The 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The season consists of twelve rounds, started on 1 April with the Spanish round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and concluded on 12 November at the Killarney Motor Racing Complex in Cape Town, South Africa.
Johan Kristoffersson was the season's Driver's Champion, claiming it at the Neste World RX of Latvia. The Teams' Championship was won by PSRX Volkswagen Sweden.
Calendar On 17 October 2016 the provisional 2017 calendar was released. It once again contained twelve rounds; however the Argentine event was discontinued in favour of a new event in South Africa. Half of the rounds were supported by the RX2 category—formerly known as RX Lites. Event Dates Venue Class Winner Team Report 1 World RX of Barcelona 1–2 April Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, MontmelóSupercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report 2 World RX of Portugal 22–23 April Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report 3 5–7 May Hockenheimring, HockenheimSupercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report 4 World RX of Belgium 13–14 May Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet, MettetSupercar ReportRX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE 5 27–28 May Lydden Hill Race Circuit, Wootton Supercar Petter Solberg PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE 6 World RX of Norway 10–11 June Lånkebanen, Hell Supercar Report RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE 7 World RX of Sweden 1–2 July Höljesbanan, HöljesSupercar ReportRX2 Dan Rooke Team Faren 8 World RX of Canada 5–6 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-RivièresSupercar Report RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE 9 World RX of France 2–3 September Circuit de Lohéac, LohéacSupercar Report RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE 10 World RX of Latvia 16–17 September Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze, RigaSupercar Report 11 World RX of Germany Estering, Buxtehude Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report 12 World RX of South Africa 11–12 November Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE
Entries
Supercar Permanent Entries Constructor Entrant Car Driver Rounds Audi EKS RX Audi S1 1 Mattias Ekström 1–6, 8–12 15 Reinis Nitišs All 45 Per-Gunnar Andersson 7 51 Nico Müller 9–10 57 Toomas Heikkinen All Ford Hoonigan Racing Division Ford Focus RS 13 Andreas Bakkerud All 43 Ken Block All GRX Ford Fiesta 68 Niclas Grönholm All 44 Timo Scheider 1–4, 6–12 96 Kevin Eriksson All MJP Pirtek Racing 177 Andrew Jordan 5 STARD 6 Jānis Baumanis All 7 All Kia Speedy Motorsport Kia Rio 10 "Csucsu" All Peugeot DA Racing Peugeot 208 15 Davy Jeanney 11 66 Grégoire Demoustier 1–2, 4–5, 8–9, 12 67 François Duval 10 87 1–9, 12 Team Peugeot-Hansen 9 Sébastien Loeb All 21 Timmy Hansen All 71 Kevin Hansen All Volkswagen LOCO World RX Team Volkswagen Polo 58 Alister McRae 9 100 Guy Wilks 1–8 PSRX Volkswagen Sweden 3 All 11 Petter Solberg All 94 Dieter Depping 11 Non-permanent entries Constructor Entrant Car Driver Rounds Audi Robin Larsson Audi A1 4 Robin Larsson 3 Kárai Motorsport Sportegyesület 102 Tamás Kárai 4 Citroën All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport Citroën DS3 77 René Münnich 5, 8 Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier 84 "Knapick" 1, 6–7, 9–10 Ford Oliver O'Donovan Ford Fiesta 2 Oliver O'Donovan 5 Oliver Bennett 42 Oliver Bennett 5 M.D.K. 49 "M.D.K." 4–5 Martin Kaczmarski 69 Martin Kaczmarski 2–5, 11 Andreas Steffen 80 Andreas Steffen 11 Olsbergs MSE 59 Ashley Haigh-Smith 12 93 Sebastian Eriksson 7, 11 98 Oliver Eriksson 7, 12 Bompiso Racing Team Ford Focus 41 Joaquim Santos 2 Mitsubishi Vaaranmara Racing Mitsubishi Mirage 60 Joni-Pekka Rajala 6–7, 10 Peugeot Emmanuel Anne Peugeot 208 21 Emmanuel Anne 9 Gaëtan Sérazin 40 Gaëtan Sérazin 9 Albatec Racing 67 François Duval 4 124 Mark Cronje 12 Laurent Bouliou 78 Laurent Bouliou 6, 9 Renault Guerlain Chicherit Renault Clio 36 Guerlain Chicherit 1, 3–4, 6, 9 SEAT All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport Seat Ibiza Cupra 77 René Münnich 2–3, 11–12 * Entries in grey denote one-car teams which are ineligible to score teams championship points.
RX2 International Series
All of the RX2 cars are designed and produced by Avitas Motorsport in cooperation with Olsbergs MSE.
