The 2019 Americas Rallycross Championship was the second and final season of the Americas Rallycross Championship, a feeder championship to the FIA World Rallycross Championship representing North America. The season consists of six rounds across two categories; Supercar and ARX2. The season commenced on 8 June at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio and finished on the 6 October at the same location.
The series folded after the 2019 season.
Calendar The calendar was unveiled on 31 January 2019.
Event Date Venue Class Winner Team 1 ARX of Mid-Ohio 8–9 June Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington Supercar Scott Speed Subaru Rally Team USA ARX2 (Day 1) Alex Keyes Racing4Detroit ARX2 (Day 2) Fraser McConnell Dirtfish ARX3 (Day 1) John McInnes SIERRA ARX3 (Day 2) John McInnes SIERRA 2 ARX of Gateway 13 July World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, Madison Supercar Chris Atkinson Subaru Rally Team USA ARX2 Conner Martell Dreyer & Reinbold Racing ARX3 Blake "Bilko" Williams SIERRA 3 14 July Supercar Patrik Sandell Subaru Rally Team USA ARX2 Conner Martell Dreyer & Reinbold Racing ARX3 Blake "Bilko" Williams SIERRA 4 ARX of Canada 3–4 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières Supercar Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross ARX2 (Day 1) Fraser McConnell Dirtfish ARX2 (Day 2) Fraser McConnell Dirtfish 5 ARX of Austin 28 September Circuit of the Americas, Austin Supercar Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross ARX2 Fraser McConnell Dirtfish ARX3 Dave Carapetyan SIERRA 6 ARX of Mid-Ohio 5–6 October Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington Supercar Chris Atkinson Subaru Rally Team USA ARX2 (Day 1) Sage Karam Dreyer & Reinbold Racing ARX2 (Day 2) Fraser McConnell Dirtfish ARX3 (Day 1) Keegan Kincaid SIERRA ARX3 (Day 2) Keegan Kincaid SIERRA
Calendar changes The calendar was expanded from four rounds to six, with the inclusion of two rounds at Mid-Ohio and a double-header at Gateway. The round supporting the World RX of Great Britain was dropped. The ARX of COTA was rebranded as the ARX of Austin and was moved from July to September to replace the cancelled FIA World Rallycross Championship round. The ARX of Canada will run in conjunction with FIA World Rallycross Championship once again.
Entries Supercar Constructor Entrant Car Drivers Rounds Ford Loenbro Motorsports Ford Fiesta ST 00 Steve Arpin All 3 Travis PeCoy All Subaru Subaru Motorsports USA Subaru WRX STI 13 Andreas Bakkerud 5–6 18 Patrik Sandell All 31 Joni Wiman 5–6 41 Scott Speed 1–4 55 Chris Atkinson All Volkswagen Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen Beetle 02 Cabot Bigham All 34 Tanner Foust All
ARX2 Constructor Entrant Car Drivers Rounds OMSE Racing4Detroit Olsbergs MSE RX2 4 Alex Keyes 1–4, 7–9 Loenbro Motorsports 09 Michael Leach 3–9 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 21 Conner Martell 3–9 24 Sage Karam 1–2, 7–9 28 Gray Leadbetter All 48 J. R. Hildebrand 1–4 53 Cole Keatts All 55 Lane Vacala 5–9 Dirtfish 35 Fraser McConnell All 70 Brad Deberti 1–4, 7
ARX3 Constructor Entrant Car Drivers Rounds SIERRA SIERRA SIERRA RX3 1 Bill Shuster All 2 Aaron Kaufman 1–4 3 Jim Jonsin 1–2 4 John McInnes All 5 James Kirkham 1–4 6 Dave Wallingford 1–2 8 Michael Leach 2 15 Clay Note 5 21 Dave Carapetyan 5 22 Blake "Bilko" Williams 3–4 25 Dylan Towne 5 31 Tommy Boileau 3–7 41 Keegan Kincaid6–7 43 Steve Burns 5–7 49 Justin Peck 5
Driver Changes Scott Speed moved from Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross to Subaru Rally Team USA Cabot Bigham moved from Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in ARX2 to Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross to replace Speed. Steve Arpin left Hoonigan Racing Division to start his own team, Loenbro Motorsports. Travis PeCoy moved from Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in ARX2 to Loenbro Motorsports.
Results and standings 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
Supercar Driver MO1 GTW CAN COT MO2 Points 1 Tanner Foust 4 6 3 1 1 7 143 2 Chris Atkinson 6 1 4 4 5 1 131 3 Patrik Sandell 5 3 1 7 2 3 130 4 Steve Arpin 3 2 5 6 3 2 124 5 Travis PeCoy 2 5 6 5 8 5 104 6 Scott Speed 1 4 2 3 100 7 Cabot Bigham 7 7 7 2 6 8 94 8 Andreas Bakkerud 4 6 44 9 Joni Wiman 7 4 36 Driver MO1 GTW CAN COT MO2 Points
ARX2 Driver MO1 GTW CAN COT MO2 Points 1 Fraser McConnell 6 1 7 2 1 1 1 5 1 219 2 Cole Keatts 5 6 2 5 3 3 6 2 4 186 3 Conner Martell 1 1 2 2 3 4 7 155 4 Alex Keyes 1 3 5 6 4 3 3 139 5 Gray Leadbetter 7 5 8 7 4 4 5 7 8 132 6 Sage Karam 2 2 2 1 2 129 7 Brad Deberti 3 7 4 3 7 95 8 Michael Leach 6 8 5 6 8 8 5 93 9 J. R. Hildebrand 4 4 3 4 79 10 Lane Vacala 6 5 9 6 6 71 Driver MO1 GTW CAN COT MO2 Points
ARX3 Driver MO1 GTW COT MO2 Points 1 John McInnes 1 1 5 6 2 4 4 121 2 Bill Shuster 5 7 3 4 5 2 3 113 3 Tommy Boileau 2 2 4 3 2 94 4 James Kirkham 6 2 4 3 68 5 Aaron Kaufman 4 6 6 5 556 Keegan Kincaid 1 148 7 Blake "Bilko" Williams 1 1 46 8 Jim Jonsin 2 3 38 9 Steve Burns 8 5 5 37 10 Dave Wallingford 3 5 33 11 Dave Carapetyan 1 24 12 Dylan Towne 3 19 13 Michael Leach 4 14 14 Justin Peck 6 13 15 Clay Note 7 10 Driver MO1 GTW COT MO2 Points
References
External links Official website