Jenson Button and Felipe Massa will go head-to-head in the quarter finals of the Race of Champions on Saturday.

The race format sees the Nations Cup take place on Friday ahead of Saturday's individual races. The draw for this year's Race of Champions [ROC] took place on Tuesday ahead of the event at the Olympic Stadium in London and delivered some all-F1 battles in the individual event.

Button and Massa will face off in the quarter finals, while Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg will also go head-to-head for a place in the semis. Sebastian Vettel has been handed a tough draw against FIA World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg, while Romain Grosjean faces Jason Plato and David Coulthard goes up against Team Scotland team-mate Susie Wolff.

The Nations Cup draw has also delivered some mouthwatering clashes for Friday, with former Red Bull team-mates Ricciardo and Vettel set to face off as Team Australia take on Team Germany.

Team England 2 - comprised of Button and Alex Buncome - will race Team Scotland, with Button going up against Coulthard. The Nations Cup races are a best of three contest which will be settled by the two winning drivers if required.

The full draw is as follows:

ROC Nations Cup (Friday, November 20)

Round 1

Team ALL STARS v Team YOUNG STARS (Match A)

Romain Grosjean v Pascal Wehrlein

Jorge Lorenzo v Jolyon Palmer


Team ENGLAND 1 v Team BRAZIL (Match B)

Andy Priaulx v Nelson Piquet Jr

Jason Plato v Felipe Massa


Quarter-finals

Team NORDIC v Team AMERICAS

Tom Kristensen v José Maria López

Petter Solberg v Ryan Hunter-Reay


Team AUSTRALIA v Team GERMANY

Daniel Ricciardo v Sebastian Vettel

Mick Doohan v Nico Hülkenberg


Team ENGLAND 2 v Team SCOTLAND

Alex Buncombe v Susie Wolff

Jenson Button v David Coulthard


Winner Match A v Winner Match B

Grosjean/Wehrlein v Priaulx/Piquet Jr

Lorenzo/Palmer v Plato/Massa

 

Race of Champions (Saturday, November 21)

Round 1

José Maria López v Ryan Hunter-Reay (Match A)

Pascal Wehrlein v Andy Priaulx (Match B)

Mick Doohan v Jorge Lorenzo (Match C)

Alex Buncombe v Jolyon Palmer (Match D)


Quarter-finals

Sebastian Vettel v Petter Solberg

Daniel Ricciardo v Nico Hülkenberg

Jenson Button v Felipe Massa

David Coulthard v Susie Wolff

Tom Kristensen v Nelson Piquet Jr

Romain Grosjean v Jason Plato

Winner Match A (López/Hunter-Reay) v Winner Match B (Wehrlein/Priaulx)

Winner Match B (Doohan/Lorenzo) v Winner Match D (Buncombe/Palmer)


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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.

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