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Ekstrom defeats Schumacher to be topped champion of champions

The Race of Champions concluded on the snow and ice of Pite Havsbad in Sweden on Sunday with a showdown between two-time DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom and Mercedes’ new System 1 reserve driver Mick Schumacher.

The grand ultimate ran to 2 heats, with Ekstrom successful each. It was the fourth time Ekstrom has grow to be ROC Champion of Champions, with two of his earlier successes having been received in finals towards Schumacher’s father Michael.

“We had many battles and I’ve solely nice recollections with Michael from this occasion,” stated Ekstrom. “I’m tremendous proud as a result of Mick additionally rode with me on Friday within the Dakar automobile and we had a pleasant time. Michael was at all times humble with me and I can see Mick can also be very humble. Mick is such an enormous expertise and his time is forward of him, so I sit up for extra battles sooner or later.”

Schumacher knocked out four-time F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel within the semi-finals, and bettered System 2 champion Felipe Drugovich within the quarter-finals based mostly on quickest time countback. Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas and W Collection Jamie Chadwick fell earlier within the competitors.

IndyCar stars start yr on a excessive in Daytona 24 hours

Meyer Shank Racing’s IndyCar driver Helio Catroneves and Simon Pagenaud began their yr in fashion by successful for the staff within the Daytona 24 Hours sports activities automobile race.

In a GTP class Acura ARX-06 co-entered by Curb-Agajanian and in addition pushed by former System E racer Tom Blomqvist and Colin Braun, the pair received the race by simply 4.19 seconds.

An additional 5.44s behind had been their IndyCar rivals Sebastien Bourdais and Scott Dixon, with the 2 champions sharing a Cadillac hypercar.

Colton Herta switched allegiance from Andretti Autosport to race Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s BMW hypercar and completed 15 laps again in sixth, whereas a number of of his IndyCar staff mates drove within the decrease courses.

Workforce Penske’s “bus bros” Scott McLaughin and Josef Newgarden completed fifth in LMP2, forward of Andretti’s Devlin DeFrancesco and Haas F1 reserve driver Pietro Fittipaldi who had been sharing a automobile.

Romain Grosjean marked his debut as a manufacturing unit Lamborghini driver with fourth within the GTDPro class, and new Andretti staff mate Kyle Kirkwood was fifth within the non-pro class.

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