Motorsport’s Race of Champions (ROC) will head to Australia for the first time with the announcement that its next edition will take place at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on March 7-8.
The ROC has agreed the deal with events producer and promoter TEG Sport and the Venues NSW arm of the New South Wales government.
The move to Sydney rekindles the ROC’s prior stadium-focused events strategy. Its last two editions, in 2022 and 2023, had been held on a snow and ice track in Piteå, northern Sweden.
However, the ROC’s history dating back to 1988 has seen it take in venues such as Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium (2009), Stade de France in Paris (2004-2006), London Stadium (2015), Wembley Stadium (2007-2008) and Mexico City’s Foro Sol (2019).
The ROC racing format is a winner-takes-all contest that gives drivers from various disciplines of motorsport the opportunity to test their talents against competitors they would never typically encounter.
Stars to have previously competed include: Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Sébastien Loeb, David Coulthard, Marcus Grönholm, Jenson Button, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt and Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Josef Newgarden, Lucas Di Grassi, Travis Pastrana, Juan-Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves.
Race of Champions president and co-founder, Fredrik Johnsson, said: “ROC has always been about pushing drivers to their limits in unique conditions.
“Australia has a rich motorsport heritage, and we’re looking forward to celebrating that by pitting some of the best Australian drivers against some of the world’s most legendary racing stars in a spectacular showdown in the middle of Accor Stadium.”
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