2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship

The 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the fifth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship an auto racing championship recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) as the highest class of international rallycross.

Johan Kristoffersson won the Drivers' Championship for the second season running during the World RX of the United States.

Calendar

The 2018 championship was contested over twelve rounds in Europe, Africa and North America.

Event Dates Venue Class Winner Team Report 1 World RX of Barcelona 14–16 April Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, MontmelóSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report 2 World RX of Portugal 28–29 April Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report 3 World RX of Belgium 12–13 May Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet, MettetSupercar Sébastien Loeb Team Peugeot Total ReportRX2 Ben-Philip Gundersen JC Raceteknik 4 25–27 May Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 5 World RX of Norway 9–10 June Lånkebanen, Hell Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Guillaume De Ridder Olsbergs MSE 6 World RX of Sweden 30 June–1 July Höljesbanan, HöljesSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden ReportRX2 Guillaume De Ridder Olsbergs MSE 7 World RX of Canada 4–5 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-RivièresSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 8 Bretagne World RX of France 1–2 September Circuit de Lohéac, LohéacSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 9 Neste World RX of Latvia 15–16 September Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze, RigaSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report 10 World RX of the United States 29–30 September Circuit of the Americas, AustinSupercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report 11 World RX of Germany Estering, Buxtehude Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report 12 Gumtree World RX of South Africa 24–25 November Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Ben-Philip Gundersen JC Raceteknik

Calendar changes The championship will expand to include a round in the United States for the first time, with the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas scheduled to host the event in conjunction with the Americas Rallycross Championship. The World RX of Great Britain event will relocate from Lydden Hill Race Circuit to a new venue at the Silverstone Circuit. The Hockenheim round of the championship was discontinued to accommodate the new American round. The World RX of Canada also shares an event with the Americas Rallycross Championship.

Entries

Supercar Factory TeamsConstructorEntrantCarDriversRounds Audi EKS Audi Sport Audi S15 Mattias Ekström All13 Andreas Bakkerud All51 Nico Müller 9 Peugeot Team Peugeot Total Peugeot 2089 Sébastien Loeb All21 Timmy Hansen All 71 Kevin Hansen All Volkswagen Volkswagen Polo R1 Johan Kristoffersson All11 Petter Solberg All Privateers / satellitesConstructorEntrantCarDriversRounds Audi Kárai Motorsport Egyesület Audi A1 102 Tamás Kárai 4 Audi S167 3 BMW Oliver Bennett BMW MINI Cooper42 1-2, 4-6, 8-9, 11-12 Citroën Mário Barbosa Citroën DS3 75 Mário Barbosa 2 Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier 84 "Knapick" 1, 4, 8 Ford Team STARD Ford Fiesta 6 Jānis Baumanis All 58 Qinghua Ma 4 60 Joni-Pekka Rajala 5 Oliver O'Donovan 2 Oliver O'Donovan 8 MJP Racing Team Austria 31 Max Pucher 5 32 Alexander Wurz 5, 957 8-9177 4, 8 Olsbergs MSE Ford Fiesta ST4 Robin Larsson All96 Kevin Eriksson All Bompiso Racing Team Ford Focus41 2 Hyundai GRX Taneco Team Hyundai i207 Timur Timerzyanov All68 Niclas Grönholm All Peugeot Peugeot 20866 All Mark Higgins 134 Mark Higgins 4 Davy Jeanney 17 Davy Jeanney 8 Emmanuel Anne 29 Emmanuel Anne 8 Gaëten Serazin 62 Gaëten Serzain 8 Cyril Raymond 113 Cyril Raymond 11 Renault GC Kompetition 33 Liam Doran 8-9, 1136 Guerlain Chicherit All74 1-792 Anton Marklund 10-12 SEAT Münnich Motorsport SEAT Ibiza44 6, 8-9, 1277 5, 11-12 Volkswagen Marklund Motorsport Volkswagen Polo 24 Tommy Rustad 4-5, 8 92 Anton Marklund 4-5 Kjetil Larsen64 5, 11

Drivers with a green background are ineligible to score points towards the Championship for Teams.  — Despite having been born in France, Grégoire Demoustier is recognised by the FIA World Rallycross Championship as a Belgian driver for the duration of the 2018 season.

