The Race Of Champions is a one-off in that it pits some of the world's best drivers from different formula against each other in an end-of-season motorsport finale. The event has traveled the globe and this year had its first trip to the Caribbean with Bushy Park, Barbados acting as hosts. Here Robby Gordon gets airbone in a Super Truck.
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The Race Of Champions is a one-off in that it pits some of the world's best drivers from different formula against each other in an end-of-season motorsport finale. The event has traveled the globe and this year had its first trip to the Caribbean with Bushy Park, Barbados acting as hosts. Here Robby Gordon gets airbone in a Super Truck.
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Drivers from F1, Nascar, IndyCar, rallying, rallycross and Le Mans were among those that went head to head at this year's event over the weekend, the drivers lining up in a litany of different cars from Nascar to trucks to act as a leveler to find the best driver among them.
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Drivers from F1, Nascar, IndyCar, rallying, rallycross and Le Mans were among those that went head to head at this year's event over the weekend, the drivers lining up in a litany of different cars from Nascar to trucks to act as a leveler to find the best driver among them.
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The drivers battled it out over two laps of a course around two km long in group stages before a knock-out format. Here, Rhett Watson, of Barbados, steals a march on American Kurt Busch, with smoke flying off his rear tires, off the line in the two Audis, the advertising hoardings a mere blur in the background.
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The drivers battled it out over two laps of a course around two km long in group stages before a knock-out format. Here, Rhett Watson, of Barbados, steals a march on American Kurt Busch, with smoke flying off his rear tires, off the line in the two Audis, the advertising hoardings a mere blur in the background.
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Esteban Ocon is tipped as a future Formula 1 star by employers Lotus and one the French manufacturer are mulling over for a future race drive. Much to the delight of the crowd, the Frenchman gets airborne over the bridge in the Audi R8 LMS, a car more at home in global sportscar racing than on a twisty circuit under the Caribbean sun.
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Esteban Ocon is tipped as a future Formula 1 star by employers Lotus and one the French manufacturer are mulling over for a future race drive. Much to the delight of the crowd, the Frenchman gets airborne over the bridge in the Audi R8 LMS, a car more at home in global sportscar racing than on a twisty circuit under the Caribbean sun.
The biggest attraction were the new-for-2014 super trucks, on which drivers tended to spend more time on three wheels than four like nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kirstensen. Although not everyone ended up in one piece, World Touring Car Champion Jose Maria Lopez on no wheels after flipping, much to the delight and hilarity of his watching rivals.
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The biggest attraction were the new-for-2014 super trucks, on which drivers tended to spend more time on three wheels than four like nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kirstensen. Although not everyone ended up in one piece, World Touring Car Champion Jose Maria Lopez on no wheels after flipping, much to the delight and hilarity of his watching rivals.
Ryan Hunter-Reay, this year's Indy 500 champion, makes the crowd a blur in the Race Of Champions car, a diminutive vehicle which was invented for the first event in 1999.
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Ryan Hunter-Reay, this year's Indy 500 champion, makes the crowd a blur in the Race Of Champions car, a diminutive vehicle which was invented for the first event in 1999.
Williams F1 test driver for next season Susie Wolff makes history at the event by becoming the first female racer to compete at Race Of Champions. The event was originally set up by ex-female rally driver Michele Mouton, who designed this year's course, and Fredrik Johansson. Wolff ends up as the runner-up in the team event.
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Williams F1 test driver for next season Susie Wolff makes history at the event by becoming the first female racer to compete at Race Of Champions. The event was originally set up by ex-female rally driver Michele Mouton, who designed this year's course, and Fredrik Johansson. Wolff ends up as the runner-up in the team event.
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Defending champion Romain Grosjean chose to cut into a family holiday at a neighboring Caribbean island in order to defend his title but bowed out early in Sunday's finale in the group stages. Here, he takes to the wheel of the KTM X-Bow, a car that lends its origins to the design philosophy of Lotus F1 great Colin Chapman.
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Defending champion Romain Grosjean chose to cut into a family holiday at a neighboring Caribbean island in order to defend his title but bowed out early in Sunday's finale in the group stages. Here, he takes to the wheel of the KTM X-Bow, a car that lends its origins to the design philosophy of Lotus F1 great Colin Chapman.
The first day of action is all about the Nations Cup, which results in a victory for Team Nordic. The team's driver duo Tom Kristensen and Petter Solberg get the better in the Nations Cup final against Scottish pairing David Coulthard and Susie Wolff with the exception of Wolff billed as a 'battle of the oldies'.
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The first day of action is all about the Nations Cup, which results in a victory for Team Nordic. The team's driver duo Tom Kristensen and Petter Solberg get the better in the Nations Cup final against Scottish pairing David Coulthard and Susie Wolff with the exception of Wolff billed as a 'battle of the oldies'.
But even the greatest drivers make mistakes, Kristensen coming off the circuit in a duel with Coulthard. But he recovered to win his third and final race against the Scottish former F1 star.
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But even the greatest drivers make mistakes, Kristensen coming off the circuit in a duel with Coulthard. But he recovered to win his third and final race against the Scottish former F1 star.
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Solberg and Kristensen showed that age is now barrier as, with a combined aged of 87, and the light-hearted nature of the event as they donned Rastafarian wigs on the podium.
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Solberg and Kristensen showed that age is now barrier as, with a combined aged of 87, and the light-hearted nature of the event as they donned Rastafarian wigs on the podium.
Stunt drivers were also on hand over the course of the weekend's racing to show the capabilities of these vehicles at full speed and full flight.
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Stunt drivers were also on hand over the course of the weekend's racing to show the capabilities of these vehicles at full speed and full flight.
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And former world rally champion Stig Blomqvist, now aged 68, returned to the wheel of the iconic Audi Quattro in which he won the world title in 1984.
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And former world rally champion Stig Blomqvist, now aged 68, returned to the wheel of the iconic Audi Quattro in which he won the world title in 1984.
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Stunt driver Terry Grant produces donuts during one of the many interval shows for the crowd and later broke one of the arguably more pointless world records for the most people inside a car on just two wheels. For those asking, there were 14 in all inside crammed in like sardines.
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Stunt driver Terry Grant produces donuts during one of the many interval shows for the crowd and later broke one of the arguably more pointless world records for the most people inside a car on just two wheels. For those asking, there were 14 in all inside crammed in like sardines.
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It proves a weekend for the elder statesmen of motorsport as ex-Formula 1 driver David Coulthard, a 13-time grand prix winner, comes out on top in the individual event following a two-race showdown against Pascal Wehrlein, the Mercedes F1 team's reserve driver who will act as understudy to Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg next season.
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It proves a weekend for the elder statesmen of motorsport as ex-Formula 1 driver David Coulthard, a 13-time grand prix winner, comes out on top in the individual event following a two-race showdown against Pascal Wehrlein, the Mercedes F1 team's reserve driver who will act as understudy to Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg next season.
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Before the sun sets over Bushy Park, Barbados, as the annual event finally draws to a close for another year. The hope is it will return to the same venue next year.
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Before the sun sets over Bushy Park, Barbados, as the annual event finally draws to a close for another year. The hope is it will return to the same venue next year.
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