through as runner up and 2010 British Touring Car Championship number one Jason Plato missing out, as did Prost, WHO Spun out of his last race in the KTM X-Bow.
A total of 64.052 fans Attended the Race of Champions over the course of the weekend.
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