Fourteen-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and American Le Mans Series co-champ Rinaldo Capello are confirmed to join an all-star roster of drivers attending the 37th annual American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association’s All-America Team dinner, Saturday, January 13, at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Indianapolis.

Force and Capello are the latest additions to a confirmed list that includes: Indy 500 winner and IRL champion Sam Hornish Jr., triple Champ Car World Series titlist Sebastien Bourdais, NHRA Top Fuel title-holder Tony Schumacher, eight-time ARCA stock car king Frank Kimmel, Grand-American Rolex Series and ALMS GT2 champion Jorg Bergmeister, Rolex Series runner-up Luis Diaz, and Formula Ford 2000 champ J.R. Hildebrand. The drivers and their teams/sponsors consider the AARWBA All-America Team ceremony so important that both Bergmeister and Capello will be traveling from Europe, while Diaz will be coming from Mexico City for the second consecutive year.

Fourteen-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and American Le Mans Series co-champ Rinaldo Capello are confirmed to join an all-star roster of drivers attending the 37th annual American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association’s All-America Team dinner, Saturday, January 13, at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Indianapolis.

Force and Capello are the latest additions to a confirmed list that includes: Indy 500 winner and IRL champion Sam Hornish Jr., triple Champ Car World Series titlist Sebastien Bourdais, NHRA Top Fuel title-holder Tony Schumacher, eight-time ARCA stock car king Frank Kimmel, Grand-American Rolex Series and ALMS GT2 champion Jorg Bergmeister, Rolex Series runner-up Luis Diaz, and Formula Ford 2000 champ J.R. Hildebrand. The drivers and their teams/sponsors consider the AARWBA All-America Team ceremony so important that both Bergmeister and Capello will be traveling from Europe, while Diaz will be coming from Mexico City for the second consecutive year.

Jack Roush, one of the most newsworthy and influential team owners in NASCAR, will be the featured speaker.

AARWBA is the country’s oldest and largest organization of motorsports media professionals. The dinner honors the champion drivers from stock car, open-wheel, short track, drag and road racing and touring series, as elected by AARWBA members. The top vote-getter from the various classes will be announced that evening as winner of AARWBA’s No. 1 honor, the Jerry Titus Memorial Award.

Force will be making his record 11th appearance at the AARWBA ceremony to personally accept his 14th “Horsepower” Trophy. He had three 2006 victories in his Castrol Ford Mustang and is the only four-time winner of the Titus Trophy. Capello co-drove with Allan McNish to a dominating ALMS championship in the Audi Sport North America R-8 and, later, the revolutionary diesel-powered Audi R-10. They teamed for eight victories, including Sebring.

Adding to the festive atmosphere of the event, on the 40th anniversary of his third Indy 500 victory, A.J. Foyt’s 1967 Sheraton-Thompson Coyote-Ford will be on display in the Hyatt lobby, courtesy of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s Hall of Fame Museum. Also in the lobby will be Schumacher’s NHRA record-setting championship Army Top Fuel machine, courtesy of Don Schumacher Racing.

Other highlights of the evening will be presentation of the new Auto Racing Safety and Humanitarian Service Award to HANS Device developers Jim Downing and Robert Hubbard of Michigan State University; Pioneer in Racing Award to Dan Partel, managing director of the European Formula Drivers Association; and Jim Chapman Award for excellence in motorsports public relations. Popular broadcaster Bob Jenkins will serve as dinner Master of Ceremonies for the second consecutive year.

The event is open to the public and tickets can be ordered at the http://www.aarwba.org/ site. Click on the “banquet” link, and discounted Hyatt room reservations can be made there.