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.[1]
Calendar[]
The 2018 championship was contested over twelve rounds in Europe, Africa and North America.
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.[2]
- The World RX of Great Britain event will relocate from Lydden Hill Race Circuit to a new venue at the Silverstone Circuit.[3]
- The Hockenheim round of the championship was discontinued to accommodate the new American round.[4]
- The World RX of Canada also shares an event with the Americas Rallycross Championship.
Entries[]
The permanent entrants of the 2018 Supercar season
Johan Kristoffersson won his second successive Drivers' Championship
Supercar[]
Drivers with a green background are ineligible to score points towards the Championship for Teams.
- ^1 — 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.[21]
RX2[]
| RX2 Teams | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
| OMSE | 
|
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 | |||
|
|
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.[22][23]
Team changes[]
- Hoonigan Racing Division withdrew from the series at the conclusion of the 2017 championship.[24]
- 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 , 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.[25]
- Toomas Heikkinen and Reinis Nitišs both left EKS RX.[26][27] 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[]
|
|
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[]
| Pos. | Team | No. | Drivers | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PSRX Volkswagen Sweden
|
1 | Johan Kristoffersson
|
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 | Kevin Eriksson
|
RX2 International Series[]
(key)
| Pos. | 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 Anderson
|
26 | 0 | ||||||
| 33 | Jonathan Walfridsson
|
28 | 0 | ||||||
| Pos. | Driver | BEL
|
GBR
|
NOR
|
SWE
|
CAN
|
FRA
|
RSA
|
Points |
See also[]
References[]
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