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SPOILER ALERT: Champion's Champions Crowned at 2009 Race of Champions

Every year, around the world, drivers compete wheel to wheel in all manner of racing series, from rally to F1, touring cars to Le Mans and everything in between. It gives racing fans plenty of varied action to follow, but it leaves one question ultimately unanswered: who is the world's best driver? That's where the Race of Champions comes in. The event has been held every year since 1988 at the end of the regular racing season, giving the world's best from all manner of racing series the world over a chance to compete against one ... Read more →

2009 Race of Champions heads to Beijing Noah Joseph

Most of this year's major motorsport series are winding to a close. Champions are being crowned. Teams are preparing for next year. You know what that means: it's time for the Race of Champions. ...

Tanner Foust headed back to the 2009 Race of Champions, now at Beijing's Bird's Nest Jonny Lieberman

There's our buddy and rally/drift/stunt maestro Tanner Foust (on the right), arm in arm with some guy Michael Schumacher at the 2008 Race of Champions (ROC) held in Wembley Stadium, London. Tanner ...

VIDEO: Ultima claims Top Gear track record without show's authorization Jeremy Korzeniewski

Automotive records can be funny things. While everyone seems to be interested in knowing what vehicle is the quickest, fastest, most expensive or rarest, there always seems to be plenty of dissent ...

Rum Runner: Schumacher bides his time driving for Bacardi while plotting return to F1 Noah Joseph

So what is Michael Schumacher up to these days? Well, having retired as one of the highest-paid sports figures of all time, pretty much anything he wants. But even in retirement, Schumi makes more ...

Introduction to Karting: Part 1 1 month ago on Autoblog

Michael Schumacher. Ayrton Senna. Jeff Gordon. Alex Zanardi. Danica Patrick. All great drivers and all learned their trade in buzzy little racing karts with no suspension, no downforce, minimal protection, and arguably more grins per dollar than any other motorsport in existence. The underpowered ...

Big Schu to Fill: Ferrari's Luca Badoer hasn't raced in ten years, never scored a point 2 months ago on Autoblog

With Michael Schumacher now confirmed to have canceled his comeback due to a neck injury sustained in a motorcycle accident, Ferrari has been left with no choice but to put one of its veteran test drivers into Felipe Massa's seat until the injured Brazilian is ready to return to active duty. The ...

Officially Official: Schumacher not coming back after all - driving is a pain in the neck 2 months ago on Autoblog

Ferrari was in with a bang, now it looks like the scarlet racers will be out with soggy whimpers: Michael Schumacher has canceled his F1 return due to lingering pain in his neck from a motorcycle accident earlier this year. Schumacher has been testing in Ferrari's 2007 car at the company's ...

Schumacher prepares in old F2007, stiff neck may stalls comeback [UPDATED] 2 months ago on Autoblog

Michael Schumacher's hopes of testing the 2009 Scuderia Ferrari F60 may have been dashed, but that doesn't mean the seven-time world champion is resting on his proverbial laurels. In addition to a rigorous fitness regimen to lose weight (he's already dropped three kilos) and tone up his muscles, ...

Statement on Ferrari website lashes out against Toro Rosso "indiscretion" 2 months ago on Autoblog

Sour grapes much? Both of Italy's Formula One teams had to switch drivers mid-season during the year: Scuderia Toro Rosso (because Sebastien Bourdais wasn't working out) and Scuderia Ferrari (due to Felipe Massa injury). However, due to the comprehensive ban on in-season testing, neither could ...

REPORT: Schumacher's neck could stifle comeback 3 months ago on Autoblog

Michael Schumacher's return to Formula One could be in jeopardy due to a neck injury the seven-time World Champion sustained while testing a motorcycle in Spain earlier this year. According to a (awkwardly translated) release from Schumacher's spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, "It is not sure yet the ...

REPORT: Schumacher to earn a tidy 1M Euros per race for return effort 3 months ago on Autoblog

According to a report from German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, Michael Schumacher – already one of the richest athletes in the world – will earn a cool million Euros (that's $1.44M USD to us Yanks) for each race in which he's substituting for injured Ferrari factory driver Felipe ...

