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

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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
Non-permanent entries Constructor Entrant Car No. Driver Rounds Audi Robin Larsson Audi A1 4 Robin Larsson 3 Kárai Motorsport Sportegyesület 102 Tamás Kárai 4 Citroën All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport[19] Citroën DS3 77 René Münnich 5, 8 Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier[20] 84 "Knapick" 1, 6–7, 9–10 Ford Oliver O'Donovan[21] 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[22] 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[23] 67 François Duval 4 124 Mark Cronje 12 Laurent Bouliou 78 Laurent Bouliou 6, 9 Renault Guerlain Chicherit[24] Renault Clio[broken anchor] 36 Guerlain Chicherit 1, 3–4, 6, 9 SEAT All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport[19] 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	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