RX2

RX2 TeamsConstructorEntrantCarDriversRounds OMSE JC Raceteknik Olsbergs MSE RX2 2 Ben-Philip Gundersen All 6 William Nilsson All 69 Sondre Evjen All 77 Henrik Krogstad All 90 Jimmie Walfridson 4 91 Jonathan Walfridsson 4 99 Marcus Höglund 3-4 Set Promotion 8 Simon Wågø Syversen 1-6 22 Sami-Matti Trogen 2-7 65 Jami Kalliomäki All 59 Ashley Haigh-Smith 7 Glenn Haug 9 Glenn Haug 1-4 Martin Jonsson 10 Martin Jonsson 4 Mats Oskarsson 11 Mats Oskarsson 4 Anders Michalak 12 Anders Michalak All Hampus Rådström 17 Hampus Rådström 4 Olsbergs MSE 16 Oliver Eriksson All 18 Linus Östlund 4 53 Cole Keatts All 96 Guillaume De Ridder All Team Faren 21 Conner Martell All 50 Nathan Heathcote All Koen Pauwels 23 Koen Pauwels 1 Petter Leirhol 27 Petter Leirhol 4 Christian Brooks 44 Christian Brooks 4 Simon Olofsson 52 Simon Olofsson 1-4, 6-7 Sport Racing Technologies 55 Vasily Gryazin All 75 Edijs Oss 6 15 Reinis Nitišs 7 Albert Llovera 66 Albert Llovera 2 1-6 Santosh Berggren 68 Santosh Berggren 4 Johnny Andersson 86 Johnny Andersson 4 Stein Frederic-Akre 98 Stein Frederic-Akre 4

2 Despite having been born in Andorra, Albert Llovera is recognised by the RX2 International Series and by extension, the FIA World Rallycross Championship as a Spanish driver for the duration of the 2018 season.

Team changes Hoonigan Racing Division withdrew from the series at the conclusion of the 2017 championship. Team Peugeot Total will step up their involvement in World RX, running as a full factory team in 2018, as compared to the family-based Hansen Motorsport-run cars in 2017. Olsbergs MSE returned to World RX full-time in 2018 after competing part-time in 2017. They will debut their new-specification 2018 Ford Fiesta ST MK8 Supercars, built in collaboration with Ford Performance in Barcelona. GC Kompetition (GCK) will make their World RX debut as a team entry. Team owner and driver Guerlain Chicherit oversaw the development of the new Renault Mégane R.S. RX, which was built in collaboration with Prodrive. GRX Taneco will enter the championship, using a pair of ex-Hyundai Motorsport Hyundai i20 WRC cars built to rallycross specifications by Set Promotion. Double world rally champion Marcus Grönholm will be the team's principal. Sébastien Loeb Racing will enter the championship with a single Peugeot 208 WRX run for Grégoire Demoustier.

Driver changes Andreas Bakkerud left Hoonigan Racing Division to join EKS RX. Toomas Heikkinen and Reinis Nitišs both left EKS RX. Nitišs will instead re-join Set Promotion, the team in which he won the Super1600 championship with in 2013, and compete in the FIA European Rallycross Championship with an M-Sport Ford Fiesta. Heikkinen also joined the team, but stepped down from driving duties, becoming Nitišs’ team manager and a driving coach for Set Promotion's Super1600 drivers. After spending a year with MJP Racing Team Austria in 2017, Kevin Eriksson returned to his father's Olsbergs MSE team alongside fellow countryman Robin Larsson, who will make his return to World RX after a year sabbatical. Jérôme Grosset-Janin will partner team owner and driver Guerlain Chicherit, driving for the new GCK team. Double European Rallycross champion Timur Timerzyanov left STARD to join GRX Taneco, partnering Niclas Grönholm in the new Hyundai i20.

Results and standings

World Championship points are scored as follows:

Position Round 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th Heats 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Semi-Finals 6 5 4 3 2 1 Final 8 5 4 3 2 1