BREAKING: Schumacher to return to Ferrari F1 for remainder of season 3 months ago on Autoblog

Yesterday's rumors have been confirmed: Michael Schumacher will take Felipe Massa's place for the remainder of the 2009 Formula One season. A Ferrari spokesperson said Schumi's return hinges on the seven-time F1 champion's ability to pass the FIA's physical (we doubt that'll be a problem) and ...

Could Schumacher come out of retirement to replace Massa? 3 months ago on Autoblog

Could Michael Schumacher pull a Lance Armstrong and unretire back to the sport he so dearly loves and was almost impossibly successful at? If reports coming out of Formula One-obsessed European media outlets are to believed, the 40-year-old, seven-time F1 Driver's Championship winner is in the ...

VIDEO: Schumacher's Ferrari FXX blitzes the Top Gear test track 4 months ago on Autoblog

Alright, so whether you've seen it already or not, most of the enthusiast world is aware that Top Gear has revealed its mystery "tame racing driver" as none other than F1 maestro Michael Schumacher. That unhelmeting came as part of the new season's first show which aired in the U.K. on Sunday, ...

Schumacher gets down with new Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano HGTE [w/VIDEO] 4 months ago on Autoblog

When he's not racing superbikes or reliving the good old days, seven-time Formula World Champion Michael Schumacher gets his thrills testing new Ferrari supercars. The Prancing Horse recently had Schumi take a 599 GTB with the company's new Handling GT Evoluzione (HGTE) package around Fiorano ...

BMW Sauber's Nick Heidfeld takes completed-races record from Schumacher 5 months ago on Autoblog

Nick Heidfeld and the BMW Sauber F1 team he drives for may not be having the best season thus far, but one thing you can give them credit for is consistency. And as anyone who knows racing can tell you, finishing the race is the most fundamental element of success. So it shouldn't fall on deaf ...

Red Flag: Race of Champions moves to China 6 months ago on Autoblog

Still think of the Race of Champions as an elitist European event? Think again. Organizers have announced that that the annual face-off is scheduled to head to China this year. The Race of Champions, for those unfamiliar, is a year-end event in which the top drivers from various motorsport ...

Hamilton, Schumacher slam new F1 scoring rules 7 months ago on Autoblog

It appears that Formula One's new scoring system has few friends in the pitlane. Renault's Fernando Alonso and Toyota's Jarno Trulli have already blasted it, and now reigning champ Lewis Hamilton from McLaren and former champion Michael Schumacher have similarly disparaged the new system that ...

SPOILER: 2008 Race of Champions crowns new king among motorsport's best 10 months ago on Autoblog

Yesterday marked the running of the 2008 Race of Champions, an annual event that hosts the world's best drivers from NASCAR, F1, WRCC, LeMans racing and every other legitimate form of four-wheeled competition in the world. The purpose is to race these pilots against each other on an identical ...

Honda offers Michael Schumacher a ride in World Superbike Championship 11 months ago on Autoblog

Formula One champ Michael Schumacher has been enjoying his new gigs working with Ferrari's development team and hooning Honda Fireblades in various Superbike racing events, and he's proven to beabout as adept racing around on two wheels as he is on four. The seven-time F1 champion from Germany has ...

VIDEO: Michael Schumacher saunters around 'Ring in Ferrari California 1 year ago on Autoblog

This past Sunday, Ferrari had its Racing Days event at the Nürburgring in Germany and after the customers got a chance to 'ring out their rides, company legend Michael Schumacher wheeled out the new Ferrari California and put it through its paces. For those of you waiting to hear a lap ...

Schumacher fine-tunes the Ferrari California (w/VIDEO) 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for high-res gallery of Schumacher and the California Michael Schumacher may have departed the Formula One grid, but he has most definitely not left Ferrari. The seven-time world champion, widely credited with building Ferrari into the power house it is today, still comes around the ...

Ferrari launches new magazine, next phase of "Formula Uomo" 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ferrari Company Restaurant designed by architect Marco Visconti Ferraris have long been known as striking and powerful machines, typically at the front of the pack in any competition. It should come as no surprise, then, that Ferrari the company is also a leader, extending that same philosophy to ...

