The lastest two drivers confirmed for Race of Champions are SWRC 2011 and IRC 2010 champion Juho Hänninen and Jan Kopecký who is a multiple champion in losing the IRC title despite the fact Škoda factory team is doing everything to help him to win it. So, the current line-up looks like this:

Team Germany:

• Sebastian Vettel - 2010 and 2011 F1 champion.
• Michael Schumacher - 7 times F1 champion (don’t want the years from me).

Team Great Britain:

• Jenson Button - 2009 F1 champion.
• Andy Priaulx - 3 times WTCC champion.

Team USA:

• Travis Pastrana - I don’t know exactly everything he has won and where he starts (I know about X-Games and rallying in USA) but he is awesome.
• Brian Deegan - according to wikipedia some X-Games ace.

Team France:

• Sébastien Ogier - 2008 JWRC champion and world champion in tantrum throwing and in the best accent ever competition.
• Romain Grosjean - 2011 GP2 champion, 2008 and 2011 GP2 Asia champion, 2010 auto GP champion, he also have Sideshow Bob hair.

Team Slavic:

• Vitaly Petrov - Russian champion in some races with Lada.
• Jan Kopecký - probably Czech champion in something but for me he is that thing I have written at the beginning of this article - multiple champion in losing the IRC title despite the fact Škoda factory team is doing everything to help him to win it.

Team Nordic:

• Tom Kristensen - multiple Le Mans winner.
• Juho Hänninen - 2011 SWRC champion and 2010 IRC champion.

Team Germany 2:

• Timo Glock - 2007 GP2 champion.
• Timo Scheider - 2008 and 2009 DTM champion.

Then there are also Matthias Ekstrom (two times DTM champion and also 3 times Race of Champions champion), David Coulthard (who may raced in F1 for centuries but he is no champion anyway but okay - if we can have Jan Kopecký and Vitaly Petrov..) and the last (so far) name is Martin Tomczyk (2011 DTM champion).

Considering there is so far 17 drivers I guess they have to quickly add at least another one so they will be able to form two teams from those three remaining drivers.

Being Slavic I shoud probably cheer for Team Slavic but no one will ever force me to cheer for any team with Jan Kopecký in it, no matter how much I love Vitaly Petrov. The chocie is clear for me - it’s Team France as every year, usually there is Sébastien Loeb and Alain Prost and his nose in it but this year they have little Seb and Sideshow Bob and I am certainly not complaining (but shame they didn’t invite Jean-Eric Vergne instead of Romain Grosjean, with little Seb they could form Team Arrogant).

Btw, I am suprised there is no Team Finland this year. Maybe the organisers grew tired of watching Finnish rally drivers being crap struggling on tarmac and never winning anything. And they probably didn’t invite Heikki Kovalainen because he would set something on fire.

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