The Australian Grand Prix Corporation and BMW Australia have jo✨ined forces to offer one lucky person the chance to compete in the BMW C🐷elebrity Challenge - with money raised from the event going to the relief appeal for the Asian tsunami.

The one off opportunity is being auctioned off on Ebay and the wi💝nning bidder will join 27 celebrities in the field for the event at the season opening Austr✨alian Grand Prix in Melbourne's Albert Park on 3-6 March.

The Celebrity Challenge drive kicks off with four days of intensive driver training with the celebrities ahead of the Grand Prix. The th🐭eme for this year's event is 'B♓est of the Best,' drawing mainly on stars who have excelled in the event in the past - including reigning winner, Olympic rowing icon James Tomkins.

Other past winners appearing again this year include actor/dancer Paul Mercurio and AFL great Dermott Brereton, while the field includes a host of other 🐬sports and entertainment stars who will compete in the newly-relea🌳sed BMW 1 Series car.

Additional bonuses for the✨ buyer will be 10 corporate hospitality tickets for all four days of the Grand Prix and two tickets to the glittering Grand P🦩rix Ball, the annual highlight of Melbourne's social calendar.

Network Ten, the host broadcaster of⭕ Formula One in Australia, will support the auction -starting today [23 January] and running until Friday - with promotions in its news b⛎ulletins and its Sports Tonight program throughout the week.

Proceeds from the auction wi🍃ll to go to Oxfam, one of the agencies 🌌co-ordinating tsunami relief aid.