Schumacher falls - literally - in motorbike race debut 1 year ago on Autoblog

As was reported earlier, Michael Schumacher made an appearance racing on a Honda at the Oschersleben circuit of the German Superbike Championship last weekend. On the surface, his twenty-eighth place finish seems rather disappointing, but upon further examination, it was a pretty good weekend ...

Michael Schumacher to race a Honda CBR1000RR in German Superbike 1 year ago on Autoblog

Seven-time Formula 1 racing champion Michael Schumacher will be racing this weekend on a Honda CBR1000RR at the IDM International German Motorbike Championship. There are rumors that he'll be racing under a false name, Marcel Niederhausen. Now that the cat is officially out of the bag, so to speak, ...

Michael Schumacher making motorcycle helmets now 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click on the image for more high-res shots of the Schuberth Race helmet Seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher doesn't seem to have any desire to take it easy after retiring from the pinnacle of motorsports. It turns out that his four-wheeled racing excellence has translated rather nicely ...

Schumacher back on two wheels for pro bike race 1 year ago on Autoblog

Michael Schumacher made an auspicious motorcycle racing debut at the Misano track in Italy on Sunday. The race was the seven-time F1 champion's first professional competition on two wheels, following last week's amateur event in Hungary. The short ten-lap event was run on 990cc KTM Super Duke ...

VIDEO: 2007 Race of Champions finales 1 year ago on Autoblog

click above image to watch video of both finales The Race of Champions only comes around once a year, and somehow Michael Schumacher always seems to be in the thick of things when the final rounds arrive. This year's Race of Champions was no different, as Schumacher and fellow Germanian Sebastian ...

Schumacher under investigation for taxi-driving affair 1 year ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/Michael_Schumacher_investigated_for_taxi_driving_affair_2'; When news broke of Michael Schumacher's adventure behind the wheel of a taxi in Germany, most of us chuckled at the thought of the multiple-champion driver hustling a cab through the streets of ...

Taxicab GP: What's Schumi Driving Now? 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ever found yourself sitting in a taxi, thinking you could pilot that cab much better than its driver? Well, who hasn't, but that's rarely an option. If only everyone recognized your driving talent. Unfortunately most of us don't get that kind of recognition. Unless, of course, you're Michael ...

Frankfurt 2007: Ferrari F430 Scuderia debut almost scrubbed 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image for more high-res shots of the Ferrari F430 Scuderia var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/design/Ferrari_F430_Scuderia_debuts_in_Frankfurt_pics'; It's not a good sign when there is a massive throng pushing into the display hall and an announcement from inside the hall is asking ...

Michael Schumacher wants to help Ferrari develop road cars 2 years ago on Autoblog

In case you needed a reminder of just how fast the Formula One world spins, 7-time World Champion Michael Schumacher says he is already out of date after retiring at the end of just last season. Not that he's complaining. Although he'll be at the Nurburgring this weekend for the German European ...

Ferrari reveals F430 Scuderia, not Challenge Stradale 2 years ago on Autoblog

UPDATE: Much better quality high-res pics added to gallery Click image to view high-res gallery var digg_url = 'http://www.digg.com/design/Ferrari_reveals_F430_Scuderia_not_Challenge_Stradale'; Unfortunately for Noah or Frank, Ferrari has gone and revealed the new F430 Scuderia when neither are ...

Schumi's new job: Test driver for Ferrari 2 years ago on Autoblog

Michael Schumacher's credentials run the gamut: 1995's youngest double Formula 1 World Champion, most career wins, most wins in a season, most consecutive wins, etc. Now he can add a notch on his belt representing his role as test driver for Ferrari... or at least for a day. Autocar spies caught a ...

Schumacher gets his own turn in the 'Ring 2 years ago on Autoblog

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/motorsport/Schumacher_gets_his_own_turn_in_the_Ring_Autoblog'; What better way to immortalize one of the most prolific drivers in F1's history, than to name a fast, left-right hander in the man's home country? That's exactly what's going to happen before the ...

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