Andy Priaulx and Jensen Button pictured at last year’s Race of Champions at Wembley. They will join forces again in Beijing this year. (Picture by Malcolm Griffiths/LAT Photographic, 0749852)

ANDY PRIAULX will again partner Formula One World Championship leader Jenson Button in the Race of Champions.

Guernsey’s three times FIA World Touring Car Champion has driven in the annual event since 2006.

For the last two years at Wembley, he has represented Great Britain with his friend and Brawn GP driver Button, who is currently leading the F1 table with 80 points, in the ROC’s Nations Cup competition.

The 2009 event will take place in the Beijing National Stadium, China, on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 November, on a specially builtasphalt circuit.

Having twice got to the semi-finals, Priaulx is gunning for the top this year.

‘I’m excited to see the track in Beijing, which I’m told is going to be bigger and better than ever before,’ he said.

‘I’ve reached the semi-finals for the past two years, so my aim has to be to win the event outright this year, as well as achieving a good result for Team Autosport Great Britain in The ROC Nations Cup.

‘The competition will be tough, but whatever happens it will be tons of fun, which is the spirit of ROC, and it will be spectacular to compete in somewhere as incredible as the Bird’s Nest Stadium.’