Permanent Entries Entrant Driver Rounds 58 Santosh Berggren 1,4 12 Anders Michalak All 56 Thomas Holmen All Ben-Philip Gundersen 2 Ben-Philip Gundersen 4 43 Tony Sormbroen 3 9 Glenn Haug All 96 Guillaume De Ridder All 17 Hampus Rådström 4 91 Jonathan Walfridsson 3–4 6 William Nilsson 4–7 21 Marcus Höglund 3–4 66 William Nilsson 1–3 69 Sondre Evjen All 18 Linus Östlund 4 11 Tanner Whitten All 13 Cyril Raymond All 19 Andreas Bäckman All 26 Jessica Bäckman All 33 Tejas Hirani 1 36 Guerlain Chicherit 5, 7 53 Cole Keatts 5 51 Sandra Hultgren 1–6 8 Simon Wågø Syversen All 52 Simon Olofsson All 55 Vasily Gryazin All 98 Stein Frederic Akre 3–4, 7 40 Dan Rooke All
Championship Standings
FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers (key) Driver BAR POR HOC BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT GER RSA Points 1 6 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 316 2 Mattias Ekström 1 1 1 4 5 4 7 3 2 1 3 255 3 Petter Solberg 4 6 4 3 1 7 7 2 5 7 4 4 252 4 Sébastien Loeb 14 2 5 7 4 3 3 3 2 3 11 10 214 5 Timmy Hansen 5 4a 3 2 6 5 4 6 6 9h 2 2 201 6 Andreas Bakkerud 3 10 14 6 3 2 2 13 4 4 8 7 194 7 Toomas Heikkinen 8 12 6 9 12 11 14 5 11 8 3 11 1258 Kevin Hansen 11 8 8 21 13 9 13 10 8 10 6 6 115 9 Ken Block 9 11 11 8 7 8 9 9 7f 14 14 8 112 10 Timo Scheider 2 15 7 11 12 10 12 9 15 15 5 10911 Kevin Eriksson 13 14 10 5 9 13 5 4 16 18 10 12 10112 Jānis Baumanis 15 7 15 16 10 14 6 8 10 5 9 9 98 13 Timur Timerzyanov 20 9 9 10 11 6 11 11 15 13 17 13 7814 Reinis Nitišs 10 5 12 13 16 10 18 16 12 11 12 18 71 15 Guy Wilks 7 16 19 14 14 17 20 15 21 16 Jean-Baptiste Dubourg 12 17 17 18 18 15 16 17 13 14 17 17 Nico Müller 17 6 13 18 Sebastian Eriksson 12 13 12 19 Andrew Jordan 8 11 20 Niclas Grönholm 17 13 16 12 15 16 8 14e 14 12i 5j 15k 4 21 Robin Larsson 13 422 François Duval 15 20 223 Per-Gunnar Andersson 15 2 24 Oliver Eriksson 17 16 1 25 "Knapick" 18 21 21 20 16 126 Dieter Depping 16 1 27 René Münnich 18 20 17 18 19 17 0 28 Martin Kaczmarski 19 18 19 22 22 0 29 M.D.K. 17 24 0 30 Davy Jeanney 18 0 31 Gaëtan Sérazin 18 0 32 Guerlain Chicherit 21 21 20 19 19 0 33 Laurent Bouliou 20 21 0 34 Oliver O'Donovan 20 0 35 Mark Cronje 20 0 36 Andreas Steffen 21 0 37 Ashley Haigh-Smith 21 0 38 Joaquim Santos 22 0 39 Oliver Bennett 23 0 40 Tamás Kárai 23 0 41 Alister McRae 24 0 42 "Csucsu" 16 20 22 24c 21 22 22 19 22 17 20 -9 43 Joni-Pekka Rajala 18 19d 19 -10 44 Grégoire Demoustier 19 21b 22 19 20 23 19 -10 45 Emmanuel Anne 25g -10 Driver BAR POR HOC BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT GER RSA Points a Ten championship points deducted for use of an unregistered tyre in Q3. b Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering. c Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering. d Ten championship points deducted for use of a third turbocharger in the competition. e Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine seal. f Five championship points deducted for receiving his third reprimand in the championship. g Ten championship points deducted for presenting a turbocharger for sealing after initial scrutineering. h Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine in the championship. i Ten championship points deducted for use of a new turbo seal after initial scrutineering. j Fifteen championship points deducted for use of more than three engine seals in the season. k Ten championship points deducted for use of a seventh turbocharger in the season.
FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams Team Drivers Points 1 PSRX Volkswagen Sweden 3 544 11 Petter Solberg 94 Dieter Depping 2 Team Peugeot-Hansen 9 Sébastien Loeb 415 21 Timmy Hansen 3 EKS RX 1 Mattias Ekström 380 15 Reinis Nitišs 57 Toomas Heikkinen 4 Hoonigan Racing Division 13 Andreas Bakkerud 306 43 Ken Block 5 MJP Racing Team Austria 44 Timo Scheider 221 96 Kevin Eriksson 177 Andrew Jordan 6 STARD 6 Jānis Baumanis 176 7
RX2 International Series (key) Driver BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA RSA Points1 Cyril Raymond 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 198 2 Dan Rooke 2 2 3 1 6 9 5 154 3 Guillaume De Ridder 9 4 8 2 2 2 6 138 4 Tanner Whitten 3 7 2 16 3 15 3 105 5 William Nilsson 10 5 7 3 8 7 10 98 6 Simon Olofsson 5 6 9 11 5 8 7 98 7 Vasily Gryazin 7 10 12 19 4 3 4 94 8 Sondre Evjen 6 9 6 14 7 11 2 93 9 Glenn Haug 4 8 4 12 13 10 15 76 10 Andreas Bäckman 15 14 5 4 9 12 8 69 11 Thomas Holmen 11 3 18 8 14 6 9 67 12 Simon Wågø Syversen 17 12 11 7 16 4 13 47 13 Anders Michalak 8 11 16 13 17 5 11 4514 Stein Frederic Akre 19 5 14 22 15 Jessica Bäckman 16 13 14 22 10 14 16 21 16 Sandra Hultgren 14 15 15 17 11 13 19 17 Marcus Höglund 10 9 18 18 Linus Östlund 10 10 19 Tejas Hirani 12 820 Guerlain Chicherit 15 12 821 Cole Keatts 12 722 Santosh Berggren 13 21 423 Tony Sormbroen 13 424 Ben-Philip Gundersen 15 225 Jonathan Walfridsson 17 18 026 Hampus Rådström 20 0
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