The 2019 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the sixth 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.
Timmy Hansen won the Drivers' Championship on countback after finishing with the same number of points as Andreas Bakkerud, winning based on his four event wins to Bakkerud's one. Team Hansen MJP won the Teams' Championship.
Calendar The 2019 championship was contested over ten rounds in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America.
The following events are scheduled to take place as part of the 2019 championship: Event Dates Venue Class Winner Team Report 1 World RX of Abu Dhabi 5–6 April Yas Marina Circuit, Abu DhabiSupercar Kevin Hansen Team Hansen MJP Report 2 27–28 April Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, MontmelóSupercar Timmy Hansen Team Hansen MJP ReportRX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 3 Spa World RX of Benelux 11–12 May Supercar Timur Timerzyanov GRX Taneco Team ReportRX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 4 25–26 May Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone Supercar Timmy Hansen Team Hansen MJP Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 5 Team Verksted World RX of Norway 15–16 June Lånkebanen, Hell Supercar Niclas Grönholm GRX Taneco Team Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE 6 Swecon World RX of Sweden 6–7 July Höljesbanan, HöljesSupercar Sebastian Eriksson Olsbergs MSE ReportRX2 Ben-Philip Gundersen JC Raceteknik 7 World RX of Canada 3–4 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-RivièresSupercar Andreas Bakkerud Monster Energy RX Cartel Report 8 Bretagne World RX of France 31 August–1 September Circuit de Lohéac, LohéacSupercar Timmy Hansen Team Hansen MJP Report RX2 Ben-Philip Gundersen JC Raceteknik 9 Neste World RX of Latvia 14–15 September Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze, RigaSupercar Timmy Hansen Team Hansen MJP Report 10 Sabat World RX of South Africa 9–10 November Killarney Motor Racing Complex, Cape TownSupercar Niclas Grönholm GRX Taneco Team Report RX2 Oliver Eriksson Olsbergs MSE
Calendar changes The calendar was trimmed from twelve rounds to ten with the removal of the World RX of Portugal, World RX of the United States and the World RX of Germany from the schedule. A new round, the World RX of Abu Dhabi, was added as the opening round of the championship. The World RX of Belgium moved from Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The World RX of Canada will be a joint event with the Americas Rallycross Championship for the second consecutive time, and it is also the only combined round on the schedule.
Entries
Supercar ConstructorEntrantCarDriversRounds Audi Kárai Motorsport Egyesület 73 2 Monster Energy RX Cartel 13 All 33 All Team JC Raceteknik 39 Enzo Ide 3 4 Robin Larsson 9 EKS Audi Sport 40 Mattias Ekström 3 EKS Sport 123 All Citroën "Knapick" Citroën DS3 84 Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier 2–4, 8 Ford Christopher Hoy Ford Fiesta MK741 Christopher Hoy 2 Team STARD 5 1, 3 3 2 Ford Fiesta MK8 4–5, 7–8 22 6, 10 59 6 All Olsbergs MSE 93 Sebastian Eriksson 6 196 Kevin Eriksson 6 Honda Honda Civic Coupé72 Ulrik Linnemann 6 Hyundai GRX Taneco Team Hyundai i207 Timur Timerzyanov All31 Joni Wiman 3–468 Niclas Grönholm 1–2, 5–10 GRX Set 15 Reinis Nitišs 1, 6, 9 57 Toomas Heikkinen 8 Mini Xite Racing 42 AllPeugeot Team Hansen MJPPeugeot 20821 Timmy HansenAll71 Kevin HansenAll Grégoire Demoustier66 Grégoire Demoustier 3 Mark Higgins134 Mark Higgins 4 Jonathan Pailler 18 Jonathan Pailler 6, 8 Fabien Pailler 20 Fabien Pailler 6, 8 Renault GC KompetitionRenault Mégane R.S.14 Rokas Baciuška 7-936 Guerlain Chicherit All92 Anton Marklund All GCK Academy Renault Clio R.S.96 Guillaume De Ridder All113 Cyril Raymond All Renault Mégane R.S.14 Rokas Baciuška 5–6 SEAT SEAT Ibiza 44 Timo Scheider AllŠkoda ES Motorsport-Labas GASŠkoda Fabia14 Rokas Baciuška 1–224 Kevin Abbring 5–667 François Duval 312 Matvey Furazhkin 8-10 Volkswagen Hedströms Motorsport Volkswagen Polo64 Kjetil Larsen 6 Bridgestone Motorsport95 Philip Gehrman 6
RX2 Constructor Entrant Car Drivers Rounds OMSE JC Raceteknik Olsbergs MSE RX2 2 Ben-Philip Gundersen All 6 William Nilsson 1-3 90 Jimmie Walfridson 1–2, 4-5 54 Petter Nårsa 6-7 Morten Asklund 11 Morten Asklund 4-5 Anders Michalak 12 Anders Michalak All Olsbergs MSE 16 Oliver Eriksson All 18 Linus Östlund 5, 7 35 Fraser McConnell All 47 Jesse Kallio All 91 Niklas Aneklev 7 Team Färén 21 Damien Meunier 1–2, 6 99 Marcus Höglund 4-5 6 William Nilsson 6 31 Yann Le Jossec 6 Set Promotion 22 Sami-Matti Trogen All 65 Jami Kalliomäki 5 Petter Leirhol 27 Petter Leirhol 4-5 Lars Erik Haug 33 Lars Erik Haug 5 Simon Olofsson 52 Simon Olofsson All Sport Racing Technologies 55 Vasiliy Gryazin All 69 Nikolay Gryazin 6 Martin Enlund 60 Martin Enlund 5 Albert Llovera 66 Albert Llovera 1-6 Steve Volders 77 Steve Volders All Stein Fredric Akre 98 Stein Fredric Akre 5 William Nilsson 6 William Nilsson 5 Mats Oskarsson 111 Mats Oskarsson 5 Iane Vacala 50 Iane Vacala 6-7
Team changes Team Peugeot Total and PSRX Volkswagen Sweden all withdrew from the championship after the 2018 season. Monster Energy RX Cartel joined the championship, fielding two Audi S1s. GC Kompetition will run a second team, GCK Academy, comprising two Renault Clios. EKS Sport lost its factory backing from Audi and reduced from two cars to one. ES Motorsport-Labas GAS entered the championship running a single Škoda Fabia.
