This is reported on the official website of the Championship.

The race will be held at the King Fahd International Stadium in Saudi Arabia. For the country this is the first motor sport event in history. Organizers reported that the first in the history of the Middle East Champions race will be held on February 2-3, 2018.

In addition, the names of the contestants became known. In Riyadh will come the current winner of the Race of Champions Juan-Pablo Montoya, in the course of his career winning the title in CART, two Indy 500 and seven Formula 1 Grand prix.

Also in the show will be ex-pilot F1 David Coulthard on account of which 13 wins in F1, winning the WRX and WRC championships Petter Solberg, ex-champion IndyCar Ryan Hunter-Rey, three-time winner Indy 500 Elio Castroneves and nine-time winner of "Le Mans" Tom Christensen. All of them in previous years have already participated in the Race of Champions.

In addition, for the first time to the Champions race will come the new champion IndyCar Joseph Newgarden and the protege of McLaren Lando Norris, who this year won the European Championship of Formula 3.

As previously reported in "URA-Inform", the Italian football club "Milan" can be excluded from European competition because of the club's failure to comply with the rules of financial fair play. As noted by UEFA is not confident in the solvency of the club, especially in connection with the current results.