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For more than three decades, the motoring world celebrates the start of each year by holding its annual Race of Champions (ROC). This is a competition that brings together in a spectacle like no other the best racing and rally drivers the world has to offer, and crowns only one as king. From 2019, another event of this type will be included in the calendar of races.
On Friday (June 28), the International Automobile Federation (FIA) announced the birth of the FIA Motorsport Games, a competition rooted in last year’s GT Nation’s Cup and similar in some respects, but not all, to the ROC Nations' Cup.
“I am pleased to launch the FIA Motorsport Games, which will combine a variety of disciplines and all the elements of a major sporting occasion in one event," said in a statement FIA president Jean Todt.
“It is something new for not only motor sport followers and future generations of competitors, but also those with a general appreciation of international sport.”
FIA promises that in their new competition, the emphasis will be placed on countries, just like at the Olympics, and less on individual drivers. Also like in the Olympics, there wil be lots of multidisciplinary competitions in need of completion for the overall winner to be announced..
FIA Motorsport Games will comprise six different competitions, namely GT, Touring Car, Formula 4, Drifting, Karting Slalom and Digital Motorsport.
For each of these competitions, individual drivers will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze medals that will be added to an overall medal table for their country. In the end, this table will give the winner of the FIA Motorsport Games.
The first edition of these games will take place at the Vallelunga circuit near Rome, between November 1 and November 3.
For now, FIA did not announce the rules of the competition, but it is expected to do so in the coming months.
“I am pleased to launch the FIA Motorsport Games, which will combine a variety of disciplines and all the elements of a major sporting occasion in one event," said in a statement FIA president Jean Todt.
“It is something new for not only motor sport followers and future generations of competitors, but also those with a general appreciation of international sport.”
FIA promises that in their new competition, the emphasis will be placed on countries, just like at the Olympics, and less on individual drivers. Also like in the Olympics, there wil be lots of multidisciplinary competitions in need of completion for the overall winner to be announced..
FIA Motorsport Games will comprise six different competitions, namely GT, Touring Car, Formula 4, Drifting, Karting Slalom and Digital Motorsport.
For each of these competitions, individual drivers will receive Gold, Silver and Bronze medals that will be added to an overall medal table for their country. In the end, this table will give the winner of the FIA Motorsport Games.
The first edition of these games will take place at the Vallelunga circuit near Rome, between November 1 and November 3.
For now, FIA did not announce the rules of the competition, but it is expected to do so in the coming months.
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