Race Of Champions Sydney / March 7-8
Jamie Whincup and Will Brown confirmed as Team Australia Supercars
Molly Taylor and Toby Price to represent Team Australia Off-Road at 2025
Australia’s two teams confirmed for the ROC Nations Cup at 2025 Race Of Champions, Accor Stadium, Sydney, March 7-8.
The 33rd edition of The Race Of Champions will include superstars from F1, World Rallying, Supercars, Rallycross, NASCAR, Extreme E and Dakar
Accor Stadium to be turned into a spectacular side-by-side 1km asphalt race track when this unique event is hosted for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere
Reigning Supercars champion Will Brown and his seven-time championship-winning team co-owner Jamie Whincup have been confirmed to represent Team Australia Supercars at the Race Of Champions (ROC) World Final at Sydney’s Accor Stadium, March 7-8.
At the same time rally ace Molly Taylor and two-time Dakar star Toby Price have been locked in to form Team Australia Off-Road for the ROC Nations Cup on Friday, March 7.
The two Australian teams will be flying the Aussie flag against eight other international teams which will all be finalised this week.
Teams that have already been confirmed include the German super team of Sebastian Vettel and Mick Schumacher, Norway’s father and son team of Petter and Oliver Solberg, who won the two latest ROC Nations Cup Titles, and the high-profile Team USA which will be represented by 11-time X Games Gold medalist Travis Pastrana and NASCAR Champion Kurt Busch.
All the teams will be fighting for National pride at the ROC Nations Cup on the opening night. Then on Saturday evening the gloves will come off as teammates become rivals competing for individual glory in the head-to-head battles from Group Stage to Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals and the Final to decide who is the ‘Champion of Champions’.
Whincup was originally confirmed as a return starter for the ROC Sydney when the event was announced back in October, having been a driver at ROC Bangkok in 2012 and ROC Barbados two years later.
Brown, who won his maiden Supercars title last year for Red Bull Ampol Racing, which is co-owned and run by Whincup, will be having his first start at the internationally-acclaimed event.
They will all go head to head on a spectacular $A2 million side-by-side 1km asphalt track which will commence its eight-day construction later this week.
The unique venue will be hand crafted by a team of local and international engineers to ensure maximum speed and entertainment for the anticipated 50,000-strong crowd.
The Race Of Champions comes two weeks after the weekend’s 2025 Supercars opener at Sydney Motorsport Park and one week before the opening round of the F1 World Championship in Melbourne (March 13-16), creating a massive month of motorsport in Australia.
At the 2025 Race Of Champions, Whincup, Brown, Taylor and Price will compete against no less than:
4-time Formula 1 World Champion - Sebastian Vettel
F1 legend and two-time Australian Grand Prix winner - David Coulthard
F1 Ace - Valtteri Bottas
9-time FIA World Rally Champion - Sébastien Loeb
11-time X-Games Gold medalist - Travis Pastrana
7-time FIA World Rallycross Champion - Johan Kristoffersson
Former F1 driver and current WEC driver - Mick Schumacher
2-time European Rally Champion - Hayden Paddon
Father and son rally champions Petter and Oliver Solberg
NASCAR champion - Kurt Busch
Four-time ROC Champion - Mattias Ekström
Young Kiwi Formula star and 2024 GB3 Champion - Louis Sharp
F1 winner and ROC Champion - Heikki Kovalainen
What Jamie Whincup said:
“It has been a hell of a build-up since we announced that Race Of Champions would be coming to Australia back in October,” said Whincup.
“Fredrik (Johnsson) and his team have put together a remarkable line-up of drivers and I think the fans are in for some sensational action over the two nights.
“Obviously I got to know Will (Brown) pretty well last year on his way to the championship as his team’s boss and co-owner of Red Bull Ampol Racing, but this will be the first time we have actually run as ‘teammates’. (They both drove for the team in last year’s Supercars endurance events, but in separate cars - Whincup with Broc Feeney and Brown with Scott Pye).
“We are taking the responsibility of representing Australia very seriously and we will be doing everything in our power to get it down for the home crowd.”
What Will Brown said:
“I know that the Race Of Champions means a lot to the boss (Whincup) and it is not every day that you get to represent Australia, especially in motorsports,” said Brown.
“To be invited to take part in the first instance is very special, but to be driving for Team Australia Supercars in the first-ever event in Australia is something pretty cool.
“I have been promised that we will all have a heap of fun, but there is no doubt that as soon as the visors go down on the helmets, it will be game on.
“Not one driver in the ROC field has had the level of success they have had without being incredibly competitive.”
What Fredrik Johnsson, Race Of Champions President and Co-Founder, said:
“When it comes to Supercars, Jamie (Whincup) is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) and Will (Brown) is the hottest property as the reigning champion,” said Johnsson.
“To have them technically together for the first time as teammates is something pretty special and we cannot wait to see them flying the Aussie flag in front of a home crowd at Accor Stadium.”
“At the same time Molly (Taylor) and Toby (Price) join forces as Team Australia Off-Road. Both of them sound super motivated and together I think they can cause a surprise in the fight for the ROC Nations Cup title as well as in the battle for the “Champion of Champions” crown on Saturday night.”
Hospitality and Trackside packages and General Admission Tickets start from $49.00 for children and $69.00 for adults. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketek.com.au.
