Valtteri Bottas will participate in the Race of Champions

Valtteri Bottas will once again participate in the Race of Champions, which will be held for the first time in Sydney in March 2025.

Naturally, he could not miss such an event, because firstly, next year he will have much more time, since Valtteri will no longer participate in Formula 1, and secondly, in Australia he has long been considered one of their own and even got the unofficial title “honorary Australia”

The organizers of the ROC, who today confirmed the participation of the Finnish racer, who has only two Grand Prix in Formula 1, also remembered that he is in a relationship with the professional Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell, so he spends a lot of time in Formula 1. her home country and is involved in various business activities there.

Valtteri will participate in the Race of Champions for the second time and he made his debut in these popular competitions in 2023, when they took place on an ice rink in Sweden, and his Finnish teammate was then two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen.

Valtteri Bottas: “It is no secret that I have a close bond with Australia and I am very much looking forward to competing with other competitors in the Race of Champions, which is being held on this continent for the first time.

I hope local fans will support me, because this year I have become an “honorary Australia”, although of course I will try to beat all the representatives of Australia, both in the Nations Cup and in the individual Race of Champions.

I’ll be spending some time in Australia during the “summer months” and should be well acclimatized by early March. The Race of Champions is a unique event and last year, when I took part in the ROC in Sweden for the first time, I had a lot of fun. Although Mika Hakkinen and I quickly left the battle.

I hope I can go much faster on the asphalt track on the field of the Olympic Stadium in Sydney and this time I can hold on until the end!”

The Race of Champions takes place over two evenings on a 1km track built especially for the event at the Accor Olympic Stadium. The races for the Nations Cup will take place there on Friday, March 7, and the competition continues the next day with the individual Race of Champions.

Valtteri Bottas will have to compete with other world-famous drivers representing different types of motorsport.

Sebastian Vettel, four-time world champion, has already confirmed his participation in the ROC; Sebastien Loeb, nine-time world rally champion; Jamie Whincup, seven-time Australian Supercar Series champion; Travis Pastrana, 11-time winner of the X-Games, a popular extreme racing event in the United States; Johan Kristoffersson, seven-time rallycross world champion; Molly Taylor, Australian rally champion who also won the Extreme E series; Hayden Patton, New Zealand rally driver, two-time European champion; and Mick Schumacher, a former Formula 1 driver who won the F2 title.

The ROC organizers have promised that in the coming weeks they will appoint new participants known for their achievements in Formula 1, Supercars, Nascar, the 24 Hours of Le Mans and world rally.