Driver changes Following the withdrawal of their respective teams, reigning World Champion Johan Kristoffersson, Petter Solberg, Sébastien Loeb and Robin Larsson all left the Championship. Andreas Bakkerud and Liam Doran left EKS Audi Sport and GC Kompetition respectively to join Monster Energy RX Cartel. Guillaume De Ridder and Cyril Raymond moved up from RX2 and ERX respectively with GCK Academy. Krisztián Szabó moved up from ERX with EKS Sport. 2018 European Rallycross Super1600 champion, Rokas Baciuška, joined the championship with ES Motorsport-Labas GAS but he was forced to cut relationship with the team so he only did do the two first rounds of the season.
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 ABU BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT RSA Points 1 Timmy Hansen 13 1 4 1 6 6 13 1 1 4 211 2 Andreas Bakkerud 15 3 2 2 8 7 1 5 3 2 211 3 Kevin Hansen 1 2 8 7 2 2 6 3 4 5 199 4 Niclas Grönholm 2 4 1 5 7 6 2 1 186 5 Timur Timerzyanov 8 7 1 11 7 24 3 12 5 3 142 6 Jānis Baumanis56510310210128 137 7 Anton Marklund71473 DSQ852911 119 8 Liam Doran31066515896 16a 114 9 Timo Scheider61294923108116 109 10 Krisztián Szabó4811512171211109 91 11 Rokas Baciuška913169947 76 12 Guerlain Chicherit1091391114413157 73 13 Cyril Raymond1251213102011 15a 13 15 45 14 Reinis Nitišs 13 3 8 40 15 Joni Wiman 3 8 39 16 Kevin Abbring 4 4 35 17 Sebastian Eriksson 1 29 18 Guillaume De Ridder 16 11 15 16 15 19 14 16 14 10 29 19 Toomas Heikkinen 7 15 20 Oliver Bennett 17 17 14 12 14 22 15 19 16 12 12b 21 Jere Kalliokoski 12 14 10 22 Jani Paasonen 16 14 13 16 17 9 23 Mattias Ekström10 8 24 Kevin Eriksson11 8 25 Matvey Furazhkin 20 17 13 4 26 Jonathan Pailler 13 18 4 27 Pål Try 14 16 18 4 28 Fabien Pailler 16 14 4 29 Mark Higgins 15 2 30 Christopher Hoy 15 2 31 François Duval 17 0 32 Kjetil Larsen 18 0 33 Enzo Ide 18 034 Robin Larsson 190 35 Gregoire Demoustier 19 0 36 Philip Gehrman 21 0 37 Ulrik Linnemann 25 0 38 Tamás Kárai 18 0 39 Hervé "Knapick" 19 20 17 21a -15 Driver ABU BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT RSA Points
a Loss of 15 championship points – stewards' decision b Loss of 10 championship points – stewards' decision
FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams Team Drivers Points 1 Team Hansen MJP 21 Timmy Hansen 410 71 Kevin Hansen 2 GRX Taneco Team 7 Timur Timerzyanov 367 31 Joni Wiman 68 Niclas Grönholm 3 Monster Energy RX Cartel 13 Andreas Bakkerud 325 33 Liam Doran 4 GC Kompetition 36 Guerlain Chicherit 192 92 Anton Marklund 5 Team STARD1 3 Jani Paasonen 103 5 Pål Try 6 Jānis Baumanis 22 Jere Kalliokoski 6 GCK Academy 96 Guillaume De Ridder 74 113 Cyril Raymond
1 – Team STARD ran two different specifications of car at rounds 1–3 and therefore were ineligible to score teams points at these events.
RX2 International Series Drivers' Championship Driver BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE FRA RSA Points 1 Oliver Eriksson 1 1 1 1 11 2 1 193 2 Ben-Philip Gundersen 13 3 5 2 1 1 6 150 3 Jesse Kallio 3 2 2 3 3 6 13 146 4 Fraser McConnell 2 5 7 6 5 4 2 143 5 Sami-Matti Trogen 4 4 4 11 4 3 3 124 6 Vasiliy Gryazin 5 7 3 13 6 5 4 112 7 Simon Olofsson 8 8 10 7 10 13 8 68 8 Anders Michalak 7 9 6 10 13 11 7 64 9 Steven Volders 9 12 9 5 17 9 10 60 10 William Nilsson 10 6 8 12 8 57 11 Linus Östlund 2 5 41 12 Jimmie Walfridson 11 10 8 9 39 13 Damien Meunier 6 11 10 32 14 Albert Llovera 12 13 11 14 21 14 23 15 Marcus Höglund 4 14 22 16 Petter Nårsa 12 9 20 17 Nikolay Gryazin 7 13 18 Martin Enlund 7 13 19 Mats Oskarsson 8 12 20 Niklas Aneklev 11 9 21 Morten Asklund 9 19 8 22 Petter Leirhol 12 18 8 23 Lane Vacala 15 12 2 24 Jami Kalliomäki 15 2 25 Yann Le Jossec 16 1 26 Stein Fredric Akre 16 1 27 Lars Erik Haug 20 0 Driver BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE FRA RSA Points
References
External links
Official FIA World Rallycross of Great Britain