Circuit Racing

The Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) will be fought out over four rounds for the first time in 2015. Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago will each host a round of the premier regional championship, with Seaboard Marine confirmed as title sponsor for the sixth year.

• Thirteen-time Formula 1 grand prix winner David Coulthard lifts the Race Of Champions trophy for the first time

• Coulthard prevails after a Grand Final win over young Mercedes F1 reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein

• Six-time V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup and this year’s FIA European F3 champion Esteban Ocon make it as far as the semi-finals

• Formula 1’s Romain Grosjean, the reigning ROC Champion of Champions, fails to make it past the group stages this time

On a landmark weekend for regional motor sport, in which some of the Caribbean’s best drivers are enjoying a chance to mix with champions from around the world, the home team of Rhett Watson and Dane Skeete won the inaugural ROC Caribbean at Bushy Park Barbados today (Saturday), just hours after fighting their way to a place in the semi-finals of the ROC Nations Cup.

• Barbados is swarming with legends of motor sport who have arrived on the island ahead of this weekend’s Race Of Champions

• Champions and greats from series including F1, Le Mans, IndyCar, NASCAR, WTCC, Touring Cars, World Rallycross and MotoGP put in their first practice laps at Bushy Park Barbados

• As they got out of their cars FIA World Rallycross Champion Petter Solberg neatly summed it up: “These guys are all as crazy as I am…”

• The spectacular Volkswagen Polo RX will be among the cars in action at this weekend’s Race Of Champions in Barbados

• Fresh from competing in the 2014 FIA World Rallycross Championship, the cars have now arrived on the Caribbean island

• They join the Ariel Atom Cup, Audi R8 LMS, KTM X-Bow, Euro NASCAR, ROC Car and Robby Gordon’s Stadium Super Trucks in the line-up

• Formula 1 world champions Mercedes will show off their 2012 car – with its screaming V8 engine – at this weekend’s Race Of Champions in Barbados

• The car will be taken on a demo run by official Mercedes F1 reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein, the youngest ever winner in Germany’s DTM series

• Formula 1, Le Mans and Indianapolis 500 winners are among the line-up for the racing action itself, to take place on ROC’s unique parallel track