A red background denotes drivers who did not advance from the round

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers Driver BAR POR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT USA GER RSA Points 1 Johan Kristoffersson 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 341 2 Mattias Ekström 6a 7 4 4 2 6 4 4 2 5 2 2 248 3 Andreas Bakkerud 3 4 6 2 6 2 7 2 8 3 3 7 237 4 Sébastien Loeb 2 2 1 3 8 9 3 6 3 4 8 3 229 5 Petter Solberg 5 3 2 7 3 7 5 3 7 2 5 5b 227 6 Timmy Hansen 7 6 3 8 5 4 2 5 5b 6b 7 6 192 7 Niclas Grönholm 4 10 11 5 7 11 8 11 4 8 4 13 146 8 Kevin Hansen 13 8 9 6 4 5 9 7b 6 7 6 4 145 9 Jānis Baumanis 8 11 10 14 12 10 6 13 14 11 11 9 98 10 Timur Timerzyanov 10 12 8 12 21 8 11 9 11 13 20 11 86 11 Guerlain Chicherit 12 5 10 15 15 14 15 12 10 9 13 12 68 12 Jérôme Grosset-Janin 11 14 14 10 14 3 13 47 13 Kevin Eriksson 14 9 16 9 9 13b 10b 10b 16 10 10 14 38 14 Anton Marklund 17 11 12b 9 8 35 15 Robin Larsson 9 13 7 13 10 12 12b 17b 17 14 12 15 34 16 Liam Doran 8 12 19 19 17 Tommy Rustad 11 13 16 14 18 Timo Scheider 17 25 13 10 13 19 Nico Müller 9 10 20 Toomas Heikkinen 14 15 5 21 François Duval 13 4 22 Kjetil Larsen 19 14 3 23 Andrew Jordan 20 15 2 24 René Münnich 17 16 16 2 25 Joni-Pekka Rajala 16 1 26 Mark Higgins 16 1 27 "Knapick" 17 22 23 0 28 Joaquim Santos 17 0 29 Alexander Wurz 18 18 0 30 Mário Barbosa 18 0 31 Cyril Raymond 18 0 32 Tamás Kárai 19 0 33 Davy Jeanney 20 0 34 Gaëten Serzain 21 0 35 Oliver O'Donovan 22 0 36 Max Pucher 23 0 37 Qinghua Ma 23 0 38 Emmanuel Anne 24 0 39 Oliver Bennett 15 16 21 20 15 18 20 15 18c -3 40 Grégoire Demoustier 16 15 15 18 22 16 14 19 19 15 17 17b -4 Driver BAR POR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT USA GER RSA Points a Ekström received no points from the final as he was disqualified after crashing into Solberg. b Loss of fifteen championship points – stewards' decision c Loss of ten championship points – stewards' decision

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams Team Drivers Points 1 PSRX Volkswagen Sweden 1 568 11 Petter Solberg 2 EKS Audi Sport 5 Mattias Ekström 485 13 Andreas Bakkerud 3 Team Peugeot Total 9 Sébastien Loeb 421 21 Timmy Hansen 4 GRX Taneco Team 28 Timur Timerzyanov 232 68 Niclas Grönholm 5 GC Kompetition 33 Liam Doran 152 36 Guerlain Chicherit 74 Jérôme Grosset-Janin 92 Anton Marklund 6 Olsbergs MSE 4 Robin Larsson 72 96

RX2 International Series (key) Driver BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA RSA Points 1 Oliver Eriksson 7 1 2 4 1 1 6 175 2 Guillaume De Ridder 8 7 1 1 2 3 7 156 3 Henrik Krogstad 3 8 3 2 8 6 9 121 4 Ben-Philip Gundersen 1 10 8 5 7 11 1 119 5 Vasily Gryazin 5 6 5 14 4 10 3 118 6 Sondre Evjen 2 3 4 22 11 5 2 106 7 William Nilsson 4 12 6 7 9 8 4 93 8 Jami Kalliomäki 6 9 10 11 10 9 8 83 9 Conner Martell 10 2 12 17 6 4 10 80 10 Sami-Matti Trogen 11 9 15 5 2 5 79 11 Nathan Heathcote 14 17 11 10 13 7 11 49 12 Simon Wågø Syversen 11 13 7 24 12 12 38 13 Anders Michalak 13 4 14 21 14 15 13 33 14 Simon Olofsson 12 15 15 3 14 14 32 15 Cole Keatts 16 14 16 27 3 13 12 31 16 Glenn Haug 9 5 13 18 25 17 Christian Brooks 6 20 18 Jimmie Walfridson 8 14 19 Marcus Höglund 17 9 13 20 Petter Leirhol 12 6 21 Linus Ostlund 13 4 22 Albert Llovera 17 16 18 29 15 17 3 23 Koen Pauwels 15 2 24 Reinis Nitišs 15 2 25 Ashely Haigh-Smith 16 1 26 Edijs Oss 16 1 27 Stein Frederic-Akre 16 1 28 Santosh Berggren 19 0 29 Mats Oskarsson 20 0 30 Hampus Rådström 23 0 31 Martin Jonsson 25 0 32 Johnny Andersson 26 0 33 Jonathan Walfridsson 28 0 Driver BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA RSA Points

See also 2018 in rallycross

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