Race of Champions
After Jenson Button pulled out of the 2006 Race of Champions, Thompson was announced as his replacement on 13 December 2006. He competed for the English team with fellow touring car driver Andy Priaulx on 16 December 2006.
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Famous quotes containing the words race of, race and/or champions:
“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A race cannot be purified from without.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
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—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)