Baguette Selected For Race of Champions

Indianapolis, November 10, 2010: Bertrand Baguette, who competed in 15 IZOD IndyCar Series races this season for Conquest Racing, will participate in the Race of Champions on Nov. 27-28 in Germany.

Baguette and Jeroen Bleekemolen, who were selected via an online fan poll, will represent Belgium and The Netherlands, respectively, as Team Benelux. Baguette topped fellow Belgian drivers Francois Duval and Eric van de Poele in voting for the spot. Bleekemolen is a two-time Porsche Supercup champion.

The ROC lineup includes Formula One champions Michael Schumacher and Alain Prost, rally champion Sebastien Loeb, world 500cc motorcycle champion Mick Doohan, and X-Games champion Travis Pastrana among others.

"This is great news and I'm delighted that so many people voted for me to appear at ROC 2010," said Baguette, who joined Conquest Racing for the third round of the season at Barber Motorsports Park and posted one top-10 start and finish (Kentucky Speedway). "It will be a real buzz to line up against these legends of motorsport, and Jeroen and I will push like crazy to bring home a result for Team Benelux."

The Race of Champions is a knockout tournament in which drivers compete in identical cars on a parallel track to eventually determine the "Champion of Champions." DTM star Mattias Ekstrom was the 2009 winner.

In a second category -- the Nations Cup -- nations represented race against every other nation in their group, with the winners advancing to the next round.