Race and classic pictures

F1 drivers go head-to-head at RoC 2017

This weekend sees the annual Race of Champions competition, this year being staged at Miami’s Marlins Park in the United States.

As well as current and former Formula One stars Sebastian Vettel, Pascal Wehrlein, Jenson Button, Felipe Massa, Juan Pablo Montoya, Alexander Rossi Scott Speed and David Coulthard, motorsports champions from NASCAR, IndyCar, Le Mans, Rally X and Touring Cars were also busy putting in some practice laps on Friday ahead of the big event.

Saturday will see individual Race Of Champions - previously won by Vettel - and then the drivers pair up in teams for Sunday’s ROC Nations Cup.

This year there's also a special Ryder Cup-style finale, America vs The World, which explains why in this picture we see the home stars including Travis Pastrana and Kyle Busch facing down their competition from around the globe that includes

Other drivers taking part include Petter Solberg, Tom Kristensen, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Tony Kanaan, James Hinchcliffe and Helio Castroneves.

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.