2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship

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.

2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship
Previous: 2016 Next: 2018
Support series:
European Rallycross Championship
RX2 International Series

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.[1] Half of the rounds were supported by the RX2 category—formerly known as RX Lites.

Rnd. Event Dates Venue Class Winner Team Report
1 World RX of Barcelona 1–2 April Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report
2 World RX of Portugal 22–23 April Pista Automóvel de Montalegre, Montalegre Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report
3 World RX of Hockenheim 5–7 May Hockenheimring, Hockenheim Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report
4 World RX of Belgium 13–14 May Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet, Mettet Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE
5 World RX of Great Britain 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 Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE
7 World RX of Sweden 1–2 July Höljesbanan, Höljes Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Dan Rooke Team Faren
8 World RX of Canada 5–6 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE
9 World RX of France 2–3 September Circuit de Lohéac, Lohéac Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE
10 World RX of Latvia 16–17 September Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze, Riga Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
11 World RX of Germany 30 September–1 October Estering, Buxtehude Supercar Mattias Ekström EKS RX Report
12 World RX of South Africa 11–12 November Killarney Motor Racing Complex, Cape Town Supercar Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE

Entries
The permanent entrants of the 2017 Supercar season
Petter Solberg moved across to PSRX Volkswagen Sweden, partnering with team owners Tommy and Johan Kristoffersson
Reinis Nitišs (foreground) moved to EKS, while "Csucsu" made his WorldRX debut
Manfred Stohl split with World RX Team Austria (foreground) and entered his own team, STARD (background)

Supercar
Permanent Entries
Constructor Entrant Car No. Driver Rounds
Audi EKS RX[2] Audi S1 1 Mattias Ekström 1-6, 8-12
15 Reinis Nitišs All
45 Per-Gunnar Andersson[3] 7
51 Nico Müller[4] 9-10
57 Toomas Heikkinen All
Ford Hoonigan Racing Division[5] Ford Focus RS 13 Andreas Bakkerud All
43 Ken Block All
GRX[6] Ford Fiesta 68 Niclas Grönholm All
MJP Racing Team Austria[7] 44 Timo Scheider 1-4, 6-12
96 Kevin Eriksson All
MJP Pirtek Racing 177 Andrew Jordan[8] 5
STARD[9] 6 Jānis Baumanis All
7 Timur Timerzyanov All
Kia Speedy Motorsport[10] Kia Rio 10 "Csucsu" All
Peugeot DA Racing[11] Peugeot 208 15 Davy Jeanney[12] 11
66 Grégoire Demoustier 1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 12
67 François Duval[13] 10
87 Jean-Baptiste Dubourg 1-9, 12
Team Peugeot-Hansen[14] 9 Sébastien Loeb All
21 Timmy Hansen All
71 Kevin Hansen All
Volkswagen LOCO World RX Team[15] Volkswagen Polo 58 Alister McRae[16] 9
100 Guy Wilks 1-8
PSRX Volkswagen Sweden[17] Volkswagen Polo GTI 3 Johan Kristoffersson All
11 Petter Solberg All
94 Dieter Depping[18] 11

* 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 No. Driver Rounds
A. Berggrens Bilservice Floby 58 Santosh Berggren 1,4
Anders Michalak 12 Anders Michalak All
Bard Holmen 56 Thomas Holmen All
Ben-Philip Gundersen 2 Ben-Philip Gundersen 4
BPG Motorsport 43 Tony Sormbroen 3
Glenn Haug 9 Glenn Haug All
Guillaume De Ridder 96 Guillaume De Ridder All
Hampus Rådström 17 Hampus Rådström 4
Helmia Motorsport 91 Jonathan Walfridsson 3-4
JC Raceteknik 6 William Nilsson 4-7
21 Marcus Höglund 3-4
66 William Nilsson 1-3
69 Sondre Evjen All
Linus Östlund 18 Linus Östlund 4
Olsbergs MSE 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
Sandra Hultgren 51 Sandra Hultgren 1-6
Set Promotion 8 Simon Wågø Syversen All
Simon Olofsson 52 Simon Olofsson All
Sports Racing Technologies 55 Vasily Gryazin All
Stein Frederic Akre 98 Stein Frederic Akre 3-4, 7
Team Färén 40 Dan Rooke All

Championship Standings

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers

(key)

Pos. Driver BAR
POR
HOC
BEL
GBR
NOR
SWE
CAN
FRA
LAT
GER
RSA
Points
1 Johan Kristoffersson 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 11 125
8 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 5 109
11 Kevin Eriksson 13 14 10 5 9 13 5 4 16 18 10 12 101
12 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 78
14 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 4
22 François Duval 15 20 2
23 Per-Gunnar Andersson 15 2
24 Oliver Eriksson 17 16 1
25 "Knapick" 18 21 21 20 16 1
26 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
Pos. 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.[25]
b Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering.[25]
c Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering.[26]
d Ten championship points deducted for use of a third turbocharger in the competition.[27]
e Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine seal.[28]
f Five championship points deducted for receiving his third reprimand in the championship.[29]
g Ten championship points deducted for presenting a turbocharger for sealing after initial scrutineering.[29]
h Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine in the championship.[30]
i Ten championship points deducted for use of a new turbo seal after initial scrutineering.[30]
j Fifteen championship points deducted for use of more than three engine seals in the season.[31]
k Ten championship points deducted for use of a seventh turbocharger in the season.[32]

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams
Pos. Team No. Drivers Points
1 PSRX Volkswagen Sweden 3 Johan Kristoffersson 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 Timur Timerzyanov

RX2 International Series

(key)

Pos. Driver BEL
GBR
NOR
SWE
CAN
FRA
RSA
Points
1 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 45
14 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 8
20 Guerlain Chicherit 15 12 8
21 Cole Keatts 12 7
22 Santosh Berggren 13 21 4
23 Tony Sormbroen 13 4
24 Ben-Philip Gundersen 15 2
25 Jonathan Walfridsson 17 18 0
26 Hampus Rådström 20 0

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